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  • Culture Unbound

    Americanization & Everyday Life in Sweden

    by Tom O'Dell ...
    Explaining the mechanisms behind the larger processes of globalization, modernization, and cultural imperialism, this book explores the realms of daily life in Sweden and how cultural impulses are actually integrated in the lives of ordinary people. The dreams, opinions, actions, and consumption desires of individuals with different social backgrounds are considered, determining the significance ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spas

    The Cultural Economy of Hospitality, Magic and the Senses

    by Tom O'Dell ...
    From 17th-century Sweden to the present time, this remarkable volume provides a historical perspective on the manner in which hospitality has developed from a private right and obligation to a commercialized product. Examining the ways religion, belief, and notions of health and wellness have been intertwined in the world of spas, this account argues for an appreciation of the role that magic, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Legitimizing ESS

    Big Science as a Collaboration Across Boundaries

    Edited by Thomas Kaiserfeld, Tom O'Dell ...
    "Big Science" is a broad epithet that can be associated with research projects that involve huge budgets, big facilities, complex instrumentation, years of planning, and large multidisciplinary teams of researchers. Legitimizing the ESS examines the complexity of the cultural, social, and political processes from which and in which Big Science develops by focusing on the planning and development ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imagining Personal Data

    Experiences of Self-Tracking

    by Dr Vaike Fors, Sarah Pink, Dr Martin Berg, Dr Tom O'Dell ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences.Digital self-tracking devices and data have become normal elements of everyday life. Imagining Personal Data examines the implications of the rise of body monitoring and digital self-tracking ... Read more

    $99.99 CAD

  • Spas : the cultural economy of hospitality, magic and the senses

    by Tom O'Dell ...
    Under senare år har vi sett en snabbt växande näring med fokus på hälsa och välbefinnande. Lugnande upplevelser förpackas, iscensätts och konsumeras som kommersiella varor – turistkomplexen har kommit att bli en del av den så kallade kulturekonomin.I Spas – the Cultural Economy of Hospitality, Magic and the Senses använder författaren Tom O’Dell spaanläggningarna för att belysa hur kulturella och ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Culture unbound : americanization and everyday life in Sweden

    by Tom O'Dell ...
    Den amerikanska masskulturen har en mycket stark påverkan på livet i Europa. Dagligdags hör vi svenskar om hur vi influeras av landet ”over there”. Det gäller alla områden, från film och musik till kosthållning och motion. Ordet amerikanisering är tätt förknippat med modernisering och globalisering, men också med kulturell imperialism och skräpkultur. Men hur ser egentligen mekanismerna bakom vår ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Legitimizing ESS : big science as a collaboration across boundaries

    Edited by Thomas Kaiserfeld, Tom O'Dell ...
    För svensk text, se nedan.‘Big Science’ is a broad epithet that can be associated with research projects as different as the Manhattan Project, the Hubble Telescope- construction, and the CERN-establishment in Geneva.While the science produced by these projects is vastly different, they have in common the fact that they all involve huge budgets, big facilities, complex instrumentation, years of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice

    Edited by Sarah Pink, Vaike Fors, Tom O’Dell ...
    Series Book 11 - Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology
    Academics across the globe are being urged by universities and research councils to do research that impacts the world beyond academia. Yet to date there has been very little reflection amongst scholars and practitioners in these fields concerning the relationship between the theoretical and engaged practices that emerge through such forms of scholarship. Theoretical Scholarship and Applied ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Hip Heritage and Museum Practices in Contemporary Hybrid Markets

    by Lizette Gradén, Tom O'Dell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Heritage
    Focusing on how museums prioritize and produce content, Hip Heritage demonstrates how economic issues play an ever-larger role in determining how cultural heritage is being framed and presented in contemporary heritage museums.Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the authors at seven museums over the course of five years, this book offers an in-depth analysis of heritage museums in ... Read more

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  • Imagining Personal Data

    Experiences of Self-Tracking

    by Vaike Fors, Sarah Pink, Martin Berg, Tom O'Dell ...
    Digital self-tracking devices and data have become normal elements of everyday life. Imagining Personal Data examines the implications of the rise of body monitoring and digital self-tracking for how we inhabit, experience and imagine our everyday worlds and futures. Through a focus on how it feels to live in environments where data is emergent, present and characterized by a sense of uncertainty, ... Read more

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  • Cultural Tourism

    The Partnership Between Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management

    by bob Mckercher, hilary du cros ...
    Examine cultural tourism issues from both sides of the industry!Unique in concept and content, Cultural Tourism: The Partnership Between Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management examines the relationship between the sectors that represent opposite sides of the cultural tourism coin. While tourism professionals assess cultural assets for their profit potential, cultural heritage professionals judge ... Read more

    $130.99 CAD

  • The Sociological Imagination

    by C. Wright Mills ...
    C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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