Early in 2009, Denis and I had coffee outside a little café in Padua, Italy. We were attending
a symposium organized by the European Journal of Communication on the consequences …

Graffi ti have long appealed to those interested in the ancient world. In early excavations of
archaeological sites the words written on walls were instantly recognisable as being …

Creativity has become part of the language of regeneration experts, urban planners and
government policy makers attempting to revive the economic and cultural life of cities in the …

In today's world, the need to eliminate natural and human-made disasters has been at the
forefront of national and international socio-political agendas. The management of risks …

Given recent developments in retheorising the spatialities of memory, in this study I move
beyond established foci upon monuments and fixed sites of memory to consider some of the …

What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? To answer these
questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chicago's iconic Maxwell Street …

Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern
culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts …

Nations, 2000). All these goals include specific targets: for example, eradicate
extremepoverty and hunger includes three targets aiming to halve the proportion of people …

In recent years there has been increasing attention on tourism as a form of performance.
Moreover, some recent work has focused on the role of tourist performances in the making …

From having been associated with poverty and low status, the commerce with second-hand
goods in retro shops, flea markets, vintage boutiques and trade via Internet is expanding in …