The ubiquity of computation in daily life has had decisive influence on the imaginative aspects of tourism. Online knowledge of the world is readily available through mapping services, social media, travel blogs, and online reviews. From booking and Googling, to posting and remi…
There has been a (re)emergence of participatory modes of audience engagement in contemporary western European theatre and performance since the mid-2000s. The concern at the root of contemporary participatory performance practice is the authenticity or inauthenticity with which …
China has achieved extraordinary economic growth since its profound social, political and economic reformation in 1978. Housing and tourism are two manifestations of such growth. However, problems related to the development of housing and tourism have become increasingly severe:…
The West has long been conceived in American culture as the site of an elusive ideal of authenticity. This thesis aims to define the concept of American Authenticity as a political philosophy, affective current, and 'structure of feeling' which finds expression within the Hollyw…
This thesis examines how select participants came to be involved in DiY punk culture, what they do in it, and how, if they do, they exit from the culture. Underpinning this will be an ethnographic examination of how the ethics of punk informs their views of remaining authentic a…
Background. Counselling and psychotherapy services are under pressure to evidence clinical effectiveness. However, many of the outcome measures in use are based on the ‘disease model’: a paradigm that is at odds with several key psychotherapy approaches, including the humanistic…
This theoretical study encompasses a theory of authentic self-love as a healing phenomenon in relational, systemic psychotherapy, utilizing selected psychological, philosophical, theological and aesthetic interdisciplinary literature, texts ranging from 2,000 BCE to the present,…
This dissertation explores the intersections between tourism, theology and politics by focusing on a grassroots organization of evangelical tours to Israel. The study suggests viewing Christian Zionism as the underlying ideology that guides the organizers of the tours and explai…
The presentation of archaeological sites, the concept of authenticity, and the development of site management plans are key aspects of how cultural sites are cared for. This dissertation examines in detail how these aspects of heritage management are applied at three archaeologi…
The following paper explores a post 9/11 controversy surrounding "John Walker's Blues," a song by country music artist Steve Earle about John Walker Lindh, an American caught fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan in November 2001. By looking at the history of censorship, comme…
The building of a mosque in downtown Manhattan created a significant controversy in the media due to its proximity to the World Trade Center site. The discussions were produced by and have produced a certain conception of contemporary Islam within the US public sphere that recas…
This presentation is based upon anthropological research on immigrants in Israel conducted over a period of many years. Its various chapters may appear to be heterogeneous from the point of view of the aspects chosen for analysis and the approaches adopted. However, they are all…
Late-eighteenth-century Britain witnessed a wave of texts seeking to standardize written and spoken forms of English. This fact has recently provoked scholars to reappraise language pedagogy's role in enabling certain aesthetic developments typically associated with Romanticism.…
Contextual factors—environmental stimuli external to individuals—are historically understudied loci of leadership. This dissertation comprises two chapters exploring characteristics of distal and historical context that impose constraints on leaders. In the first chapter, I exam…
This dissertation examines the creation of a Jewish physical culture in Mandatory Palestine through the analysis and comparison of the following national festivals: the beauty competitions for Queen Esther in conjunction with the Purim carnivals in Tel Aviv from 1926–1929; the f…
This dissertation ethnographically examines a Japanese historical themed park to illuminate the cultural industries’ role in shaping Japanese identity through creative labor, consumption, and institutional relationships. It argues that cultural heritage is animated through embod…
Narrative nonfiction is a genre of writing that uses literary style and techniques to create factually accurate narratives, seeks to entertain, and is almost always written in the first person. Fiction is literature that invariably holds a viewpoint—or possibly a bias—and likely…
In the spring of 2020, performers of traditional Irish music responded to pandemic-induced social distancing by creating a new variant of an old tradition: the virtual Irish session. Unlike conventional pub sessions, virtual sessions occur entirely in virtual space, facilitated …