“Welcome to Floripa” - The FIFA World Cup on the Magic Island: an apologia for sex tourism by Marlene de Fáveri

“…On the first day of the event, the newspaper Diário Catarinense distributed a special supplement, a kind of tourist guide to the city, entitled “Welcome to Floripa;” its cover featured an advertisement for a nightclub, the Bokarra Club, bearing images of women in erotic poses, an explicit apologia for sex tourism. …”
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(Not) Very Important People: Millennial Fantasies of Mobility in the Age of Excess by Susan Hopkins

“…In her fascinating but frustrating new book, Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit, American sociologist, Ashley Mears (2020) offers both academic and mainstream readers a titillating, cross-over tour around the “cool” nightclub and party scene of the “global elite.” It is perhaps not so much global, however, as American, in the sense of the heteropatriarchal, middle-aged, male, working rich of America (or more precisely of its financial capital New York), jetting into their traditional party hotspots of Miami, Saint-Tropez, or the French Riviera, to party with young women who are (indirectly) paid (in-kind) to pose with them. …”
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Challenges for Democracies in Responding to Terrorism: A View from Canada and Israel by Jean-Sébastien Rioux, Maureen Shields

“…The November 2015 terrorist attacks at the Bataclan concert hall and sidewalk cafés in Paris, the March 2016 bombing at the Brussels airport, and the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. in June 2016 are just a few examples of the horror and loss of life inflicted on innocent civilians by individuals affiliated with, or supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). …”
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Smoke inhalation injury during enclosed-space fires: an update by Ana Carolina Pecanha Antonio, Priscylla Souza Castro, Luiz Octavio Freire

“…In view of the tragic fire at a nightclub in the city of Santa Maria, Brazil, which culminated in the sudden death of 232 young people, we decided to review the literature regarding smoke inhalation injury caused by enclosed-space fires, which can be divided into direct thermal damage, carbon monoxide poisoning, and cyanide poisoning. …”
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THIRST : A STORY OF REDEMPTION, COMPASSION, AND A MISSION TO BRING CLEAN WATER TO THE WORLD / by Harrison, Scott, author 572844, Sweetingham, Lisa, author 643916

“…At 28 years old, Scott Harrison had it all. A top nightclub promoter in New York City, his life was an endless cycle of drugs, booze, and models. …”

Girls that wear Abercrombie & Fitch: Reading fashion branding aesthetics into music videos by Myles Ethan Lascity

“…Teen clothier Abercrombie & Fitch’s mix of shirtless associates, nightclub-like stores and risqué photography by Bruce Weber helped propel the brand into icon status. …”

Negotiating Political Responsibility in Times of National Tragedy by FlorenţaTOADER

“…Drawing on an analytical framework proposed by Augoustinos, Hastie and Wright (2011), based on discursive psychology, and critical discourse analysis, this paper analyses the Facebook messages released by the main political actors in Romania, after the Colectiv nightclub fire. The empirical endeavour is guided by two research objectives: to analyse the discursive strategies used to create discursive identities, to assign political responsibility and to express solidarity with the victims; and to analyse a specific kind of rhetoric, the political apology, focusing on its pragmatic and linguistic features and on the emotion categories (empathy, sympathy, anger, guilt, sadness) deployed to deliver the apology. …”
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Two (Postmodern) Czech Shakespearean Adaptations: Claudius and Gertrude and Emodrink of Elsinore by Ivona Mišterová

“…Prokeš, on the other hand, transfers the action to an obscure nightclub, turning Hamlet into a bartender accompanied by a faithful dog (albeit embodied by a human) and incorporating some Czech allusions. …”
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THE CONCEPT OF MARTYRDOM IN THE VIEW OF JAMĀ’AH ISLĀMIYAH IN INDONESIA by Muzayyin Muzayyin

“…Several mass and suicide bombings (the nightclub Paddy's Pub in Bali, JW Marriot Hotel in Jakarta, Resort Police Mosque in Cirebon, Australian Embassy in Jakarta and several Churches in Indonesia) show this most clearly. …”
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Life and Death on the Pulse Dance Floor: Transglocal Politics and Erasure of the Latinx in the History of Queer Dance Culture by Tim Lawrence

“…Although the dominant response of politicians, journalists and campaign groups to Omar Mateen’s 12 June 2016 massacre of forty-nine people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando revolved around the repetition of already established arguments about terrorism, this article will outline how the massacre amounted to a specific attack on the Latinx community. …”
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The Going Out In Sydney App: Evaluating the Utility of a Smartphone App for Monitoring Real-World Illicit Drug Use and Police Encounters Among Festival and Club Goers by Caitlin Elizabeth Hughes, Vivienne Louisa Moxham-Hall

“…In all, 38 regular festival and licensed entertainment venue attendees used the app to log nights out over a 3-month period, including (1) where they went (eg, festival, nightclub), (2) the prevalence of illicit drug use, and (3) the incidence and nature of police encounters. …”
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ATIVISMO DE VÍTIMAS DO INCÊNDIO NA BOATE KISS: EVENTO TRAUMÁTICO, CAUSA PÚBLICA E CONFLITOS MORAIS by Ana Paula Arosi

“…This article addresses the activism of victims’ relatives of the Kiss nightclub fire that took place in Santa Maria, in south Brazil, in 2013 causing 242 deaths. …”
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Sexual behaviour among casual workers in an international nightlife resort: a case control study by Bellis Mark A, Hughes Karen

“…</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Casual workers in bars and nightclubs abroad are a key risk group for sexual health and a potential conduit for the international spread of sexually transmitted infections. …”
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Californian Flânerie in Karolina Waclawiak’s How to Get into the Twin Palms by Sonia Caputa

“…Waclawiak, a representative of the so-called one-and-a half generation of Polish immigrants from the 1980s Solidarity wave, reinvents the immigration story as her protagonist, Zosia, a Polish American resident of Los Angeles, yearns to become Russian in order to be granted entrance to the mysterious and appealing Russian nightclub. The protagonist’s transformation into Anya goes hand in hand with her exploration of the City of Angels, the postmodern megalopolis with neon lights and pavements reaching the horizon. …”
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Acceptance of Tourist Offers and Territory: Cluster Analysis of Ibiza Residents (Spain) by José Ramón-Cardona, David Daniel Peña-Miranda, María Dolores Sánchez-Fernández

“…The offers that imply a high consumption of land (golf courses) or annoyances from the immediate surroundings (nightclubs) generated discrepancies.…”
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Cosmopolitan crimes by Markus Schleich

“…The film, shot in one continuous take, tells the story of a young woman from Madrid who meets four local Berliners outside a nightclub in the middle of the night and ends up robbing a private bank with them. …”
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The Wall-Mill : the design of a flexible machine for the in-situ architectural machining of surfaces by Yang, Tiffany

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Development of an in-house HPLC method for the analysis of ecstasy-laced beverages by Kar-Weng Chan, Suraya Hani Ramli

“…Abstract Background Pills of ecstasy continue to be the major drug of abuse among nightclub patrons. This stimulant type of substance can be taken orally in many ways, one of which is by drink spiking where the tablet or its powder is deliberately added to some beverage before consumption. …”
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Student perspectives on the normalisation of sexual assault within Huddersfield by Katie Margaret St. Barbe

“…SA was found to be overall normalised within the student population, more so in a nightclub setting (hereafter referred to as a club) than an outdoor university setting (University Plaza). …”
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Shared social identity and media transmission of trauma by Daniel P. Relihan, Nickolas M. Jones, E. Alison Holman, Roxane Cohen Silver

“…We studied this possibility among two U.S. national samples following the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, FL (N = 4675) and the 2018 Dr. …”
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