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Factions, friends and feasts
Drawing on field research in Malta, Sicily and among Italian emigrants in Canada, this book explores the social influence of the Mediterranean climate and the legacy of ethnic and religious conflict from the past five decades. Case studies illustrate the complexity of daily life not only in the region but also in more remote academe, by analysing the effects of fierce family loyalty, emigration and the social consequences of factionalism, patronage and the friends-of-friends networks that are widespread in the region. Several chapters discuss the social and environmental impact of mass tourism, how locals cope, and the paradoxical increase in religious pageantry and public celebrations. The discussions echo changes in the region and the related development of the author's own interests and engagement with prevailing issues through his career.
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Contesting the foreshore: tourism, society and politics on the coast
This collection of essays is about tourism and social, political, and economic relations in coastal locations in various parts of the world. The starting point of each chapter is the ethnographic study of one particular place. However, the authors are also concerned with wider regional, national, and global forces which shape and influence the local economies and societies under review. Although most of the essays focus on the European coastline, the book is intended to have implications for other geographical areas.In most parts of the world, coastal settlements and contexts are changing rapidly and markedly. These contexts are routinely characterised by conflict between different interest groups contesting the ownership and control of the foreshore and its resources. One of the threads running through the volume is that coastal regions are often sites of fishing and related 'traditional' activities.The chapters discuss the relationships between traditional stakeholders, such as fishermen and local residents, and new stakeholders including new residents, second-home owners, tourists and tourism property developers, and fish farm managers as they vie for status, influence, and ultimately for space on the foreshore.The underlying preoccupation of the volume as a whole is the extent of penetration and transformation resulting from the onward march of capitalism and the market system in the coastal locations studied. This is the second publication in the MARE Publication Series. A collection of essays studying the rapid changes in coastal settlements due to the conflicting interests of traditional and new stakeholders.
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Contesting the foreshore
This collection of essays is about tourism and social, political, and economic relations in coastal locations in various parts of the world. The starting point of each chapter is the ethnographic study of one particular place. However, the authors are also concerned with wider regional, national, and global forces which shape and influence the local economies and societies under review. Although most of the essays focus on the European coastline, the book is intended to have implications for other geographical areas.
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Contesting the Foreshore
This collection of essays is about tourism and social, political, and economic relations in coastal locations in various parts of the world. The starting point of each chapter is the ethnographic study of one particular place. However, the authors are also concerned with wider regional, national, and global forces which shape and influence the local economies and societies under review. Although most of the essays focus on the European coastline, the book is intended to have implications for other geographical areas.
In most parts of the world, coastal settlements and contexts are changing rapidly and markedly. These contexts are routinely characterised by conflict between different interest groups contesting the ownership and control of the foreshore and its resources. One of the threads running through the volume is that coastal regions are often sites of fishing and related 'traditional' activities.
The chapters discuss the relationships between traditional stakeholders, such as fishermen and local residents, and new stakeholders including new residents, second-home owners, tourists and tourism property developers, and fish farm managers as they vie for status, influence, and ultimately for space on the foreshore.
The underlying preoccupation of the volume as a whole is the extent of penetration and transformation resulting from the onward march of capitalism and the market system in the coastal locations studied.
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Contesting the Foreshore (Volume 2.0)
This collection of essays is about tourism and social, political, and economic relations in coastal locations in various parts of the world. The starting point of each chapter is the ethnographic study of one particular place. However, the authors are also concerned with wider regional, national, and global forces which shape and influence the local economies and societies under review. Although most of the essays focus on the European coastline, the book is intended to have implications for other geographical areas. In most parts of the world, coastal settlements and contexts are changing rapidly and markedly. These contexts are routinely characterised by conflict between different interest groups contesting the ownership and control of the foreshore and its resources. One of the threads running through the volume is that coastal regions are often sites of fishing and related 'traditional' activities. The chapters discuss the relationships between traditional stakeholders, such as fishermen and local residents, and new stakeholders including new residents, second-home owners, tourists and tourism property developers, and fish farm managers as they vie for status, influence, and ultimately for space on the foreshore. The underlying preoccupation of the volume as a whole is the extent of penetration and transformation resulting from the onward march of capitalism and the market system in the coastal locations studied. This is the second publication in the \"http://www.aup.nl/mare\">MARE Publication Series
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Sun, sand and sea
The Maltese Islands, with a population of just over 403,000 crowded onto 316 km², is the most densely populated nation-state in Europe. An annual influx of some 1.2 million tourists seeking accommodation and entertainment further increases the crowding. An appreciation of this high density and small scale is basic to understanding the environmental problems of Malta.
Malta gained its independence from Britain in 1964 (Fig. 1). Its government uses proportional representation to elect 65 MPs from 13 five-member constituencies. Two political parties dominate the political scene, which is characterised by fierce party loyalty and a winner takes all policy. The
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Contesting the Foreshore
This collection of essays is about tourism and social, political, and economic relations in coastal locations in various parts of the world. The starting point of each chapter is the ethnographic study of one particular place. However, the authors are also concerned with wider regional, national, and global forces which shape and influence the local economies and societies under review. Although most of the essays focus on the European coastline, the book is intended to have implications for other geographical areas. In most parts of the world, coastal settlements and contexts are changing rapidly and markedly. These contexts are routinely characterised by conflict between different interest groups contesting the ownership and control of the foreshore and its resources. One of the threads running through the volume is that coastal regions are often sites of fishing and related 'traditional' activities. The chapters discuss the relationships between traditional stakeholders, such as fishermen and local residents, and new stakeholders including new residents, second-home owners, tourists and tourism property developers, and fish farm managers as they vie for status, influence, and ultimately for space on the foreshore. The underlying preoccupation of the volume as a whole is the extent of penetration and transformation resulting from the onward march of capitalism and the market system in the coastal locations studied. This is the second publication in the \"http://www.aup.nl/mare\">MARE Publication Series This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.
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Beyond the Community
Political, religious and economic relationships, say, in an Italian village, clearly do not exist in isolation at a local level. Relationships and processes that lie beyond the community at regional, national and even supranational levels influence them. Terms such as ‘group’, ‘village’, ‘community’, ‘culture’ and ‘society’ have been used to indicate socially significant entities. Concepts like brokerage, encapsulation, penetration, folk–urban, great tradition and little tradition, absorption, and acculturation have been brought forward to deal with aspects of relations between these entities. These terms and concepts, which are used by most anthropologists as scientific instruments, were largely developed to describe
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Ritual and Tourism
There has been an apparent growth in the scale of public rituals. One set of explanations that keeps cropping up attributes this expansion to the increase of leisure time, commercialization and tourism (Werdmolder 1979; Manning 1983; Weber-Kellerman 1985). This chapter explores to what extent the commercialization of culture to attract tourists is taking place, and, if so, what impact it has had on parish celebrations in Malta.
The argument about the influence of commercialization runs roughly like this: people in tourist destinations commoditize their culture for gain; celebrations are increased to maximize profit; this commoditization has a detrimental effect on
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