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Book Review of Practices in Memory and Identity

By Mayukh Mukhopadhyay posted 2 days ago
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BOOK REVIEW Trauma and Nostalgia: Practices in Memory and Identity , edited by Lucien van Liere, Srdjan Sremac, Amsterdam University Press (2024), Routledge (2025), 202 Pages, £92.00 (Hardback). ISBN 9789048559220, https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.11930990 The book opens with a small but unsettling scene. A television screen flickers in an Israeli living room during the First Gulf War. Gas masks sit beside the sofa. The broadcast mixes fear, routine, and a strange calm. The war is real, yet it is experienced through images, commentators, and familiar domestic spaces. What lingers is not only fear but also a curious longing for togetherness, ...
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Book Review of The Worlds I See

By Mayukh Mukhopadhyay posted 3 days ago
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BOOK REVIEW The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI , by Fei-Fei Li, Flatiron Books: A Moment of Lift Book, 02 September 2025, 336 pages, $18.48 (Paperback), ISBN 9781250898104 She is walking fast through a plain Washington hotel lobby, hearing her boots strike thin carpet like a metronome that has lost patience, trying to look calm while she feels anything but calm. In a few minutes she will sit at a witness table in the Rayburn House Office Building, her name printed in simple type, and testify about artificial intelligence, a topic that has suddenly become public property, fought over by lawmakers, ...
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The studENT - To Everyone on the Academic Job Market

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 4 days ago
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(posted on behalf of @Sergio Rodriguez-Garnica , PhD representative ) We’ve collectively turned the job market into a kind of “monster,” but at its core, it is simply academic institutions looking for new colleagues and scholars offering their talent to those institutions. Yes, it demands energy and time, but it’s also a natural part of academic life. What’s worth remembering is that an academic career is a long journey. It unfolds gradually. If you stay engaged, keep learning, and remain open to growth, you’ll move toward the place you aim for, step by step. Think about how you got here. You advanced through years of study, courses, ...
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Practitioner’s Corner: Learning Toward Co-Creation

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 4 days ago
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Practitioner’s Corner: Learning Toward Co-Creation (posted on behalf of @Paul Sanchez Ruiz ) For much of my own academic training, the relationship between scholarship and practice was framed in terms of translation. Research generated insights, and practice provided a setting in which those insights might later be applied. That framing remains useful, but recent conversations within the Practitioner–Scholars Committee have prompted me to reflect on its limits. Those conversations have increasingly centered on co-creation. By co-creation, I do not mean a formal method or a new label for engagement. I mean an approach to research in which ...
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Book Review of The Promise

By Mayukh Mukhopadhyay posted 5 days ago
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BOOK REVIEW The Promise: How an everyday hero made the impossible possible , by Arnold Dix, Simon & Schuster Australia (2025), 304 pages, $28.75 (Paperback), ISBN 978-1-7614-2916-3 . The book opens with a confession that feels almost like a warning. Arnold Dix tells the reader that they should not know who he is. He presents himself as a man who has worked quietly for decades, arriving at disaster sites, doing the job, and leaving without applause. This calm anonymity is shattered by a single event in late 2023, when forty-one construction workers are trapped inside a collapsed tunnel high in the ...
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Book Review on The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia

By Mayukh Mukhopadhyay posted 9 days ago
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BOOK REVIEW The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia , edited by Tobias Becker, Dylan Trigg, Routledge (2024), 592 Pages, £184.00 (Hardcover). ISBN 978-1-032-42920-5 The handbook opens with an image that feels strangely familiar. A soldier far from home, weakened not by wounds but by longing, begins to fade. In early medical writing, nostalgia was not a metaphor but a diagnosis, sometimes fatal. The editors return to this forgotten scene to remind readers that nostalgia once carried the weight of illness before it became a shared cultural language. This anecdote does more than offer historical colour. It sets up the central tension ...
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Book Review of Children in Tourism Communities

By Mayukh Mukhopadhyay posted 11 days ago
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BOOK REVIEW Children in Tourism Communities: Sustainability and Social Justice, by Marko Koščak, Mladen Knežević, Tony O’Rourke, Tina Šegota, Routledge, 2024, 228, GBP £145.00 (Hardback), ISBN 9781032448763 The book opens with a quiet scene that stays with the reader long after the page is turned. In a small alpine village shaped by seasonal tourism, a local child watches visitors arrive with cameras, skis, and expectations. The child knows the rhythm of these arrivals better than the calendar. School schedules bend during peak season, family routines adjust, and certain village spaces feel less like home and more like a stage. Koščak ...
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Book Review of How Data Happened

By Mayukh Mukhopadhyay posted 12 days ago
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BOOK REVIEW How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms, by Chris Wiggins & Matthew L. Jones, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2023. 384 pages. ISBN: 978-1-324-00673-2 This book promises a comprehensive history of data with its technical, political, and ethical impact on individuals and authority. The book starts by discussing the importance of understanding data and its role in human society. A day after this book's worldwide release, on 22nd March 2023, more than a thousand technology leaders and researchers, including Elon Musk, urged artificial intelligence labs to halt development of the most ...
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Book Review Essay on The Scrapper's Way

By Mayukh Mukhopadhyay posted 13 days ago
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BOOK REVIEW The Scrapper’s Way: Making It Big in an Unequal World, by Damodar Padhi, Harper Collins Publishers, Gurugram, India (2024). ISBN 978-9-3569-9993-0, 252 pages As a young boy growing up in rural Odisha, Damodar Padhi once struggled to understand how an indoor toilet worked. Used to open fields, he found the enclosed space unfamiliar, even unnecessary. On the very next day, confused and unsure, he relieved himself in a playground instead. This seemingly small incident, narrated with humor in The Scrapper’s Way , captures the essence of Padhi’s journey as he adapts to new environments, learns through trial and error, and constantly ...
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The Scrapper’s Way: Book Review

By Mayukh Mukhopadhyay posted 13 days ago
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BOOK REVIEW The Scrapper’s Way: Making It Big in an Unequal World, by Damodar Padhi, Harper Collins Publishers, Gurugram, India (2024). ISBN 978-9-3569-9993-0, 252 pages As a young boy growing up in rural Odisha, Damodar Padhi once struggled to understand how an indoor toilet worked. Used to open fields, he found the enclosed space unfamiliar, even unnecessary. On the very next day, confused and unsure, he relieved himself in a playground instead. This seemingly small incident, narrated with humor in The Scrapper’s Way , captures the essence of Padhi’s journey as he adapts to new environments, learns through trial and error, and constantly ...
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Book Review of Mood Machine

By Mayukh Mukhopadhyay posted 13 days ago
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BOOK REVIEW Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, by Liz Pelly, Hodder & Stoughton (2025), 288 pp., ($23.47) Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-399-71884-4. One night in 2018, a songwriter noticed his track had millions of plays on Spotify but earned him almost nothing. Digging deeper, he found his song buried in a "Chill" playlist between anonymous, algorithmically promoted tracks designed to keep users streaming. This moment captures the heart of Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine . Through incisive reporting and clear analysis, Pelly reveals how Spotify, once celebrated as a savior from piracy, has transformed music ...
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Book Review of The Scrapper’s Way: Making It Big in an Unequal World

By Mayukh Mukhopadhyay posted 13 days ago
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BOOK REVIEW The Scrapper’s Way: Making It Big in an Unequal World, by Damodar Padhi, Harper Collins Publishers, Gurugram, India (2024). ISBN 978-9-3569-9993-0, 252 pages As a young boy growing up in rural Odisha, Damodar Padhi once struggled to understand how an indoor toilet worked. Used to open fields, he found the enclosed space unfamiliar, even unnecessary. On the very next day, confused and unsure, he relieved himself in a playground instead. This seemingly small incident, narrated with humor in The Scrapper’s Way , captures the essence of Padhi’s journey as he adapts to new environments, learns through trial and error, and ...
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Call for paper: Tourism, AI and Other Disruptive Events: The Main Consequences from These Transformative Events

By Felicetta Iovino posted 12-11-2025
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Dear colleagues and friends, it's a great pleasure of mine to be a current member of this fruitful community. I'm very glad to be also a co-guest editor of a Special Issue in Tourism & Hospitality, a MDPI journal. Please, see below the link and attached the flyer: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/tourismhosp/special_issues/GYDW77F1OG We're looking forward to receiving your submissions. Please, feel free to share it with your contacts and also you may contact me by email (felicettaiovino@yahoo.it) and I will include you in a list for receiving a discount fee. All the best, The guest editors
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Visiting Instructor in Strategic Management at Purdue University W. L.

By Thomas Brush posted 12-01-2025
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Visiting Instructor Position in Strategic Management Mitch Daniels School of Business Purdue University The Mitch Daniels School of Business at Purdue University is seeking a visiting instructor faculty member in the Strategic Management Area to begin August 12, 2026. Qualified candidates must have: • Ph.D. in strategic management or related field, either completed or expected to be completed by August 16, 2026. • Teaching expertise in strategic management and competitive strategy or closely related topics, such as entrepreneurship or management of innovation. A successful candidate will teach strategic management or related courses in our undergraduate program. ...
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Now hiring: Lecturer in Strategic Management at Monash University Business School

By David Oliver posted 12-01-2025
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Interested in living in Melbourne? We are looking for a new Lecturer in Strategic Management in the Department of Management at Monash University Business School. The Department of Management at Monash University is a global leader in research, education, and industry engagement. Committed to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and PRME principles, we deliver high-impact, inclusive research and education across leadership, organisational behaviour, HRM, operations, strategy, and more. Our collegial culture fosters excellence, with strong research support, industry partnerships, and a proven track record of publishing in top journals. We are seeking a ...
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The studENT - A Space for PhD Voices

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 11-02-2025
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(posted on behalf of @Sergio Rodriguez-Garnica , PhD representative ) Dear PhD colleagues, This month, I am thrilled to take over the studENT Column, which for the past year was written by Kanan Asif. I want to start by thanking Kanan for his dedication and contributions as PhD Representative in the ENT Division. I am excited to continue creating a space where PhD students can share experiences, challenges, and insights. My vision for this column is simple: to make it a platform by and for PhD students , where we can discuss the realities of doctoral life, celebrate achievements, and explore questions that matter to our community. ...
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Conference in Montenegro (June 3-6 2026) - 1st call for submissions

By Matej Cerne posted 11-01-2025
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On this link you can find the first call for submissions for our previously-announced conference in Montenegro , which includes the conference topic and themes, one wave of confirmed keynote and plenary speakers (we'll be building up the momentum by adding more world-class in the following weeks; including the full list of the program and academic board of the conference—we'll be sending an update in about a month), and key deadlines. The call is now also being publicized via all channels of our associations and institutions, as well as personal posts—which actually have a stronger reach. We'd be delighted if you could also share wherever you find appropriate, ...
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