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Conclusion: How Does the Concept of Public Communication Challenge the Concept of a Media System?
The concluding chapter argues that in order for us to understand the true significance of this book it must be contextualized within the history of...
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The Grotesque Modernist Body Gothic Horror and Carnival Satire in Art and Writing
The Grotesque Modernist Bodyexplores how and why modernist authors drew on the traditions of the grotesque body in order to represent modern reality...
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Praxis of Praxis: Collaborative Art Archiving, Going Beyond an Imagined Community Toward a Community in Process
This chapter explores the concept of “communality” and its meaning for archives of everyday life. It discusses recent theoretical discussions...
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Ibotso MuDzimba Dzemabwe: Winky D and the Quest for Human Flourishing in Zimbabwe
This chapter locates Winky D’s two songs, namely, “Ibotso” and “Dzimba Dzemabwe” from his 2023 album, Eureka Eureka, in the discourse on Zimbabwe’s...
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Do brown people have brown thoughts? Richard Rodriguez’s philosophy of race, culture, and identity
Ever since the publication of Hunger of Memory in 1982, Richard Rodriguez has been read by scholars almost exclusively through the lens of identity...
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The Rise of the Illiberal Public Sphere
This chapter sets out the theoretical framework of the book, centred on the key concept of the illiberal public sphere. We first outline our...
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Finding values, building communities: development of an archival appraisal system for the Thai public sector
Under the assumption that appraisal entails selection of records to be archives in line with the concept of values in archives and what each society...
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The Concept of Tianxia and Its Story
Tianxia is a theory about world politics invented about three thousand years ago during the Zhou dynasty. It was designed to solve the issue of a...
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Linguistics and Film and Theatre Practices
In this chapter, the concept of predication—borrowed from linguistics—is applied to film and theatre languages. The premise is that the rules that...
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Category System
In order to represent the overall research question of the study at hand, the theoretical work of both Bourdieu and Foucault needs to be combined...
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Communities, Performance and Practice Enacting Communities
This book examines how a predominantly negative view of community has presented a challenge to critical analysis of community performance practice....
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Introduction
The purpose of this book is to analyse the impact of capitalist social relationships on the concept of the actor as a cultural agent, a concept...
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Digital Media Literacy with Sati (Mindfulness): The Combining Approach Underlying the Thai Contexts
This chapter aims to clarify how Sati (mindfulness) can be combined with the concept of digital media literacy to enlarge the new approach of...
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Footing
The entry presents a concise but detailed overview of Goffman’s concept of footing. Footing is discussed in the context of Goffman’s wider...
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“It’ll never end, I’ll never go”: Representation of Caregiving in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and Footfalls
Research on the unrepresentability of death in Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre abound in Beckett scholarship, but little attention has been given to the...
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Introduction
Illiberalism is increasingly often mentioned among the key threats faced by contemporary liberal democracies, typically alongside populism,...
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The Double Marginality of Peripheral Locations
Through the main concepts of peripheral locations and double marginality, this chapter presents an innovative approach to reading and understanding...
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Indoor Thermal Comfort: The Case of Masjid Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin (Putrajaya, Malaysia)
The quest for a sustainable contemporary architectural approach requires the need to revive vernacular Malay architecture and access institutions...
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Materiality of Cooperation—An Introduction
Thinking cooperation through materiality addresses questions of production and impact of both media and social order, and, most importantly, their...
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Conclusion
This chapter draws out cohering themes: the instability of a concept of humour and how little can be reliably inferred from it, and humour’s value in...