This article starts from the observation that popular culture resides in a contradictory space. On the one hand it seems to be thriving, in that the range of media objects that were previously studied under the rubric of popular culture has certainly expanded. Yet, cultural studies scholars rarely study …

Fear needs dealing with. Fear demands to be abated, countered or turned into something else, contributing and curtailing how we ‘do’ being human beings. This special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies addresses fear within media and popular culture, adopting a cultural studies approach …

Nowadays educational challenges require increasing pedagogical tact of teachers. Intuition serves this swift and appropriate classroom action, but teachers are rarely encouraged to use it. This mixed methods study investigated the effects of intuition-focused professional development on teachers' pedagogical …

The accessibility of the Rotterdam region and port is important for the economy of not only the region itself but for the Netherlands as a whole. This is because, in addition to the largest port complex in Europe and Greenport Westland, the Rotterdam region also offers space for various business services …

In the globalized and competitive world of today, knowledge, innovation, and entrepreneurship are becoming more important, possibly even crucial for sustainable economic and social development. Since its EU 2020 strategy, the European Commission has been emphasizing the importance of education to prepare …

In a matter of weeks last year, discussions regarding tourism in cities changed from how to deal with overtourism to how to deal with ‘no tourism’. Shortly thereafter, a great number of posts on LinkedIn, websites, and blogs highlighted how the tourism crisis that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic …

The Dutch government and leading academics in the field of circular economy propose that “repurposing”, i.e., finding new usages for discarded material, is important to reduce resource usage. Waste collectors, municipalities and start-ups increasingly find ways to develop circular business models, aiming …

To bridge the gap between design practice and academic design research, no off the shelf methods exist for practitioners to contribute to the body of literature. Practitioners face epistemological challenges that disable generalizing their expertise. Dewey’s pragmatism recasts these challenges empowers …

Stagediscriminatie is een maatschappelijk probleem dat sinds een aantal jaar meer aandacht in het nieuws krijgt en behoeft (De Zwaan, 2018; Gort, 2019). Het betreft een vorm van discriminatie onder studenten die zowel tijdens het sollicitatieproces als tijdens het uitvoeren van een stage kan plaatsvinden. …

This paper seeks to highlight underlying issues of the tourism system that have led to tourism extremes of too much or too little tourism. Five phases are recognized that reflect different ways of dealing with too much tourism over time, after which the impact of a sudden lack of tourism is investigated …