Special issue: Contemporary art, identities and legacies of the Pacific

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-129
Author(s):  
Corinne David-Ives ◽  
Jacqueline Charles-Rault ◽  
Caroline Vercoe
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Pacific

scholarly journals Indigenous Art and Sovereignty Inspiring Change against Environmental Degradation

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Estelle Castro-Koshy ◽  
Géraldine Le Roux
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Caribbean

This special issue on “Environmental Artistic Practices and Indigeneity: In(ter)ventions, Recycling, Sovereignty" constitutes a body of creative contributions and academic articles addressing numerous forms of artistic practices of the Pacific Islands, Australia, French Guiana, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. Inspired by Indigenous artists and writers whose practices and creativity help reimagine sustainable ways to inhabit the world, this introduction and our special issue interrogate contemporary environmental issues and the legacy of colonisation. They examine how Indigenous artists and writers, and artists working with Indigenous artists and communities, have for decades raised awareness about environmental issues, and encouraged people to regain their agency to struggle against environmental degradation and further destruction of Indigenous people’s societies and health. This introduction contextualises the concepts and Indigenous terms used by artists to express their vision of what a respectful relationship with the environment would be. It also offers readings of the beautiful literary and artistic creative contributions included in this issue. Environmental themes such as waste recycling, health issues, pollutants (mercury, POPs), and agricultural technics are discussed here in light of human and non-human life and agency. This issue also features a significant range of calls for action to better protect and restore ecosystems.

scholarly journals Application and Autonomy: The Reach and Span of Contemporary Art Didactics

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Boel Christensen-Scheel
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Societal Needs ◽  
Specific Teaching

Aesthetics, as both a variety of practices and a field of research, has now begun a journey toward society and more applied thinking – that is, how can art, art thinking, and different forms of sensuousness interact with or interfere in societal contexts. In this special issue of InFormation we explore the frame of a possible contemporary art didactics, where knowledge production and dispersion in and through art and aesthetics are promoted. Here the qualities of responding to societal needs and challenges are negotiated with the particular qualities of art. The field of didactics is often tied to specific teaching methods, but can also be seen as a more general theory of learning. With the term ‘contemporary art didactics’, we want to propose a relational field of communication and interaction based on aesthetic activity and competence. In addition, we seek to emphasize the contemporary quality and engagement of this activity and competence. In this first article by the editor of the issue, some of the related discussions on application, autonomy and criticality are presented alongside a proposition to formulate certain specific art based qualities.

Making the Pacific, Making Japanese-U.S. Relations

2019 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-523
Author(s):  
Martin Collins
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Modern Project ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Interpretive Frame ◽  
Historical Accounts

This special issue of Pacific Historical Review, “Making the Pacific, Making Japanese-U.S. Relations: Science and Technology as Historical Agents in the Twentieth Century,” is guest edited by Martin Collins and Teasel Muir-Harmony. The special issue gives prominence to science and technology as sources of agency inextricably bound to the modern project—and thus bound to another expression of the modern, the nation state and its interrelation with other states. In the modern context, scientific and technical knowledge, practices, and things are fundamental to composing more robust historical accounts, including accounts of the nation state. This interpretive frame is vital in understanding the Japan-U.S. relationship in the twentieth century and the critical role of the Pacific Ocean therein. The special issue includes a preface from Marc S. Rodriguez, this introduction by Martin Collins, and articles by Daqing Yang on wireless telegraphy, Chihyung Jeon on postwar trans-Pacific air flight, Teasel Muir-Harmony on the U.S. spaceflight display at the 1970 Osaka World Exposition, and Colin Garvey on the international race to develop artificial intelligence.

Afterword: An exhibition about hospitality. A more sensitive perception of vulnerability

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 379-385
Author(s):  
Fabienne Brugère
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Aesthetics And Politics ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Right ◽  
Ethics And Politics

This afterword reflects on the tension between art, politics and philosophy at the thematic core of this Special Issue, ‘Migrants and Refugees Between Aesthetics and Politics’. Brugère calls attention to a recent art exhibition – one that came out of her book with Guillaume Le Blanc, The End of Hospitality – at the Museum of the History of Immigration, in Paris, as a way to frame a conflict between two ideas of hospitality, or the broad ethical gesture to welcome others and the political right that more and more governments are unable to uphold as borders tighten around the globe. The afterword elaborates on the aims of the exhibition, namely, to show ‘a correspondence between art and philosophy on the question of hospitality’. Rather than a mere representation of discourse around migration, the artwork displays a praxis of the imagination, one in which cultural production by and about refugees brings spectators to recognize a shared sense of vulnerability and to question received ideas on migration. In this manner, contemporary art forms become an essential link in the ongoing struggle between ethics and politics.

THE PUBLIC LIFE OF OPERA: A CONVERSATION WITH DAPHNE LEI AND MARY ZIMMERMAN

2010 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-279
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Galileo Galilei ◽  
Chinese Identity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Philip Glass ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Mary Zimmerman

Section Editor's Note: For this edition of “Critical Stages,” appearing within the journal's special issue on opera, I posed three sets of questions to Daphne Lei, author of Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity Across the Pacific (2006), and Tony Award–winning director Mary Zimmerman, cocreator with Philip Glass and Arnold Weinstein of the opera Galileo Galilei (2002).

scholarly journals Social Psychology for Social Change: Foundations for and Introduction to a Program of Action-Oriented Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Liu ◽  
Allan B.I. Bernardo
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Oriented Research

The Special Issues series on social psychology of social change will provide a forum for research on the science and practice of interventions for social change that benefit individuals, organisations and society. This effort takes up Lewin's call for scientific research aimed towards solving social problems and generating new knowledge, but with a theory and practice of culture and cultural change at its centre. The effort elevates the dominant research approach in developing countries in Asia where there is more concern about opportunities for training and engaging in and publishing more applied work. The emphasis both on research excellence and on a holistic concern for society as central components for theorising about effective modes of realising social change in Asia and the Pacific is a long-term project that begins with the seven diverse articles in the special issue, which span different stages in the project — from clarifying its Asian philosophical basis, to empirical analysis of the problem and levers of change, to evaluation of the outcomes of action research.

scholarly journals Checklist of eels of Taiwan (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes): An update

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4454 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
HSUAN-CHING HO ◽  
DAVID G. SMITH ◽  
KENNETH A. TIGHE ◽  
YUSUKE HIBINO ◽  
JOHN E. MCCOSKER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
The Pacific Ocean

The eel fauna (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) of Taiwan is increased to 14 families, 79 genera and 232 species. Previous studies (Ho et al., 2015b, c) showed Taiwan had the highest diversity of eels in the world: this is further supported in the present updated work. Elsewhere in this volume, 16 species are newly described and 13 species are newly added to the Taiwanese ichthyofauna, mainly in the families Congridae and Synaphobranchidae. In addition, one new genus and four new species are described from adjacent waters in the Pacific Ocean. A total of 58 new species of the two eel orders are described from Taiwan; 52 of them are valid, and 37 are only found in Taiwan. Four names previously recorded in Taiwan are described as new in present special issue and are removed from the fauna of Taiwan accordingly. This work provides a foundation for the study of eel diversity in Taiwan.

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