Jul 2026· Hospitality & Society· Vol 16, pp. 201-227· 0 citations· 19 references
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This conceptual paper seeks to outline how hospitality discourses have been used to rationalize and justify policies of ethnic cleansing and displacement within the occupied and besieged Palestinian Territories, focusing particularly on the comments and social media activity of the president of the United States Donald Trump. Drawing on a post-qualitative inquiry approach, this paper
thinks with
Foucault by using his concepts as ‘plugs’, to generate new insights into how hospitality discourse, as a form of social control, enacts symbolic violence through the language of care and compassion. The paper establishes links with ongoing scholarship that implicates tourism development and planning within territorial disputes, land grabs and the displacement of Indigenous people, by describing how hospitality can be weaponized as a discourse of development that evokes a sense of respectability alongside the illusion of a politically neutral process. Hospitality articulated in this way enables violent realities to be hidden underneath the language of welcome.
Buddhist nationalism in Myanmar is often portrayed as monolithic, yet fractures persist within its core constituencies. This article examines why Rakhine nationalists, once aligned with the state's exclusionary Buddhist nationalism during the 2012 anti-Muslim violence, have become leading actors in armed resistance aga...
Tian Zhang, Fang-Liang Zhang· Journal of Current Southeast...· 0 citations
This article analyzes the denominational newspaper A Palavra as a symbolic interface of moral regulation and territoriality within the religious press of Belém do Pará in the early 20th century. The objective is to examine how the ecclesiastical press acted beyond the dissemination of institutional news, constituting a...
Heliane Monteiro da Costa, Andrew Wallace Palheta Varela· Revista de Estudos Interdisc...· 0 citations
Recent economic crises have catalyzed a surge of Leftist, progressive and radical discourse, particularly in the US and Europe. Among this diverse body of work, The Nation’s ‘Reimagining Socialism’ forum and ZCommunications’ ongoing ‘Reimagining Society Project’ are among the most widely read and prestigiously authored...
E. Ruggero· Resistance studies magazine· 1 citation
The socio-political context of Egypt is full of the affectual burdens of history. The revolutions of both 1952 and 2011 proclaimed that the oppressive, colonial past had been overthrown decisively. So why has the oppression perpetrated by previous regimes been repeated? What impact has this had on the lives of ‘ordinar...
Since October 2023, universities in the Global North have become important sites in the contestation of solidarity in response to the ongoing genocidal violence in Gaza. This article examines the emergence of pro-Palestine encampments on UK university campuses, sparked by Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s educa...
Shereen Fernandez, W. Tufail· Sociology Review· 0 citations
This scholarly article sets out to cast, responsibly, a measure of historical light on the maleficent practices of zombification and the enslavement of Black people rooted in the vodou tradition. In doing so, it ventures into the secret world of vodou in order to bring these shadowy practices out of obscurity, contribu...
