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articulações”. 92 BEEBE, Barton. op. cit., p. 36. “Enormously expansive in reach and ambition, semiotics has studied as forms of language such practices as painting, architecture,urban space, advertising, fashion, and most relevant for our purposes, consumerism and consumption. As Jean Baudrillard, among many others, has suggested, consumption may be understood and analyzed “as a system of communication and exchange, as a code of signs continually being sent, received and…

on the military stemmed from society. It was the result of a development that sociologists have come to describe as the shift from industrial to post-industrial or postmodern society.83 Socio-cultural trends – such as individualism, pluralism or consumerism – and macro-economic shifts led to large-scale changes in the social order of Western nations. Sociologist Bradford Booth argues that these shifts included the “declining importance of the nation-state and national markets and the…

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consumers have thought about their purchases with respect to such factors as organic foods, environment conservation and human rights. Such conscious P L A N N I N G A N D M A N A G I N G T H E C O N T E M P O R A RY D E S T I N AT I O N 203 consumerism has influenced tourism with respect to the growth of ethical tourism considerations, codes of tourism conduct, types of tourism such as volunteer tourism as well as destination boycotts. (iv) Raising producer awareness:…

frontiers clearly demarcating areas of distinct sovereignty, each with equal rights, were absent. Instead, the acknowledgement of control or overlordship was crucial to Byzantium. Moreover, display and ceremonial were an aspect of the conspicuous consumerism and pleasure that could help Byzantium achieve its diplomatic goals, notably by providing psychological sway over impressionable visitors, a longstanding theme in the conduct of diplomacy.54 This sway also reflected the extent to…

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mediaeval pilgrimage centre of Santiago di [sic] Compostela and again in 1990 in Prague (at the same time insisting on the need for obedience to the church.) For such a programme is accompanied by a constant denunciation of Western democracy as consumerism, hedonism, and materialism, not by an unambiguous affirmation of the modern values of freedom, pluralism, and tolerance — right into the sphere of the Pope’s own church (questions of birth control and sexual morality!).4 Küng…