Cities have always been hubs for celebration and festivity, bringing people together to
escape temporarily from the mundane nature of everyday routines. Festivals have often …

National histories of violence shape experiences of suffering and the ways that mental
health professionals respond to them. In Ecuador, mental health literature addressing this …

It is widely held that social capital can help build sustainable communities, yet researchers
agree that further research is needed to fully understand the social dimensions of …

The current trend in public policy is to valorise culture as a tool for social, economic and
political transformation. This paper offers a direct contribution to debates that seek to unpack …

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The purpose of this article is to engage in a new conceptualisation of liminality, as it applies
to space and place in societies emerging from conflict but not yet at peace. We adopt a case …

In this article, we contribute to international debates on the impact and legacy of major
cultural events. Using the theoretical backdrop of neoliberal urbanism, and our conceptual …

Cultural policy has long been leveraged as a vehicle of urban regeneration. The cultural
capital initiative has proven so attractive in this regard that it has spawned numerous …

In the twentieth century, several large cities in the United States used murals to promote
African-American culture and issues. For example, California had three decades, known as …

Does cultural heritage create either bridges of engagement or walls of division within and
beyond Europe? To capture these diverse interpretations, we provide some initial …