Scott Lukas
Scott A. Lukas has taught anthropology and sociology Lake Tahoe Community College for twenty years and in 2013 was Visiting Professor of American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. He has been recognized with the national McGraw-Hill Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology by the American Anthropological Association (2005), the California Hayward Award for Excellence in Education (2003), the Lake Tahoe Community College Distinguished Faculty Member Award (2012), and a Sierra Arts Foundation Artist Grant Program Award (2009). In 2006, he was a nominee to the California Community College Board of Governors. He is the author/editor of A Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces (forthcoming, ETC/Carnegie Mellon); The Immersive Worlds Handbook (2012); Theme Park (2008); The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nature, and Self (2007); Fear, Cultural Anxiety, and Transformation: Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films Remade, (with John Marmysz, 2009); Recent Developments in Criminological Theory (with Stuart Henry, 2009); and Strategies in Teaching Anthropology (2010). His book Theme Park was translated into Arabic. He has provided keynote addresses for Here You Leave Today: Time and Temporality in Theme Parks Conference (University of Mainz); Western Aerosol Information Bureau Conference; Walt Disney Imagineering (Insight/Out); The Poverty to Prosperity Forum (South Lake Tahoe); Staging the Past: Themed Environments in Transcultural Perspectives (University of Freiburg); and SATE Conference sponsored by the Themed Entertainment Association. He appeared in the documentary The Nature of Existence and has provided interviews for To the Best of Our Knowledge, Atlas Obscura, The Huffington Post UK, The Daily Beast, Slate, The Independent, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Financial Times of London, and Caravan (India). His work has been discussed in The Independent, USA Today, and Slate. He is a former theme park trainer and has worked as a consultant for Walt Disney Imagineering/Pixar/ABC.
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Edited by Scott A. Lukas, with contributions by Stefan Al, Michael Mario Albrecht, Stephen Brown, Filippo Carlà, Kent Drummond, Derek Foster, Florian Freitag, Gordon Grice, Davin Heckman, Cornelius Holtorf, Susan Ingram, Lei Jia, Christina Kerz, Brian Lonsway, Scott A. Lukas, Steven Miles, Celia Pearce, Markus Reisenleitner, Bobby Schweizer, Tim Simpson, Jan-Erik Steinkrüger, Per Strömberg, and Jeanne van Eeden.
With analyses of spaces and places that include: Parc Astérix, Terra Mítica, Caffe Tito, Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Mini Israel, Colonial Williamsburg, Europa-Park, Disney’s California Adventure, High Chaparral, Ystad, Jakriborg, Walt Disney World, zoological gardens, Jardin des Plantes, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Center Parcs, tiki bars, Don the Beachcomber, the Tonga Room and Hurricane Bar, Trader Vic’s, Civil War reenactment venues, the Las Vegas Strip, main street and Main Street, U.S.A., Tivoli, Coney Island, Liseberg, South Street Seaport, La Vallée Village, Castel Romano, Barberino Designer Outlet, Pirates of the Caribbean, Treasure Island Hotel, DisneyQuest, Universal Studios Hollywood, Disneyland, Six Flags AstroWorld, Marceline, Missouri, Cerritos Millennium Library, Tio’s Tacos, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Dennis Severs’ House, Juan Pollo, Robber’s Roost Ranch Antiques and Collectibles, Dismaland, World Expo 2015 (Milan), Disney’s Haunted Mansion, El laberinto del Minotauro ride, Tokyo DisneySea, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Japanese gardens, Disneyland Resort Paris, Café du Monde, Tokyo Disneyland, Historama, Knott’s Berry Farm, Tomorrowland, Parc Disneyland, Santa Monica Pier, Paradise Pier, The Simpsons Ride, Titanic Belfast, Venetian Las Vegas, Revenge of the Mummy–The Ride, Game of Thrones-themed spaces and Hunger Games-themed spaces, Macau’s themed casino resorts, Venetian Macau, Sun City, The Lost City, Body Worlds, Emoya Luxury Hotel, SeaWorld, DDR Museum, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Jewish Museum Berlin, Disney’s America, Sea Lion Park, Steeplechase Park, Luna Park, Dreamland, Heart Attack Grill, Whole Foods, Celebration (Florida), KidZania, Olive Garden, Caverne du Pont d’Arc, Lascaux II, Paris Las Vegas, Haw Par Villa, EPCOT, Los Angeles, Seaside, Rosemary Beach, world expositions, Burning Man, Christiania, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, among many other spaces.
The book is available for download at
http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/reader-themed-and-immersive-spaces
A print copy is available for $24.95:
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or an e-book for $4.99
http://www.lulu.com/shop/scott-a-lukas/a-reader-in-themed-and-immersive-spaces/ebook/product-22858440.html
For more information, contact Scott A. Lukas at scottlukas@yahoo.com
Focused on the applied, “how to do it” side of teaching, this text is designed to fill the gap between students who are taking an anthropology class for the first time, and instructors who know their subject matter in depth. It helps professors who are not sure how to present anthropological subject matter and processes to their students in a way that will capture and relay their own excitement with the subject.
The articles were selected based on their contributions to advancing the field, including ways in which the authors of each chapter understand the current theoretical tendencies of their respective approaches and how they envision the future of their theories. Because of this, the articles focus on theory rather than empirical research. Of particular note is the tendency toward integration of different perspectives, as described by editors, Henry and Lukas, in their original introduction to this volume.
Contents: Introduction; Part I Classical and Rational Choice Theories: Rational choice, deterrence, and theoretical integration, David A. Ward, Mark C. Stafford and Louis N. Gray; A crying shame: the over-rationalized conception of man in the rational choice perspective, Willem de Haan and Jaco Vos. Part II Biological and Biosocial Theories: A theory explaining biological correlates of criminality, Lee Ellis; Behavior genetics and anomie/strain theory, Anthony Walsh. Part III Psychological Theories: An alternative psychology of criminal behavior, Julie Horney; A sociocognitive analysis of substance abuse: an agentic perspective, Albert Bandura. Part IV Social Learning and Neutralization Theories: Moral disengagement in the perpetration of inhumanities, Albert Bandura; When being good is bad: an expansion of neutralization theory, Volkan Topalli. Part V Social Control Theories: In defense of self-control, Travis Hirschi and Michael R. Gottfredson; Refining control balance theory, Charles R. Tittle. Part VI Social Ecology, Subcultural and Cultural Theories: Transcending tradition: new directions in community research, Chicago style, Robert J. Sampson; New directions in social disorganization theory, Charis E. Kubrin and Ronald Weitzer. Part VII Anomie and Strain Theories: Anomie, social change and crime, Jon Gunnar Bernburg; Building on the foundation of general strain theory: specifying the types of strain most likely to lead to crime and delinquency, Robert Agnew. Part VIII Conflict and Radical Theories: Revisionist history, visionary criminology, and needs-based justice, Gregg Barak; The state of the criminology of crimes of the state, Dawn L. Rothe and David O. Friedrichs. Part IX Feminist and Gender Theories: Patriarchy, crime, and justice: feminist criminology in an era of backlash, Meda Chesney-Lind; Feminist state theory: applications to jurisprudence, criminology, and the welfare state, Lynne A Haney. Part X Critical Criminologies: Anarchist, Postmodernist, Peacemaking: Constitutive criminology: origins, core concepts, and evaluation, Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic; Against the law: anarchist criminology, Jeff Ferrell; Restorative justice: what is it and does it work?, Carrie Menkel-Meadow. Part XI Conclusion: Interdisciplinary integration: building criminology by stealing from our friends, D. Wayne Osgood; Name Index."
Contributors explore the ways in which the fears of death, loss of self, and bodily violence have been expressed and then reinterpreted in such films and remakes as Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Night of the Living Dead, and Dawn of the Dead. Films such as Rollerball, The Ring, The Grudge, The Great Yokai Wars, and Insomnia are discussed as well because of their ability to give voice to collective anxieties concerning cultural change, nihilism, and globalization. While opening on a note that emphasizes the compulsion of filmmakers to revisit issues concerning fear and anxiety, this collection ends by using films like Solaris, King Kong, Star Trek, Doom, and Van Helsing to suggest that repeated confrontation with these issues allows the opportunity for creative and positive transformation.
Theme Park takes the primitive amusements of pleasure gardens as its starting point and launches from there into a rich, in-depth investigation of the evolution of the theme park over the twentieth century. Lukas examines theme parks in countries around the world – including the United States, UK, Europe, Japan, China, South Africa and Australia – and how themed fairs and parks developed through diverse means and in a variety of settings. The book examines world-famous and lesser-known parks, including the early parks of Coney Island, a series of World Fairs and their luxurious exhibition halls, Six Flags parks and virtual theme parks today, and, of course, Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
Lukas analyses the theme park as a living entity that unexpectedly shapes people, their relationships and the world around them. Ultimately, Theme Park reveals, the wider influence of theme parks can be found in the shopping malls, branded stores and casinos that employ the techniques of amusement parks to dominate our current entertainment world.
Packed with captivating illustrations, Theme Park takes us on a historical roller-coaster ride that both reanimates the places that shaped our childhoods and anticipates the future of escapism and fantasy fun.
Chapters in Books by Scott Lukas
Scott A. Lukas
The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice Edited by Angela M. Labrador and Neil Asher Silberman
Edited by Scott A. Lukas, with contributions by Stefan Al, Michael Mario Albrecht, Stephen Brown, Filippo Carlà, Kent Drummond, Derek Foster, Florian Freitag, Gordon Grice, Davin Heckman, Cornelius Holtorf, Susan Ingram, Lei Jia, Christina Kerz, Brian Lonsway, Scott A. Lukas, Steven Miles, Celia Pearce, Markus Reisenleitner, Bobby Schweizer, Tim Simpson, Jan-Erik Steinkrüger, Per Strömberg, and Jeanne van Eeden.
With analyses of spaces and places that include: Parc Astérix, Terra Mítica, Caffe Tito, Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Mini Israel, Colonial Williamsburg, Europa-Park, Disney’s California Adventure, High Chaparral, Ystad, Jakriborg, Walt Disney World, zoological gardens, Jardin des Plantes, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Center Parcs, tiki bars, Don the Beachcomber, the Tonga Room and Hurricane Bar, Trader Vic’s, Civil War reenactment venues, the Las Vegas Strip, main street and Main Street, U.S.A., Tivoli, Coney Island, Liseberg, South Street Seaport, La Vallée Village, Castel Romano, Barberino Designer Outlet, Pirates of the Caribbean, Treasure Island Hotel, DisneyQuest, Universal Studios Hollywood, Disneyland, Six Flags AstroWorld, Marceline, Missouri, Cerritos Millennium Library, Tio’s Tacos, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Dennis Severs’ House, Juan Pollo, Robber’s Roost Ranch Antiques and Collectibles, Dismaland, World Expo 2015 (Milan), Disney’s Haunted Mansion, El laberinto del Minotauro ride, Tokyo DisneySea, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Japanese gardens, Disneyland Resort Paris, Café du Monde, Tokyo Disneyland, Historama, Knott’s Berry Farm, Tomorrowland, Parc Disneyland, Santa Monica Pier, Paradise Pier, The Simpsons Ride, Titanic Belfast, Venetian Las Vegas, Revenge of the Mummy–The Ride, Game of Thrones-themed spaces and Hunger Games-themed spaces, Macau’s themed casino resorts, Venetian Macau, Sun City, The Lost City, Body Worlds, Emoya Luxury Hotel, SeaWorld, DDR Museum, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Jewish Museum Berlin, Disney’s America, Sea Lion Park, Steeplechase Park, Luna Park, Dreamland, Heart Attack Grill, Whole Foods, Celebration (Florida), KidZania, Olive Garden, Caverne du Pont d’Arc, Lascaux II, Paris Las Vegas, Haw Par Villa, EPCOT, Los Angeles, Seaside, Rosemary Beach, world expositions, Burning Man, Christiania, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, among many other spaces.
The book is available for download at
http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/reader-themed-and-immersive-spaces
A print copy is available for $24.95:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/scott-a-lukas/a-reader-in-themed-and-immersive-spaces/paperback/product-22858441.html
or an e-book for $4.99
http://www.lulu.com/shop/scott-a-lukas/a-reader-in-themed-and-immersive-spaces/ebook/product-22858440.html
For more information, contact Scott A. Lukas at scottlukas@yahoo.com
Focused on the applied, “how to do it” side of teaching, this text is designed to fill the gap between students who are taking an anthropology class for the first time, and instructors who know their subject matter in depth. It helps professors who are not sure how to present anthropological subject matter and processes to their students in a way that will capture and relay their own excitement with the subject.
The articles were selected based on their contributions to advancing the field, including ways in which the authors of each chapter understand the current theoretical tendencies of their respective approaches and how they envision the future of their theories. Because of this, the articles focus on theory rather than empirical research. Of particular note is the tendency toward integration of different perspectives, as described by editors, Henry and Lukas, in their original introduction to this volume.
Contents: Introduction; Part I Classical and Rational Choice Theories: Rational choice, deterrence, and theoretical integration, David A. Ward, Mark C. Stafford and Louis N. Gray; A crying shame: the over-rationalized conception of man in the rational choice perspective, Willem de Haan and Jaco Vos. Part II Biological and Biosocial Theories: A theory explaining biological correlates of criminality, Lee Ellis; Behavior genetics and anomie/strain theory, Anthony Walsh. Part III Psychological Theories: An alternative psychology of criminal behavior, Julie Horney; A sociocognitive analysis of substance abuse: an agentic perspective, Albert Bandura. Part IV Social Learning and Neutralization Theories: Moral disengagement in the perpetration of inhumanities, Albert Bandura; When being good is bad: an expansion of neutralization theory, Volkan Topalli. Part V Social Control Theories: In defense of self-control, Travis Hirschi and Michael R. Gottfredson; Refining control balance theory, Charles R. Tittle. Part VI Social Ecology, Subcultural and Cultural Theories: Transcending tradition: new directions in community research, Chicago style, Robert J. Sampson; New directions in social disorganization theory, Charis E. Kubrin and Ronald Weitzer. Part VII Anomie and Strain Theories: Anomie, social change and crime, Jon Gunnar Bernburg; Building on the foundation of general strain theory: specifying the types of strain most likely to lead to crime and delinquency, Robert Agnew. Part VIII Conflict and Radical Theories: Revisionist history, visionary criminology, and needs-based justice, Gregg Barak; The state of the criminology of crimes of the state, Dawn L. Rothe and David O. Friedrichs. Part IX Feminist and Gender Theories: Patriarchy, crime, and justice: feminist criminology in an era of backlash, Meda Chesney-Lind; Feminist state theory: applications to jurisprudence, criminology, and the welfare state, Lynne A Haney. Part X Critical Criminologies: Anarchist, Postmodernist, Peacemaking: Constitutive criminology: origins, core concepts, and evaluation, Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic; Against the law: anarchist criminology, Jeff Ferrell; Restorative justice: what is it and does it work?, Carrie Menkel-Meadow. Part XI Conclusion: Interdisciplinary integration: building criminology by stealing from our friends, D. Wayne Osgood; Name Index."
Contributors explore the ways in which the fears of death, loss of self, and bodily violence have been expressed and then reinterpreted in such films and remakes as Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Night of the Living Dead, and Dawn of the Dead. Films such as Rollerball, The Ring, The Grudge, The Great Yokai Wars, and Insomnia are discussed as well because of their ability to give voice to collective anxieties concerning cultural change, nihilism, and globalization. While opening on a note that emphasizes the compulsion of filmmakers to revisit issues concerning fear and anxiety, this collection ends by using films like Solaris, King Kong, Star Trek, Doom, and Van Helsing to suggest that repeated confrontation with these issues allows the opportunity for creative and positive transformation.
Theme Park takes the primitive amusements of pleasure gardens as its starting point and launches from there into a rich, in-depth investigation of the evolution of the theme park over the twentieth century. Lukas examines theme parks in countries around the world – including the United States, UK, Europe, Japan, China, South Africa and Australia – and how themed fairs and parks developed through diverse means and in a variety of settings. The book examines world-famous and lesser-known parks, including the early parks of Coney Island, a series of World Fairs and their luxurious exhibition halls, Six Flags parks and virtual theme parks today, and, of course, Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
Lukas analyses the theme park as a living entity that unexpectedly shapes people, their relationships and the world around them. Ultimately, Theme Park reveals, the wider influence of theme parks can be found in the shopping malls, branded stores and casinos that employ the techniques of amusement parks to dominate our current entertainment world.
Packed with captivating illustrations, Theme Park takes us on a historical roller-coaster ride that both reanimates the places that shaped our childhoods and anticipates the future of escapism and fantasy fun.
Scott A. Lukas
The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice Edited by Angela M. Labrador and Neil Asher Silberman
Full text available at: http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/reader-themed-and-immersive-spaces
Full text available at: http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/reader-themed-and-immersive-spaces
Full text available at: http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/reader-themed-and-immersive-spaces
Full text available at: http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/reader-themed-and-immersive-spaces
Full text available at: http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/reader-themed-and-immersive-spaces
Full text available at: http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/reader-themed-and-immersive-spaces
Scott A. Lukas
In Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, Carl A. Zimring and William L. Rathje, eds., Los Angeles: Sage, 2012, Pp. 876-877.
Scott A. Lukas
Intended for publication—but not published—in Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, Carl A. Zimring and William L. Rathje, eds., Los Angeles: Sage, 2012.
Scott A. Lukas
In Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, Carl A. Zimring and William L. Rathje, eds., Los Angeles: Sage, 2012, Pp. 300-303
Scott A. Lukas
In Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, Carl A. Zimring and William L. Rathje, eds., Los Angeles: Sage, 2012, Pp. 640-643.
Scott A. Lukas
In Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, Carl A. Zimring and William L. Rathje, eds., Los Angeles: Sage, 2012, Pp. 164-168.
Scott A. Lukas
In Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, Carl A. Zimring and William L. Rathje, eds., Los Angeles: Sage, 2012, Pp. 291-292.
Scott A. Lukas
In Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, Carl A. Zimring and William L. Rathje, eds., Los Angeles: Sage, 2012, Pp. 299-300.
Scott A. Lukas
In Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, Carl A. Zimring and William L. Rathje, eds., Los Angeles: Sage, 2012, Pp. 160-163.
Scott A. Lukas
In Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, Carl A. Zimring and William L. Rathje, eds., Los Angeles: Sage, 2012, Pp. 450-451.
Scott A. Lukas
In Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, Carl A. Zimring and William L. Rathje, eds., Los Angeles: Sage, 2012, Pp. 937-938.
Scott A. Lukas
In Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, Carl A. Zimring and William L. Rathje, eds., Los Angeles: Sage, 2012, Pp. 495-498.
Scott A. Lukas
In Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, Carl A. Zimring and William L. Rathje, eds., Los Angeles: Sage, 2012, Pp. 813-814.
Scott A. Lukas
(Selected for The Sierra Arts Foundation Artist Grant Program award in “Literary – Professional,” 2009)
Scott A. Lukas
(Selected for The Sierra Arts Foundation Artist Grant Program award in “Literary – Professional,” 2009)
Full text available at: http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/reader-themed-and-immersive-spaces
This piece was written for the Albion College Contemporary Music Ensemble. It was inspired by the work of technologist Denis Goulet and attempted to use the intersection of the baritone saxophone and the electronic music as a point of consideration for the challenges presented by technology in the human world. The music was performed live in the Albion College chapel, which had very boomy acoustics (noted on the final recording). The baritone saxophone was effected with a number of effects pedals (as noted on the performance notes), and the music was created with the TX-81Z, Casio RZ-1 drum machine (using sampled drums), and, yes, a Casio toy sampler, which was all I could afford at the time. The music features alternative tone scales, made possible by the TX-81Z. The end result of the recording is raw, but it is a reflection of this piece in time.