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Up In Smoke? Towards A Theory Of Community Identity Work, Matthew Lyle
Up In Smoke? Towards A Theory Of Community Identity Work, Matthew Lyle
Doctoral Dissertations
Scholars have developed rich theories explaining how entrepreneurship spurs changes to the central and distinctive features, or identities, of geographic communities. However, less attention has been paid to the means by which entrepreneurship variably affects these identities, or why members of some communities perceive widespread changes following entrepreneurial action while others remain relatively unchanged. Through a multiple case study, which included two communities in Massachusetts that played host to entrepreneurs seeking to found legal cannabis dispensaries, I develop a theory of community identity work, defined as the process through which a community’s central and distinctive features are maintained or altered …
The Struggles Of Living In A Postcard: Tourisms Social And Cultural Influences On A Mountain Community, Elizabeth A. Cartier
The Struggles Of Living In A Postcard: Tourisms Social And Cultural Influences On A Mountain Community, Elizabeth A. Cartier
Doctoral Dissertations
Tourism scholarship is continuously advancing the understanding of tourism development as it positively relates economically and environmentally to tourism-based societies. In recent years, the tourism discipline as a whole has made little progress in identifying the social and cultural impacts of tourism, including questions of why and how local communities’ traditional foundations and defining characteristics are changed, influenced, and challenged by tourists and tourism business development. This dissertation restores the conversation that focuses on how tourism development and consumerism can change the socio-cultural profiles of local communities by addressing the understudied area of the ways in which tourism may affect …