Category: ACCS2016
Religion and Religious Fundamentalism: Today’s Challenges
The paper will attempt to analyse interrelations between religion and religious fundamentalism, characteristics of religious fundamentalism, its nature, roots, and …
The Phenomenon of Glocalization Practices of Japanese Popular Culture in Indonesia
Globalization is a phenomenon that can make boundaries between regions become apparent or border-less. Globalization itself has evolved into an …
Is Everybody Present?
Over the past five decades, the interest in the contemplative practices of world wisdom traditions has been steadily expanding all …
Mediated Compassion and the Politics of Displaced Bodies
In media's attempt to humanize the impact of war, dramatic images of disgruntled human bodies seeking refuge in faraway lands …
Legal Development of the Protection of Cultural Property: From the Event of Armed Conflict to the Illicit Trafficking
Cultural property becomes one of the most important evidences which can reify the past and proclaim a cultural lineage connecting …
Action Heroes and Representations of Masculinity
This presentation contextualizes cultural construction of hegemonic masculinity and discusses ways in which action film heroes in Muay Thai and …
Narratives of the Romantic Relationship between Teacher and Student in Thai Contemporary Media: Turning Point of Thinking about Relationship?
The romantic relationship between teacher and student is prohibited by Thai social context and culture; however, there are plenty of …
How the Conceptualization of Refugees Impacts Their Capacity to Fulfill Their Social and Economic Agency
By the end of 2014, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) had identified 14.4 million refugees globally (UNHCR …
Discourse on Disciplining Indonesian Women’s Bodies in a Dove Advertisement
In modern society, all human beings are performers. Our identities could be formed to imitate the personality types that are …
Beat of Asia: Analyzing East Asia’s Cultural Hierarchy and the Negotiation of Hallyu Stars’ Identity and Songs
The study examines the nascent paradigm shift in transnational pop culture production in East Asia as Korean pop music is …
Reversed Realities: National Pride and Visual Coding
What is national cultural identity? How does such identity affect other plausible kinds of identities i.e., gender? Is there authentic …
A Few Good Men: Identity and Representation of Museum Volunteers
Most people usually value benefaction of donating to the temple, only a few appreciate to do in the museum. Being …
Human Traffic: Shamanism and the Marginalization of Trash Hunters in the Korean Cultural Community
In Seoul one will invariably find elderly people pulling large carts loaded with cardboard, glass and other recyclable materials. These …
Otaku Pedestrians in Tokyo: Fan Consumption and Urban Politics of “Visuality”
Otaku culture is mostly studied as a part of consumption culture and information society since the early 2000's. The question …
Hidden Biases of Cultural Schema
Communicating efficiently involves having an assumed set of knowledge underpinned by a learned system of cultural values, or what can …
An Unsuccessful Story of Futaba Nursery School, A Pioneer Educational Institution for the Poor in Japan
Futaba Nursery School has long been regarded in Japan as one of the pioneer educational institutions that upheld children's rights …
Constructing the Hong Kong Nation: Cultural Nationalism and Civic Nationalism
The handover of sovereignty to China has not made Hongkongers the true master of their city, as promised by Beijing. …
Immigration, Identity and Mobility in Europe: Inclusive Cultural Policies and Exclusion Effects
The European cultural policy programs, such as ECC (European Capitals of Culture), seek to develop new forms of civic cohesion …
Practicing Lore Within a Modern Society: Visiting the Mitigation Effort of the People of Mt. Kelud
As one of the active volcanoes classified in the 'Ring of Fire' in Indonesia, Mt. Kelud is inseparable from the …
Intercultural Parenting: A Discussion of Power Relations and Reverse Acculturation
The study employed a qualitative and social constructionist approach to examine cultural differences in intercultural parenting and how intercultural parents …
Chinese Indonesians at the Crossroads: Post-Suharto Identity Dilemma in the Rise of China in the New Media Age
China's rise to global prominence mostly represented in the new media has provoked the prevalence of re-sinification, as well as …
The Feminine Nation: A Postcolonial Analysis of the Iconographies of Marianne and Maria Clara in the French and Philippine Online Press
The feminine nation : a postcolonial feminist analysis of the iconographies of Marianne and Maria Clara in the French and …
Impact of Cultural Intermediates Importing Foreign Popular Culture to Hong Kong
There were lots of media and agents involved in the Japanese 'Hari' culture in Hong Kong during the 80's. Those …
Migration Without Mobility
The Mobility Turn promised a paradigm shift. Inspired by the work of Deleuze and Guattari, fundamental concepts such as culture, …
Intercultural Communication Model of Tolaki Tribe in Multicultures Government Structure in South Konawe District, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
This paper will examine the general and the background about intercultural communication model between native inhabitants of Tolaki tribe and …
The Advent of the First Indoor Stage in Korean Theatre: Impacts, Consequences and Implications
It is widely agreed that the modern Korean theatre began with the opening of the Hyeopyulsa, the first western-style theatre …
Negotiating Power in Culturally Determined Bioethics Secular vs Islamic Bioethics in Decision Making
The supposition of this paper is that bioethics in its different strata is culturally determined. Other than universal in the …
Exploration of New Understanding of ‘Culture’.
Culture is a term which has various definitions with many contradictions. A general apprehension about the culture limits it to …
A Cultural Reflection: The Auspicious Sign in Miscellaneous Notes of the Tang Dynasty (618-907)
The belief in auspicious sign from the scientific point of view may probably be regarded as a kind of superstition, …
Is a Paternal Nephew’s Right to Inherit His Uncle’s Estate Indisputable: The Enlightening Case of Tsang Yuet Mui
The British Law has been enforced in Hong Kong since 1842, but the cases involving Chinese traditional practices were still …
Existence of the Tradition of Moon Festival in Hat Yai District, Songkhla Province
This article aims to investigate the existence of the tradition of Moon Festival in Hat Yai District, Songkhla Province. The …
Standard Chinese Characters and Their Role in Cultural Heritage
Hanzi is a system of ideograms that encodes the Chinese language built on the integrated representation of form, sound and …
The Birth of Contemporary Culture: The Unwanted Child?
The paper proposes to investigate two threads that eventually intersect. On the one hand it aims to look at the …
Construction of Lukang’ s Cultural Memory (Das Kulturelle Gedchtnis) and Spirit of Place (Genius Loci) in the Qing Dynasty: A Study Based on Shih Shu-Ching’s Walking Through Lo-chin and Lin Hui-Cheng’s The Street and Town Structure of Lukang in the Late Qing Period
In 1976, Shih Shu-Ching published liuliWa (Glazed Tiles), which captured public attention to the importance of cultural heritage preservation. The …
Breaking the Fourth Wall in K-Pop: Voyeurism and Talking About Reverse Panopticons
Objectification is common in the media and entertainment industry; if you'�re in the limelight, there is no way to escape …