Accounts of US empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and
economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbors to engage …

The Victorian seaside is registered in both popular culture and literature of the sublime as a
liminal space. This cultural function is enabled partly by its status as a symbol of modernity …

Water is an important part of most Italian meals, and Italians are amongst the largest
consumers of bottled mineral water in Europe. This article looks at the development of the …

This thesis investigates the oceanic imaginaries of three contemporary Global South novels—
Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea (2001), Zakes Mda's The Whale Caller (2005), and Yvonne …

This article is an attempt to develop a posthumanist reflection on port cities. The prevailing
division into the water and land part of these cities implies many inequalities in the …

Proximity to water—both springs and bodies of water such as lakes and streams, as well as
the littoral—was a driving force behind the emergence of a broad range of resort …

The Pacific Rim is a rich and fertile area for studying the socialisation virtues of water, in that
many of its cultural groups integrate aquatic public spaces into their daily lives. This has …

One of mineral water's most valued qualities in the eyes of its consumers is that it is a natural
product, which, for them guarantees its health benefits. This close association between …

The article deals with the process of emergence of tourism in Russia and focused on a
visual pattern in the making of tourist places. Being an essential part of mass printed culture …

My research is an ethnography of urban aquatic public spaces and their role in the
production and reproduction of culture in the Pacific Rim within the context of neoliberalism …