The Making of a Good White : A Historical Ethnography of the Rehabilitation of Poor Whites in a Suburb of Cape Town

This review article locates urban tourism research within contemporary debates of critical urban studies. The review describes and analyses an emergent urban form – the “tourist utopia” – by focusing on the paradigmatic examples of Las Vegas, Dubai, and Macau. Though culturally, historically, and geographically distinct, these tourist cities share a set of characteristics which foreshadow more general global urban transformations. These characteristics include their juridical status as enclave “spaces of exception” within larger states; transnational investment regimes; public–private partnerships; transient multi-national populations; superlative and iconic architecture; and economies devoted to shopping, gambling, sightseeing, spectacle, and amusement. I explore the way each of these tourist cities functions as a metropolitan laboratory of urban futures and analyse them in terms of relationships among post-Fordist regimes of labour and consumption, themed environments and scripted experiences, mobilitie...

Tourist utopias: biopolitics and the genealogy of the post-world tourist city

This paper deals with the centrality of rebellious youth culture in understanding Sierra Leone's wasted decade, 1991–2000. The paper discusses the fusion between the mainstream and the unacceptable youth cultures, the emergence of an imagined community consisting of rebellious youths, and the inauguration of a counter-insurgency discourse based on pan-Africanism and violence.

Youth Culture and Rebellion: Understanding Sierra Leone's Wasted Decade

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Ludic Conceptualism: Art and Play in the Netherlands, 1959 to 1975

Like any proper tragedy, the German drama, too, had its peripeteia, the moment in the fourth act when the action, all set for a final catastrophe, is given the chance of a happy ending. The inflation had now served its purpose and the State and industry could pay off their debts in worthless currency and the time had come to think of stability, production and profits. Hjalmar Schacht, a capable financier on the board of one of the big private banks, was made President of the Reichsbank and established a new currency, provisionally called Rentenmark.Its value was based on a mortgage of industrial and agricultural assets and it proved perfectly stable, right from the day of issue.

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The New Babylon