Progress and prospects for event tourism research

This paper examines event tourism as a field of study and area of professional practice updating the previous review article published in 2008. In this substantially extended review, a deeper analysis of the field’s evolution and development is presented, charting the growth of the literature, focusing both chronologically and thematically. A framework for understanding and creating knowledge about events and tourism is presented, forming the basis which signposts established research themes and concepts and outlines future directions for research. In addition, the review article focuses on constraining and propelling forces, ontological advances, contributions from key journals, and emerging themes and issues. It also presents a roadmap for research activity in event tourism

Conservatism

Conservative ideology in its moderate form is inspired by opposition to belief in radical political and social change on the ground that it rests on several mistaken assumptions, of which the most important are that human nature is highly malleable; that human will can refashion history in whatever ways human ideals may require; that society is the artificial product of a contract between autonomous individuals; and that evil is an eliminable feature of human existence. The unifying theme of conservative ideology, by contrast, is a defence of limited politics, although different schools of conservatism have theorized the concept of limit in ways that are incompatible and even incoherent. Of these, the four principal schools are the reactionary, the radical, the moderate, and, more recently, the New Right. This chapter examines the degree of coherence achieved by each of these schools of thought

Oakeshott on civil association

The distinctive achievement of Western political thought since the seventeenth century is the ideal of the limited state. Despite extensive theorizing about this ideal, however, there has always been profound disagreement about its precise nature and implications. The full extent of this disagreement has been especially evident during the decades since World War II, in the course of which sustained efforts have been made by a variety of thinkers to construct a coherent alternative to totalitarianism. In Friedrich Hayek’s view, for example, the limited state is principally characterized by a free market economy that facilitates human progress

Visions of European unity since 1945

This lecture presents the text of the speech about visions of European unity since 1945 delivered by the author at the 2007 Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture held at the British Academy. It discusses Jean Monnet's Memoirs, wherein he expressed the hope for a United States of Europe, and comments on the French and Dutch rejection of the draft Constitutional Treaty of the European Constitution in 2005

First timing constraints on the Ecuadorian Coastal Cordillera exhumation: Geodynamic implications

International audienceIn this study, we provide the first detrital apatite (U–Th-Sm)/He (AHe) and zircon U–Pb ages to establish a detailed short-term chronology of the burial and exhumation history, which occurred in the Coastal Cordillera along the forearc domain of Ecuador. First, our results allowed us to define a range of maximum deposition ages for the Angostura Formation from 9.6 ± 0.2 Ma to 11.5 ± 0.6 Ma, which records high enough temperatures to partially reset AHe ages. QTQt thermal inverse modeling of the AHe dataset reveals three main periods of exhumation along the Costal Cordillera at ∼2 Ma, ∼5–6 Ma and ∼8–10 Ma, independent of the sample geographic locations. We discuss the origin of these periods of exhumation in relation to the geodynamic frame. The oldest exhumation event, at ∼8–10 Ma, evidenced locally along fault systems, could be related to overriding plate kinematic changes or early arrival of Carnegie Ridge. The intermediate exhumation period, at ∼5–6 Ma, could be explained by a later arrival of the Carnegie Ridge or to the subduction of an along-strike positive relief of the ridge. Later, subduction of sea-floor asperities could be responsible for heterogeneous uplift of the Coastal Cordillera during the Pleistocene (∼2 Ma) that induced exhumation as supported by our models. These results are corroborated by previous studies and demonstrate that AHe data are sensitive enough to provide reliable constraints in sedimentary domains