Max Holleran
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 173201 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Max Holleran |
| PRENOMES | Max |
| SOBRENOME | Holleran |
| ASSINATURA | HOLLERAN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7177-2065 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
De-communalising the hot pot
This article examines the individualisation of communal hot pot restaurants using a 'do-it-yourself' (DIY) model of self-service that has been popularised internationally and allows patrons to eat alone. Using restaurant reviews from three Australian cities, it shows how the reception of this new style of dining is discussed as an aspect of loneliness, migration, nostalgia and belonging. Drawing on a sample primarily of migrants and Asian Austral…
Resisting dark tourism
The specter of new global conflicts has brought up old questions about dark tourism: is it ever appropriate to visit recent ruins?Can ruins, and places where violence has occurred, teach lessons about peace and cooperation?Or is it merely war voyeurism?This piece considers the ruins of Varosha (a beachfront district of Famagusta, or Gazimausa, in Turkish) a once thriving tourism hub which has been walled off from visitors since the Turkish invasi…
Mobility guilt
This article examines how digital nomads (generally defined here as those from the Global North working remotely without a permanent home) reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic. Using social media data and 37 in-depth interviews with digital nomads from 16 countries, it argues that many in this group continued traveling to maintain their identity and avoid border closures and lockdowns. The article explores how they rationalized their mobility while n…
Steel
Steel has become the de facto material to memorialize 9/11. In this article, we show how the vast majority of steel from the World Trade Center (200,000 tons) was recycled abroad but what remained was sacralized and made into local memorials. Using newspaper reports and materials obtained from a freedom of information request, the article analyzes how dispersed memorialization honored first responders across the United States (and abroad) enlargi…
Pandemics and geoarbitrage
Digital Nomads (those working for higher wages in developed countries but living in less expensive locations, most often in the Global South) are known for their ability to practice geoarbitrage: they search for a lower cost of living while working remotely. Many in this group have merged economic ideas about mobility with cultural beliefs around the value of uprootedness as a means to live independently and appreciate experiences over possession…
Concrete Monsters of the Welfare State
Brutalist architecture is an object of fascination on social media that has taken on new popularity in recent years. This article, drawing on 3,000 social media posts in Russian and English, argues that the buildings stand out for their arresting scale and their association with the expanding state in the 1960s and 1970s. In both North Atlantic and Eastern European contexts, the aesthetic was employed in publicly financed urban planning projects,…
Millennial 'Yimbys' and boomer 'Nimbys
This article examines housing activism in five American cities using interviews with millennial-age housing activists, seeking more apartment development, and baby boomers who are members of neighbourhood groups that oppose growth. Many of the groups supporting growth have banded together under the banner of the 'Yes in My Backyard' (YIMBY) movement which seeks fewer zoning laws and pushes for market-rate rental housing. In desirable cities with …
Buying Up the Semi-Periphery
After the 2008 crisis, Spain forged new economic connections with Asia as relations with EU core countries soured, including a programme called 'golden visas' that offers EU visas, and eventual citizenship, linked to purchasing second homes. Southern European countries with housing gluts, sovereign debt, austerity measures, and aging populations embraced these programmes while discouraging the migration of refugees. Using research with potential …
From modernism to kitsch
Since 1989, Eastern European cities have been radically refashioned, often with kitsch new buildings accompanying the introduction of market capitalism. Modernist spaces built during socialism in Bulgaria and Macedonia, to manifest progress, were supplanted by new “baroque” architecture designed to symbolize wealth, independence, and freedom. Unlike socialist spaces, however, neo-baroque aesthetics failed to capture the imaginations of local resi…
The 'lost generation' of the 2008 crisis
Since the 2008 crisis, youth unemployment in Southern Europe has hindered a return to social and economic stability: in Spain, the young and unemployed are sometimes referred to as a 'lost generation'. This article investigates how rampant youth unemployment in Spain has darkened expectations for the country's future inside the European Union (EU) as well as altered views of the past. Using interviews with jobless young people, the article argues…
Tourism and Europe's Shifting Periphery
This article examines how Spain's tourism industry was developed using European Union (EU) grants in the 1980s and 1990s, and how this strategy was later deployed to post-socialist Europe (illustrated using the case of Bulgaria). The article shows that peripheral modernisation was an important mission in the evolution of the EU and urban development for tourism played a major role in two successive post-dictatorial societies. Tourism was consider…
Falling off the Tourism Ladder
Before the economic crisis of 2008, Spain's tourism economy was held up as a global model of how to ascend the virtuous tourism "ladder" from budget beachfront package tours to more profitable cultural tourism that emphasizes art museums, cuisine, and heritage. This article examines how the maturation of the tourism industry in Spain became a symbol of democratization and European integration in the 1980s and 1990s. The piece then considers how t…
Residential tourists and the half-life of European cosmopolitanism in post-crisis Spain
This article examines British homeowners in Spain after the 2008 economic crisis and their struggles to navigate Spain’s troubled real estate sector. It argues that foreign residents previously embraced European cosmopolitanism but disputes over illegal home construction soured their opinion of European Union (EU) integration. Using ethnographic research and interviews, the article shows how these homeowners contested the idea that EU cohesion po…
On the Beach
This article examines the physical changes and the shifting symbolic meaning of theBlackSea Coast inBulgaria after 1989. It explores three stages of development: the coast as a place of refuge and intimacy in the last years of socialism, how new touristic development embodied economic aspirations from 1997 until 2008, and recent years in which over-building and corruption have become a mark of national embarrassment and anxiety. Beachfront develo…
Mafia Baroque
This paper traces the reception of the architectural style known as 'Mafia Baroque' within the professions of architecture and urban planning inBulgaria. The debate within these professions was strongly linked to the general decline of power among former intellectual elites and the specific decline of architects and planners, who were sidelined as arbiters of 'good taste' and disempowered as regulators of urban growth. The reaction to this style …
Mobility guilt
This article examines how digital nomads (generally defined here as those from the Global North working remotely without a permanent home) reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic. Using social media data and 37 in-depth interviews with digital nomads from 16 countries, it argues that many in this group continued traveling to maintain their identity and avoid border closures and lockdowns. The article explores how they rationalized their mobility while n…
Pandemics and geoarbitrage
Digital Nomads (those working for higher wages in developed countries but living in less expensive locations, most often in the Global South) are known for their ability to practice geoarbitrage: they search for a lower cost of living while working remotely. Many in this group have merged economic ideas about mobility with cultural beliefs around the value of uprootedness as a means to live independently and appreciate experiences over possession…
Mafia Baroque
This paper traces the reception of the architectural style known as 'Mafia Baroque' within the professions of architecture and urban planning inBulgaria. The debate within these professions was strongly linked to the general decline of power among former intellectual elites and the specific decline of architects and planners, who were sidelined as arbiters of 'good taste' and disempowered as regulators of urban growth. The reaction to this style …
Millennial 'Yimbys' and boomer 'Nimbys
This article examines housing activism in five American cities using interviews with millennial-age housing activists, seeking more apartment development, and baby boomers who are members of neighbourhood groups that oppose growth. Many of the groups supporting growth have banded together under the banner of the 'Yes in My Backyard' (YIMBY) movement which seeks fewer zoning laws and pushes for market-rate rental housing. In desirable cities with …
Buying Up the Semi-Periphery
After the 2008 crisis, Spain forged new economic connections with Asia as relations with EU core countries soured, including a programme called 'golden visas' that offers EU visas, and eventual citizenship, linked to purchasing second homes. Southern European countries with housing gluts, sovereign debt, austerity measures, and aging populations embraced these programmes while discouraging the migration of refugees. Using research with potential …
On the Beach
This article examines the physical changes and the shifting symbolic meaning of theBlackSea Coast inBulgaria after 1989. It explores three stages of development: the coast as a place of refuge and intimacy in the last years of socialism, how new touristic development embodied economic aspirations from 1997 until 2008, and recent years in which over-building and corruption have become a mark of national embarrassment and anxiety. Beachfront develo…
Tourism and Europe's Shifting Periphery
This article examines how Spain's tourism industry was developed using European Union (EU) grants in the 1980s and 1990s, and how this strategy was later deployed to post-socialist Europe (illustrated using the case of Bulgaria). The article shows that peripheral modernisation was an important mission in the evolution of the EU and urban development for tourism played a major role in two successive post-dictatorial societies. Tourism was consider…
From modernism to kitsch
Since 1989, Eastern European cities have been radically refashioned, often with kitsch new buildings accompanying the introduction of market capitalism. Modernist spaces built during socialism in Bulgaria and Macedonia, to manifest progress, were supplanted by new “baroque” architecture designed to symbolize wealth, independence, and freedom. Unlike socialist spaces, however, neo-baroque aesthetics failed to capture the imaginations of local resi…
Resisting dark tourism
The specter of new global conflicts has brought up old questions about dark tourism: is it ever appropriate to visit recent ruins?Can ruins, and places where violence has occurred, teach lessons about peace and cooperation?Or is it merely war voyeurism?This piece considers the ruins of Varosha (a beachfront district of Famagusta, or Gazimausa, in Turkish) a once thriving tourism hub which has been walled off from visitors since the Turkish invasi…
Steel
Steel has become the de facto material to memorialize 9/11. In this article, we show how the vast majority of steel from the World Trade Center (200,000 tons) was recycled abroad but what remained was sacralized and made into local memorials. Using newspaper reports and materials obtained from a freedom of information request, the article analyzes how dispersed memorialization honored first responders across the United States (and abroad) enlargi…
The 'lost generation' of the 2008 crisis
Since the 2008 crisis, youth unemployment in Southern Europe has hindered a return to social and economic stability: in Spain, the young and unemployed are sometimes referred to as a 'lost generation'. This article investigates how rampant youth unemployment in Spain has darkened expectations for the country's future inside the European Union (EU) as well as altered views of the past. Using interviews with jobless young people, the article argues…
Mafia Baroque
This paper traces the reception of the architectural style known as 'Mafia Baroque' within the professions of architecture and urban planning inBulgaria. The debate within these professions was strongly linked to the general decline of power among former intellectual elites and the specific decline of architects and planners, who were sidelined as arbiters of 'good taste' and disempowered as regulators of urban growth. The reaction to this style …
On the Beach
This article examines the physical changes and the shifting symbolic meaning of theBlackSea Coast inBulgaria after 1989. It explores three stages of development: the coast as a place of refuge and intimacy in the last years of socialism, how new touristic development embodied economic aspirations from 1997 until 2008, and recent years in which over-building and corruption have become a mark of national embarrassment and anxiety. Beachfront develo…
Residential tourists and the half-life of European cosmopolitanism in post-crisis Spain
This article examines British homeowners in Spain after the 2008 economic crisis and their struggles to navigate Spain’s troubled real estate sector. It argues that foreign residents previously embraced European cosmopolitanism but disputes over illegal home construction soured their opinion of European Union (EU) integration. Using ethnographic research and interviews, the article shows how these homeowners contested the idea that EU cohesion po…
Tourism and Europe's Shifting Periphery
This article examines how Spain's tourism industry was developed using European Union (EU) grants in the 1980s and 1990s, and how this strategy was later deployed to post-socialist Europe (illustrated using the case of Bulgaria). The article shows that peripheral modernisation was an important mission in the evolution of the EU and urban development for tourism played a major role in two successive post-dictatorial societies. Tourism was consider…
Falling off the Tourism Ladder
Before the economic crisis of 2008, Spain's tourism economy was held up as a global model of how to ascend the virtuous tourism "ladder" from budget beachfront package tours to more profitable cultural tourism that emphasizes art museums, cuisine, and heritage. This article examines how the maturation of the tourism industry in Spain became a symbol of democratization and European integration in the 1980s and 1990s. The piece then considers how t…
The 'lost generation' of the 2008 crisis
Since the 2008 crisis, youth unemployment in Southern Europe has hindered a return to social and economic stability: in Spain, the young and unemployed are sometimes referred to as a 'lost generation'. This article investigates how rampant youth unemployment in Spain has darkened expectations for the country's future inside the European Union (EU) as well as altered views of the past. Using interviews with jobless young people, the article argues…
From modernism to kitsch
Since 1989, Eastern European cities have been radically refashioned, often with kitsch new buildings accompanying the introduction of market capitalism. Modernist spaces built during socialism in Bulgaria and Macedonia, to manifest progress, were supplanted by new “baroque” architecture designed to symbolize wealth, independence, and freedom. Unlike socialist spaces, however, neo-baroque aesthetics failed to capture the imaginations of local resi…
Concrete Monsters of the Welfare State
Brutalist architecture is an object of fascination on social media that has taken on new popularity in recent years. This article, drawing on 3,000 social media posts in Russian and English, argues that the buildings stand out for their arresting scale and their association with the expanding state in the 1960s and 1970s. In both North Atlantic and Eastern European contexts, the aesthetic was employed in publicly financed urban planning projects,…
Millennial 'Yimbys' and boomer 'Nimbys
This article examines housing activism in five American cities using interviews with millennial-age housing activists, seeking more apartment development, and baby boomers who are members of neighbourhood groups that oppose growth. Many of the groups supporting growth have banded together under the banner of the 'Yes in My Backyard' (YIMBY) movement which seeks fewer zoning laws and pushes for market-rate rental housing. In desirable cities with …
Buying Up the Semi-Periphery
After the 2008 crisis, Spain forged new economic connections with Asia as relations with EU core countries soured, including a programme called 'golden visas' that offers EU visas, and eventual citizenship, linked to purchasing second homes. Southern European countries with housing gluts, sovereign debt, austerity measures, and aging populations embraced these programmes while discouraging the migration of refugees. Using research with potential …
Pandemics and geoarbitrage
Digital Nomads (those working for higher wages in developed countries but living in less expensive locations, most often in the Global South) are known for their ability to practice geoarbitrage: they search for a lower cost of living while working remotely. Many in this group have merged economic ideas about mobility with cultural beliefs around the value of uprootedness as a means to live independently and appreciate experiences over possession…
Mobility guilt
This article examines how digital nomads (generally defined here as those from the Global North working remotely without a permanent home) reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic. Using social media data and 37 in-depth interviews with digital nomads from 16 countries, it argues that many in this group continued traveling to maintain their identity and avoid border closures and lockdowns. The article explores how they rationalized their mobility while n…
Steel
Steel has become the de facto material to memorialize 9/11. In this article, we show how the vast majority of steel from the World Trade Center (200,000 tons) was recycled abroad but what remained was sacralized and made into local memorials. Using newspaper reports and materials obtained from a freedom of information request, the article analyzes how dispersed memorialization honored first responders across the United States (and abroad) enlargi…
Resisting dark tourism
The specter of new global conflicts has brought up old questions about dark tourism: is it ever appropriate to visit recent ruins?Can ruins, and places where violence has occurred, teach lessons about peace and cooperation?Or is it merely war voyeurism?This piece considers the ruins of Varosha (a beachfront district of Famagusta, or Gazimausa, in Turkish) a once thriving tourism hub which has been walled off from visitors since the Turkish invasi…
De-communalising the hot pot
This article examines the individualisation of communal hot pot restaurants using a 'do-it-yourself' (DIY) model of self-service that has been popularised internationally and allows patrons to eat alone. Using restaurant reviews from three Australian cities, it shows how the reception of this new style of dining is discussed as an aspect of loneliness, migration, nostalgia and belonging. Drawing on a sample primarily of migrants and Asian Austral…
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