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This study analyses the urban and cultural transformation of São Paulo and its Liberdade neighborhood—home to the largest Japanese diaspora—through public policies and Japan-themed events such as Tanabata Matsuri, Anime Friends, and the Festival do Japão. It introduces the concept of Nipponophilic capital, integrating Bourdieu’s forms of capital with theories of Disneyfication, tactics, and memory spaces. Drawing on literature review, fieldwork, and photographic analysis, the article examines how Japanese pop culture, tourism, and gentrification reshape Liberdade, highlighting its central role in São Paulo’s identity and economy, positioning it as the main Japanese hub in the Americas and reinforcing its global image aligned with Japan’s branding while revealing underlying tensions. Este estudio analiza la transformación urbana y cultural de São Paulo y su barrio de Liberdade —hogar de la mayor diáspora japonesa— a través de políticas públicas y eventos de temática japonesa como el Tanabata Matsuri, el Anime Friends y el Festival do Japão. Introduce el concepto de capital nipofílico, integrando las formas de capital de Bourdieu con las teorías de la disneyficación, las tácticas y los espacios de memoria. Basándose en la revisión de la literatura, el trabajo de campo y el análisis fotográfico, el artículo examina cómo la cultura pop japonesa, el turismo y la gentrificación están remodelando Liberdade, destacando su papel central en la identidad y la economía de São Paulo, posicionándolo como el principal centro japonés en América y reforzando su imagen global alineada con la marca de Japón, al tiempo que revela las tensiones subyacentes.

In this article I propose viewing ‘(Russian P/)philology’, ‘Russia(n) Studies’ and ‘(Russian E/)emigrantology’ as three separate and equally valid approaches to (Russian) literature and writers; I maintain that each of them is charged with its own interdisciplinary perspective. I elaborate a new definition of ‘emigrantology’, based on reassessment of its subject matter (not exilic experiences, but experiences of ‘somewhere-else-ness’) and the range of its objects (not only emigration / exile, but a family of diverse experiences, from camp incarceration, to trips to the otherworld and translingual writing). I seek to overcome physical determinism of Russian literary studies in Russian language and, at the same time, to forestall certain ‘counter-sedentary’ bias perceivable in post-modern contemplation of exile and related phenomena in the English language. I link the literary-theoretic raison d’être of ‘emigrantology’ to the property of ‘non-in-situatedness’ that differentiates ‘literature’ from ‘wording’ (“writings”) according to the literary ontology of S. Averincev. I define the subject matter of ‘emigrantology’, as ‘unselfliness’, ‘unplaceliness’ and ‘somewhere-else-ness’ (the former two concepts are deliberate neologisms, shaped after “untimely”). I conceptualise ‘backing’ notions as ‘place-boundness’ and ‘place-conscience’ and explain the two theoretic assumptions which give my own theorisation sense: the irreducible territoriality of exile in particular and of ‘somewhere-else-ness’ in general, and their basic property of being both psychic and bodily. I also compare ‘somewhere-else-ness’ to das Unheimliche and fictional worlds. Prioritising the standpoint of sociology of literature and with the case of Russian literature / literature in Russia in mind, I delineate some ‘core’ types of ‘being-somewhere-else’ experiences: besides inciting to be thematised by literature and hosting individual literary creativity, these types can sustain circulation and reception of literature (the state of being an émigré; inner emigration; exile; camp incarceration; translingual writing/transnational belonging). As a counterpoint, I trace the option of diagrammic typology of ‘somewhere-else-ness’ experiences, one which brings to the fore commonalities with rites of passage. Taking the condition of being an émigré (community) as a benchmark and distancing my model from both liberal-individualist and nationalist mythologisations of that latter condition, I analyse what I believe are the basic parameters of symbolic economy of an individual and community experiencing ‘somewhere-else-ness’.

In this article, the question of the specific logic underlying the New Historical conception of the relation between text and context leads, first, to the exploration of the extent to which Stephen Greenblatt builds his analysis of the English Renaissance theatre on Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological conception of general economy of practices and symbolic goods. It is shown, secondly, how the New Historical latent conception of symbolic economy is built on the precondition of heteronomy of different social and cultural fields in the early modern period. Also, it is pointed out how New Historicism develops a self-reflective strategy within its historical epistemology by incorporating itself into the tradition of cultural critique born in the context of the “conquest” of the New World whereby a category of cultural difference was generated. Thirdly, both conceptions of symbolic economy (Bourdieu’s and Greenblatt’s) are compared to the project of Georges Bataille of “accursed share”, developed in the 1930’s and 1940’s, and his outline of a peculiar logic of general economy, which negates the very foundations of economic thinking. It is explained how all three conceptions are based on Marcel Mauss’s “discovery” of the economy of gift in archaic societies (later critiques of Mauss’s interpretation of the ethnographic material are taken into account). Bataille’s perspective of general economy is followed, where various historical societies face the problem of surplus and where the consumption of excessive resources acquires different forms of creativity in art, and destructivity in war and sacrifice. Bataille’s “delirant vision” (Goux) is taken as providing a possible critical angle on the limits of the “symbolic economies” of New Historicism and Bourdieu’s sociology not only as their analytical tools, but also as part of their own foundations as scholarly projects. Finally, the New Historical relation to the rhetorical tradition is understood as a moment whereby the limits of its symbolic economy (its subordination to the logic of capital accumulation) might be paradoxically transcended.

In Mễ Trì village on the Western peri-urban edge of Hanoi, Vietnam, landless rice farmers no longer tend to rice paddy fields. Instead, many have converted 40 square meters of their residential space into a small factory for producing an artisanal rice product called cốm (young rice). This small village-based industry has garnered national demand for the product, drawing the attention of central policymakers who want to preserve the craft as a cultural relic of Hanoi. But without land to cultivate the rice inputs, young rice production is largely driven by the outsourcing of grains, the use of inventive new machinery, and most notably, widespread sentiments of pride and passion in the village craft. Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Mễ Trì village between July 2017 and December 2018, this dissertation examines the assemblages of rural-urban spaces that emerge out of the convergence of mega-city master plans, foreign investment, heritage preservation, and the everyday livelihood practices of those living and working in the changing urban fringe. It attends to competing discourses on Vietnam’s rural spaces as well as the dialogic practices between state actors and local cốm producers, which have allowed agrarian traditions to re-emerge amidst urban development.In this dissertation, I argue that Mễ Trì’s practices of adaptation through craft production demonstrate a politics of resilience, which has both material and symbolic implications. Craft production not only provides people with a transitional livelihood in their post-agrarian landscape, but it has also served as an important cultural tool and resource that villagers use in finding and cultivating meaningful identities amidst society’s contemporary urban-oriented shifts. Stories about Mễ Trì’s acts of resilience through cốm production narrate the lived experiences of land use and social transformation of a village that lies, both empirically as well as conceptually, at the tenuous intersection between a capital mega-city’s dual projects of urban civilization (văn minh đô thị) and “heritage” protection. In doing so, it provides an ethnographic insight into the shifting but continually significant place of agrarian-based cultures and livelihoods in shaping the broader processes of urban-oriented economic and land use change in Hanoi, with implications for other Asian contexts.

This paper examines the production of belief in Cora Coralina as a starting point for viewing some contemporary features of the encounter between economy and culture, highlighting the operationalization of a politics of memory and the production and perpetuation of the belief in some cultural goods. The investigation of the forms of mobilization of the senses in from instances of production, circulation and celebration contributes to the symbolic economy in literary collections, a social alchemy by the agents involved in the field of cultural production and circulation to manufacture and consecrate the authority of creation. Interests us here understand how the literary field absorbed the changes caused by consumer society call in order to visualize the implications of token economy on the figure of the author and his works and about how the belief in the signature confers legitimacy to the heirs, especially, expands to the literary collection (understood as material and symbolic inheritance).

Keywords Celestina Symbolic economy Interdisciplinarity Game Mercantilism Precapitalism Game theory Versiones preliminares de este artculo fueron presentadas, respectivamente, en el 40 Congreso de la Asociacin Canadiense de Hispanistas (2004) y en el 59 Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (2006). Para un estado de la cuestin de las aplicaciones de la teora de juegos al estudio de la literatura vase el trabajo de Steven J. Brams, Game Theory and Literature, Games and Economic Behavior 6.1 (1994): 3254. Fundamental es tambin el trabajo de John Nash, Equilibrium Points in N-Person Games, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 36 (1950): 489, artculo fundacional de su clebre equilibrio. 23 Entendida como cada uno de los elementos que forman el espacio de decisin (Caas 268). Game theory and literature.

Just a few years ago, I brought a group of students to Doha for a week. The city was one of two worlding cities in our focus, each of which students would explore during the field-based portion of the course. The opportunity to engage these cities firsthand was, obviously, an integral feature and prime attraction for a course titled Migration and the Global City. In the schedule I established for our week in Doha, I had set aside Wednesday afternoon for an exploration of West Bay, the dense accumulation of skyscrapers perched over the turquoise waters of the sea (see

Este artículo analiza los procesos de construcción de la legitimidad entre représentantes del Estado y la jerarquía de la Iglesia católica en Costa Rica durante el período 2007-2010. Sustentándose en la teoría de los tipos ideales de dominación propuestos por Weber y en las contribuciones de Bourdieu sobre la economia de los bienes simbólicos, el trabajo analiza un estudio de caso que toma corno base tres momentos coyunturales que reflejan la interacción entre représentantes del Estado y la jerarquia catòlica en diferentes momentos políticos. La investigación concluye que existe un complejo intercambio de obsequios y contraobsequios que renueva de manera constante la relación entre ambas instituciones y fortalece la legitimación y la estructura de dominación que explica el interés de ambas instituciones de conservar la confesionalidad del Estado. This article analyzes the processes of legitimacy construction among state representatives and the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Costa Rica during the period 2007-2010. Based on the theory of the ideal types of domination proposed by Weber and the contributions of Bourdieu regarding the economy of symbolic goods, the article analyses a case study based on three conjunctural moments that show the interaction between state representatives and the catholic hierarchy in different political settings. The investigation concludes that there is a complex exchange of gifts (obsequios and contraobsequios) that constantly renews the relationship between the two institutions and strengthens the legitimation and the structure of domination that explains the interest of both institutions to preserve a confessional state.

Melrose Arch is a mixed use precinct in Melrose, Johannesburg, South Africa. It is currently in its first phase of completion and has thus far cost R1.3 billion. A total of three phrases are planned and about a quarter of the development has been completed. Initially the site developer, Sentinel Mining Industry Retirement Fund, commissioned the development of yet another uninspired and uninspiring office park in the early 1990s. The architect-developers, however, envisioned something quite different and proposed to develop an open mixed-use precinct of offices, restaurants, retail, hotels and residential space using principles of New Urbanism. The objective of this paper is twofold: 1. to explore Melrose Arch as a simulated tourist spectacle in the city, and 2. to explore how this spectacle intertwines with Johannesburg's urban economy.

In the 1970s, a funeral market emerged in France as the communal monopolies dating from a 1904 law were eroded. Studying this emerging marketplace sheds light on a merchandising process in this branch of the economy. This process has unfolded against the backdrop of a change in geography (the places where people die) & a change in the symbolic relation to death. It has entailed designing funeral services in place of rituals; reworking the \"mediations\" that institute economic transactions between, on the one hand, market segments of living clients, & on the other, businesses of different sizes that provide various products & services; working out new arrangements for winning clients (products, services, package deals, etc); & developing new business qualifications. Deeply anchored in the realm of symbols, the funeral business must handle two anthropological aspects of exchanges (market & symbolic) that are structurally antagonistic, but that its economic organization cannot abolish. This inquiry focuses on how symbolic issues limit the activities of these businesses, in particular, by forcing them to reconcile competition over prices (the very basis of the marketing dimension) & discretion about prices (itself required by the symbolic prohibition against reducing clients to mere customers.). 29 References. Adapted from the source document.