In search of social capital

Johnston, Gordon; Percy-Smith, Janie

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“…The signals are captured in the argument that participation, involvement and association are dynamics in the formation of social capital (Johnston and Percy-Smith 2003). Community festivals offer an opportunity to give voice to shared cultural values (Moscardo 2007;Paiola 2008;Quinn 2003) community development and social capital (Arcodia and Whitford 2006;Whitford 2009).…”

Section: Defining New Social Capitalmentioning

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Signals and Signposts of the Future: Literary Festival Consumption in 2050

Robertson¹,

Yeoman²

2014

Tourism Recreation Research

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This conceptual paper uses a scenario planning process to facilitate possible futures for literary festivals, a form of festival tourism that has grown rapidly in the developed and developing countries of the world in the early decades of the 21 st Century and which continues to grow towards 2050. The paper addresses this in the context of two significant cities, Shanghai -a megacity in China, and Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, Australia. The paper offers two scenarios for literary festivals, one drawn from science fiction and the other from a process of prognosis. The aim of this work is to contribute to research in festival tourism studies by exploring the signposts and signals that may confer the future role, form and function of literature and the format and activity of literary festivals and literary festival tourism in a changing world. Utilizing Signals and Signposts, the work contributes to the body of work which seeks strategic responses to rapid change, rapid urbanization and possible zones of uncertainty that may await literary festivals and associated tourism and community activity in the future. Keywords

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Section: Defining New Social Capitalmentioning

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Signals and Signposts of the Future: Literary Festival Consumption in 2050

Robertson¹,

Yeoman²

2014

Tourism Recreation Research

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“…Most of them 8 Attributing primacy to the development of trust relations is a stance widely adopted in studies of migrant traders; see for recent examples Portes (1995), Stoller and McConatha (2001) or Diouf (2000). 9 For similar criticisms see Putzel (1997), Fine (1999) and Johnston and Percy-Smith (2003). 10 This confusion of names was already noted much earlier elsewhere in west Africa; see, for instance, van der Laan 1975.…”

Section: Lebanese Traders In the West African Second-hand Car Tradementioning

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Lebanese Traders in Cotonou: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Economic Mobility and Capital Accumulation

Beuving¹

2006

Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute

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“…Bourdieu readily admits his dissatisfaction with his treatment of the "conversion problem" (cf. Johnston & Percy-Smith, 2003;p. 323).…”

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Persistent Poverty in the Netherlands : A sociological study

Noordhoff¹

2008

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All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book. PERSISTENT 3.Conversion strategies to conquer labor market positions 55 Appendice 201 Appendix A 201References 207 Summary in Dutch 226Index 233 9 List of tables PrefaceThis manuscript is about poverty in the Netherlands during the late 1990s. I made use of the "Landscapes of Poverty"-project database (1997)(1998)(1999) . Despite the fact that the economy increased most significantly during the second half of the 1990s, (when the information and communication technology boosted industrial sectors, the state introduced new labor market policies, so that more jobs became available) the number of the long-term poor did not change (SCP, 2001; p. 40). In spite of this, these conditions did not result in fewer people in poverty (SCP, 2001; p. 46): in 1990 14,8% and 14,3% of the households were considered poor (De Beer, 2000; p. 210-2). These numbers confirm the impression that there is a stable population of socially and economically excluded people.Dutch social scientists -interested in persistent poverty -asked how this could happen while the economy was growing (cf. Engbersen, 1997). This led to a large-scale research project on poverty. This undertaking, the "Landscapes of Poverty"-project (1997Poverty"-project ( -1999 was funded by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW), and aimed at describing and explaining the situation of people in poverty -those who did not (start to) profit from the boosting economy (the long-term unemployed, single parents, the elderly, and migrants). This project explored the life-world of people in poverty, demonstrating and describing the daily struggles of people in poverty. The incidence of poverty was already described in other reports; for example, the Annual Poverty Monitors contain 12 poverty statistics. The Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP) writes these reports, reporting on the number of people in poverty, poverty trends, spells, and dynamics, poverty measurement, and spatial distribution of poverty (cf. SCP, 1997SCP, , 1998SCP, , 1999SCP, , 2000SCP, , 2001SCP, , 2003SCP, , 2005. The "Landscapes of Poverty"-project aimed, instead, at collecting the personal stories behind these numbers to complement the existing statistical research with qualitative observations. This research proceeds from poverty definitions used by the SCP and the CBS (Dutch Central Bureau for Statistics). Commonly, two income definitions are used in the Netherlands. The first definition is the social policy minimum, which is based on the statutory minimum income as adopted by the government in its social legislation (SCP, 2004; 9-10). Because the social policy minimum is 5% more than the statutory minimum ...

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In search of social capital

Cited by 73 publications

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Signals and Signposts of the Future: Literary Festival Consumption in 2050

Signals and Signposts of the Future: Literary Festival Consumption in 2050

Lebanese Traders in Cotonou: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Economic Mobility and Capital Accumulation

Persistent Poverty in the Netherlands : A sociological study

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