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Nakba denialism – that is, denying Zionist culpability for the mass expulsions of Palestinian Arabs from their homeland in 1948 – has long been a feature of US discourse on Palestine. Through a content analysis of Leon Uris' 1958 novel, Exodus, I argue that Nakba denialism rests on three anti-Arab racist tropes. The first trope presents Palestinian Arabs as lacking religious attachment to Palestine, the second trope claims they lack modern feelings of national identity, and the third trope claims they are easily induced to commit acts of violence by their ruthless leaders. Through the deployment of these tropes, the Exodus narrative popularized key elements of Nakba denialism in US discourse by blaming the victims of settler colonial violence for the expulsions they faced. More broadly, this article shows how the imbrication of race and settler colonialism functions to epistemologically erase the very acts of settler colonial violence that produce racialized Others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I recount my experiences with western media theory. Working on my PhD thesis marked my turn to decolonial theory. I used the creolisation strategy of putting critical western Marxist theories in conversation with African, black and Latin American decolonial theories. I worked on my PhD thesis under conditions informed by the Rhodes Must Fall (RMF), the Fees Must Fall (FMF) and other broader protests in South Africa whose connecting thread was the demand for the decolonisation of both the academy and public life. It is my conviction that, although work has already begun, there is still a lot of work to be done in decolonising the disciplines of journalism, media and cultural studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution to the International Journal of Cultural Studies ' ongoing series ponders cultural studies' relative failure to retain a presence in South African academia today, suggesting that local and historical mis/uses of the notion of culture may have some impact on how it has been received in this particular context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

History has long been regarded a vital tool for emergent nation-states and subsequent nationalist regimes in unifying disparate groups around a common historical memory. And nowhere can such a memory be more effectively instilled in a population than in its schools, where the textbook gives state-approved narratives an unimpeachable authority in children's minds. This essay traces the canonisation of a colonial, Classicised narrative portraying pre-Columbian Anahuac as the Mexican national past through its monumentalisation in state-approved textbooks until well into the twentieth century. By focusing on mythical Greco-Roman representations of the Acolhua monarch Nezahualcoyotl that emerged shortly after the Spanish Conquest and were consolidated in the early years of Independence, I contend that the projection of Mexican identity in schoolbooks rests upon a fictionalised, unifying conception of history steeped in European Classicism but used as a strategy of identification against the European. In doing so, this essay opens up a reading of history textbooks as Mexican sites of memory: sites which reflect the lost Indigenous cultures of Mexico yet simultaneously offer an ingrained European reading of those very cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, drawing upon a feminist epistemology, we examine the critical roles that philosophical standpoint, historical usage, gender, and language play in a knowledge arena which is increasingly opaque to the general public. Focussing on the language dimension in particular, in its historical and social dimensions, we explicate how some keywords in use across artificial intelligence (AI) discourses inform and misinform non-expert understandings of this area. The insights gained could help to imagine how AI technologies could be better conceptualised, explained, and governed, so that they are leveraged for social good. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the beginning of the issues that people are most interested in from the past to the present about living environments is the topic of place names and what they mean. Names of residential centers often make sense of what happened in the past, the present, and the natural environment. Place names contribute quite a lot, especially to the study of cultural geography. Names of a settlement often give us clues about the history of that region, its geographical features, human characteristics, and ways of thinking. In other words, as the past re-finds and revives in space, place names become flesh and bone in that residential center. In this study, the emergence and changes of the nomenclature of the village settlements in and around Eleşkirt from the past to the present in the historical process were emphasized. In addition, a toponomic examination of existing village names was conducted to show how and according to what the names were made. In this study with the case study pattern, the document review method was used when examining the historical change process of village names. The criteria used by Gülensoy (1998) in the classification of names of life centers in Anatolian geography were used when making toponomic examination and classification of current village names. So, which hosted many civilizations from the past Eleşkirt a result of the review of the names of the surrounding villages and an 84% rate is changing and the old names with new names were found to be significant semantic differences between. A toponomic analysis of the names of the villages in and around Eleşkirt shows that the natural environment is very effective. Water Resources, lithological features, topographic features, climatic conditions, plant and animal features occupy an important place in the village names. In addition, the social life, cultural characteristics and historical factors of the local people have been found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article refers to the problem, whether there is a loss in the relevance of historical items in dissertations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (1945-2019). The article has an analytical and empirical approach regarding the count and amount of dissertation titles, universities and historical persons. The result is the thesis that there is a loss in the relevance of historical items. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with a specific episode in the development of the german ›Erziehungswissenschaft‹, i.e., the transformation of the ›geisteswissenschaftliche Pädagogik‹ into an ›emancipatory‹ social science in the fifties and early sixties of the 20th century. By following the biographical lines of Klaus Mollenhauer, who wanted to transform the concepts of ›Bildung‹ and ›Pädagogik‹, the paper itself intends to show what an emancipatory ›geisteswissenschaftlicher‹ approach could look like. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: This article draws on municipal, provincial, and federal archives to examine multiculturalism as an ideology, a government strategy, and a media discourse. Analysis: The author scrutinizes official and corporate forms of multiculturalism in Canada between 1971 and 2003, and develops case studies of "tempered radicals" who worked with and within small-l liberal institutions and discourses while trying to change them. Conclusions and implications: The author suggests that the keyword "shy elitism" might be a helpful tool to address the forms of credentialism and anti-intellectualism that have often confined and defined the study of multiculturalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is devoted to vocal education in Kazan as part of a general cultural process. Kazan as "a gathering place of two worlds - the Western and the Eastern", was the leading music and cultural center. This city was simultaneously one of the largest provincial centers of Russian culture, and Muslim Tatar's. During the XIX century in Kazan not only amateur music-making was actively developed but also were created music-public associations and private music teachers became widespread. The concert and performance in Kazan inevitably went through single phases and stages of development common to the whole country. Over time, amateur performance gives way to professional performance. The article is used a set of humanitarian and historical methods. The materials may be interesting for researchers of music education in Russia, as well as Russian provincial culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article characterizes Peirce's concept of habit as a major contribution to a Peircean concept of preconceptuality, first, in relation to its function in the sign process, and second, in relation to other concepts of preconceptuality in cultural studies. Hans-Georg Gadamer's notion of prejudice, Michel Foucault's notions of the preconceptual and the dispositif, and Hans Blumenberg's conception of metaphor all share certain key characteristics with Peirce's notion of habit. The same comparison also highlights the fact that certain elements are missing from the current discourse on Peirce's notion of habit: although any rendition of the concept of habit itself implicitly relies on a theory of historicity and of rule-association, these aspects only emerge explicitly in comparison with theories that more explicitly focus on such aspects. Another question raised in the context of such a comparison is the relevance of habit for theories of conceptuality. Peirce claims that descriptions of concepts are best realized through the description of the habits involved in them. A major part of a concept's coordinative power lies with the habits associated with the concept. However, no systematic inquiry into the possibility of rendering actual habits more definitive in comprehension has been undertaken. An attempt is therefore made to remedy that situation by elaborating on those aspects of Peirce's theory of habit relevant to a theory of "reading" habit, and to sketch an outline of such a theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a case study of political struggles over early care and education in the USA using a combination of archival, interview, and observational data from a study conducted in the US state of Arizona. This case analysis illustrates how a combination of the episodic nature of public attention paid to early care and education in the USA, internal tensions within US early care and education between its educational and caring purposes, and competition over scarce resources has worked to undermine the development of universal early care and education in the USA. The study is framed by Dorothy Holland and Jean Lave's ideas of enduring struggles and locally contested practice, and uses an analytic strategy informed by Bakhtinian theory to illustrate how understanding the cultural logics involved in locally contested practice can be of use to the practice of policy advocacy, specifically engaging adversaries with what Bakhtin called an "excess of seeing" - understanding beneath the surface. While focused on one state in one national context, this analysis may have transnational relevance by raising comparative questions about early care and education policies and policy practice in other localities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recent publishing of Stuart Hall's 1983 lectures on the theoretical history of British Cultural Studies (BCS) provides an opportunity to reconsider the efficacy of 'culturalism' and 'structuralism' as useful signifiers representing the complicated legacies of their associated scholars. This essay focuses on the construction of culturalism as a characterization of the work of British historian E.P. Thompson, a scholar who rejected the label 'without reservation.' Specifically, the essay contextualizes Thompson's 'culturalist' perspective in relation to his 'polemical' mode of argument and socialist humanist politics within the New Left. The essay argues that cultural studies scholars would politically and intellectually profit from reimagining culturalism in relation to Thompson's contentious polemical mode and his passionate, if not divisive conviction that socialist scholarship needed to inform grassroots political struggles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ion Beam Analysis has earned, along the many years of use, a solid reputation in the study of our cultural heritage, a fascinating and technically demanding research area. The early stages of this peculiar application of accelerator-based analysis have been quite slow, compared with the rapid growth of these techniques in other fields. However, the evolution of the field has been continuous and has led, today, to the implantation, in several centres, of highly specialized set-ups, capable of a multi parametric research approach, in fully conservative conditions. This work reviews the history of the field, its relations with the IBA mainstream and its milestones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is within the field of historical and cultural studies. Thus, the historical analysis employed here aims at understanding the literary artistic phenomenon, namely the XIX century Romantic Indianism. In this aspect, Indianism is seen as a historical invention, that is, it arises involuntarily within the European thought and within the Romantism aesthetic precepts, which later became the result of writers' conscientious work and project in order to create both a national culture and literature, having the Indian as its central figure. Thus, the role of the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (Brazil's Historical and Geographical Institute - IHGB) is analyzed in this historical invention process. Furthermore, the IHGB was the main stage of a fierce argument on the viability of making literature having the Indian as its central figure, showing the different positions the intellectuals of the period held about the Indianist Literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article develops a geography of voice to address the ways in which cultures, regions, and nations are imagined, figured, and defined. It adopts Connor's (2000) notion of vocalic space as a starting point from which to explore folk song collecting practices in Appalachia. It develops this in relation to Bauman and Briggs's (2003) postcolonial critique of the status of language and speech in ethnographic theory. Historically, the Appalachian region has received substantial ethnographic cultural study. Working with insights supplied by the collecting activities and subsequent writings of two key collectors—Cecil Sharp (1859-1924) and Alan Lomax (1915-2002)—this article offers a sociomaterial conception of voice key to its affective politics and examines historical theorizations. These are first derived from folklore and ethnography, later anthropology and sociology, and second, articulated with regard to geographies of region and nation. These are then considered in relation to geographer James Duncan's (1980, 1998) critique of the superorganic as an explanation of regional cultural distinctiveness. It concludes by arguing that a geography of voice can contribute to critical approaches to regionalism. An understanding of how vocalic spaces are figured and assembled is key to explaining how culture can be translated through levels of abstraction in ways that can marginalize and disenfranchise the very peoples given voice in regional studies of culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the past several decades, cultural studies scholars have shown a keen interest in the symbiosis between mass media and medicine, paying substantial attention to the capacity of media to construct meanings and images of health and disease and their material effects. In this article, I attempt to extend the insights of this scholarship into the historical context of colonial Korea under the non-western imperial power of Japan in the early 20th century. I critically analyze medical images and health discourses in print media to interrogate the ways in which these images and texts were interwoven in the production of novel ideas, metaphors, and notions of health, illness, and the body in the colonial modernity of Korea under Japanese rule (1910-45). Medical illustrations, along with texts in the vernacular newspapers and their patent medicine advertisements, powerfully forged visions of "ideal" male and female bodies at the intersection of Japanese colonialism, Korean nationalism, and modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SUMMARY: This paper concerns itself with the contributions that the Humanities make to the understanding of islands and their bettered environmental conservation. Most distinctively, the Humanities comprise Literary Studies, Studies in Art and Culture (including Indigenous and Gender Studies) and Philosophy (with Aesthetics and the History of Ideas), but they also encompass Archaeology, History, Linguistics, Studies in Religion and, of late, Media and Communication Studies, even though members of this latter cluster frequently deploy methods from the social sciences. The goal here is to explore many of the implications such Human Studies and their sub-branches may have for island conservation, above all informed by the History of Ideas, in order to introduce the relevant key issues and inter-relationships and offer the most judicious illustrative materials. Variances in the reach and special attention of all these branches of knowledge are vast and intricate, while complex relativities apply both in the types of island situations and in expectations about what can or should be conserved. Since the mass of apposite discussions in the literature cannot possibly be summarized here, this article circumvents the difficulties by means of a special double-edged review. It ranges over the history of human consciousness of insular worlds, as reflected in mythic, legendary and historical materials, yet en route it uncovers how Humanities research can elucidate the human responses to islands through known time and shows how developing meaning-making has generally enhanced the appeal of sea-locked environments as worth conserving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

“From Making Culture to Making Cultural History” is an account of how the author came to write about Canada's cultural history. She reflects on how practising ballet and music, being exposed to European cultural activity for more than two years, and studying European and Russian history came to provide the foundation for writing about and lecturing on Canada's culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the history of Russia’s development, there are clear, unchanging constants of empire, autocracy, and property as power (property/propertilessness). These are persistent structures that have existed over a long historical period, which are created by the state and society, and are upheld by tradition. On the one hand, they are restrictive, but on the other hand, they guide the direction of socioeconomic, sociopolitical, and cultural development, and also facilitate the emergence of the corresponding social actors (individuals or groups) and institutions. During the Russian revolutionary process, which spanned 1905–1922 and reached its apex in the October Revolution, an attempt was made to change these constants. However, this attempt failed, and Russia returned to its traditional path of development. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The idea and practice of diagnosis in psychiatry has always been controversial. Controversy came to a head in the period preceding and immediately after publication of the latest version of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–Fifth edition. There was widespread international discussion and debate not only in scholarly journals but in mainstream and social media, and to the formation of International DSM Response Committee and an International Summit on Psychiatric Diagnosis. This article documents that process and outlines the issues that provoked, and continue to provoke most controversy, from the (admittedly personal) perspective of those involved. It ends with suggestions of alternatives to diagnosis, which avoid some of these problems and outlines how these are being taken forward. The next 10 years are likely to see significant change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the history of Russia’s development, there are clear, unchanging constants of empire, autocracy, and property as power (property/propertilessness). These are persistent structures that have existed over a long historical period, which are created by the state and society, and are upheld by tradition. On the one hand, they are restrictive, but on the other hand, they guide the direction of socioeconomic, sociopolitical, and cultural development, and also facilitate the emergence of the corresponding social actors (individuals or groups) and institutions. During the Russian revolutionary process, which spanned 1905–1922 and reached its apex in the October Revolution, an attempt was made to change these constants. However, this attempt failed, and Russia returned to its traditional path of development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the ethnic identity of the white creoles in Antilles (or the West Indies), who are the direct descendant of the European plantation owners in the area. Details related to the prevalent racial identity of the community in the French Caribbean today, along with the relevance of the Béké identity, are discussed.

The article analyzes German colonialism and imperialism during the period of 1871-1945. It covers topics including the paradigm shift in historical and cultural studies during the past decades, areas covered in research on colonialism and imperialism, and strategies and policies developed by decision-making elites at the center. Also discussed is modern German history from 19th century statesman Otto Von Bismarck to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

In his pamphlet 5 = 100, published in Knizhnyi ugol in 1922, Boris Eikhenbaum looked back at the first few years of Formalist activity in parallel to the recent social and political upheavals, and compared the deep renovation that the OPOIAZ (Obshchestvo izucheniia poeticheskogo iazyka) circle was bringing about in the field of literary studies to the revolutions that had shaken and transformed the country in 1917. He defined the emergence of the Formal method as a filologicheskaia revoliutsiia. The correlation was not just a seductive metaphor, and not only did it gesture at the principle of the scholar as a public figure—one that the Russian Formalists, with their active participation and transformation of the cultural scene of their city and country, fully embodied. With this essay I aim to unpack Eikhenbaum's concept of filologicheskaia revoliutsiia in its manifold declensions—on the one hand, I will foreground the profound connections between the political turmoil of the late 1910s and the powerful recasting of methods and approaches that the Formalists brought about in the field of cultural studies; on the other, I will highlight the “permanent revolution” that their theories have set in motion by exploring their rich heritage a hundred years after 1917. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents the author's views on the promotion of cultural studies by the German Studies Association (GSA) since mid-1970s. Various topics discussed include films research in the studies, German cinema's multiplicity and relationship between GSA and Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA) Film Library.

The article discusses the history of life writing in France dealing with its applications in cultural studies in French universities. Topics include methodological individualism, anti-humanism, and differences between novel fictions and method fictions. Life writing work by authors such as Agathe Salha, Elisabeth Gaucher, and Martine Boyer-Weinmann are discussed

The article discusses the Indigenous Literature and the Arts of Community, citing the call for the literary arts and community engagement stressing decolonization strategies. It cites on the responsibilities of the artists and scholars to stress the literary arts and community engagement linked to cultural and other forms of genocides. The article also discusses the importance of honouring the homelands of a specific Indigenous communities as political and respectful gesture.

The large-scale movement of people between Burma and Bengal in the early twentieth century has been explored recently by authors such as Sugata Bose and Sunil Amrith who locate Burma within the wider migratory culture of the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal and Southeast Asia. This article argues that the long and historical connections between Bengalis and Burmese were transformed by the British colonisation of the region. Through an analysis of selected literary texts in Bengali, some by well-known and others by obscure writers, this article shows that, for Indians, Burma constituted an elsewhere where the fantastic and superhuman were within reach, and caste and religious constraints could be circumvented and radical possibilities enabled by masquerade and disguise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The exposed considerations aimed at the persistence of the cultural and historical in the frae of plentiful and diverse social problems, thus the theoretical and methodological value of its relation to procure a complex historian by trade, but also deepen and awkward according to the contemporary historical science. The main objective is to explain the relationship between culture, history and historiography art starting from of the epistemological analysis of the main categories of history and culture in order to understand the necessary links that the historiographical speech responsibility demands. The reference of the topic keeps updates for the community of historians and other social science professionals take into account of the social function of history told scientifically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses pleasure and fetish. Topics discussed include freak shows in Europe and America, cultural studies and literary studies. Other topics which includes disability studies, history of medicine and freakery historiography are also discussed. History of court entertainment are also mentioned.

Latin America is part of any description of the “Third World” and active in the Group of 77 that represents developing countries at the United Nations, but no Latin America country was present at the Bandung meeting that started it all 60 years ago. The author analyses why the incipient Afro-Asian bloc did not feel identified with Latin America then and how the region gradually transformed the formal independence proclaimed two centuries ago into really independent politics and an aspiration to economic self-determination over the last two decades. Further convergence with Asia and Africa would help consolidate current progressive trends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviewing the ‘all-round’ nature of Graeme Turner's academic practice and its impact on the development of Cultural Studies in Australia since the 1980s, this introductory article explores the relationship between Turner's institutional effectiveness and the mode of creativity fostered by the game of Rugby League. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland from 2000–2012, Graeme Turner led one of the longest running research investments in Cultural Studies' history. Holding these threads together, in conjunction with the sheer hard work of Centre affiliates and administrators, was an exemplary management style. Turner's brand of Cultural Studies is defined by an attention to the art and politics of management alongside the customary business of doing research. It is Cultural Studies' lack of engagement with management theory that has made this type of work difficult to appreciate, even while it is just this kind of engagement that is necessary to ensure the survival of the field. Acknowledging the significance of Turner's management politics, its relevance to his broader intellectual project, and its importance for the field of Cultural Studies more broadly, this paper pays tribute to a leader whose career demands a more nuanced vocabulary for institutional work within and outside the university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay reviews the ‘35th anniversary edition’ of Policing the Crisis, the jointly-authored investigation into race, immigration, ‘mugging’ and the ‘crisis in hegemony’ of 1970s Britain. The new edition is demonstrative of the book's enduring influence, including amongst historians increasingly turning their attention towards the roots, development and reach of Thatcherism. This essay places the remarkably prescient conceptual interventions made in Policing in the context of the conditions in which it was produced. Drawing on the author's wider work on the history of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies—where the authors of Policing were based—it argues the book should also be read for the insight it provides into the development of cultural studies as a fledging field of inquiry. A broader re-engagement with the work of the so-called ‘Birmingham school’, it is suggested, offers one way of historians developing accounts of 1970s and 1980s Britain that are not overdetermined by the arrival of ‘Thatcherism’. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

China is characterized by a long history, vast land, huge population and diversity unprecedented in world history. In addition, she is a unique case that has successfully completed the transition from empire to the nation-state. Therefore, her historical independence and her continuity become very important subject areas for research, and the concept “empire” re-emerges as a major means of explanation. The essential defining features of empire are tolerance and expansion. I have been reviewing discourses on “China as Empire,” looking at studies of the tributary system, the civilization-state, and the Tianxia view raised from both inside and outside of China. A common characteristic of these discourses is the perception that the past, present and future of China cannot be fully explained by Western concepts such as nation-state. They also reveal that the supposed continuity with the past, which is overemphasized in many studies, does not necessarily always correspond with historical reality. The key focus of the empire discourses is the project of future China. Finally, I put a particular emphasis upon the “perspective of peripheries” in order to find ways to demonstrate the benefits of viewing China as an empire, while also overcoming the weaknesses of empire theory. It is the reason why I apply to the analysis of the empire discourses the “compound state” theory incubated as a way of reunification of the Korean Peninsula. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Current paper analyzes the life and works of the cultural agent Cornélio Pires whose activities involved the conservation of the caipira culture, disseminating it through publications, recordings, sound tracks, spectacles (scenes, music, guitar and musical groups) and propagating it on the radio. Contrastingly to the intense transformations in São Paulo, representations of plantations and life in the hinterland were emerging. They are actually different scenes in which the people of the Brazilian interior are sometimes praised and at other times criticized. Within this context, the life, works and artistic productions of Cornélia Pires are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I suggest a different view on Sophiatown's existence, both in terms of it standing as mythical icon and as a suburb. Instead of continuing the look ‘from afar’ (Hannerz 1994), which positions Sophiatown within the category of desirable ‘global icons’, I turn my gaze deeper into Sophiatown, both as a suburb and an icon. I use the lens of transnationalism to zoom into three scenes in Sophiatown in order to examine what has been ignored and overlooked in previous narratives. Where the global icon stays and focuses on the surface, the transnational perspective focuses on the everyday lives within the icon. Through a series of vignettes, looking at women in Sophiatown's history, at coffee making with a Greek immigrant, and tales of home with Senegalese businessmen, through a consideration of Bloke Modisane's post-Sophiatown career, I examine how the time established by focusing on these transnational lives is a time of presence which spans multiple locations. I conclude the article with a final point about the ‘unrepresentability’ of a diverse history in the current ways of narrating history in Sophiatown; and the necessity of extending spaces of representation for other, alternative perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a report from a November 20-21, 2014 cultural studies conference in Heidelberg, Germany organized by the AG Materielle Kultur cultural research society and the Institut für Gerontologie gerontology department of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg university. Topics of presentations delivered included the history of the cultural impact of television, medical instruments from the 18th and 19th centuries, and social factors which limited the use of public exercise equipment in parks and green spaces in Vienna, Austria.

The present study primarily intends to document how textbooks and reference textbooks on film studies written by Western and diaspora authors either belittled Indian cinema as masala genre or glorified the moniker Bollywood as a signifier of pan-Indianness, overlooking the significant contributions of the Telugu film industry, which is the twin brother of the Hindi film industry both in genesis and growth (since 1931) and even today runs neck to neck with Hindi cinema in the production of films and film remakes. The study argues that Indian cinema has never been examined at the modernist (foundation) level of its structural perspectives comprising innovations of production, cultural flows in the delineation of regional variations, and fine arts including aesthetics consisting of six arts and genres that are native, distinct, and unique. Drawing its support from de-Westernizing media studies, the article posits that lack of familiarity with the Indian cultural and linguistic traditions, together with its complex structure and semiotics rooted in religious classics, which are portrayed more effectively in Telugu cinema than in Hindi cinema, is the reason for the failure of Western academia to negotiate the complex meaning processes of these filmic communications. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This prefatory note contextualizes the essays that follow by offering a brief history of the conflicted history of efforts to find a place for cultural studies inside the discipline of communication studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking Stuart Hall's insistence on the ‘worldliness’ of cultural studies as the definitive point of entry, this paper traces breaks and continuities in the constitution of the trope of ‘crisis’ in Birmingham in the 1970's and in the globalized context we are working in today. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this paper I investigate the resonance of the volumeThe Empire Strikes Backwithin the debates on racism in Germany since the late 1970s. I am interested in this long-term intellectual exchange in light of the current need to conceptualize racism in a European framework and thereby reflect upon the characteristics, concepts and possibilities of such a framework. I begin by situating the debate at that time within the context of the New Left. What connected both situations, in Germany and the UK, was an inscription of the then-ongoing anti-colonial and decolonial struggles of the South in the North, not least through the ‘retaliatory effect’ of migration movements and struggles of migration arriving in Europe. I argue that the understandings of racism and anti-racism are grounded in a materialist framework and that the concept of articulation helped and continues to help thinking the complexity and heterogeneity of the social. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Empire Strikes Back made a landmark and sometimes controversial intervention in the scholarship of ethnicity and race when it was first published. This article considers both the continuities and breaks that linked and separated the volume from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies' work and tradition that preceded it. It also suggests that the balance between ethnographic engagement and critical scholarship sets up a necessarily iterative process that values both but also recognizes the differences between the two. Such iteration speaks also to the manner in which the study of contemporary migration and its consequences demands both more self-conscious links between the study of migration and the scholarship of racial formation and ethnic identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay provides a critical reflection on the intellectual and political questions raised by The Empire Strikes Back. It argues that thirty years after the collection helped establish the politics of race at the centre of mainstream scholarly debate; these have now been pushed to the periphery of British sociology. The discussion begins by setting the book against its prevailing political economy, before commenting on the virtue and authenticity in its type of critical scholarship. The essay then moves to spotlight some of the ways in which the collection may be deemed both pioneering and limited, how we might recall the collection today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]