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Tourism, Mobility, and Second Homes
Annotation Second homes are an integral component of tourism in rural and peripheral areas. This volume represents the first major international review of second homes for over 25 years. The volume represents essential reading for those interested in rural regional development processes.
Lifestyle Migration
Relatively affluent individuals from various corners of the globe are increasingly choosing to migrate, spurred on by the promise of a better and more fulfilling way of life within their destination. Despite its increasing scale, migration academics have yet to consolidate and establish lifestyle migration as a subfield of theoretical enquiry, until now. This volume offers a dynamic and holistic analysis of contemporary lifestyle migrations, exploring the expectations and aspirations which inform and drive migration alongside the realities of life within the destination. It also recognizes the structural conditions (and constraints) which frame lifestyle migration, laying the groundwork for further intellectual enquiry. Through rich empirical case studies this volume addresses this important and increasingly common form of migration in a manner that will interest scholars of mobility, migration, lifestyle and culture across the social sciences.
Caravans
In Caravans, Hege Høyer Leivestad opens the caravan door to understand how daily life is organised among Britons and Swedes who have relocated, either seasonally or permanently, to mobile homes. Leivestad investigates how the caravan and campsite come to fit and challenge conventional domestic ideals, and how the static mobile caravan can nurture ideas of freedom even when it is standing still. With sensitivity and an awareness of the humour and pathos of the lives of her subjects, Leivestad closely examines the shaping of the European camping phenomenon and its day-to-day pleasures and pains, ranging from friendships ties to conflictive bingo nights, from nosy and noisy neighbours to fake fireplaces and rotten awning floors. As the first ethnographic study of caravan life in Europe, Caravans offers a refreshing take on contemporary mobility debates, showing how movement can best be understood by taking a detailed look at certain specific mundanities in material culture. This rich and topical ethnography is a must-read for students of anthropology, human geography and architecture, and for those with an interest in the possibilities and perils of a life on wheels.
Double Homes, Double Lives?
A rapidly growing number of double homes connect different parts of Europe in new ways. The second home can be a cottage in the woods, an apartment in the Costa del Sol or a restored farm house in Tuscany. However, other forms of double homes must be added to these landscapes of leisure. There are long distance commuters who spend most of their week in an overnight flat, in a caravan on a dreary parking lot or at a construction site. Economic migrants dream of a house 'back home' for vacations or retirement. Dual homes come in all shapes and sizes -- from the caravans of touring circus artists to people turning sailboats into a different kind of domestic space. This special issue of "Ethnolo...
Lifestyle Migration
Relatively affluent individuals from various corners of the globe are increasingly choosing to migrate, spurred on by the promise of a better and more fulfilling way of life within their destination. Despite its increasing scale, migration academics have yet to consolidate and establish lifestyle migration as a subfield of theoretical enquiry, until now. This volume offers a dynamic and holistic analysis of contemporary lifestyle migrations, exploring the expectations and aspirations which inform and drive migration alongside the realities of life within the destination. It also recognizes the structural conditions (and constraints) which frame lifestyle migration, laying the groundwork for further intellectual enquiry. Through rich empirical case studies this volume addresses this important and increasingly common form of migration in a manner that will interest scholars of mobility, migration, lifestyle and culture across the social sciences.
La migración de europeos retirados en España
Este libro recoge los resultados de diversas investigaciones sobre los europeos retirados en regiones españolas, que han llevado a cabo investigadores españoles y extranjeros, unidos por dos vínculos, su participación en la red científica de la European Science Foundation (ESF) sobre “International Migration in Europes” y su interés por la migración de retirados en Europa, que tiene su máxima expresión en España como principal país europeo de destino. Los capítulos de este libro han sido seleccionados en función de su interés científico y su complementariedad temática, con objeto de cubrir al máximo los países de procedencia y las regiones de destino
Políticas públicas y televisión digital
A las puertas de lo que probablemente será el mayor reto tecnológico para la televisión desde su aparición, el fin de las emisiones hertzianas analógicas, los desafíos económicos y sociales pero también políticos que lo acompañan, son aún mayores. Esta obra los pone de manifiesto a través de un análisis comparado cuyo objetivo es llamar la atención sobre la trascendencia de decisiones que ni son simplemente técnicas, ni pueden desligarse del camino audiovisual ya transitado. Así pues, bajo este prisma, el libro examina las políticas públicas aplicadas a la implantación de la TDT en España y el Reino Unido, desde sus orígenes y hasta finales de 2006, en el contexto más amplio de la actuación de la Unión Europea respecto del sector. El objetivo último: analizar su contribución a la democratización del servicio.
Sociological Abstracts
CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
