Tag: Cultural Studies,
Affective Politics of Citizenship in Reality TV Programs Featuring North Korean Refugees
This paper is concerned with emerging affective politics of citizenship in contemporary South Korean society. Focusing on the recent reality …
Uncompleted Body and Representation of Etiology: The Cultural Context of Women with Breast Cancer in Taiwan
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between of uncompleted bodies and self-explanations of the etiologies in …
Performing (Non-) Compliance Body, Subjectivity and Medication in Psychiatry
Medication and its compliance is regarded as the cornerstone for therapeutic relationship and efficacy by the contemporary psychiatry. From the …
The Hall of Mirrors: Reflections on Cultural Belonging
Culture is not only a defining element of a society but also a natural attribute of a human being. While …
Transcending the Catastrophes and Horrors of History: Atomic Bomb Threat and Activism in Tanaka Chikao’s ‘The Head of Mary’
The moments of the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing, along with the Holocaust, is imprinted in our memory to …
A Book Review Analysis on Haruki Murakami in Four Countries
Haruki Murakami novels are popular around the world. We analyse how his novels are read in foreign countries and identify …
Comparison between Japanese Tipping Customs, Kokorodzuke, and Western Tipping Customs: Japanese Cultural Uniqueness Making Foreign Tourists Confused
Our research topic is a discovery of Japanese cultures uniqueness making foreign travelers get confused from tipping customs' differences between …
The Trope of Ibayong Dagat in the Narratives of Filipino Diasporic
The study involves the reading and interpretation of narratives of Filipino diasporic who may be Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) or …
Global Identity and Culture Transmission
In the 80s, the Hong Kong entertainment and cultural scene were more liberal compared to present times as they were …
Surrealism: A Global Cultural Movement with Local Political Agency
Surrealism is a cosmopolitan cultural movement that transcends the very notion of a nation-state. Notwithstanding, it has been canonised as …
Globalization and the Rise of Ethnic Conflict in Southeast Asia
The rise of ethnic conflict in Southeast Asia is a phenomenon brought about by the tension coming from the assertion …
A Culture of Peace and Indigenous Women’s Engagement in Peacebuilding: A Cross-Cultural Concern
Southeast Asia is home to various cultural communities beset with war and conflict. Peace building efforts in the islands have …
The Global and Local Urban Identity
The notion of urban identity has been the subject of many researches. In the era of globalization, the impact of …
Culture, Language and Applied Linguistics: Language Teaching and Cultural Awareness
The role of culture in a field as vast as applied linguistics is so pronounced and vital that even a …
Mother Goddess in Kerala: Discursive Struggles and Contested Signifiers in a Popular Faith Phenomenon
Mata Amritanandamayi faith is a popular faith phenomenon that began in Kerala, South India during the late 1970s. Over the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …