scholarly journals Cultural Translation: Two Modes

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-36
Author(s):  
Kyle Conway
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Cultural Translation ◽  
Object Of Study

This article examines why scholars who theorize cultural translation have not always agreed on what their object of study is. It provides a diachronic account of two competing definitions, one from anthropology and one from cultural studies. It also describes three factors that have complicated debates about cultural translation: the different epistemological and methodological assumptions made by anthropologists and cultural studies scholars; the ambiguous, politically charged relationships linking language, culture, and text; an asymmetry of usage. This article concludes by considering the implications of a point of convergence—the ethical turn taken in anthropology and cultural studies in the last two decades—for debates about attempts to ban Muslim veils from public spaces in North America.

scholarly journals Progression of Sugarberry (Celtis laevigata) Dieback and Mortality in the Southeastern United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilee M Poole ◽  
Michael D Ulyshen ◽  
Scott Horn ◽  
Patrick Anderson ◽  
Chip Bates ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Invasive Plants ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Canopy Gaps ◽  
Leaf Fall ◽  
Affected Area ◽  
Celtis Laevigata ◽  
Branch Dieback

Abstract The southeastern United States has been experiencing unexplained sugarberry (Celtis laevigata) mortality for over a decade, representing one of the most severe and widespread Celtis mortality episodes ever reported from North America. Here we describe external symptoms, progression of mortality, and the known geographic extent of the problem. More than half of all trees monitored at one site within the affected area died over five years of observation. Although many trees died within a year of first exhibiting symptoms (e.g., small yellow leaves, branch dieback, premature leaf fall), many others continued living for years after becoming symptomatic. A preliminary insecticide trial found no improvements in survivorship among trees treated with insecticides, emamectin benzoate and imidacloprid, relative to control trees. Our findings suggest the problem will likely continue and become more widespread in the coming years. Study Implications Sugarberry mortality in urban and forested environments is an ongoing problem that has the potential to spread throughout the southeastern United States and perhaps more widely, depending on the susceptibility of other native Celtis species. Many trees die within a year of first showing external symptoms, whereas others can live for many years after appearing symptomatic. Declining trees in rights-of-way and public spaces are presenting costly hazards to cities, and canopy gaps in natural areas are likely to facilitate the establishment and spread of invasive plants. Studies aimed at determining the cause of this problem are urgently needed.

scholarly journals Re-Locating the Spaces of Television Studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Anna Cristina Pertierra
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Entertainment Industry ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Broadcast Television

This paper will extend work originally presented in Pertierra and Turner’s <em>Locating Television </em>(2013) to argue that the reasons for which the demise of television was prematurely assumed can be understood and corrected by critically examining the geopolitics of television scholarship. The spaces from which television has been taken seriously as a topic of investigation have enabled a neglect of empirical and theoretical research that genuinely engages with the ways in which television might be understood as variously surviving, growing, innovating and even leading the current and future global media landscapes. The paper offers two ways in which television scholars might productively re-locate their spheres of concentration to understand the diversity of television worlds today: 1) empirically, it considers the case of the Philippines where broadcast television is successful in ways that could only be dreamed of by television executives in the so-called ‘world centres’ of the global entertainment industry. 2) theoretically, the paper refers to complementary attempts in sociology, literary and cultural studies to offer alternatives to Europe and North America from which scholars might locate the vanguard for modernity, globalization and innovation. It is by engaging with both of these strands in concert—empirically investigating television beyond the ‘usual places’ in such a way that responds to the call of cultural theorists to question our very assumptions about where television studies’ ‘usual places’ should be, that more nuanced understandings, and fewer premature declarations, might be made about what television is, and where it is going.

State Control and the Online Contestation of Iranian Female Spectators and Activists

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 651-667
Author(s):  
Shahrzad Mohammadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
State Control ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Iranian Women ◽  
Gender Policies ◽  
Feminist Cultural Studies ◽  
And Gender

Drawing on feminist cultural studies, this article critically analyzes the interrelationship between state ideology and gender policies in the sporting domain with a particular focus on the prolonged interdiction of Iranian female spectators from stadiums. Data were collected from online social spaces such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. The findings suggest that in the absence of free and democratic public spaces for negotiation of their rights, Iranian women have increasingly used social media and online campaigns as enabling platforms to partake in a communication discourse, raise awareness, practice democracy, mobilize masses, and protest against social injustice.

scholarly journals Expecting and Facilitating the Unexpected

Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
Pedram Dibazar ◽  
Murray Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
Field Trips ◽  
Cultural Immersion ◽  
Experimental Learning ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City

This paper outlines and interrogates the processes informing the design, teaching and learning of Culture Lab, an intensive field class designed to foster experimental learning in anthropology and cultural studies. The course’s object of study and site of learning is the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) and its multiple associations – the phenomenon, the city, and the forms of participation, debates and instances of urban change that occur during a specific iteration. It draws on problem-based and participatory approaches to learning and advocates approaches to teaching cultural anthropology and cultural studies that combine multi-faceted approaches to cultural immersion and discovery, while at the same time acknowledging the individual motivations of learners, by fostering and developing students’ interests and curiosity. This paper reports and reflects upon the course in its first two iterations of the course at Amsterdam University College, namely the field trips to Paphos 2017 and Valletta 2018.

scholarly journals Laneway redevelopment programs : a case study review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Marie Oldhall
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
North America ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
The City

The revitalization of formerly dark, dirty and often uninviting urban spaces is occurring across many cities throughout North America. This is because the hundreds of kilometers of laneways located behind buildings to be viewed as significant semi-public spaces and are being redeveloped into active spaces that can play a role in improving the state of the natural environment. The City of Toronto has a vast laneway system that is not being utilized to its full potential. This report attempts to demonstrate this point and suggests that there is an opportunity for recreating these laneways into vibrant spaces that support the natural environment while maintaining their primary functions as light vehicular thoroughfares and access points for homes and businesses. Through the examination of nine laneway redevelopment programs and projects this report highlights the successful techniques being implemented within these laneways and emphasizes the significant lessons that can be learned. Finally, each lesson learned is review, and recommendations are given on how the City of Toronto can potentially address each point if attempting to implement its own laneway redevelopment program. Among a host of recommendations, this includes the need to promote laneway redevelopment through a change to the City's existing land use planning policies; the development of laneway design guidelines; and, the implementation of a dynamic funding system.

scholarly journals Interstitial place

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Melnichuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
North America ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Adjacent Buildings ◽  
Landscape Urbanism

The fabric of many post WW2 campuses in North America, can be described as a collection of independent buildings rather than as infrastructure that shapes and connects a network of public spaces with character, sense of place and social amenity. The same can be said for our late modernist cities. A re-examination and design of these interstitial leftover spaces can provide much needed public domain for students and faculty while also improving the ambiance and connectivity of adjacent buildings. Through analyzing and intervening within an existing underutilized circulation plaza within Ryerson’s urban Toronto campus, this thesis project asserts the importance of public space by creating new connections and relationships between building, landscape, and people using strategies of landscape urbanism and infrastructural urbanism. The synthesis of architecture, infrastructure and landscape has the potential to create public realm by intensifying and uniting new and existing flows within existing urban and social networks.

scholarly journals A Review of Two Conferences: The Head and the Heart of Arts in Prisons

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 364-372
Author(s):  
Sarah Woodland
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Justice System ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
Comparative Review ◽  
Globe Theatre ◽  
Art Research ◽  
Simon Fraser University

This is a comparative review of two conferences held in North America in March of 2018. Carceral Cultures was presented by the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, from March 1-4. The purpose of the conference was to bring together cultural theorists, practitioners and activists to contemplate the carceral. The Shakespeare in Prisons Conference was presented by the Shakespeare in Prisons Network at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, from March 22-25. The focus of this conference was to bring together artists and theorists who work in the field of arts in corrections, not limited to the works of the Bard. As a sometime practitioner-researcher of Prison Theatre I have found it interesting to compare the two conferences in terms of how each appealed to my head (cognition), and to my heart (affect), in engaging with the politics and aesthetics of arts in prisons. The conferences were divergent in so many ways, and yet now converge in my mind to deepen my understanding of the work that I do, and strengthen my resolve to continue resisting the broken (in)justice system through art-research-activism.

ZOONONYM AS A STRUCTURALLY MEANINGFUL COMPONENT OF GODONYMS IN STOCKHOLM

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
У.П. Природина
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Observation Method ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Descriptive Method

В статье проводится исследование одного из сегментов топонимической системы шведского языка, а именно годонимов города Стокгольма, включающих в свой состав наименования животных. Цель исследования - установить структурно-семантические особенности избранной для изучения группы годонимов на основе анализа соотношения их с производящими словами, номинирующими различные виды птиц и млекопитающих, и показать важность избранной лексической группы в фиксации элементов шведской культуры. Актуальность статьи определяется главным образом важностью систематизированного изучения топонимов шведского языка и их лингвокультурной специфики. Избранный объект исследования рассматривается в двух ракурсах: лексикологическом и культурологическом. В первой части статьи изучаются структурно-семантические и, в частности, деривационные особенности отобранных единиц. Во второй части исследования данные наименования подвергаются культурологическому описанию, а именно, с точки зрения национально-культурного содержания, соотносимого с зоологическим компонентом годонимов города Стокгольма. Проанализированы 64 годонима города Стокгольма, производящей основой которых являются лексемы, называющие различные виды птиц и млекопитающих, имеющих важное значение в производственно-материальной деятельности шведов или представляющих определенные символы их духовной деятельности. В работе использованы следующие методы исследования: метод наблюдения, описательный метод и метод дефиниционного анализа, метод сопоставительного анализа и метод этимологического анализа. Результаты проведенного исследования дают представление о национальных особенностях зоологического кода шведской культуры, а также вносят некоторый вклад в развитие ономастики. Статья может быть интересна специалистам в области языкознания и культурологии, преподавателям шведского языка, аспирантам и студентам лингвистического и культурологического направлений подготовки. The article investigates one of the segments of the toponymic system of the Swedish language, namely the godonyms in Stockholm, which include the names of animals. The purpose of the study is to establish the structural-semantic features of the group of godonyms chosen for studying on the basis of analyzing their relationship with the producing words that nominate various species of birds and mammals, and to show the importance of the chosen lexical group in fixing the elements of the Swedish culture. The relevance of the article is determined mainly by the importance of a systematic study of the toponyms of the Swedish language and their linguistic and cultural specifics. The selected object of study is considered in two ways: lexicological and culturological. In the first part of the article, structural-semantic and, in particular, derivational features of the selected units are studied. In the second part of the study, these names are subjected to a culturological description, namely, from the point of view of the national-cultural content, which is correlated with the zoological component of the godonyms in Stockholm. 64 godonyms in Stockholm are analyzed, the production basis of which are lexemes that name various species of birds and mammals, which are important in the production and material activities of the Swedes or represent certain symbols of their spiritual activity. The following research methods were used in the work: observation method, descriptive method and method of definition analysis, comparative analysis method and etymological analysis method. The results of the study give an idea of the national features of the zoological code of the Swedish culture, and also make some contribution to the development of onomastics. The article may be of interest to specialists in the field of linguistics and cultural studies, teachers of the Swedish language, postgraduate students and students of linguistic and cultural studies.

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