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The Contingency of the Cultural Evolution of Morality, Debunking, and Theism vs. Naturalism
Is the cultural evolution of morality fairly contingent? Could cultural evolution have easily led humans to moral norms and judgments that are mostly...
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Kitsch: From Rejection to Acceptance—On the Changing Meaning of Kitsch in Today’s Cultural Production (Introduction)
One can read the history of kitsch and the history of kitsch theories by accentuating either everyday aesthetics (knickknacks) or pseudo art/bad art....
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Coordination in social learning: expanding the narrative on the evolution of social norms
A shared narrative in the literature on the evolution of cooperation maintains that social learning evolves early to allow for the transmission of...
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Reconfiguring Sovereignties Through the Law: Indigenous Patrimonialization in the Americas
Since the last third of the twentieth century, the indigenous peoples of the Americas have claimed their sovereignty. There, it is possible to...
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How Do Institutional Prescriptions (Fail to) Address Governance Challenges Under Institutional Hybridity? The Case of Governance Code Creation for Cooperative Enterprises
Codes of governance have mushroomed in contexts operating under a single, dominant institutional logic, such as publicly listed corporations. These...
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Revitalizing Urban Places: How Prosocial Organizations Acquire Saliency in the Eyes of Resisting Stakeholders
Prosocial organizations represent key actors in the quest to promote positive change, foster social impact, and revitalize cities. Notwithstanding...
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Dancing on a Tightrope: Globalization, Deterritorialization, and Standardization in Multicultural Environment
The article introduces a new perspective on the impact of globalization on identity formation, which marks a shift from traditional understandings of...
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Demography and cultural complexity
This paper begins by calling attention to a puzzling feature of our deep past: an apparent mis-match between morphological evolution in our lineage,...
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Culturally competent respect for the autonomy of Muslim patients: fostering patient agency by respecting justice
Although Western biomedical ethics emphasizes respect for autonomy, the medical decision-making of Muslim patients interacting with Western...
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Constructing Care-Based Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparison of Fortune 500 Companies in China and the United States
The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzes new opportunities for CSR development, and companies in both China and the US, the two largest economies severely...
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The contestations of diversity, culture and commercialization: why tissue culture technology alone cannot solve the banana Xanthomonas wilt problem in central Uganda
Several initiatives by the Government of Uganda, Research Institutes and CGIAR centers have promoted the use of tissue culture (TC) banana technology...
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Beyond the Inclusion–Exclusion Binary: Right Mindfulness and Its Implications for Perceived Inclusion and Exclusion in the Workplace
This study examines non-Western perceptions of inclusion and exclusion through an examination of right mindfulness practitioners in Vietnam. It...
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The Digital Semiosphere
The aim of this chapter is to define the bigger picture of the book. It will explore digital cultureDigital culture in general using the tools of...
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German and US Borderlands: Recognition Theory and the Copenhagen School in the Era of Hybrid Identities
This chapter explores securitization and recognition theories as lenses into conflict, emerging from specific migration practices. In current...
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The Interplay of Linguistic, Conceptual and Encyclopedic Knowledge in Meaning Production and Comprehension
One of the most complicated issues of present-day linguistics is the relationship of three types of knowledge: linguistic knowledge, conceptual...
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Normativity, system-integration, natural detachment and the hybrid hominin
From a subjective point of view, we take the existence of integrated entities, i.e., ourselves as the most unproblematic given, and blithely project...
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Emotions in (Human-Robot) Relation. Structuring Hybrid Social Ecologies
This essay tackles the core question of machine emotion research—“Can machines have emotions?”—with regard to “social robots”, the new class of...
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Kumusha and masalads: (inter)generational foodways and urban food security in Zimbabwe
Understandings of urban foodways in Zimbabwe and other African countries have been dominated by food security frameworks. The focus on material...
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Pluralism and Epistemic Goals: Why the Social Sciences Will (Probably) Not Be Synthesised by Evolutionary Theory
This article discusses Mesoudi et al.’s suggestion to synthesise the social sciences based on a theory of cultural evolution. In view of their...
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Kant on Civilization and Cultural Pluralism
Assuming a distinction between civilizationcivilization and moralitymoral culture this chapter explores how Kant approaches the factual plurality of...