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This paper presents the findings of a study undertaken amongst women attorneys in South Africa, to determine the impact motherhood has on their legal career. The argument is that motherhood is incompatible with the hyper‐competitive male dominant professional culture of the legal profession. The paper employs Edgar Schein's concept of organisational culture and Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus and culture to understand how women continue to experience unequal outcome in their careers, despite the removal of formal barriers and the enactment of laws and policies. The concepts further illuminate how and why the male dominant culture of the profession embeds itself and remains one of the hardest elements to change. The study was furthermore underpinned by a feminist standpoint epistemology, interviewing 27 attorneys across three corporate law firms in South Africa. The key findings show that when becoming a mother, many women attorneys experience a disjuncture between their mothering and professional role, which is attributed to the hyper‐competitive culture of the profession. This leads to many women having less successful legal careers which is manifested in different ways. These findings demonstrate how women are perpetually marginalized in the profession and why we continue to see the lack of women in the senior ranks of the profession despite a robust legal and policy framework promoting equality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(1) Background: The rise of fascism in American and, indeed, throughout the world, prompts a question: why does fascism remain persistent in human existence? The question is one that Karl Jaspers might have asked regarding the origin and goal of history. The political description of fascism is not adequate to describe the lived experience of those drawn to it, and to assume such people to be irrational does not suffice. Rather, culture provides semiotic structure, which is phenomenologically embodied by people in a Mitwelt. (2) Results: Perhaps what is needed is not a political description of fascism but a communicological analysis that proceeds as a semiotic phenomenology of fascism as it is culturally embodied. Jaspers' concept of evil frames fascism as colonialism turned against itself, disguised banally in such phenomena as Schadenfreude, as described by Lanigan. (3) I approach this question using a semiotic phenomenological method. (4) Conclusions: The fading colonial dominance in the form of cultural hegemony creates Laingian ontological insecurity and a desire for one's inner fascist to identify itself in others. Addressing fascism requires new politics of experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Byzantine lead seals of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts number in total 146 pieces, mostly collected in the region of Trebizond. They offer valuable insights into the middle Byzantine society of the Pontos region, which despite its location on the easternmost borders was connected with other, even more remote, regions of the empire. The majority of these seals come from local officials and reflect their local preoccupations, perhaps as a backlash to the dominant culture of the capital. Fifteen selected pieces from the collection are published here and provided with commentary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although education is framed as a future‐oriented enterprise, we often fail to serve the diverse futurities of youth, particularly in formal learning environments. The cultural norms of formal learning environments are rooted in dominant ways of being and knowing and this shapes how learning environments and learning technologies can be designed. As a result, the futures youth can envision for themselves in these spaces are often static and limited by the dominant culture. As a move toward supporting youths' diverse cultural backgrounds and experiences, we ask how youth develop relationship with culture through creating culturally centred multimedia projects. Guided by a case study approach, we collected thirty‐six remixing multimedia projects from twelve sixth graders, who created these projects for three culturally centred learning activities over a school year. Findings share one case from each learning activity to demonstrate how students represent their relationships with culture through three forms of symbolising. Implications from this work reject the settled expectations of dominant culture in formal learning environments and, instead, invite youths' knowledges and experiences through remixing with multimedia. Practitioner notes What is already known about this topic Formal learning environments are shaped by norms rooted in the dominant culture but are often assumed to be acultural spaces. Multimedia technologies have been leveraged to engage youth with culture in the classroom. Remixing is a sociocultural learning process that allows youth to reimagine their lived experiences. What this paper adds Sixth graders' relationships with culture were mediated by remixing with multimedia resources in a series of culturally centred multimedia projects. Forms of symbolising in students' remixing works reveal diverse relationships with their own culture and other cultures. Culturally centred multimedia projects afford the development of intertwined and reciprocal relationships with one's own culture and other cultures. Implications for practice Formal learning environments and embedded learning activities often operate on static or limited relationships between youth and their diverse range of cultural experiences. Engaging with multimedia projects can develop students' relationships with their own culture and other cultures in a reciprocal way. Supporting the development of diverse relationships with culture is crucial to designing a culturally centred learning environment. What is already known about this topic Formal learning environments are shaped by norms rooted in the dominant culture but are often assumed to be acultural spaces. Multimedia technologies have been leveraged to engage youth with culture in the classroom. Remixing is a sociocultural learning process that allows youth to reimagine their lived experiences. What this paper adds Sixth graders' relationships with culture were mediated by remixing with multimedia resources in a series of culturally centred multimedia projects. Forms of symbolising in students' remixing works reveal diverse relationships with their own culture and other cultures. Culturally centred multimedia projects afford the development of intertwined and reciprocal relationships with one's own culture and other cultures. Implications for practice Formal learning environments and embedded learning activities often operate on static or limited relationships between youth and their diverse range of cultural experiences. Engaging with multimedia projects can develop students' relationships with their own culture and other cultures in a reciprocal way. Supporting the development of diverse relationships with culture is crucial to designing a culturally centred learning environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we shed light on the relationship between the production processes in televised football in Poland and representations of race/ethnicity. Previous research has extensively explored representations of race/ethnicity in mediated sports texts, but there remains a gap in understanding the production processes and their connection to these representations, particularly in contexts beyond the Anglosphere. In order to address this gap, in this study we conducted interviews with football media professionals and conducted field visits at football media organizations in Poland. Our findings reveal that football media professionals employ various discursive strategies when giving meaning to racial/ethnic diversity in televised football and within the football media workplace, which occasionally incorporate stereotypes. Generally, football media professionals took a color-evasive stance, and argued that they do not speak through racial/ethnic stereotypes in their work. Critical reflections on the production process are also hindered by the everyday practices and dominant working cultures in the football media office, which is constructed and maintained by media professionals as a predominantly White and masculine space. We contextualize these findings in light of previous studies on race/ethnicity in sport media, and the complex discourses surrounding Whiteness in the Polish context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rural communities throughout the United States experience day-to-day hurdles of material privation while also navigating ruralism: a dominant culture that marginalizes and denigrates rural people and places. This article charts how residents of a rural community navigate cultural ruralism in their own local co-creation of the meanings and values associated with the people and places of their home, ultimately offering the concept of rhetorics of spatial legitimization to make sense of this phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In contemporary, neoliberal contexts, individuals are compelled to display competent and 'enterprising' selves, to get ahead in 'hustle culture' and to prioritise their personal health/wellbeing and futures. Dominant drinking cultures that normalise binge drinking and 'living in the moment' sit at odds with such values, yet these tensions can be navigated through 'responsible' consumption, whereby consumers can continue to buy into dominant drinking cultures yet show restraint by drinking in moderation and/or participating in periods of abstinence. In recent years, an expanding market of 'no-and low-alcohol' (NoLo) drinks also presents increasing opportunities to negotiate new kinds of moderate drinking identities, take breaks from consumption or reconfigure relationships with alcohol entirely. Drawing on data from 15 interviews with regular NoLo drinkers, this article highlights the ways in which NoLo consumption is entangled with notions of the enterprising self in relation to health, choice/responsibility, productivity and the future. Using the consumption of NoLo drinks as a case study, the article contributes more widely to our understandings of how identities are negotiated and displayed through particular (non)consumption practices that take place in the present – but also construct the future self – in the face of neoliberal imperatives to be healthy and productive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines two novels by contemporary American women writers: Luster by Ravel Leilani (2020) and My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (2018). It charts some of the ways in which both use art and portrayals of art to theorise late capitalism: its amorphous grip on the aesthetics of the contemporary, and what Fredric Jameson famously referred to as the ‘waning of affect’ under its cultural dominance. I argue, however, that these novels also offer a distinct approach to navigating late capitalism and the types of desires (for more of the same) it generates, and that they do this by resisting genre. This resistance of genre reads in terms of a plotlessness or ongoingness which serves the purpose, I suggest, of holding space for other, illegible, as-yet uncast desires which might disrupt capitalist convention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Early debates within subcultural theory have criticized the field for its male bias and its tendency to ignore girls’ culture. This criticism may still be highly relevant in terms of digital girl culture and digital sites of resistance and dissent. Based on interviews with early adolescents (n = 80; age 12–16), we discovered how posting low-quality, seemingly random, out-of-context content onto private Snapchat stories was an integral part of online girl culture referred to as ‘shitposting’. This digital practice of ‘shitposting’ shows how the technologies and functionalities of social media can be used to create insulated, well-hidden, and unspectacular sites of resistance towards dominant notions of femininity associated with success, perfectionism, and flawlessness, i.e. emphasized young femininity. We argue that this resistance arises in the face of a pervasive and dominant achievement culture that continuously pressures young people to strive towards success, perfection, and personal achievements in all areas of life. While previous research has found shitposting to be a masculine practice, particularly within more extreme groups, the feminine version of shitposting may have been overlooked due to its hidden, mundane, and unspectacular nature. It is, however, equally important as it informs us about contemporary young femininity as a site of resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Growing evidence supports the importance of culturally appropriate mental health interventions, yet it is not always feasible to develop culturally grounded interventions or adapt existing interventions for each cultural group. In addition, these approaches do not recognize the multiple intersecting aspects of culture and identity that individuals, families, and communities possess. Thus, an essential question is whether culturally appropriate mental health interventions have to be culturally specific. We address this question by examining processes of the Refugee Well‐being Project (RWP), a community‐based mental health intervention for refugees resettled in the United States, which included people from multiple cultural groups (Afghanistan, Great Lakes region of Africa, Iraq, and Syria) and was grounded in common experiences of forcibly displaced people from marginalized backgrounds. RWP incorporates a practice‐based concept of culture, an intersectional view of identity, and a multilevel approach to address postmigration stressors. Semistructured qualitative interviews were conducted with 290 participants at preintervention, followed by interviews at three timepoints with a purposively selected subsample (n = 66). Additional interviews (n = 101) were conducted with refugee and student partners. Four themes demonstrated key principles for creating culturally appropriate interventions with diverse groups: (a) recognize cultural complexity in practice; (b) focus on how racism and discrimination are experienced in everyday life; (c) de‐center dominant US culture; and (d) create an egalitarian, inclusive space to put principles into action. We conclude that mental health interventions implemented with multiple, diverse groups can be culturally appropriate and effective without being culturally specific. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Study abroad is laden with socially constructed expectations informed by discourses of place, people, and culture presented through social media, pop culture, word-of-mouth, and marketing. These discourses can shape how students approach and interpret their host countries and study abroad experiences. To better inform language and culture curriculum in study abroad programming, this qualitative case study explored how 13 U.S. students in an introductory Italian language and culture summer course perceived their host country and culture before, during, and after a short-term study abroad programme in Italy. Framed by Urry’s notion of the tourist gaze through a social constructionist lens, the study examined multiple data sources including interviews, participant observation, questionnaires, social media, and course artifacts. Findings identified that students curated their own Italian reality by filtering their experiences through existing frames of reference. They conceptualised Italy through a romanticised lens fuelled not only by stereotypes and singular narratives, but also by sheltered exposure to the broader country. Further, students perpetuated the tourist gaze by reproducing the same discourses that they themselves referenced. The implications support curricular intervention strategies to challenge existing frames of reference and to expose students to broader representations of the host country and culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Identifying the predominant strains of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) in dahi that are resistant to bacteriophages is essential for developing robust starter cultures. Dahi samples from two agroecological zones of Kerala were collected for isolation of LAB. Limosilactobacillus fermentum emerged as the dominant starter culture species based on sequence‐based identification and technological property characterisation. Dairy effluents were screened for phages targeting L. fermentum, and 10 of 11 strains of L. fermentum showed resistance to one lytic phage isolated as part of this study. The strain ADMT 15 showed sensitivity to the phage and on subsequent genome sequencing the phage revealed its close relationship to members of the Herelleviridae phage family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bacterial cellulose (BC) is emerging as an attractive large-scale polymer due to its superior properties. The dominant static culture for BC fermentation by bacteria or microbial consortium results in low productivity. Agitated culture, as an industrially projected technique, has been widely investigated but exclusively for cellulose-producing bacterial strains. Addressing this concern and evaluating the potential of residues as feedstock, this study highlights the utilization of microbial consortium BA2 and seven agro-industrial wastes including cocoa husks, sugarcane bagasse and others. Remarkably, rice bran (RB) appears as a promising substrate, achieving 2.14 g/L (dry basis) and outperforming the traditional HS medium, evident from a 15-day fermentation. A complex interplay between oxygen availability, glucose consumption and BC yield was revealed; while orbital and magnetic stirring with forced air ventilation (AFV) showed low BC yields and early biomass saturation, 4.07 g/L (dry basis) was targeted by magnetic stirring at 100 rpm from the start using only headspace air. However, beyond controlled operating conditions, mechanical agitation and favorable cellulose adhesion to metal in the stirred tank bioreactor negatively affect BC yield. This pattern uncovers the need for a further approach to the design of bioreactors when the microbial consortium is considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Though polygamy is still prevalent in some southern parts of Iran, it is not considered the dominant culture and brings about challenges for women in local communities. The present study aimed to narrate such women's experiences facing the phenomenon of polygamy. The study implemented a qualitative mythology, using Colaizzi's descriptive phenomenology. In depth-interviews with 33 women living in polygamous families showed that they considered the tradition discriminatory and adopted three strategies to deal with it. The included strategies based on hostile vengeance against co-wives, strategies based on compensation to improve relationships and control circumstances, and strategies based on a compromise to maintain one's personal interests and tranquility. The ultimate result of the study showed that the polygamous tradition faced serious challenges from women themselves. In other words, the women were no longer passive and obedient figures but resisted the discriminatory tradition by actively taking stances against it and making it a very costly undertaking for men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cinema is an art connected to social reality, interacting with groups that are actors of societal transformation. Groups that cannot make their voices heard within dominant cultures can develop a resistance against the dominant culture or find a path of reconciliation with it through subcultures, thereby creating an alternative space for themselves. Therefore, although subcultures are often perceived as a form of resistance, they can sometimes be functional in the path towards reconciliation with society. As an alternative form of expression, subcultures can find an opportunity of representation in recent films produced in many different countries. This study examines how rap subculture is represented in cinema. With this aim in mind, the film Casablanca Beats (Ayouch, 2021), which is one of the noteworthy examples of Moroccan cinema in recent years, has been selected as an example. Casablanca Beats (Ayouch, 2021) addresses the emergence of a dynamic rap subculture among young characters, and how through this path, they create a lifeline for themselves by forming a resistance against normative values. In this study, the reflection of rap music subcultural practices in Casablanca Beats (Ayouch, 2021) is examined using the Descriptive Analysis method guided by Raymond Williams' framework of the “dominant”, “residual”, and “emerging” cultures. The results of the study reveal that in the film, young characters find a space of autonomous expression through subcultural practices, form group identities, challenge societal determinants, but on the other hand, they are also observed to engage in efforts to reconcile with the dominant culture by transforming it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the exceptional intercultural encounter between secular therapists and Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel, focusing on two key aspects. Firstly, it explores the distinctive attributes and conflicts inherent in treating Ultra-Orthodox individuals. On the one hand is the secular Israeli therapist, whose base is in Western philosophy that prioritizes individuality, cultural diversity, and tolerance of differences. On the other hand is the Haredi client, entrenched in values from Jewish tradition and religious principles that amplify solidarity and collectivism while rejecting prevalent secular culture. The existing sociopolitical climate in Israel often positions these two as potentially conflicting cultures. Secondly, the paper seeks to illuminate the uncommon dynamics of the minority-majority power balance within the therapeutic relationship. In contrast to prevalent literature in intercultural therapy, which typically frames the client as a representative of a disadvantaged minority and the therapist as a representative of a dominant majority, this article aims to unravel a nuanced power balance, where those in the minority perceive the dominant culture both as a threat to its way of life and as a despised entity, but paradoxically rely entirely on its financial support. This reveals a complex and intricate interplay of dominance and dependence, shaping a therapeutic relationship that defies conventional expectations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The bicultural nation that is Aotearoa New Zealand is now a multi-ethnic society, home to many non-indigenous ethnic minority communities. This study explored the perceptions and experiences of four self-identifying non-indigenous ethnic minority psychotherapists living in this country. Specifically, it answers the question: "What are the predominant themes that can be identified in the accounts of non-Māori ethnic minority psychotherapists, residing and practicing within the bicultural context of Aotearoa New Zealand?" Semi-structured interviews with participants explored their lived everyday experiences in both personal and professional spheres. Data were analysed using thematic analysis and yielded three themes: (1) "Acculturation to mainstream" captures the personal challenges participants encountered as immigrants in relocating and adapting to mainstream Aotearoa New Zealand culture; (2) "Encountering Indigenous culture" describes participants' experiences of coming into contact with indigenous Māori culture, and ensuing perceptions and understandings; (3) "Relating to biculturalism" describes how the participants understand and make meaning of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. Understanding these participants' experiences can help non-indigenous ethnic minority psychotherapists become better informed and politically aware, and may empower them to negotiate a more meaningful position in a bicultural nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the ways dominant White culture shapes the foundational assumptions within U.S. public administration, and how these embed oppressive power dynamics within the field are impeding effectively addressing racial inequities. Toward that end, we offer a primer on White culture as a specific form of dominance culture with unique assumptions, values, power dynamics, institutional structures, and procedures. We argue that this hegemonic culture has shaped public administration's primary schools of thought. Examination of these schools demonstrates that efforts to reform public administration will continue to fail in producing socially just outcomes if the underlying White culture is not dismantled. To achieve social justice, we must transform underlying assumptions through pluricultural integration (as opposed to multicultural pluralism), generating a culture that fosters equitable and inclusive power dynamics that empower all social identities through the development of power-within (self-efficacy), power-with (solidarity), and power-to (agency). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article is a book review of "Popular Culture and the End of Antiquity in Southern Gaul, c. 400–550" by Lucy Grig. The book explores popular culture in fifth- and sixth-century southern Gaul, highlighting the local contexts of production, participation, and socio-political contestation. It examines the social worlds of ordinary people in cities and the countryside, ecclesiastical responses to popular culture, and the application of theories of "lived religion" to Christian texts. The book offers a comprehensive analysis of the kalends festival and concludes with a model of popular culture that comprises strategies of negotiation and contestation. The review suggests that the book should be read widely by historians of Late Antiquity and highlights the need for further investigation into how popular culture was embedded in specific contexts. [Extracted from the article]

Increasing the speed of scientific progress is urgently needed to address the many challenges associated with the biosphere in the Anthropocene. Consequently, the critical question becomes: How can science most rapidly progress to address large, complex global problems? We suggest that the lag in the development of a more predictive science of the biosphere is not only because the biosphere is so much more complex, or because we do not have enough data, or are not doing enough experiments, but, in large part, because of unresolved tension between the three dominant scientific cultures that pervade the research community. We introduce and explain the concept of the three scientific cultures and present a novel analysis of their characteristics, supported by examples and a formal mathematical definition/representation of what this means and implies. The three cultures operate, to varying degrees, across all of science. However, within the biosciences, and in contrast to some of the other sciences, they remain relatively more separated, and their lack of integration has hindered their potential power and insight. Our solution to accelerating a broader, predictive science of the biosphere is to enhance integration of scientific cultures. The process of integration--Scientific Transculturalism--recognizes that the push for interdisciplinary research, in general, is just not enough. Unless these cultures of science are formally appreciated and their thinking iteratively integrated into scientific discovery and advancement, there will continue to be numerous significant challenges that will increasingly limit forecasting and prediction efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How do far-right actors and issues structure public debates and become mainstream over time? Previous research has shown that far-right actors are central actors in political conflicts in Western Europe, partly due to their dominance in struggles on cultural issues. The entrenchment of the far right substantially depends on their networks and public visibility. However, we still lack a long-term understanding of public debates about far-right actors and their discursive interconnections across issues. In this paper, we deliver the first longitudinal analysis of the evolution and structure of far-right discourse networks and the diffusion of far-right ideas in public debates since the 1990s. Methodologically, this paper innovates by combining discourse network analysis with automated text analysis to investigate how the relations between far-right actors and issues are represented in mass media. We analyze more than 500,000 newspaper articles in six different mass media outlets in Germany. The results show that far-right actors have gained more public visibility since the 1990s. The study demonstrates that the mass media debates have introduced and amplified cultural issues "owned" by the far right. Far-right discourse networks in mass media have grown, discursive interactions have intensified and discourse networks have become more centralized. Our results indicate that the discursive mainstreaming of the far right evolved in the context of the "refugee crisis" in 2015, and was linked to the AfD's institutional access. Overall, the study aids in developing a better understanding of the success of the far right and the crucial role of public debates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Why do affluent people drive used cars, elite chefs praise basic ingredients, and upper‐middle couples arrange backyard weddings? What makes senior professors feel comfortable dressing down and allows men to bring their kids into the office? This article takes a formal sociological approach to explore the cultural phenomenon of "Status Downplay"—a paradoxical type of status display, where more social status is signaled through a subtraction of status symbols. The trans‐contextual analysis of diverse manifestations of status downplay uncovers the inverted cultural presumptions of "doing" and "being" and the hierarchical classifications underlying such parodical presentation of self. The proposed semiotic model articulates the social privilege of unmarked actors' performative flexibility: the social license of those considered "normals" to deviate from the performative norm. Under this asymmetrical structure, status underdoings are revealed as markers of cultural dominance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the study is to identify the specifics of the ethnic-national content of the cultural and artistic heritage of Odesa, taking into account its polyethnic-polynational status of the city and the cultural dominance of the Ukrainian-Slavic factor due to its military-expansive genesis. The methodological basis is the artistic indicators of the intonation concept in the traditions of the school of B. Asafyev in Ukraine, presented in the works of the authors of this study, as well as in the works of D. Androsova, O. Muravska, O. Roshchenko, I. Shevchuk, among others. Special attention is paid to the biographical and descriptive method, evidenced in the research of V. Shulhina and O. Yakovlev. The scientific novelty of the study is based on the selection of regional features of Ukrainian culture, with an emphasis in this case on the multi-national and poly-ethnic content of the South of Ukraine, which allows us to emphasise the conclusions about a certain plurality of representations of outstanding masters involved in the Ukrainian cultural aura - and this applies to the characteristics of such outstanding personalities as K. Szymanovskyi, V. Malyshevskyi, S. Richter, H. Neuhaus. Conclusions. The specificity of Odesa and the Ukrainian South in general is marked by intersections of national-ethnic and religious beliefs, covering numerous family-family relations, despite the fact that the ethnic core was a Slavic-Ukrainian fusion of Russian-Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian combinations, and the participation of Germans and other national inclusions was significant. Stormy social vicissitudes corrected the life path of many natives from the cultural environment of Odesa and the Ukrainian South in general, who later found themselves in other national and cultural dimensions, without losing the cultural "charge" received in the "small homeland" of the regional southern Ukrainian destination. And vice versa, being born and released into the art world outside of Ukraine, they organically later "fit" into the cultural space of Odesa and the South of Ukraine in general. Therefore, we introduce clarifications in the characteristics of national belonging (in the mental and cultural sense) in relation to the following authors: V. Malyshevskyi - Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish composer, K. Szymanovskyi - Polish, Ukrainian composer, V. Rebikov - Ukrainian, Russian composer and theorist, S. Richter, G. Neuhaus - Ukrainian, Russian pianists, in analogy to the duality of Ukrainian - Russian artists in relation to M. Vrubel, V. Kandinskyi, M. Roslavets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on recent teaching experiences in two intermediate-level classes, this paper showcases the ways through which librarians can help students interrogate structural issues in knowledge creation. Through class discussions and projects, students engaged with information at both individual sources and system levels. They confronted hidden assumptions and investigated how and why underprivileged communities were and remain marginalized in the dominant discourse. They were also challenged to think creatively about knowledge production as well as to seek out and center the experiences, stories, and voices of these communities. As a result, students understood that the voices of those who are disadvantaged or oppressed are often silenced and that their erasure from the dominant culture is inextricably linked to existing power structures. They came to appreciate different forms of knowledge and recognized their own agency in centering the voices of marginalized groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we "work on" the university, to use Sara Ahmed's important phrasing about the work of rebuilding the university that is activated through conversations, stories, and testimony. Through a dialogue between teacher and student, we make visible and explore bell hooks's contention in Teaching Community that "between teacher and student love makes recognition possible." Our dialogue challenges the principles of a dominant university culture through a conversation that is at once a critical exploration and a representation of hooks's pedagogy of love. Our conversation sees a teacher bearing witness to her student's story of her lived experience of racism on campus as together we unfold hooks's statement that teaching with love "will move us away from domination in all its forms." Following hooks, we ask how teaching with love might transform, might work on the university. Our conversation is framed by an engagement with antiracist pedagogy and the principles of the Scarborough Charter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Asados, Argentine cook-outs or barbecues, to this day have a prestigious reputation within Argentine identity often due to its lasting association with the Gauchos—rural Argentine cowboys—who flourished in the nineteenth century shortly after the country's independence from Spain. However, what is less known is how this quintessential dish, especially the well-done slow-cooked nature of the meat, is a rarely explored window to the past. I stipulate that the transatlantic, transcultural, and even transtemporal importance of this dish preserved by the Gauchos since the nineteenth century places them and their descendants as the hidden heirs of clandestine Moriscos—mostly crypto-Muslims forcedly converted to Christianity in the Iberian Peninsula—who settled in the least monitored area of Spain's American colonies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Moriscos knew how to mask certain actions while still holding strong to some former cultural and culinary practices. So too did the Gauchos as they were originally coined rebellious outlaws who did not want to fully conform and assimilate to the dominant culture. Perhaps in viewing their shared cooking styles we can see the often ignored history of Andalusi influence via Morisco practices in the Southern Cone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reflects the commentary of Indigenous experts, students, and practitioners from North America. Topics discussed include the historical context of colonialism and the Psychedelic Renaissance, duality of Spirit and science, the challenges of being an Indigenous person in psychedelic spaces, and the role of culture in healing trauma. The authors expand upon topics such as the harms inflicted upon Indigenous Peoples, conflicting worldviews and values systems between Indigenous Peoples' cultures and the dominant Western culture, and the differences in scientific and economic paradigms. The authors also analyze the effects of colonization on our relationships with one another and with these entheogenic plant medicines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Diasporic food cultures enter dominant societies through a variety of manners and spaces, in homes, at food fairs, restaurants, through cookbooks, in supermarkets, but also in visual media. This special section investigates how the representations of diasporic food cultures in popular television and film mediate a variety of food traditions which negotiate and challenge dominant societal assumptions about the present, the past and the future of food and eating, and their complex relationships to race, class, gender, identity and the environment. The contributions to the issue note how the meeting of various diasporic culinary traditions and the often already transcultural host food traditions marks the start of new, feminist, decolonial food cultures, identities and futures, which raise critical questions about our food culture. This investigation of the representation of diasporic food cultures not only reveals the continuing transmutation of food cultures but more importantly the transformation of culture as such, within an increasingly polarized, uneven and fortified world where the dominant food system contributes to a social and ecological breakdown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The book Inter armа. The Premonition of War in Czech Culture (1935–1939) contains texts representative of both Czech culture and the dominant attitudes in European cultural space, chronologically framed by the Spanish Civil War and the eve of the Second World War. The compiler of the collection, author of the preface, and translator of most of the texts is Dobromir Grigorov. The selected literary testimonies – journalistic essays, poetry, fiction, and drama – contain important intellectual insights, ideological messages, and pose common contemporary questions about the changing interpretations of concepts such as socialism and democracy, and their divergent interpretations. A significant focus in a number of texts is the clash between the individual right to freedom and justice on the one hand, and collective identity on the other. Some of the authors such as Karel Čapek, Vladislav Vančura, and František Halas are well-known to Bulgarian readers, but others are almost or completely unknown – Gustav Winter, Emanuel Vajtauer, Otokar Fišer, Milena Jesenská. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adorno described the lyric as "a philosophical sundial telling the time of history". Here I read two poets whose continued cultural dominance make their work an ideal site for defining the privileged access of lyric to the nature of things. Horace and Tao body forth deep-rooted cultural thinking in a specific language at a specific time, but share universal concerns with the art of living well. Horace's Odes suggest the freedom that art confers; the continual return of Chinese poets to Tao's oeuvre suggests they found there a touchstone for their own questing voice. These small lyrics enshrine theories of the natural world, the self and society which present an enlarged vision of the good life. Articulating variously the realities of sacrifice and struggle, the pull of necessity and freedom, the path of beauty and the role of poetry, Horace and Tao open up horizons for reading empathetically across cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper centers on the godfather of the civil rights movement, Howard Thurman, and his most influential work, "Jesus and the Disinherited", as a pre-eminent text into early 20th century intercultural philosophy. Building upon Kipton Jensen's analysis in "Howard Thurman: Philosophy, Civil Rights, and the Search for Common Ground", this presentation will reframe Howard Thurman's unique philosophy as one that integrates spirituality, interculturality, and critical social analysis. It is well known that Thurman's treatise on the oppressed was carried in the pocket of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. throughout the civil rights movement for the ways it empowered nonviolent resistance for those marginalized by the dominant culture of the United States, which was (and still is) built on racism, military violence, and class-based oppression. This paper advocates that Thurman came to his philosophical conclusions through deep engagement with various cultural and philosophical traditions, most notably the Hindu spiritual–political paradigm of Mahatma Gandhi, and sought to harmonize these insights for African Americans in the USA. By investigating the intercultural foundations of "Jesus and the Disinherited", this paper will encourage scholars to explore how interculturality enriched Thurman's philosophy and how this fostered a more expansive vision of community in pluralistic societies. This article traces the roots of the development of "Jesus and the Disinherited", looking back to presentations Thurman gave as early as 1922, concluding with the publication of his book in 1949. And via this study, we will see the progression of Thurman's ideas and the impacts interculturality had on his philosophy and vision for social justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to analyze the association between green human resource management practices and green culture and proposes a green competing values framework that entails four green cultures: green clan, green adhocracy, green market, and green hierarchy culture, adopted from Cameron & Quinn's (2011) competing values framework. We elucidate that each green culture is shaped through ability-motivation-opportunity enhancing green human resource management practices in alignment with desired green beliefs, values, and symbols to achieve organizational sustainability goals. Thus, our model acts as a diagnostic toolkit for identifying the organization's dominant green culture and how a specific green culture can be generated that assimilates with the organization's green objectives. Our theoretical contributions include extending sustainable Human Resource Management (HRM) studies by employing a green competing values framework to enhance organizational and staff green behaviors, and critically appraising such outcomes to negate the adoption of standardized practices as descriptive, prescriptive solutions in green HRM studies. We provide implications for practice and elucidate future research directions in organizational sustainability and green HRM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

—The relentless growth of the tourism sector is fostering an increasingly pronounced demand for the translation of tourism websites. Nevertheless, the translation quality of tourism websites has garnered criticism attributed to inaccuracies in translating cultural references, leading to potential cultural losses in conveying cultural references. Despite the growing demand for accurate translation, a lack of research exists to address cultural losses and in the translation of Chinese cultural references into English. This study investigates the categories of cultural losses in the cultural references’ translation on tourism websites; specifically, Trip.com was selected as the case. Moreover, this study examines how the overall translation method, at a macro-level, is influenced by the specific translation strategies identified at a micro-level and how this, in turn, impacts cultural nuances and potential losses. The current study adopted a qualitative approach and unveiled five distinct categories of cultural losses encompassing historical background, rhetorical devices, local customs, religion, and aesthetic images. The findings revealed that foreignization emerged as the prevailing macro-level translation method, significantly influencing the incurred cultural losses within the context of cultural references. This study’s findings emphasized the necessity of addressing cultural losses in cultural references’ translation on tourism websites. The identified cultural losses and the dominance of foreignization highlight the imperative for nuanced translation strategies. This study shed light on the equilibrium between cultural preservation and effective communication. By striking this equilibrium, the tourism industry can effectively accomplish its objective of nurturing profound cross-cultural interactions that resonate with a diverse global audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this essay, I discuss the importance of cultivating educational spaces wherein collective care is celebrated and emboldened. To do so, I outline ways environmental communication as a field is particularly well situated to foster these spaces. Journeying from a deep ecology retreat to the original intent of higher education to foster moral character in our future civic leaders, I visit shared laments about the lack of care and environmental focus in contemporary formal education, and dominant culture, and the opportunity our field has to fill this gap. Our teaching can deconstruct entwined cultural and formal education "separations between inside classroom and outside world, between university and place, humanity and nature, body and environment, self and other" and link internal and external relevance, as well as transformative potential (Milstein et al., 2017, Breathing life into learning: Ecocultural pedagogy and the inside-out classroom. In T. Milstein, M. Pileggi, & E. Morgan (Eds.), Environmental communication pedagogy and practice (pp. 45–61). Routledge). Indeed, instead of going along with a neoliberal education mission to produce cogs for the status quo machine, environmental communication educators, responsive to crisis and attuned to planet, are deconstructors, throwing spanners in the works, fostering ecocultural identities of care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article argues that in the Madras Presidency, the caste Hindus treated both the European masters and their 'outcaste' domestic servants as impure due to their shared practice of beef-eating. This, consequently, fostered a relationship of mutual dependence between them. Although not all servants participated in the preparation of food in European houses, they had to deal with beef in one way or another, such as purchasing and serving it, or simply working with the people who ate beef. Therefore, a willingness to handle beef was one of the essential criteria for employment in colonial bungalows that benefitted the outcastes exclusively. These new employment opportunities under colonialism created an educated 'higher-class' among them. This class later played a pivotal role in organising the outcastes and advocating for their rights. Though dependent on each other, the relationship between Europeans and their outcaste servants was not always cordial; there was tension inherent in it. The article further posits that attempts to maintain European racial and cultural dominance did not always succeed in the domestic sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article explores right-wing quasi-critical-literary comments on Wisława Szymborska shortly after she received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997. The right-wing articles applied a critical-literary concept based on three assumptions: (1) one must consider a literary work in close connection with the biography of its creator; (2) the evaluation of the aesthetics of a literary work must be linked to its ethical meaning; and (3) the ethical duties of literature can only be defined in relation to the needs of the national community. Because of its ethical nature, right-wing literary criticism is one of several varieties of engaged criticism – along with feminism and homotextual criticism – that emerged in Polish literary life in the mid-1990s. In this context, right-wing literary criticism was characterized by a disregard for methodology, stemming from the subordination of literary issues to the creation of a national community. The attack on Szymborska also served this role, but the force of the attack was mitigated by the liberal strategy of incorporating hate into the celebration of Szymborska’s success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Under today’s unstable market conditions of business, one of the urgent problems has become the study of economic freedom and entrepreneurial culture as strategic dominants of the transparency of the development of enterprises. This is due to the need to ensure the efficiency of activities and strengthen the competitiveness of Ukrainian enterprises in the European market. This defines economic freedom and entrepreneurial culture as the most priority criteria for the transparency of enterprise development by vector and rank direction. The relationship between economic freedom and entrepreneurial culture as strategic dominants of the transparency of enterprise development was substantiated. The set of structural and logical subsystems of transparency of development, which are interconnected and functioning, taking into account the specifics of their impact on the strategic and analytical support of enterprises, has been studied. The variability of the strategic dominant influence of economic freedom and entrepreneurial culture on the transparency of the development of enterprises was formed using the hierarchy analysis method. The obtained variability allows taking into account the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the degree of influence of economic freedom and entrepreneurial culture on the general level of transparency of the development of enterprises, which is the basis for the development of strategically oriented areas of their activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Textbooks are by no means ideological. This means that they present their dominant values and culture in the foreign-language education. In other words; textbooks can change thoughts of learners of the target language. The study is limited to the Iraqi ESL textbooks (English for Iraq) for sixth preparatory stage. This paper tries to examine the discourse of these textbooks critically. The aim of the current paper is to investigate the national identity of the publishing house in the Iraqi textbooks. In order to reveal the national identity embedded in them, the study draws on a corpus-based analysis. This study found the frequency of referring to nation identity of England more than other countries throughout the whole books. The study concluded that the English publishing house uses the national identity of England in the investigated data for ideological purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the article is to determine the role of co-financing technologies (crowdfunding, fundraising) under the conditions of war and post-war reconstruction. The basis of the study is the case analysis of international support to Ukraine to counter Russian aggression. The central issue of the article is to clarify the acceptability, effectiveness, as well as problems of applying co-financing technologies to solve the problems caused by the war. The existing global experience of using co-financing technologies during wars was studied, the peculiarities of the Ukrainian case were revealed. The advantages, problems and risks of using crowdfunding and fundraising during a full-scale war are identified. The motivation of the public of other states to co-finance the solution or mitigation of the problems caused by Russia's aggression on the territory of Ukraine is ascertained. The research is based on the analysis of projects supporting Ukraine and Ukrainians during the days of the Russian aggression on leading crowdfunding platforms, as well as through fundraising. Crowdfunding and fundraising are considered as forms of remote involvement, elements of digital action repertoires, which are used by the democratic public from all over the world (and in the case of Ukraine, also by government institutions) to convey their position on war and mitigate its consequences. It is concluded that modern technologies of cofinancing enable remote involvement of citizens of different states in international conflicts and humanitarian crises caused by these conflicts and wars. The dependence of the use of crowdfunding and fundraising technologies on the type of political regime and the characteristics of political culture of the dominant part of the population is proven. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]