Leading and Managing Schools in Indonesia: Historical, Political and Socio-cultural Forces

2019 ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
Bambang Sumintono ◽  
Rais Hidayat ◽  
Yuyun Elizabeth Patras ◽  
Joko Sriyanto ◽  
Umi Anugerah Izzati
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Forces

The Fate of a Materialistic Buddhist: A Cultural Editioin of "Jikininki" by Lafcadio Hearn

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 77-92
Author(s):  
Natali Cavanagh ◽  
Sarah James ◽  
Shannon Walter
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Cultural Forces ◽  
Zen Buddhist

Lafcadio Hearn has written and adapted many Japanese folktales that explore religious and cultural traditions of the civilization. "Jikininki" tells the tale of a Buddhist priest who encounters a cursed, corpse-eating ghost. The authors examine the depiction of this corpse-devouring moster, its relation to teh cultural forces in rural Japan, and the representation of a fear of losing both the global Zen Buddhist and rural traditions through selfish mistreament and material desires.

‘Beyond the limit of human endurance’: The stolen Manx history of Dunkirk

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 946-995
Author(s):  
David Kneale
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Isle Of Man ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Cultural Forces ◽  
Heroic Narrative

This article reappraises the experience of the civilian crews aboard Manx personnel vessels engaged in Operation Dynamo, and the contested aftermath. More than 20,000 troops were retrieved by nine ships of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, three of which were sunk in and off Dunkirk. There is more than enough material for a heroic narrative to emerge, yet a sense of scandal seems to cling to these particular civilian crews. Various political, social and cultural forces foster distinctly separate narratives between the United Kingdom and Isle of Man. However, empirical research in Manx and UK archives, including access to a hitherto closed file, reveals a different story: that the official Admiralty narrative of Operation Dynamo was intentionally weaponized against the Manx civilian crews for political reasons. This was achieved through the creation of reports that were false, misleading or unsupported by evidence, the provocation of the Isle of Man’s Lieutenant Governor into acts of reprisal, and through the work of an unseen editorial hand in Admiralty archives. The influence of this hostile narrative, which continues to be reinforced, has obscured the contributions of the true civilians of Dunkirk.

Letters: Who Should Practice Anthropology?

1995 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-32
Keyword(s):  
Legal Culture ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Navajo Nation ◽  
Cultural Forces

To the Editor: As an anthropologist and a lawyer, I particularly appreciate James Zion's efforts to incorporate cultural factors into his legal work as staff attorney to the Courts of the Navajo Nation (PA 17,3[1995]:2,26), and I recommend that anthropologists read his articles documenting the revival of Navajo traditional legal culture (as cited in PA 17,3[1995]:2). The Navajo are fortunate to have a legal advocate sensitive to traditional cultural forces.

Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Poriss
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Performance History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Work Concept ◽  
Cultural Forces

Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville surveys the opera’s fascinating performance history, mapping out the myriad changes that have affected the work since its premiere, exploring many of the personalities responsible for those alterations, and taking into account the range of reactions that these changes have prompted in spectators and critics from the nineteenth century to the present. Opening with a wide-ranging overview of the types of alterations that have been imposed on Rossini’s score for the past two centuries, the first chapter addresses the mechanics behind these changes as well as the cultural forces that both fostered and encouraged them. The book next looks at some of the earliest revivals, drawing attention to alterations that were made to the score and to individual singers who were responsible for the changes, especially those who appeared in the roles of Almaviva and Bartolo. An entire chapter is devoted to Rosina, examining the wide array of creative liberties that prima donnas have unremittingly and unrepentantly taken with their interpretations of this character. The final sections turn to the opera’s recent history, observing how the Rossini Renaissance brought with it a new dedication to the “work concept” and to shedding the types of alterations that had long characterized performances of this work. The book closes with a consideration of operatic consumerism from the nineteenth century to the present, exploring the myriad ways that one can now experience The Barber of Seville in all its recorded, digitized, and commodified glory.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Glick
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public History ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Cultural Forces ◽  
Bunker Hill ◽  
The City

Beginning in the late 1950s, a combination of political and cultural forces made Los Angeles a national center for documentary media. The early filmmaking of Erik Daarstad in both Hollywood and Bunker Hill demonstrates the close relationship between documentaries produced under different circumstances and with conflicting ideological motivations. This introduction maps the different institutions involved in documentary production in the city and investigates the rise of the documentary as a contentious form of public history. Brief summaries of this book’s seven chapters outline the trajectory of liberal and more radical film practices between 1958 and 1977.

Self-Objectification vs. African Conservative Features in the Selfies of Black African Women

2018 ◽  
pp. 103-130
Author(s):  
Endong Floribert Patrick Calvain
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
African Women ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Nigerian Women ◽  
Black African ◽  
Cultural Forces ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Self Objectification

Though popularly construed as a universal phenomenon, selfie taking is gendered and culturally determined. This could be evidenced by the fact that the two socio-cultural forces of conservatism and traditionalism continue to tremendously shape African women's style of taking and sharing selfies on social media. Based on a content analysis of 200 selfies generated and shared by Nigerian women on Facebook and Instagram, this chapter illustrates this reality. It argues that Nigerian women are generally more conservative than liberal in their use of selfies for self-presentation, self-imaging and self-expression in public spaces. Over 59% of their selfies have conservative features. However, despite the prevalence of conservative myths and gender related stereotypes in the Nigerian society, the phenomenon of nude or objectified selfies remains a clearly notable sub-culture among Nigerian women. Over 41% of Nigerian women's selfies contain such objectification features as suggestive postures; suggestive micro-expressions and fair/excessive nudity among others.

Introduction: Paradigm Shift, Reflexivity and Securitization

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Andrew Ryder
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Cultural Forces

The chapter sets out the conceptual framework for the book describing Brexit as part of a paradigm shift in Britain’s socio-economic and cultural chemistry. Brexit is a multi-layered and multidimensional phenomenon, at the intersection of many social, political and cultural forces and processes and the book’s introduction seeks to provide the context to these factors by exploring the nature of the economic, social and cultural drivers of Brexit. The introduction also explores the ‘tabloidisation’ of political rhetoric, basically the subtle manipulation of public thought through speech acts on identity and nationhood to further an agenda premised on achieving a new neoliberal order and the consolidation of power by existing economic, cultural and political elites. In this sense the book explores how a fear of risk and sense of anxiety is manipulated through securitisation. The introduction also sets out for the reader a conception of critical thinking and forms of discourse analysis used throughout the book to understand and dissect Brexit.

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