James Overton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3965275 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Overton |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Overton |
| SIGNATURE | OVERTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Peasants on the internet? Informalization in a global economy
Considered here is an increasingly influential approach, associated mainly with the work of Keith Hart, to the informal sector economy worldwide. His view is that the trend towards informalization is liberating, an economically empowering method whereby the urban and rural poor avoid state regulation, taxation and control. For this reason, Hart regards the new technology embodied in the internet as a means of realizing the autonomous community im…
Academic populists, the informal economy and those benevolent merchants
Academic populists in Newfoundland are wont to celebrate the informal economy and even the system of merchant credit in the country - and, after 1949, Canadian province - as a kind of proto-welfare state. Now, in an era of crisis in the fishing industry, mass unemployment and state retreat from responsibility for providing support for the poor and unemployed, the putative value of the old 'moral economy' of rural Newfoundland is being rediscovere…
Violence and Public Anxiety
Child abuse, corporal punishment, and the question of discipline
Dirt and Danger, Development and Decency in Newfoundland
Symbolic acts of cleansing a province suggest that litter is not all that glitters in Newfoundland's mass-mediated obsession with civic cleanliness
Promoting “The Real Newfoundland” Culture as Tourist Commodity
In their competition with similar disadvantaged regions, local promotors of tourist industry have created the Real Newfoundland - publicity consisting of romantic and picturesque images of rural areas of province. One of aims of this paper is to examine the Real Newfoundland, how it is constructed and some of its many meanings
Tourism Development, Conservation, and Conflict
A Critical Examination of the Establishment of National Parks and Tourism in Underdeveloped Areas
A Critical Examination of the Establishment of National Parks and Tourism in Underdeveloped Areas
Academic populists, the informal economy and those benevolent merchants
Academic populists in Newfoundland are wont to celebrate the informal economy and even the system of merchant credit in the country - and, after 1949, Canadian province - as a kind of proto-welfare state. Now, in an era of crisis in the fishing industry, mass unemployment and state retreat from responsibility for providing support for the poor and unemployed, the putative value of the old 'moral economy' of rural Newfoundland is being rediscovere…
A Critical Examination of the Establishment of National Parks and Tourism in Underdeveloped Areas
Promoting “The Real Newfoundland” Culture as Tourist Commodity
In their competition with similar disadvantaged regions, local promotors of tourist industry have created the Real Newfoundland - publicity consisting of romantic and picturesque images of rural areas of province. One of aims of this paper is to examine the Real Newfoundland, how it is constructed and some of its many meanings
Peasants on the internet? Informalization in a global economy
Considered here is an increasingly influential approach, associated mainly with the work of Keith Hart, to the informal sector economy worldwide. His view is that the trend towards informalization is liberating, an economically empowering method whereby the urban and rural poor avoid state regulation, taxation and control. For this reason, Hart regards the new technology embodied in the internet as a means of realizing the autonomous community im…
Tourism Development, Conservation, and Conflict
A Critical Examination of the Establishment of National Parks and Tourism in Underdeveloped Areas
A Critical Examination of the Establishment of National Parks and Tourism in Underdeveloped Areas
Promoting “The Real Newfoundland” Culture as Tourist Commodity
In their competition with similar disadvantaged regions, local promotors of tourist industry have created the Real Newfoundland - publicity consisting of romantic and picturesque images of rural areas of province. One of aims of this paper is to examine the Real Newfoundland, how it is constructed and some of its many meanings
Tourism Development, Conservation, and Conflict
Dirt and Danger, Development and Decency in Newfoundland
Symbolic acts of cleansing a province suggest that litter is not all that glitters in Newfoundland's mass-mediated obsession with civic cleanliness
Violence and Public Anxiety
Child abuse, corporal punishment, and the question of discipline
Academic populists, the informal economy and those benevolent merchants
Academic populists in Newfoundland are wont to celebrate the informal economy and even the system of merchant credit in the country - and, after 1949, Canadian province - as a kind of proto-welfare state. Now, in an era of crisis in the fishing industry, mass unemployment and state retreat from responsibility for providing support for the poor and unemployed, the putative value of the old 'moral economy' of rural Newfoundland is being rediscovere…
Peasants on the internet? Informalization in a global economy
Considered here is an increasingly influential approach, associated mainly with the work of Keith Hart, to the informal sector economy worldwide. His view is that the trend towards informalization is liberating, an economically empowering method whereby the urban and rural poor avoid state regulation, taxation and control. For this reason, Hart regards the new technology embodied in the internet as a means of realizing the autonomous community im…
Political science (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Tourism (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Economy (3 works) · Geography (3 works)