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Last Week Tonight as Philosophy: The Importance of Jokalism
This chapter will explore the concept of jokalism, a word that first appeared in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart without a real definition and that...
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Critical Responses to the City Plan
This chapter analyses critical responses to the rational-functional city discussed in Chapter 2 ....
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Discussions on the Fragility of African Soft Power: An Analysis of Democratic Republic of Congo
In order to clarify the issues in the debate on soft Power, we shall review the genealogy of this concept by introducing Nye’s initial theory...
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Of the Price of Freedom and Walk-in Books
The present contribution attempts to structure a critical view of concepts Europe by means of operationalizing the term East Central Europe. One...
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Right to Data Access in the Digital Era: The Case of China
This chapter examines the academic debate on access to digital data in China and the Chinese state’s policy on data, demonstrating the lack of...
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‘No Use Calling Yourself South African. South African Is Nothing’: Understanding and Exploring the Concept of Place and Nationhood in the Life and Music of Christopher James
Christopher James (1952–2008) was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and moved to South Africa in 1974. As a composer, James’s style conflated...
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Conclusion
In this book’s final chapter, I return to the thorny concept of definition. In summarizing my approach and argument in Reboot Culture: Comics, Film,...
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Making Difference
This chapter elaborates the historical and conceptual framework of Difference, Sameness and DNA, which is based in the concept of differentiating, or...
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Performative Doing as a Living Archive of Cultural Practices
Within the context of the preceding terminological and conceptional framing of the definitions of an intangible cultural heritage, as well as of the...
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The societal embeddedness of records: teaching the meaning of the fourth dimension of the Records Continuum Model in different cultural contexts
The Continuum concept of pluralisation is often misunderstood. This paper aims to explain how records are embedded in the society that created them...
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Nurturing a Shared Vision: Self-identity, Relationship Building, and People-Powered Interventions
How the formation of one’s social identities relates to the individual attitudes and behaviours one displayed is an interesting concept that has...
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Archetype
An archetype, and whatever the role assigned to it, designates an organising principle naturally active in the psyche. Psychoanalytical perspectives,...
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From Newton to Einstein
During the seventeenth century, music and astronomy seemed to take different paths, with the former following a path related to art and the latter...
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Expanding Narrative Medicine through the Collaborative Construction and Compelling Performance of Stories
This essay proposes an expansion of the concept of narrative competence, beyond close reading, to include two more skills: the collaborative...
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Reflective Portfolio: “Scattered Memories of a Distorted Future”
Collaboration in creating artworks has always been my concern. I studied cinema at the Art University of Tehran, and the first thing that I learned...
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Conclusion and Research Implications
This section presents the Conclusion and Research Implications of the study. It summarizes the empirical findings of the study and focuses on...
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Introduction
This chapter reviews game studies scholarship concerned with the concept of poverty. It explores historical contexts for such work, with special...
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Conclusion: Where to from Here?
The concluding chapter discusses the different stages of participation and empowerment of the three heritage sites presented in the book and the...
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#MeToo: Scandals and the Concept of Flirting
This chapter investigates some of the ways in which the contemporary #MeToo movement and related debates have an impact on concepts related to...
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Why We Need Epistemic Rights
The starting point of this chapter is the deepening divisions within our societies, which derive from both internal and external forces. As democracy...