Social constructionism can be seen as a source of the postmodern movement, and has been influential in the field of cultural studies. The article is devoted to the analysis of the influence of social constructionism in modern Anglophone historiography and historical epistemology (2000-2015). The res...

The Modern Day Fairy Tale in Film and Television (Deadlline May 14th) SAMLA November 9-11th, 2012 contact email: shane.trayers@maconstate.edu The Modern Day Fairy Tale in Film and Television (Popular Culture Panel) SAMLA November 9-11, 2012 Durham, North Carolina Fairy tales never seem to go out of...

This article looks at the writer Ferenc Herczeg (1863-1954), one of the first representatives of Hungarian midllebrow culture, who fell into almost complete oversight, partly because he was in the vast grey area separating elite and mass culture in the first half of the 20th century. After giving a...

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through the reconstruction of the history and memory of the social uses of the San Pedro del Tingo Municipal Balneario, located in the Chillos Valley in the vicinity of the consolidated urban area of Quito, the work analyses the tensions and fluctuating relations between local government, social gro...

Nancy Bentley is a distinguished scholar of American literary and cultural studies. She received her PhD from Harvard University where she specialized in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture. Her work, including the monographs Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and M...

Bonjour, Please find below the programme of a colloquium organised next week at the University of Bristol in the UK. Thank you very much! Cordially, Claire Ducournau Paper, airwaves, screen: from text to hearing in African popular culture/Paper, waves, screens: public text in African popular culture...

Call for proposals for an interdisciplinary study day focusing on “gender” (male/female) “gender and metamorphosis in children’s and youth culture” on 24 May 2013 and a colloquium, Métamorphoses and culture of childhood and youth, in May 2014 University Lyon 1 — IUFM — PRALIJE and GEM groups — origi...

During the 1920s in Latin America, at a time when early movements and new technologies (radio, cinema) were gradually changing the design of everyday life, the chronic change of literary and social function. Unlike modernists (Martí, Gutiérrez Nájera, Darío), the chronists of this time (such as Robe...

We're glad to share the general call for papers for the issue 23 of [Inter]sections journal on American Studies. The journal looks for academic articles, reviews, and interviews relevant to the field of American studies. Its scope includes research in the fields of North American literature, history...

Este artigo tem por objetivo refletir acerca de questões sobre educação e cultura na Amazônia, sob o viés antropológico e interdisciplinar. Trata-se de um estudo de cunho bibliográfico. Neste sentido, a proposta é pensar a educação e a cultura como dimensões do processo social, considerando a emergê...

A specialist of 20th century European philosophy, on which he edited a volume with T. Ullman (Kontinentális filozófia a XX. században, 2011), and the author of a book on Arendt's political existentialism (Hannah Arendt politikai egzisztencializmusa, 2008), Csaba Olay investigates the relationships b...

This article aims to free up the advertising of his reputation as subculture outside the book in order to understand his recent accession to a dignified subject of humanities, humanities and social sciences (SSH), which requires specific literacies. Advertising has long been regarded as a culture ou...

From reviewing the relevance of including Puig in the category of "eccentric" and analyzing objections that are presented when thinking about their location in the field of Argentine literature as an institution and even in the school canon, it is passed to analyze the eccentricity as a writing spac...

in the state of California, USA, there are commercial areas that emulate the climate of popular markets in major Mexican cities, caused by the presence of Mexican immigrants, who found a working space in the ethnic economy, which at the same time serves as a means of disseminating their gastronomic...

In the early decades of the 20th century, an editorial phenomenon was developed in the rioplatense area aimed at an enlarged audience that had just been alphabetical, as a result of the emergence of new technologies, which made it possible to cut costs, multiply print runs and incorporate images tha...

The neighborhood has been analyzed as a platform for collective action, mobilization and identity configuration in various academic productions about politicity of the popular sectors in Argentina in the last decades. Considering the category of space as a multidimensional element for co-establishin...

O Portugal Transmontano situa-se a Nordeste, região sub-atlântica, e compreende as províncias interiores nortenhas, até à Cordilheira Central: Trás-os-Montes e Beira Transmontana. A barreira montanhosa que vai da serra do Gerez à do Marão, pela da Cabreira e Alvão, e, ao Sul do rio Douro, do Montemu...

Soter and Soteria, which comes from soter, do not always correspond to our ‘Salvator’ and ‘Salvation’. However, this yield allows us to capture a deep semantic value and detector that, over time, is inherent in the two words. It is therefore necessary to try to make a period of time: since soter and...

Two ambitious works written by French-speaking scholars tackle rock music as a research object, from different but complementary perspectives. Both are a definite must-read for anyone interested in the contextualisation of rock music in western popular culture. In Une histoire musicale du rock (i.e....

this book, co-edited by Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson, is an opportunity to plunge into the American work of the author of the famous De Caligari book in Hitler: a psychological story of German cinema through a series of texts published between 1941 and 1961 in various American journals (Com...

This research has as its central purpose the understanding of young students’ perspective on the links of respect that are deployed in peripheral urban secondary schools in the cities of La Plata and Posadas, Argentina. This is done by looking at their perceptions of respect in the peer-to-peer and...

Conocidas como Radios populares o educativas en América Latina; Radio Rural o local en África; Radio pública en Australia y Radio libre o Asociativa en Europa todas en busca de la democratización de la comunicación a escala comunitaria y que se iniciaron hace casi medio siglo. En todas partes no dej...

Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel <EM>Frankenstein</EM> that effectively reinvented the meaning o...

In Chasqui’s interview with Nestror García Canclini, she is concerned about consumption, technoculture, cyber culture, media, digital technology, distance education, digital literacy, the education system, culture and the popular. He concludes that the audience cannot be reduced to the city or natio...