Month: June 2009

• New arcades/promenades post

  I’ve just posted about ‘the fantasy of cultural history’ and cultural materialism on the arcades/promenades blog.  Wesley has also posted a photo-essay that takes its cue from Brighton’s promenade. “…fashion…this semblance of the new is reflected, like one mirror in another, in the semblance of the ever recurrent. The product of this reflection is the […]

  James Kennell

  June 23, 2009

  arcades / promenades, seaside, Theory, walter benjamin

  Brighton, coastal, collaboration, Marxism, seaside, Theory

• Call for papers: Coastal and Resort destination Management

  I think this conference looks very interesting….the timing isn’t great for those of us with big teaching loads, but the setting alone is tempting! Researching Coastal and Resort Destination Management: Cultures and Histories of Tourism 19th – 20th October 2009 Girona, Catalonia, Spain 2009 marks the hundredth anniversary of the formal designation of the Costa […]

  James Kennell

  June 9, 2009

  conferences, seaside

  coastal, conference, conferences, resorts, seaside, Tourism