Search
Search Results
-
The Civil Ideal of the News
When the news, in its reporting, adheres to the civil ideal, it represents news that is accurate, sincere, objective, subject to editorial integrity...
-
Introduction
This chapter establishes a double context—political and cinematographic—by looking back first at the political specificities of post-independence...
-
“I’m at 100!”: Protesting the Right-Wing Government in Austria
“Grandmas against the Right,” an Austrian group of mostly elderly women that vehemently and publicly opposes right-wing extremism, has become a part...
-
Acting on Cultural Policy Arts Practitioners, Policy-Making and Civil Society
This book investigates the role of arts practitioners in cultural policy-making, challenging the perception that arts practitioners have little or no...
-
Normative Press Theories and the Revisiting of Media Roles in Africa’s Changing Socio-economic and Political Contexts
This chapter, among others, puts normative theories in perspective, traces the evolution of the press in selected African countries and pinpoints...
-
Cine Joven: Sexual Diversity and New Technologies
Cine joven audiovisual works stem from a tradition of counter-Hollywood cinema in the region and autochthonous cultural expression. Cine joven is...
-
Football, Ethnicity and the Visual Representations of Ecuadorian National Identity in Estadio
Many foreigners see Ecuador as one of the Latin American countries with the largest indigenous population, while Ecuadorian elites conceive the...
-
Deciphering the notion of a raceless nation: Racial harmony and discrimination in Puerto Rican society
This article critiques the idea of Puerto Rico as a raceless nation by tracing its sources and looking at the discourses of intellectual and...
-
Techlash, Platformization and the Struggle to Govern Online Content
This chapter adopts a comparative approach to examine the techlash and its aftermath. It begins by identifying major themes in the hearings between...
-
Impacts to Society Around Cultural Heritage in Post-trauma Situations: Reactions of Different Stakeholders in the Reconstruction Process in the Cases of Shuri-jō Castle and Wangduephodrang Dzong
This section takes up two post-disaster reconstruction projects, the State Hall of Shuri-jō Castle in Okinawa, Japan, and Wangduephodrang Dzong in...
-
Mass Graves: Strategies of Extermination During the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s Dictatorship
The materiality of Francoism encompasses all the material remains generated by the Civil War (1936–1939) and the subsequent dictatorship (1939–1975)....
-
Seizing the Opportunity: Political Participation of Libyan Women and Their Partaking in Communication Platforms
The Libyan society with its different components, including women, has gone through different stages of political development since the creation of...
-
“Should It Not Therefore Be Banned?”: Screening and Broadcasting The Birth of a Nation in Britain
In 1952, the London County Council permitted a screening of The Birth of a Nation at the Marble Arch Pavilion, running at just one and a half hours,...
-
Communicating Politics in Small States: Preferred Sources of Political Knowledge in the Jamaican Society
This chapter has three main objectives: first, to ascertain where Jamaicans obtain political information and second, to identify which of these...
-
Resistance from the Global South: Nigerian Press Coverage of Bonga Oil Spill Controversy
The Bonga oil spill occurred when Shell’s export line linking its Float Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel at the Bonga deep offshore...
-
Modernity, Huacas and Heritage Depredation on the Peruvian Coast. The Specific Case of Chan Chan, World Heritage (1986–2020)
This paper aims to analyse the influence of European modernity on the actions of civil society and the Peruvian state at all levels of the social...
-
Picturing Chinese People
In kee** with the emerging discipline of ethnography, the Macartney Embassy was keenly interested in examining the life and culture of the Chinese...
-
Inventing the Race: Latinos and the Ethnoracial Pentagon
This essay suggests a link between the insufficient strides for full citizenship Latinos have made in American society and their reticence to define...
-
Middle-Range Theories and Their Applicability to the Phenomenon of “Terrorism”
The last step in the process diagram (Fig. 3.6 ) is dedicated to the “action arena of the recipients/civil...
-
New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies The Ambivalences of Data Power
This Open Access book examines the ambivalences of data power. Firstly, the ambivalences between global infrastructures and local invisibilities...
