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Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Reclaiming Education -- Reclaiming Education -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The Culture of Reform -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Getting Down To Business -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Product: Education -- Notes -- Chapter 5: More Than Competition, More Than Information -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Becoming Knowledgeable and the Search for Wisdom -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Politics and Education -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Education as the Practice of Freedom -- Notes -- Appendix -- They Skools: The Anti-Urban Bias in Urban Education -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

K-pop's popularity and its participatory fan culture have expanded beyond Asia and become significant in Europe in the past few years. After South Korean pop singer Psy's "Gangnam Style" music video topped the Austrian chart in October 2012, the number and size of K-pop events in Austria sharply increased, with fans organizing various participatory events, including K-pop auditions, dance festivals, club meetings, quiz competitions, dance workshops, and smaller fan-culture gatherings. In the private sector, longtime fans have transitioned from participants to providers, and in the public sector, from observers to sponsors. Through in-depth interviews with event organizers, sponsors, and fans, this article offers an ethnographic study of the reception of K-pop in Europe that takes into consideration local interactions between fans and Korean sponsors, perspectives on the genre, patterns of social integration, and histories. As a case study, this research stresses the local situatedness of K-pop fan culture by arguing that local private and public sponsors and fans make the reception of K-pop different in each locality. By exploring local scenes of K-pop reception and fan culture, the article demonstrates the rapidly growing consumption of K-pop among Europeans and stresses multidirectional understandings of globalization.

"No monarchy has proved more captivating than that of the British Royal Family. Across the globe, an estimated 2.4 billion people watched the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on television. In contemporary global consumer culture, why is the British monarchy still so compelling? Rooted in fieldwork conducted from 2005 to 2014, this book explores how and why consumers around the world leverage a wide range of products, services, and experiences to satisfy their fascination with the British Royal Family brand. It demonstrates the monarchy's power as a brand whose narrative has existed for more than a thousand years, one that shapes consumer behavior and that retains its economic and cultural significance in the twenty-first century. The authors explore the myriad ways consumer culture and the Royal Family intersect across collectors, commemorative objects, fashion, historic sites, media products, Royal brands, and tourist experiences.Taking a case study approach, the book examines both producer and consumer perspectives. Specific chapters illustrate how those responsible for orchestrating experiences related to the British monarchy engage the public by creating compelling consumer experiences. Others reveal how and why people devote their time, effort, and money to Royal consumption--from a woman who boasts a collection of over 10,000 pieces of British Royal Family trinkets to a retired American stockbroker who spends three months each year in England hunting for rare and expensive memorabilia. Royal Fever highlights the important role the Royal Family continues to play in many people's lives and its ongoing contribution as a pillar of iconic British culture"--Provided by publisher

"Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture personalizes learning for every student, no matter whom they are or where they are, by giving them a deeper understanding of the role that media plays in both shaping and reflecting culture, while also helping them understand their role in society through that process."--

This book approaches the concept of tenko (political conversion) as a response to the global crisis of interwar modernity, as opposed to a distinctly Japanese experience in postwar debates.Tenko connotes the expressions of ideological conversion performed by members of the Japanese Communist Party, starting in 1933, whereby they renounced Marxism and expressed support for Japan's imperial expansion on the continent. Although tenko has a significant presence in Japan's postwar intellectual and literary histories, this contributed volume is one of the first in Englishm language scholarship to approach the phenomenon. International perspectives from both established and early career scholars show tenko as inseparable from the global politics of empire, deeply marked by an age of mechanical reproduction, mediatization and the manipulation of language. Chapters draw on a wide range of interdisciplinary methodologies, from political theory and intellectual history to literary studies. In this way, tenko is explored through new conceptual and analytical frameworks, including questions of gender and the role of affect in politics, implications that render the phenomenon distinctly relevant to the contemporary moment. Tenko: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan will prove a valuable resource to students and scholars of Japanese and East Asian history, literature and politics

Authenticity is often considered the holy grail in marketing. Prior research has focused on authenticity in consumption and marketing communications based on countercultural images of personal freedom, including mythologies based on resistant rebels and social outlaws. In turn, research has constructed an androcentric view of authenticity using only one-half (i.e., the masculine/agentic) of its inherently ambivalent dialectic of meaning. Little is known about the authentication of more feminine/communally gendered consumers such as stigmatized seekers and other marginalized consumer segments. In that respect the literature on authenticity in consumer research is highly problematic, because the dominant worldview tends to essentialize an exotic version of the Other recognized as authentic while knowing next to nothing about the Other beyond this stereotypical image. This thesis fills an important gap in knowledge regarding the circuit of cultural ideologies around authenticity, particularly in relation to brand culture and consumers' authenticating acts. Through a patchwork ethnography consisting of data collected in different empirical contexts (e.g., the Viking myth, queer cinema, disability in ads, etc.), the aim is to deconstruct the androcentric gaze on authenticity. Findings help pave the way toward a more empathic marketing theory and practice in which the Other is less confined by the harmful depiction of stereotypes. These findings are important because we live in times when brands are increasingly purpose-driven and expected to engage in activism (e.g., by taking a stand on socio-political issues even if they are not directly related to their business), while our social institutions are becoming more and more like brands. Indeed, recent marketing tendencies indicate a shifting cultural economy in which myths of personal freedom have been replaced with commodity activism in the "woke" discourse of authenticity in contemporary brand culture. I contribute to consumer research and conversations concerning the politics of authenticity, emphasizing issues of ethical representation and responsibility toward the Other, which may alleviate androcentric failings in previous research. I do this through thinking rooted in a deconstructive ontology, a feminist epistemology, and a transformative consumer research axiology.

Chronological tables of politics and culture on opposite pages ; "Appendix A. Bibliography": p. [475]-493 ; Mode of access: Internet.

PurposeThe objective of this article is to investigate the moderating role of national cultures in the relationship between brand value and firm value.Design/methodology/approachThis article examines the topic in the context of different national cultural attributes, including individualism, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, power distance, and long-term orientation. We use brand values of the Financial Times Global 500 companies and national cultural values reported by Hofstede, GLOBE, and Schwartz.FindingsResults exhibit that brands are more value-additive to companies in highly individualistic cultures. Furthermore, a valuable brand contributes more to firm value in countries with low uncertainty avoidance, high masculine, low power distance, and short-term oriented cultures.Originality/valueThe evidence suggests that while a valuable brand contributes to firm value, the level of its effect on firm value varies by national cultures.

The Reception of Chinese Art Across Cultures is a collection of essays examining the ways in which Chinese art has been circulated, collected, exhibited and perceived in Japan, Europe and America from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first. Scholars and curators from East Asia, Europe and North America jointly present cutting-edge research on cultural integration and aesthetic hybridisation in relation to the collecting, display, making and interpretation of Chinese art and material cultu

Through a comparison of the free online Flash game updated for PlayStation 3 to World of Warcraft, I investigate participatory culture in the game community. The question of why people pursue activities that offer no monetary or similar reward is answered in part by analyzing fan-produced game modifications or mods.

Culture has several meanings: civilization, creation, knowledge, life… We analyze how each one suffers the so-called crisis of culture. Civilization lives the crisis as «liquidity», according to Bauman's diagnosis, with significant negative impact on education. The creation and enjoyment of cultural products, such as museums, suffer its crisis as fragility resulting from the civilization crisis, notably in the form of consumerist banality or pure entertainment. Culture as knowledge and as life is analyzed under the joint notion «humanistic culture». This, which in turn is creation, knowledge and life has its specific corruption in the elitist knowledge, merely theoretical. The hallmark of genuine humanism contains an essential component, the dimension of ethical and political commitment. The crisis in the humanistic studies, noted by Nussbaum, threats the values of humanistic culture; in particular is a political risk, because democracy is a system that needs to sustain and improve the values of humanistic culture. In the background, and beyond the differences between the cultural meanings, there is a unique cultural crisis, a crisis of ethics and politics at a time ; Cultura tiene diversos significados: civilización, creación, conocimiento, vida… Analizamos de qué forma cada uno sufre la llamada crisis de la cultura. La civilización vive la crisis como liquidez, según el diagnóstico de Bauman, con importante efecto negativo sobre la educación. La creación y el goce de los productos culturales, como los museos, sufren su crisis como fragilidad derivada de la crisis anterior, especialmente en forma de banalidad consumista o puro entretenimiento. La cultura como conocimiento y como vida son analizados desde la noción conjunta de «cultura humanística». Esta, que a su vez es creación, conocimiento y vida, tiene una corrupción propia en la erudición elitista, en el conocimiento meramente teorético. El sello del humanismo genuino contiene un componente esencial, su dimensión de compromiso ético y político. La crisis ...

Since first contact, Natives and newcomers have been involved in an increasingly complex struggle over power and identity. Modern "Indian wars" are fought over land and treaty rights, artistic appropriation, and academic analysis, while Native communities struggle among themselves over membership, money, and cultural meaning. In cultural and political arenas across North America, Natives enact and newcomers protest issues of traditionalism, sovereignty, and self-determination. In these struggles over domination and resistance, over different ideologies and Indian identities, neither Natives nor other North Americans recognize the significance of being rooted together in history and culture, or how representations of "Indianness" set them in opposition to each other. In Indian Country: Essays on Contemporary Native Culture, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis uses a cultural studies approach to offer a unique perspective on Native political struggle and cultural conflict in both Canada and the United States. She reflects on treaty rights and traditionalism, media warriors, Indian princesses, powwow, museums, art, and nationhood. According to Valaskakis, Native and non-Native people construct both who they are and their relations with each other in narratives that circulate through art, anthropological method, cultural appropriation, and Native reappropriation. For Native peoples and Others, untangling the past-personal, political, and cultural-can help to make sense of current struggles over power and identity that define the Native experience today. Grounded in theory and threaded with Native voices and evocative descriptions of "Indian" experience (including the author's), the essays interweave historical and political process, personal narrative, and cultural critique. This book is an important contribution to Native studies that will appeal to

The three faces of accountability -- Electoral and inter-institutional accountability -- Electoral accountability in non-Western settings -- Accountability: non-electoral and systemic -- Religion and accountability -- Religious denominations and good governance -- The cultural determinants of accountability.

Disraeli: the chosen of history uniting the old Jerusalem and the new (1952) -- On Franz Rosenzweig (1955) -- Preface to the second edition of Freud: the Mind of the Moralist (1961) -- The religion of the fathers (1959) -- Toward a theory of culture (1966) -- Selections from Fellow Teachers (1972) -- The impossible culture: Wilde as a modern prophet (1982) -- Is not the truth the truth? (ca. 1994)