Journal articles: 'Contemporary cultural contexts'

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Kuropjatnik, M. S. "Superdiversity: reconfiguration of cultural complexity of the contemporary contexts." RUDN Journal of Sociology 20, no. 3 (December 15, 2020): 461–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2272-2020-20-3-461-470.

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Conceptualization of the social-cultural contexts of the 21st century in terms of superdiversity implies diversification of the current diversity due to the changing patterns of global migration and transnationalization. The concept of superdiversity introduced by S. Vertovec means a new way for describing and analyzing contemporary social and cultural processes. The author considers three interrelated aspects of superdiversity: descriptive, methodological and practical (political). As a rule, superdiversity implies new immigrants who move from a larger number of countries than before, including those that did not have colonial relations with the places attracting immigrants. The emerging contexts of superdiversity are not limited to the growth of diversity in terms of ethnicity - a multidimensional approach to superdiversity allows it to reflect patterns of social inequality, creolization and the experience of social contacts determined by diversification of migration channels and social statuses of immigrants, of their ethnic, gender and age characteristics. Under the permanent mobility, multiple identities and diverse transnational practices, not everything can be represented in terms of we-they, majority-minority, inside-outside. Therefore, superdiversity is not related to the Other or minorities but presents a new framework for all residents of the country, regardless of their origin. Moreover, in local contexts, cultural diversity is increasingly perceived as a norm. Thus, the concept of superdiversity contributes to the development of a new cultural narrative that would replace the outdated concepts of assimilation and multiculturalism.

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Garratt, Robert F., and Michael Kenneally. "Cultural Contexts and Literary Idioms in Contemporary Irish Literature." Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 16, no. 2 (1990): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25512837.

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Fitzgibbon, Ali. "Arts Leadership in Contemporary Contexts." Cultural Trends 27, no. 5 (October 20, 2018): 385–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2018.1535369.

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Orsini, Francesca. "Dil Maange More: Cultural Contexts of Hinglish in Contemporary India." African Studies 74, no. 2 (May 4, 2015): 199–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2015.1045721.

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Moje, Elizabeth Birr. "Youth Literacy and Cultural Theories." Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3, no. 1 (January 19, 2016): 70–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2372732215624709.

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Despite decades of research on social contexts and cultural practices, contemporary literacy education policies often frame the teaching of literacy skills—and especially adolescent literacy skills necessary for college and career success—as if they can be understood separate from the purposes, audience, and contexts in which they are made meaningful. Culture, context, and social interaction play roles in understanding young people’s literacy skill development and learning. The field has learned from studies of youth culture that emphasize the role of reading, writing, composing, and communicating with multiple media. Taken together, these varied studies imply how we might better engage young people; help them understand the relevance of learning to read, write, compose, and communicate with proficiency; and prepare them to build their own social futures.

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Atmodiwirjo, Paramita, and Yandi Andri Yatmo. "Urban Interiority: Emerging Cultural and Spatial Practices." Interiority 4, no. 1 (January 29, 2021): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.7454/in.v4i1.131.

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Discourses on the urban interior recently have emerged as a series of provocations and experimentations that highlight the critical understanding of the urban realm from the interiority perspective. In the fast-moving development of modern global cities, the urban interior concept becomes increasingly important. Cities are fast becoming containers for contemporary spatial practice, with urban spaces becoming melting pots of diverse cultures and communities. Viewing urban settings from the interiority perspective allows us to comprehend unique local characters in particular contexts. This issue of Interiority presents a collection of works that illustrate the expanded understanding of the urban interior, especially in relation to cultural and spatial practice in urban contexts. This issue presents multiple perspectives on understanding the urban interior, raising arguments on how its spatial condition could perform as a container of cultural practice, while simultaneously offering possibilities on manoeuvring within the urban interior context through various ways of reading, interpretation and intervention. These perspectives and approaches promise further possibilities to expand our interior architectural practice in responding not only to current contemporary practice, but also to the future of urban inhabitation.

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Downing, Lisa. "Interdisciplinarity, Cultural Studies, Queer: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Contentions in France." Paragraph 35, no. 2 (July 2012): 215–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2012.0054.

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This article offers a comparative examination of the status of ‘interdisciplinarity’, ‘cultural studies’ and ‘queer’ in the discipline of French studies in the Anglophone world and in France. It is argued that, while the intellectual origins of both interdisciplinarity and queer theory are French, a series of disavowals and appropriations has de-gallicized them. On the one hand, the cultural hegemony of English studies in the USA and the UK has led to a colonization and anglicization of continental thought. On the other, the resistance to cultural studies within the Hexagone has meant that work done in critical sexuality studies within the Anglo-American world over the past forty years is only now beginning to be felt within French-speaking contexts. In tracing this double history of dislocation, the article contextualizes the difficulty of thinking queer in properly French terms — and the importance of doing so.

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Yandell, John. "Teenagers and Reading: Literary Heritages, Cultural Contexts and Contemporary Reading Practices." English in Education 49, no. 2 (June 2015): 188–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eie.12064.

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Schimanski, Johan, and Stephen Frank Wolfe. "Introduction: Cultural Production and Negotiation of Borders." Nordlit 13, no. 1 (March 1, 2009): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.1462.

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The essays in this issue of Nordlit focus on how historical and contemporary border discourses, expressive and aesthetic representations, are generated, circulated, and interpreted in both local and global contexts.

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Feener, R. Michael. "Cross-Cultural Contexts of Modern Muslim Intellectualism." Die Welt des Islams 47, no. 3 (2007): 264–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006007783237473.

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AbstractAttempts at understanding the development of Islam in the modern period through its intellectual history demand new analytical frameworks to be brought to bear on both Muslim religious thought and the academic study of religion. There is a need for innovative approaches to modern Muslim intellectualism that can build upon the traditional strengths of Islamic Studies while also taking into account contemporary realities which add new dimensions of complexity to the processes of producing and transmitting knowledge. Aside from the formal contents of legal, theological, and social texts texts, approaches to Muslim thought in the modern period also require paying attention to the dynamics of new educational and publishing structures, new forms of media, and cross-cultural contexts of discussion, all complemented by a theoretically aware methodological flexibility that self-consciously moves back and forth between text-specific and broader cultural dimensions of analysis. In this article these issues are raised in the course of reflections on recent work in mapping an intellectual history of Islam in modern Indonesia.

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Shakoor, Muhyiddin. "Cultural Psychology." American Journal of Islam and Society 15, no. 4 (January 1, 1998): 141–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v15i4.2149.

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For the past thirty years, Michael Cole has been a prolific writer, researcher,and creative thinker in the field of developmental psychology. In CulturalPsychology: A Once and Future Discipline, he attempts to synthesize what hehas learned and to set forth an approach to developmental psychology from anhistorical and culrural perspective. Hence, a culturally sensitive science ofhuman development appears to be Cole's objective. He describes cultural psychologyas "the study of culture's role in the mental life of human beings." Hissubtitle suggests that culrural psychology was a discipline which existed in formertimes and will exist again in the future. Cole argues in favor of what isknown as a "second psychology," which moves beyond the confines of traditionaland contemporary psychological thinking about how the human mind isunderstood. The former psychology, described as naturalistic, has focused onthe familiar and more classical views. Such views evolved from our analysis ofmental phenomena developed from ideas, sensations, reflexes, and experienceswith sensorimotor connections. Alternately, the latter approach, "second psychology,"looks at the higher mental processes formed by cultures. Theseinclude things such as languages, myths, and social practices within the individual'ssocial context. The author reviews the evolution of thought throughseveral contemporary thinkers who, in his view, have contributed the substanceof a scientific, second psychology-oriented methodology necessary for aviable, efficacious culrural psychology. That is to say a psychology which issensitive to social and culrural contexts. The context includes such things aslanguage, riruals, and routines as they contribute to understanding people interms of their interdependence, cooperation, and essential humanity ...

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Filipchuk, Nataliia. "SOCIO-CULTURAL FUNCTIONS OF MUSEUM PEDAGOGY IN THE HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS." Aesthetics and Ethics of Pedagogical Action, no. 19 (June 7, 2019): 38–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.33989/2226-4051.2019.19.169766.

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Xin, Wang. "Looking at different cultural contexts in the contemporary dance of ArtsCross/Danscross." Choreographic Practices 7, no. 2 (December 1, 2016): 337–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/chor.7.2.337_1.

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Coulangeon, Philippe. "Cultural Openness as an Emerging Form of Cultural Capital in Contemporary France." Cultural Sociology 11, no. 2 (February 2, 2017): 145–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749975516680518.

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This article explores the changing pattern of cultural privilege in contemporary France. Using French data on cultural practices, including variables on ‘highbrow’ culture, mass culture and cosmopolitan culture, we apply a multi-correspondence analysis (MCA). The findings first show that cultural privilege among French social and educational elites remains primarily a matter of cultural capital endowment, with a structuring contrast between ‘legitimate’ and ‘mass’ culture. The MCA also shows an additional divide between local and global culture underpinned by a strong age gradient. Yet the emergence of a changing pattern of cultural privilege among the youngest cohorts does not imply any clear reduction in cultural inequalities. Rather, it suggests a growing cultural distinctiveness of French elites. Finally, these tendencies should not be easily extrapolated to other contexts as they reflect strong French specificities related to the evolution of social and educational structures during the second half of the 20th century.

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Stephens, Cristina S. "Acculturation contexts: Theorizing on the role of inter-cultural hierarchy in contemporary immigrants’ acculturation strategies." Migration Letters 13, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 333–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/ml.v13i3.287.

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Recent efforts to expand the theoretical framework of acculturation have drawn attention to a variety of pre-migration and reception contexts that affect how immigrants engage with the culture of their country of destination. Building on John W. Berry’s seminal work, this article contributes to the development of acculturation theory by delineating the previously under-explored context of inter-cultural hierarchy. Employing a critical theory stance, the paper argues that immigrants’ response to western cultural dominance and the rise of neoliberal imperatives can influence, along with the above mentioned contexts, their acculturative strategies. The paper proposes distinctions between types of assimilation, integration and separation strategies that have the potential to capture immigrant’s risk of long-term psychosocial maladjustment in the country of destination.

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Dozan, Wely. "METODOLOGI TAFSIR KONTEMPORER (Aplikasi Teori Hermeneutika Nashr Hamid Abu Zaid Q.S. An-Nisa: 3)." JOURNAL OF QUR'AN AND HADITH STUDIES 6, no. 2 (November 27, 2019): 42–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.15408/quhas.v6i2.13411.

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Interpretation Q.S. an-Nisa '4: 3 in the discourse of interpretation always discussed both classical and contemporary interpretations. The verse is always legitimized as a polygamy verse. But among some contemporary thoughts such as Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid point out that, the verse is not an order against polygamy but rather in the context of marriage it is recommended for monogomy. Specifically, there are five hermeneutic approaches offered by Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid, socio-cultural contexts, external contexts, internal contexts, language contexts, and contexts of reading and reading. The research approach is the literature study approach which is a series of approaches relating to searching various sources of writing, whether in the form of books, articles, journals, or documents relevant to the problem under study. Thus, it can be concluded that, the application of Nazr Hamid Abu Zaid hermenutics to the interpretation of Q.S. An-Nisa '4: 3 is understood as a monogamous context rather than a command against polygamy.

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Kwan, SanSan. "When Is Contemporary Dance?" Dance Research Journal 49, no. 3 (December 2017): 38–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0149767717000341.

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This article interrogates the multivalent understandings of the term “contemporary dance” in concert, commercial, and world dance contexts. I argue that placing multiple uses of the term “contemporary” alongside one another can provide insight into the ways that “high art” dance, popular dance, and non-Western dance are increasingly wrapped up with each other and, at the same time, the ways that their separations reveal our artistic, cultural, and political prejudices, as well as the forces of the market.

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Hoover, Stewart M. "Media and the imagination of religion in contemporary global culture." European Journal of Cultural Studies 14, no. 6 (December 2011): 610–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549411419980.

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This article argues for an invigorated scholarship of religion within cultural studies. It suggests that this is justified both on its own terms and because there is evidence that the interaction of media and religion is creating entirely new forms of the religious in contemporary public life. Religion persists in history, but it persists in part because of its mediation and this persistent, mediated religion constitutes a new evolution. The article presents a range of contexts where this can be seen to be happening, not least those contexts most involved in contemporary cultural globalization.

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Mannia, Sebastiano. "MASKS AND CARNIVALS IN CONTEMPORARY SARDINIA." Вестник антропологии (Herald of Anthropology), no. 4 (52) (December 12, 2020): 29–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.33876/2311-0546/2020-52-4/29-44.

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The carnival occupies an important place in Sardinia, and attracts the attention of scholars with its continuously renewed meanings and functions. Furthermore, the institution of carnival is one of the cultural traits that has most oriented enhancement, research, re-proposal, revitalization of spontaneous groups and cultural associations: local traditions are re-learned and reworked along with specific identities and new forms of expression. In this sense, we can speak of new carnivals; cultural heritage in new economic and social contexts. In other words: today's representations and masks refer to an alleged tradition to respond to contemporary needs and requests. In the case of Sardinian carnivals, enhancement, recovery, re-proposal are usually spontaneous, endogenous processes, and they are, first of all, initiated to respond to «identity needs». The contribution tries to reflect on these issues, emphasizing the complexity of the carnival phenomenon in Sardinia. Keywords masks, carnivals, cultural heritages, Sardinia

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Arisaka, Yoko. "Modern Japanese Philosophy: Historical Contexts and Cultural Implications." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 74 (June 30, 2014): 3–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246114000022.

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AbstractThe paper provides an overview of the rise of Japanese philosophy during the period of rapid modernization in Japan after the Meiji Restoration (beginning in the 1860s). It also examines the controversy surrounding Japanese philosophy towards the end of the Pacific War (1945), and its renewal in the contemporary context. The post-Meiji thinkers engaged themselves with the questions ofuniversalityandparticularity; the former represented science, medicine, technology, and philosophy (understood as ‘Western modernity’) and the latter, the Japanese – ‘non-Western’ – tradition. Within the context, the question arose whether or not Japan, the only non-Western nation to succeed in modernization at the time, could also offer a philosophy that was universal in scope? Could Japanese philosophy offer an alternative form of modernity to the global domination of Western modernity? In this historical context, the philosophies of Kitaro Nishida and Tetsuro Watsuji, two of the tradition's most prominent thinkers, are introduced. Nishida is considered the ‘father of modern Japanese philosophy’ and his followers came to be known as the ‘Kyoto School’. The essay ends with a brief reflection on the influence of philosophy on culture, focusing on the aftermath of the tsunami catastrophe in 2011.

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Fajuyigbe, Michael Olusegun. "Contemporary Painting as Reflector of Yoruba Cultural Values." Yoruba Studies Review 7, no. 2 (January 19, 2023): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/ysr.7.2.132806.

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Every art form reflects the values of the cultural background that produces it, and visual culture in its present state is based on art and values from the past. This paper, therefore, examines the re-invention of culture and distinctive cultural ideals in contemporary Nigerian art. Specifically, it pinpoints contemporary Yorùbá paintings as visual markers of the Yorùbá value system. The study traces the origin of painting in Africa, from its earliest forms in African caves, shrines, and palaces, through the colonial and postcolonial eras to the present. Based on their contexts, eight (8) paintings that portray specific values of the Yorùbá and are ingrained with symbolic motifs, patterns and imageries are selected. Formal and contextual methods in art history are employed in the analysis of the data. The selected paintings serve as a visual document of the Yorùbá belief system; while contemporary Yorùbá artists are shown to consistently draw from their culture and design resources to establish a connection between the past and the present. The paper concludes that contemporary Nigerian art, generally, reveals new perspectives and meanings regarding art, culture, and identity in a fast-changing, multi-ethnic society like Nigeria

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Kemp, C. L. "CULTURAL CONTRADICTIONS AND STRUCTURAL ARRANGEMENTS: REFLECTIONS ON GROWING OLD IN CONTEMPORARY CAPITALIST CONTEXTS." Gerontologist 48, no. 4 (August 1, 2008): 553–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geront/48.4.553.

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Kimani, Gabriel Thuku. "Negotiating contemporary issues through cultural creative dance expressions." Journal of Music and Creative Arts (JMCA) 1, no. 1 (December 9, 2022): 25–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.51317/jmca.v1i1.318.

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This study sought to negotiate contemporary issues through cultural creative dance expressions. The study delves into the techniques of dramatisation in the dances, contextualised in their cultural and creative contexts. The synthesis of these concepts was propped on aesthetic theory, semiotics and discourses on African performance for the description of style, themes and messaging. The study was framed on qualitative design to analyse purposively sampled cultural creative dances on various chosen themes and cultures. Primary data included data observed in the sampled dances as well as unstructured interviews. Secondary data was gathered from books, journals, articles and online publications. The data was analysed using content analysis. The study finds that, indeed, a cultural creative dance performed in the Kenya Schools and Colleges Drama Festival tackle various themes that are derived from various issues the Kenyan society is grappling with. The study findings also note that the artist has a central role in bringing issues to the fore and affirms the cultural creative dance as a powerful and enduring platform for ruminating on societal concerns. In conclusion, the cultural creative dance, as the foregoing discourse elucidates, is a potent, lively and well-grounded mode of communicating and discussing the issues in the hearts of individual citizens and the nation at large.

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Lewis, Gail, and Sarah Neal. "Introduction: Contemporary political contexts, changing terrains and revisited discourses." Ethnic and Racial Studies 28, no. 3 (May 2005): 423–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0141987042000337821.

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Anderson, Bradford A. "Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts with Brad Anderson." Bulletin for the Study of Religion 49, no. 1-2 (November 9, 2020): 14–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/bsor.17711.

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Editor Bradford Anderson introduces readers of the Bulletin to the journal Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts. Readers learn aobut the publication's history, issue highlights, and current direction.

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Shitandi, Wilson, and Mellitus Nyongesa Wanyama. "The Challenges of Application of African Traditional Dance for Contemporary Educational Relevance." PAN African Journal of Musical Arts Education 1, no. 1 (December 30, 2014): 61–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.58721/pajmae.v1i1.137.

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Students pursuing music degree courses in Kenyan public universities undergo dance instructions as part of their cognitive processes in learning traditional African music. The purpose of the dance courses is to enable students to practice, appreciate, preserve through performance and understand dance as a cultural identity in a modern educational context. Dances hitherto performed in specific cultural contexts are reconceptualised and situated into the classroom for instructional purposes thus raising fundamental questions regarding the effect/affect of reinterpretation processes that are inevitable. Through analytical and comparative procedures, this paper seeks to establish how various aspects, content, methodologies and performance practice of traditional African dances commonly taught at Kenyatta university are unearthed, interpreted, re-evaluated and integrated into new academic thinking yet remaining valuable and important source of cultural identity.

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Cockcroft, Tom. "Institutional hybridity and cultural isomorphism in contemporary policing." International Journal of Police Science & Management 21, no. 4 (December 2019): 218–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461355719889462.

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Recent work on policing has increasingly acknowledged the influence of a broad array of changes upon both the structure and culture of police organizations. Generally, however, literature and research have tended to focus attention onto those elements of the broader police environment that effect such developments, whereas little commentary, to date, has been directed towards those features which impact across the broader public sector. Through drawing on the concepts of ‘hybrid professionalism’ [Noordegraaf M (2015) Hybrid professionalism and beyond: (new) forms of public professionalism in changing organizational and societal contexts. Journal of Professions and Organization 2: 187–206] and ‘institutional isomorphism’ [DiMaggio PJ and Powell WW (1983) The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields. American Sociological Review 48: 147–160], this conceptual paper will argue that the impact of neoliberal ideology on the contemporary public sector has created a police organization for which professionalism increasingly denotes generic management skills that are common across different occupations and different police roles. In particular, it will be suggested that such institutional isomorphism may drive ideational responses commensurate with cultural change within police organizations. In short, therefore, the paper will make the case that, in parallel with changes already identified by other academics, broader structural changes may lead to a narrower and more generic set of cultural responses within contemporary police organizations.

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Powell, Jason L. "“You’ll Never Walk Alone”: Phenomenology and Ageing in Contemporary Culture." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 27 (May 2014): 19–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.27.19.

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This article explores the theory of phenomenology and its relevance for understanding ageing. I begin by attempting to unravel the main theorisations of phenomenology and then explore how the use of a biographical method can be enmeshed in cultural contexts of ageing. In particular, I assess the relevance of the ageing body, and ageing identity for pointing toward a general theory that can be defined as a ‘phenomenology of ageing’. Part of the context for realising the potential of phenomenology is its dissection of meaning, not as fixed, but as fluid as found in the context of everyday life. Phenomenology provides a significant contribution to un-locking an understanding of what is means to be a human person situated within and across the life course. It can be used to reveal critical consciousness, understanding of personal identity and social meanings. This article explores the contexts, examples and situations within which the perspective can be illuminated for understanding ageing. Ageing is a biographical process and this will be dissected for understanding social theory.

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Rashkovskaya, K., and E. Rashkovskii. "Institutions of Culture in Contemporary Social and Cultural Dynamics." World Economy and International Relations 65, no. 1 (2021): 114–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.20542/0131-2227-2021-65-1-114-122.

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This paper is a kind of response to Prof. Irina S. Semenenko’s article “New Dimensions of Identity Politics: Contested Memories in History Museums of the 20th Century” (Mirovaya ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya (World Economy and International Relations), 2020, vol. 64, no. 5). The paper attempts to ground the notion of institutions of culture and their necessary, though sometimes ambiguous role in social, cultural as well as political dynamics of the current history. Studies of the present experience in economic, information and demographic globalization, digital technologies, pandemics, etc. offer new opportunities for rethinking the role of cultural institutions in the whole socio-historical process, including the current history. The complex of these problems is displayed not only on macro-historical or global level, but also on the levels of micro-histories and everyday history in different social and cross-cultural contexts. The field of cultural institutions seems to be responsible for the whole shifting of basic human values in history as well as for the “subtle customization” of interpersonal communications and “le phenomene humaine” itself.

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Colom, Alejandra. "Making Applied Anthropology Relevant in Contemporary Guatemala." Human Organization 81, no. 2 (May 24, 2022): 151–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-81.2.151.

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This paper discusses the development of applied anthropology in Guatemala, including its external influences and the sociopolitical context that has shaped experiences, practical strategies, and ethical issues. It illustrates how anthropological theory and methods are put to practice in multi-cultural and politically complex contexts, challenging the traditional distinctions of types of application and practice. It explores the challenges of applying anthropology in the practitioners’ own society. Responses to a short questionnaire and interviews with contemporary principal investigators reveal how applied anthropology is currently perceived by students and local practitioners. The paper includes a description of the methods, examples of transdisciplinary research and of the study of elites, and the challenges posed to local practitioners when applying anthropology in a country riddled with racism, economic inequality, and growing political discontent.

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Jerrentrup, Maja Tabea. "Staging the other: Orientalism in contemporary media practice." Arte, Individuo y Sociedad 33, no. 4 (July 12, 2021): 1329–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/aris.72035.

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The so-called “oriental” has always been a subject for “western” fascination. Today, the staging of the “orient” in (hobby) model photography is among the most popular themes: costumes and props from various cultural contexts are combined to form a new whole. Based on participant observation and interviews, the article traces back possible individual motivations for embodying the “oriental,” among them nostalgia, corresponding with the description of the orient as “timeless,” the need for spirituality, the wish to express femininity, and to work on identity with regard to identity trials and the definition of the own identity through the help of its imagined opposite. Considering society as a whole and its zeitgeist, the phenomenon is interpreted using the concepts of escapism and kitsch, which can be observed in mainstream culture as well. Furthermore, cultural appropriation is discussed as a way to prevent getting to know other cultures, but at the same time, the “oriental” photoshoot is also seen as a chance to generate interest and to practice creativity. The article shows that the analysis of staged photographs offers a base for understanding the cultural context in which they have been taken and/or circulate, and that the photo motifs can be seen as expressions of psychological motivations.

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Singh, Santosh Kumar. "Contemporary Socio-Cultural Issues in Recent Mithila Paintings." Social Inquiry: Journal of Social Science Research 1, no. 1 (December 27, 2019): 8–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sijssr.v1i1.26913.

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This article examines how Mithila art functions as a window to Maithili values and its current innovations in the field which notes the change both in society and the canvas. Two illustrious contemporary Mithila painters, Rani Jha from India and S. C. Suman from Nepal, shows how Mithila art has swerved from traditional motifs and themes to the on-going socio-cultural and socio-political issues even as the aim of painting is commercial, that is, to earn money by making the art saleable among foreign tourists and art lovers. While Rani Jha mostly highlights women’s issues, Suman remains engaged with Nepal’s volatile political situation which sometimes makes him pessimistic and sometimes optimistic. It also makes the point that Mithila painting is largely women-centred, despite the hold of patriarchy. The one, controlling, socio-semiotic meaning of Mithila art is that it is an expression of women’s assertiveness and agency of their subjectivity within the Lakshman Rekha drawn by Maithili patriarchy. The objective of this research is to show how the geographically confined Maithili drawing happens to communicate larger issues at national and global levels at a fresh time. And to prove the main argument, this study makes use of the theoretical framework of socio-semiotic analysis. A semiotic analysis of the artwork in the light of the specific socio-cultural contexts of Mithila reveals that the art not only alerts and modifies the mindset of the stakeholders but also visualizes the socio-cultural troubles of the existing era.

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Peters, Phil, Alex Katsaros, Rosalyn Howard, and Robb Lindgren. "An interactive cultural transect." Gifted Education International 28, no. 1 (January 2012): 84–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261429411427655.

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This pilot project conducted by researchers from the University of Central Florida (UCF) seeks to answer the question: Does a real-time, two-way, mobile, remote webcasting system have special properties for learning compared with traditional distance learning platforms? Students enrolled in two online, undergraduate UCF courses explored South Africa via a ‘Cultural Transect’, which we define as a method for recording and observing occurrences of cultural phenomena through regions and across borders of contemporary cultural systems around the world. The researchers hypothesize that this interactive Cultural Transect model augmented the traditional classroom by providing experiential access and interaction with authentic data, content, people, and real-world contexts.

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Joyce, P. M. "NANCY C. LEE and CARLEEN MANDOLFO (eds), Lamentations in Ancient and Contemporary Cultural Contexts." Journal of Semitic Studies 56, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 212–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgq077.

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Cogos, Sarah, Marie Roué, and Samuel Roturier. "Sami Place Names and Maps: Transmitting Knowledge of a Cultural Landscape in Contemporary Contexts." Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 49, no. 1 (February 2017): 43–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1657/aaar0016-042.

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Wojtkowiak, Joanna. "Ritualizing Pregnancy and Childbirth in Secular Societies: Exploring Embodied Spirituality at the Start of Life." Religions 11, no. 9 (September 8, 2020): 458. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11090458.

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Birth is the beginning of a new life and therefore a unique life event. In this paper, I want to study birth as a fundamental human transition in relation to existential and spiritual questions. Birth takes place within a social and cultural context. A new member of society is entering the community, which also leads to feelings of ambiguity and uncertainty. Rituals are traditionally ways of giving structure to important life events, but in contemporary Western, secular contexts, traditional birth rituals have been decreasing. In this article, I will theoretically explore the meaning of birth from the perspectives of philosophy, religious and ritual studies. New ritual fields will serve as concrete examples. What kind of meanings and notions of spirituality can be discovered in emerging rituals, such as mother’s blessings or humanist naming ceremonies? Ritualizing pregnancy and birth in contemporary, secular society shows that the coming of a new life is related to embodied, social and cultural negotiations of meaning making. More attention is needed in the study of ritualizing pregnancy and birth as they reveal pluralistic spiritualities within secular contexts, as well as deeper cultural issues surrounding these strategies of meaning making.

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Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena. "'On the "Mountain" of the Lord' Healing Pilgrimages in Ghanaian Christianity." Exchange 36, no. 1 (2007): 65–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157254307x159425.

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AbstractIn Ghana, as with other African religious and cultural contexts, religion is a survival strategy. It is a dynamic phenomenon, which at every level of appropriation has been experiencing certain innovations informed by existential and supra-mundane needs. Some of these innovative appropriations of religion in contemporary Ghana include pilgrimages to religious sites in search of God's intervention for healing. Roman Catholicism, mainline Protestantism and Pentecostalism, the three main streams of Christian expression in Ghana have all had their members develop penchants for such pilgrimages although patronage is never denomination specific. In this article we examine some of the innovative ways in which healing pilgrimages have developed in the various Christian traditions and what implications these have for understanding religion in a contemporary African religio-cultural context.

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Chandler, Gena E., and Jennifer Sano-Franchini. "Threat Assessment." Pedagogy 20, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 87–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15314200-7879069.

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While the term neoliberalism is commonly used to explain libertarian and conservative economic perspectives, its rapidly expanding contexts influence every aspect of our cultural environment, even the contexts of higher education. This article explores how neoliberal ideology affects the contemporary teaching environment for women of color teaching ideological critique.

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Kasarełło, Lidia. "Introducing Taiwan Chinese Contemporary Short Stories in Poland: Cultural Contexts, Fields of Representation and Equivalence." Roczniki Humanistyczne 69, no. 9 (December 3, 2021): 159–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rh21699-8.

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This paper investigates basic issues related to the translation of Taiwanese literature in Poland. Assuming the Juliane House’s definitions that translation is “a cognitive procedure and a social, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural practice”, I discuss this matter theoretically and practically on three major levels pertaining to literature and communication between both languages and cultures. According to the system approach, the model is divided into: 1) Source/Taiwan literature; 2) Target/Polish reader; 3) Mediation/Translator and is imbued with reflection on representation, cultural and political context and equivalence in translation’s polysystem. In the practical dimension the analysis refers to a particular case, which is the preparation of the first Polish translation of Taiwanese Contemporary Short Stories. This article also reveals the decision-making process concerning the most representative selection of different genres, periods, stylistics, authors and messages. The anthology of contemporary Taiwanese short stories[1] debated here is being compiled from the perspective of translators, who are Sinologists teaching at the University of Warsaw. In line with the concepts of anthology theoreticians, this kind of academic edition with references and critical comment supports the Polish reader in the process of correct decoding of the text and many contexts of Taiwanese literature. [1] In Polish: Na drugim brzegu. Antologia współczesnych opowiadań tajwańskich, red. Lidia Kasarełło, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 2020 [On the Other Shore: Anthology of Contemporary Taiwanese Short Stories, ed. Lidia Kasarełło, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 2020].

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Rashkovsky, Eugene B. "“POST-COLONIAL DISCOURSE”. THE GLOBAL CONTEXTS." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series, no. 9 (2021): 176–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-9-176-189.

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This article presents some theoretical as well as historiographical reflections concerning new Russian monograph “Africa: Post-Colonial Discourse” (Moscow, 2020). The aim of this study is to comprehend some problems of the basic contemporary macro-historical studies, as following: expanding the competence of the present-day source-based global studies; more comprehensive understanding of macro-historical phenomenon of slavery and – wider – of compulsive labor as one of the most tragic and unjust universals of global history; and perceiving of the imprescriptible role of inter-cultural as well as inter-civilizational codevelopment in possible humanization of global reality. Post-colonial discourse hardly seems to be an exact solution of all the controversial problems of the XV–XXI centuries’, so deep and so painful. Nevertheless, it poses some basic questions of the History as such including questions of compulsion and violence in history as well as the question of hope for freedom and dignity as an ultima ratio of all the human cultural experience.

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Romdhoni, Ali. "SEMIOTIKA MORRIS DAN TRADISI PENAFSIRAN ALQUR�AN: SEBUAH TAWARAN TAFSIR KONTEKSTUAL." Al-A'raf : Jurnal Pemikiran Islam dan Filsafat 13, no. 2 (November 15, 2016): 149. http://dx.doi.org/10.22515/ajpif.v13i2.158.

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This paper offers an interpretation approach which involves historical data as its important dimension, socio-cultural contexts, and psychological effect on the audience. It is an important thing, since the Quranic interpretation studies in the contemporary era demands an interpretation model which involves historical data, socio-cultural context and psychological effect on the society. Since, the holy Quran given to Prophet Muhammad SAW was revealed in order to respond certain social condition, so each verse given to the prophet was clearly interrelated actively to the space and time. Hereby, each verse of the holy Quran has its own historical context, meaning, and effect.

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Alarcón, Renato D. "Between Don Quixote and Hamlet: vicissitudes of contemporary Cultural Psychiatry." Salud mental 41, no. 1 (February 28, 2018): 39–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.17711/sm.0185-3325.2018.006.

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Background. Although Cultural Psychiatry (CP) has emerged as a significant discipline and body of knowledge in recent decades, it finds itself in a current intense debate about its identity, its contributions, and its future. Objective. To examine conflictive areas of historical, epistemological, clinical, educational, and research interest in the present and future development of CP. Method. A narrative review of outstanding sources, articles, and textbooks on CP that reflect its current vicissitudes; for each area, adequate quotations of Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Shakespeare’s Hamlet are used. Results. In addition to updating definitions and content, discussions about whether CP is a psychiatric subspecialty, the scope of its diagnostic, clinical and therapeutic applications, evaluation of criticisms and strengths, interactions with other disciplines, as well as reflective speculations about its future, are outlined. Discussion and conclusion. CP is considered the receptacle of many disciplines, the last bastion of humanistic medicine in a globalized world, although its development will always be marked by scholarly debates about contexts, meanings, identities, and competencies regarding its ontological and epistemological components.

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DuBois, Thomas A. "Trends in Contemporary Research on Shamanism." Numen 58, no. 1 (2011): 100–128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852710x514339-2.

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Recent research on the topic of shamanism is reviewed and discussed. Included are works appearing since the early 1990s in the fields of anthropology, religious studies, archaeology, cognitive sciences, ethnomusicology, medical anthropology, art history, and ethnobotany. The survey demonstrates a continued strong interest in specific ethnographic case studies focusing on communities which make use of shamanic practices. Shamanic traditions are increasingly studied within their historical and political contexts, with strong attention to issues of research ideology. New trends in the study of cultural revitalization, neoshamanism, archaeology, gender, the history of anthropology, and the cognitive study of religion are highlighted.

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Sapoznikow, Avery, Zachary Walsh, Kenneth W. Tupper, Earth Erowid, and Fire Erowid. "The influence of context on ayahuasca experiences: An analysis of experience reports." Journal of Psychedelic Studies 3, no. 3 (September 2019): 288–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2054.2019.028.

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Background and aims Ayahuasca is a psychedelic decoction prepared from two (or more) plants containing monoamine oxidase inhibitors, N, N-dimethyltryptamine, and other chemicals. Ayahuasca has apparently been used for centuries in the Amazon basin of South America, and in recent years has increasingly been used internationally in diverse contexts. This study aims to elucidate differences between cross-cultural ceremonial and psychonautic contexts of ayahuasca use. Methods This study systematically examines subjective differences across contexts for contemporary ayahuasca-drinking practices. User reports of ayahuasca experiences were subjected to textual analysis to compare use in cross-culturalceremonial contexts that attempt to include elements of traditional Amazonian practices, with psychonautic use that does not formally integrate traditional ceremonial aspects. The experience reports were collected from an online database. Results The use of ayahuasca in a cross-cultural ceremonial context is associated with prominence of affective and motivational features, whereas psychonautic use was associated with an emphasis on cognitive processes. Conclusions The beneficial effects of ayahuasca may operate via affective processing and integration and as such, cross-cultural ceremonial use may have advantages relative to psychonautic use. Findings are considered in light of the importance of context on experiences with ayahuasca and other psychedelic substances.

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Pusztai-Varga, Ildikó. "Cultural Dimensions of Poetry Translation." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 8, no. 3 (December 1, 2016): 17–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2016-0028.

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Abstract The present research analyses Hungarian and English target-language translations of contemporary Finnish poems. The translation solutions of culturally-bound lexical elements are compared in both Finnish-Hungarian and Finnish-English translation directions. The analysis is carried out using a text corpus comprising Hungarian and English translations of Finnish poems published after 1950. The text corpus consists of 160 Finnish source poems and their 160 Hungarian and 160 English target-language translations. The objective of the research is to reveal the cultural aspects of the translation of poetry and to answer the question as to what types of translation solutions literary translators use when translating culturally-bound lexical elements in Finnish poems into Hungarian and English. Results show that English-language translators of contemporary Finnish poems more frequently use translation solutions which are less creative and do not stray far from the original source language text. Hungarian translators, on the other hand, are more courageous in deviating from the source text and adapting their translations to the target language. This can be explained by reference to the two translation contexts or as a result of genre-specific reasons.

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Rudneva, Ekaterina. "Naming People with Disabilities in Contemporary Russian." Antropologicheskij forum 18, no. 52 (2022): 159–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.31250/1815-8870-2022-18-52-159-190.

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The study aims to analyse naming people with disabilities in contemporary Russian, depending on context and pragmatics, as well as highlight current ideologies and speakers’ attitudes. The data comprises media and social networks publications, interviews with people with disabilities and their relatives, examples from spontaneous oral speech, and a web corpus. The article analyses linguistic models of forming nominations and changes in discourse, investigates various understandings and uses of the word ‘disabled’ (which remains the most frequent, being inevitable in many contexts), opinions and attitudes of different groups, as well as current ideologies that they take into account, including competing ones (people-first vs identity-first). Principles for choosing labels differ in various discourses. Within smaller social groups, where names play a role of group identity markers, jargon items are often preferred. Public discourse favours the ideology of political correctness and the people-first principle, with the corresponding model and compound nominations consisting of several words. The activist discourse is also characterized by orienting towards the social model of disability and new ideologies (neurodiversity, fighting against ableism, frequently the identity-first principle) and stating clear-cut restrictions. Attitudes of people with different disabilities towards naming vary: some are rather opinionated, while others are indifferent. Modern euphemistic nominations can be perceived negatively because they make disability invisible. In some cases, a label acts as an identity marker or expresses a certain ideology, while in others it is chosen less consciously, but nevertheless can be interpreted using existing ideologies by recipients.

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Cocq, Coppélie. "Traditionalisation for Revitalisation: Tradition as a Concept and Practice in Contemporary Sámi Contexts." Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 57 (2014): 79–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/fejf2014.57.cocq.

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Drozdowicz, Jarema. "Migrujące podmioty. Relacje, konteksty i przyszłość problemu zróżnicowania kulturowego w edukacji." Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny, no. 65/2 (October 9, 2020): 28–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.31338/2657-6007.kp.2020-2.2.

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The issue of migration is now becoming part of a wider debate on cultural diversity. This article explores selected aspects of this debate in the context of school education. A relatively new subdiscipline, the anthropology of education, is indicated as a useful perspective in this matter. Anthropological research on migration and cultural differences in general can be regarded here as a scientific reconstruction of the processes that lead to the construction of otherness. The cultural figure of a migrant in particular serves as an example of these processes in the context of European education. Western concepts of otherness thus build large part of the current political and social debates on migration and the presence of migrants in the educational milieu. The article examines these concepts in relation to the main contemporary migration trends visible in the West.

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Meverden, Amy. "Lamentations in Ancient and Contemporary Cultural Contexts - Edited by Nancy C. Lee and Carleen Mandolfo." Religious Studies Review 37, no. 1 (March 2011): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-0922.2010.01487_17.x.

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Moshe Sluhovsky. "Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England: Contemporary Texts and Their Cultural Contexts (review)." Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 1, no. 2 (2008): 242–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mrw.0.0059.

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