Book Review: Working Class organisations and Popular Tourism

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2021

Athens Journal of Tourism, 2018

British travellers started their journeys to Algeria in the wake of the Grand Tour. The Industrial Revolution led to a surge in the number of travellers to Algeria, which was for some time a privilege for aristocratic elite. These travellers left a wealth of literature in the form of travel accounts and holiday guides, which included the description of places, representations of the local people, their culture and their religion. This paper argues that most of these writings, namely in the second half of the nineteenth century, were racist and included stereotypes of the majority Arabic population, especially Arab women, and Islam, the majority religion. It confirms the orientalist discourse prevalent in most of the travel literature on the Orient and suggests that this discourse was defensive of colonialism and imperialism. Nevertheless, this paper argues that this racist discourse faded to a certain extent with the increasing commercialization of holidays to Algeria at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Journal of Tourism History, 2022

Drawing from Greek newspapers from the period 1870-1940, which preceded the advent of the international massive tourism in Greece, this article examines the relationship between bodies and the beaches on the Athenian seafront within the context of sea bathing. The ways in which this relationship was experienced, represented and regulated became inextricably linked with power dynamics articulated in terms of class, gender and sexuality. Similarly, the practice of sea bathing emerged as an activity vested in meaning that was ascribed by doctors, newspaper chroniclers and gymnasts, while beaches became arenas of contention between the authorities and bathers. Over the last decades of the nineteenth century, the naked bodies of workingclass men provoked the fierce reactions of middle-class observers. From 1910 onwards, when a vibrant beach culture had already taken shape, the dissemination of bains-mixtes brought to the fore the female body and its spectacularisation. From this perspective, beach could be considered as one of the social arenas where the expression of modern womanhood emerged.

2020

This thesis consists of two parts. In the first part, we studied the modeling of a hyperelastic rod during large displacements in the presence of a frictional self-contact described by the Coulomb's law. Compared to other works the self-contact with friction is considered as a problem in itself. This problem generates non-linear constraints leading to difficulties in mathematical and numerical analysis. To simplify the problem, an augmented Lagrangian method was used. As a result, we overcame the implicit nature of the Signorini-Coulomb-self-contact formulas. We presented, on one side, a result of the existence of the solution. On the other side, we have proposed an approach that can be used for a numerical implementation of this problem.In the second part, we propose to use a semi-analytical method called the He's method or «Variational Iteration Method» to give approximate solutions to some obstacle problems. For example, we have studied the contact problem of a deformed b...

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2022

Over the last twenty years, and since the United Nations World Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), the theme of the green economy and its impact on sustainable development has prompted many researchers to reflect in depth on the global movement towards a more equitable and sustainable economy, towards a "green economy", generating a total commitment across the world. Morocco, like several other governments, has often given great importance in its stimulus programmes to green entrepreneurs, through the granting of research credits to stimulate innovation, or loan guarantees, or tax breaks or incentives for business creation. The choice of this theme fits perfectly into the current context of our country, marked by the debates on the new development model. Today, Morocco is charting its path towards development by putting in place very ambitious strategies characterised by the adoption of new educational, social, economic and financial programmes. Green entrepreneurship is therefore an asset to accompany the country in its economic, technological and environmental transition. It constitutes a new economic and development dynamic in full evolution in a context of awareness of global environmental issues. Can we therefore consider the promotion of green entrepreneurship in Morocco as an asset for a sustainable territorial development of the country? The aim of our study is to analyse the contribution of green entrepreneurship to the development of the country using the SWOT analytical tool and to draw some conclusions and recommendations.

2017

The Arab uprisings of 2011 have sparked much scholarly discussion with regards to democratisation, the resilience of authoritarian rule, mobilisation patterns, and the relationship between secularism and Islam, all under the assumption that politics has changed for good in North Africa and the Middle East. While acknowledging the post-2011 transformations taking place in the region, this book brings to the forefront an understudied, yet crucial, aspect related to the uprisings, namely the interplay between continuity and change. Challenging simplified representations built around the positions that either 'all has changed' or 'nothing has changed', the in-depth case studies in this volume demonstrate how elements both of continuity and rupture with the past are present in the post-uprising landscapes of Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. Public policy, contentious politics, the process of institution making and re-making, and the relations of power connecting national and international economies are at the core of the comparative investigations included in the book. The volume makes an important contribution to the study of North African politics, and to the study of political change and stability, by contrasting the different trajectories of the uprisings, and by offering theoretical reflections on their meaning, consequences and scope. This book was originally published as a special issue of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.

World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, 19-24 July 2010, Barcelona, Spain. , 2010

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