Representations of Green Tibetans connected to Buddhism and indigenous wisdom have been deployed by a variety of actors and persist in popular consciousness. Through interviews, participatory mapping and observation, we explored how these ideas relate to people's notions about the natural environment in a rural community on the Eastern Tibetan plateau, in Sichuan Province, China. We found peopl...

This study explored the impact of cultural heritage on destination branding and tourist experiences, using South Korea as a case study. Korea, country rich in heritage, offers unique opportunity to examine integration traditional culture into strategies resultant effects experiences. research employed both qualitative quantitative methodologies, including surveys tourists, interviews with touri...

Since the 1980s, municipality of San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, has been a territory with constant clashes between its rural population and official land use policy. In this context, community millenary bio-cultural traditions have collided neoliberal political economic interests, new urbanism, speculation, commodification local culture privatization public space. The above-mentioned facts represe...

This literature review examines the changing roles of ethnic enclaves, the question of their authenticity, and their value as commodified spaces, giving special attention to Little Italy neighborhoods in the United States. Understanding the roles of ethnic enclaves requires some understanding about immigrants' identities. For some theorists, immigrants become blended into society over the cours...

Teaching  English  in  an  Iranian  and  Islamic  culture  poses  complex  questions  for  both  teachers and learners. In this paper, the authors intend to shed light on what it means to teach English as a  foreign  language  (TEFL)  in  an  Islamic-Iranian  context.  Having  reviewed  the  colonial  and postmodern views of English language teaching, the authors took a look beyond the current ...

Since the 1980s, most universities in the Western world have experienced substantial changes as a consequence of an ongoing process of commodification. Commodification affects a variety of aspects of higher education, such as research, teaching, administration, and even such nonacademic activities as the intercollegiate sports programs of U.S. universities. This book focuses on one of these asp...