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Traditional Javanese Ethnic Songs : The Supporting Aspects Of Its Existence In The Local Community, Wadiyo Wadiyo, Slamet Haryono, Joko Wiyoso

Journal of Urban Culture Research

This study reveals the supporting aspects that make traditional Javanese songs preserved in the community the splendor of modern Javanese songs. This research applies qualitative design with a phenomenological approach. The research location is in Central Java. The researchers collected the data by observing, interviewing and collecting documents. The researchers validate the data based on triangulation system with interactive analysis. The results find that traditional Javanese songs still exist in its local society due to the strong psychological bonding of the society with their culture. Through traditional Javanese songs, cultural messages can be conveyed beautifully, inspire imagination and impart enjoyable …

Cultural Changes Since Đổi Mới - From Guidelines To Reality, Dung Nguyen-Manh

Journal of Urban Culture Research

In Vietnam a couple years before the reform termed Đổi Mới, was a grey picture with serious crises. That is a vital premise, a life and death situation for the Communist Party of Vietnam in the VIth Party Congress in 1986. On the eve of Đổi Mới, Vietnamese culture in general, was in a narrow, dogmatic and ideologically subsidized environment. Yet, since Đổi Mới, the Vietnamese culture and the cultural development, although resulted in achievements, faces a huge challenge: restrictions, not yet suitable for its national conditions, socialist-oriented market economy and international integration. This article provides personal experiences and perspectives …

Contemporary Art Project Initiative To Support Artist Career And Sustain Cultural Continuity, Ark Fongsmut

Journal of Urban Culture Research

The idea to support artists to develop and maintain their career has sustained cultural continuity. In Thailand, the primary motivation and support for visual artists are through medals and prize money through platforms such as commissions, competitions and contests where the value lies on visual impact. For contemporary art, the artwork comes in series with a conceptual framework, medium experimentation, working process, etc. These platforms might not be supportive for young contemporary artists. Therefore, this article aims to discuss the Thai platform options available. This study touches on the Paris Salon for the judging process and the movement of art …

Mobility Revisited : The Illusion In Bangkok & Tokyo Transportation – A Comparative Analysis, Chai Skulchokchai

Journal of Urban Culture Research

This paper argues against the traditional notion of mobility by reinterpreting it through three concepts: Margin of Indeterminacy, Governmobility and Lefebvre’s Production of Space. The author chooses to compare the transportation of Bangkok and Tokyo based on direct experience and the city transportation’s respective notability. The paratransportation and decentralized transportation in Bangkok allows the city to have a wider margin of indeterminacy than Tokyo. By that, people in Bangkok has other alternatives when a major transportation has an issue. Tokyo depends primary on its railway. Foucauldian governmentality argued that mobility is another way where the government governs over the people. …

Art As Soft Power, Bussakorn Binson

Journal of Urban Culture Research

No abstract provided.

Chiang Mai’S Intangible Cultural Heritage : Urban Revitalization And Cultural Identity In A Northern Thai City, Alexandra Denes, Ajirapa Pradit

Journal of Urban Culture Research

Founded in 1296 CE, the walled city of Chiang Mai, Thailand was once the capital of the Lanna kingdom. In the sixteenth century, Chiang Mai’s fortunes waned, and it became a tributary state under the Burmese. This was followed by its incorporation into the Thai nation-state in the twentieth century. One outcome of Chiang Mai’s administrative integration into the Thai nation was the erosion of its distinctive cultural identity. Beginning in the 1980s, key local figures began to collaborate with communities and academic institutions to revitalize Chiang Mai’s intangible cultural heritage, including its craft traditions, rituals, textiles, and dance performances. …

Effects Of Cultural Processes On Heterotopic Spaces : The Case Of Bomonti, Istanbul, Ilgi Toprak, Orhan Hacihasanoglu

Journal of Urban Culture Research

The cultural change model covers the cultural change processes and their effects on different spaces in the urban environment. Cultural processes constitute cultural change and may in turn alter the lifestyle of individual human beings and societies. The cultural change model for heterotopic spaces proposes that heterotopic spaces and their close environment physically change by the cultural processes that are taking place in the related society. A case study was conducted in the Bomonti region to obtain the cultural changes and their relations and effects on heterotopic spaces. The Bomonti beer factory which is defined as a heterotopic space in …

Exploring Sound Emission In Shanghai Zoo As A Public Space, Gisa Jähnichen, Paula Stefanini

Journal of Urban Culture Research

The existence of zoos in cities provokes different reactions in people. Some view it to be an entertaining place to visit on an off day. Now, more often that people are not in favor of zoos anymore, for even though the idea of seeing wildlife in person is attractive, it is also sad to see these animals encaged and even more so under less optimal conditions. The purpose with this article is to investigate the impact of music and other human sounds in animals subject to captivity in the zoo, and if and how it creates changes in their behavior. …

The Devil In The Details : Analysing The Ethno-Cultural Blending In Malaysian Museum Buildings, Nor Hafizah Anuar, Muhammad Ilmam Tharazi, Yasmin Mohd Faudzi, Najah Md. Alwi

Journal of Urban Culture Research

Museums are often used as a ‘visualizing technology’ to project the cultural identities of a nation or a particular demographic. The choice of building, either newly constructed or converted from an historic structure, places the importance of its architectural features to convey certain meanings over others. Using comparative analysis on multiple case studies as the main method for data collection, this paper identifies the architectural features on three selected building facade of Penang museums in relation to one another. It will then determine the cultural influences to explore the mechanism of ethno-cultural blending integrated into the architectural styles. Penang was …

Conservation Of Row Houses In Old Commercial District Mekong Riverside Nakhon Phanom Province, Thailand, Pakorn Pattananurot, Suthon Khongsaktrakun

Journal of Urban Culture Research

The objectives of this research paper are; 1) to study the development of towns & commercial districts, 2) to study the architectural characteristics of the row houses and 3) to propose guidelines for their preservation by studying related theories & research, conducting field surveys & interviewing the owners or tenants. This study found that a group of Chinese immigrant merchants formed a commercial district and built row houses to trade, store and live by the Mekong Riverside & Sunthon Wichit Road. Traditional row houses can be divided into 3 types; 1) Mixed Chinese influenced style of a single storey 2) …

Thai Folk Theatre’S Contribution To Wellness Support: A Case Study Of Likay Performance For Hypertension Education, Anukoon Rotjanasuksomboona, Pithi Chanvorachote

Journal of Urban Culture Research

This work demonstrates the employment of Likay, a folk theatre performance, as an educational tool for promoting the awareness of hypertension in elderly Thais. Utilizing interdisciplinary approaches across the academic fields of health science and the performing arts, this project created a Likay production dealing with the topic of hypertension and related medical information. Fifty elderly people from the Ta Ma Prang subdistrict, Kaeng Khoi district of Saraburi province, Thailand, were included in this study. A survey questionnaire was distributed prior to and after the performance to monitor the improvement of understanding as well as the awareness of hypertension …

Composition Plus : A Process-Compositional Approach In Music Therapy To Empower Creative Potential, Jos De Backer, Birgit Sebreghts, Katrien Foubert

Journal of Urban Culture Research

This paper presents a music therapy method Composition Plus, a process-compositional approach that is rooted in the music therapeutic improvisational practice. Composition Plus arose from an increasing need in today’s field of music therapy for short-term treatment models that are approachable and accessible, to guide and empower individuals in their creative capacities. The purpose of this paper is to present the therapeutic and theoretical framework and to illustrate this with (musical) impressions from two cases. Composition Plus exists of a predetermined number of sessions with clearly predefined objectives, split in three subsequent phases. Three core features are underpinning these sessions: …

Gangnam (Life)Style As A Global Culture : Consumption And Connections For Upward Mobility, Kyoung-Ho Shin

Journal of Urban Culture Research

This study examines the political economic and social contexts of lifestyle of cultural consumption in Gangnam area of Seoul, South Korea. By focusing on consumption in the Gangnam area, in which the glitz of successfully riding the wave of globalization has crystallized, this study discerns major cultural and spatial features of the city’s new global urbanism. Whereas the dominant narrative on global cities emphasizes the financial concomitants of globalization in relation to global cities, this study draws attention to cultural dimensions of the dynamics that are manifest in “lifestyle” to which many residents of this global city in East Asia …

Urban Identity Represented By Concept Stores Converted From Machiya In Central Kyoto, Supitsara Intaraksa, Nawit Ongsavangchai

Journal of Urban Culture Research

The city grid plan of Kyoto gave birth to rectangle street blocks and long narrow land plots for the layout of machiya, a traditional townhouse. From the last two decades, many old buildings in Kyoto including machiya were restored for contemporary use as concept store which widely known for its distinctive design that can represent Kyoto's urban features. This research aims to clarify the relationship between modern concept stores and the traditional urban fabric of Kyoto by selecting nine concept stores as case studies to collect data on-site for doing content analysis from their spatial planning to physical design; …

Journal Policies, Jucr Staff

Journal of Urban Culture Research

No abstract provided.

Music And Art In Political Campaigns, Bussakorn Binson

Journal of Urban Culture Research

No abstract provided.

Exhibiting Slavery: Biographical Approaches, Paul L. Arthur, Isobel Smith

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Within museums, interpretation and curation have increasingly employed personal stories and intimate storytelling to present broader narratives about the past. This article explores some of the opportunities and challenges of biographical storytelling in museums and public sites of memory that engage with the issue of slavery, analysing Australian exhibitions alongside international contexts and theories of museology, historiography and memory. It will look at representations of historical and modern slavery in Australia, as well as global representations of the transatlantic slave trade and other traumatic histories such as the Holocaust. The discussion explores the potential for personal counter-narratives, the reimagining of …

"The Women's Hell": Distinctions Between Forms Of Sexual Violence At The Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, The Liberalization Of Sexuality In The Weimar Republic, And The Exploitation Of Sexuality In The Third Reich, Ashley Ruth Lamoureux

Masters Theses

The Ravensbrück concentration camp located in northern Germany acted as the only Nazi concentration camp designated exclusively for women following the closure of the Lichtenburg camp. Beginning in 1939, women held in other camps, ghettos, prisons, and sanatoriums across the Reich were transported to Ravensbrück, “the women’s hell”. Until recently, Holocaust scholarship has largely overlooked the history of Ravensbrück as well as the complicated demographics of prisoners in the camp. A majority of the female prisoners at Ravensbrück were asocials or political and religious dissidents. The distinction of asocials as a separate prisoner categorization was not invented by the Nazi …

The League Of Nations High Commission For Refugees From Germany After 1935, Sergio Vlahovich

Masters Theses

The League of Nations’ effectiveness as a bureaucratic body has been hotly contested. Almost since its founding, critics of the League viewed its humanitarian and peacekeeping missions as failures. This thesis reevaluates these criticisms by studying the League’s work on behalf of refugees from Germany from the end of 1935 up through the Second World War. The thesis focuses on the activities of the League after James G. McDonald, High Commissioner for Refugees Coming from Germany, resigned in December of 1935 and during the time the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees (ICR) began its work on the issue of refugees fleeing …

La Voz Winter 2022, El Instituto: Institute Of Latina/O, Caribbean, And Latin American Studies

La Voz

In this issue:

• Visiting Scholar Sophie Maríñez
• UConn Gives 2022 to Feature Graduate Support Fund
• Latinos Working for Inclusive Engineering
• Alumna at UNESCO Luanda Biennale
• El Instituto Partners with DCF
• Collective Action for Social and Migrant Justice
• Recent Faculty Book: Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time
• PRLACC 50th Anniversary

Building An Imperial World: Ideologies Of Imperialism And The Tariff Reform Movement In Britain, 1900-1914, Kevin Jennings Luginbill

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation examines the imperial rhetoric and ideologies articulated during the tariff reform controversy in Edwardian Britain. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the British statesman Joseph Chamberlain organized a new movement, dubbed tariff reform, to enact a series of commercial policies that would integrate the British and colonial economies and, he argued, lay the foundation for the development of a unified imperial federation. Chamberlain’s proposals were controversial and divisive, resulting in years of political debate over the merits of tariff reform. While the tariff reform campaign has been studied in numerous histories, its imperial dimensions have been ignored …

The Band Of American Ladies : Children’S Librarians And The Creation Of Children’S Literature In The Long 19th Century, Suzanne Stauffer

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/73 Alpha Omicron Pi, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Alpha Omicron Pi.

Ua1c11/121 Susan Mason Photo Collection, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Photographs removed from a scrapbook probably belonging to Susan Mason.

Full Issue

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Brandeis Psychology In The Late Fifties: Further Comment On Feigenbaum (2020), Jeffrey H. Golland

Comparative Civilizations Review

Recent articles in this journal spoke about A.H. Maslow and the Brandeis University Psychology Department of the 1960s (Feigenbaum, 2020, Lester, 2020), the first from a former junior faculty member, the second from a former graduate student. I learned from each of them, and they triggered my own memories as an undergraduate psychology major who went on to earn a PhD in clinical psychology. Maslow taught the introductory course in fall semester; I took it in the spring (1958) with Ricardo Morant, who succeeded Maslow as department chair, and held that position for decades.

David Christian. Maps Of Time: An Introduction To Big History. University Of California Press, New Edition, 2004. Leonid E. Grinin, Andrey V. Korotayev, Barry H. Rodrigue, Eds. Evolution: A Big History Perspective. Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, 2011., Stephen T. Satkiewicz

Comparative Civilizations Review

What is history? Or rather, what are the appropriate time-scales that can be constituted as “history”? The general consensus among scholars is that history is the study of approximately the last 5,000 years or so due to the existence of written records. Anything prior to that is generally considered pre-history, at least as far as it concerns the existence of human beings on earth. As for the creation of the earth we live upon, or the solar system our planet dwells within, or the universe as a whole these are considered outside the formal domain of historical …

Fruits Of Our Labor: Exploring The Impacts Of A Nonprofit Seed Bank On Indigenous Communities In The Southwestern United States, Rachel Mary Davis

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

This thesis explores the ways that the nonprofit Native Seeds/SEARCH, of Tucson, Arizona interfaces with Indigenous communities and the local seed and food systems in the Southwest United States. The thesis argues that Native seed and food sovereignty have different meanings for different Indigenous people, and that nonprofits working with Indigenous communities need to consider input from them when deciding how to catalogue, regenerate and sustain healthy grow outs for the future, especially in the light of climate change and drought.

Queer Survival Amidst Hiv/Aids, Covid-19 And Homelessness, Julia Young

Pitzer Senior Theses

The treatment and survival of a society's marginalized peoples reveal the true impacts of a pandemic. An analysis of homeless queer youth during the HIV/AIDS and SARS-CoV-2 crises lays bare the systemic failure of the United States government to provide equitable healthcare.

I compare the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 pandemics in queer homeless youth to demonstrate the dangers of disease moralization via a sociocultural analyses of disease stigma and responsibility politics. Utilizing syndemic theory I draw on the synergistic relationship between disease and illness to describe the unique challenges queer homeless youth face. A syndemic framework is applied to address common …

Review Of 'John M. Janzen. Health In A Fragile State: Science, Sorcery, And Spirit In The Lower Congo. Madison: University Of Wisconsin Press, 2019. Xviii + 262 Pp. $21.95. Paper. Isbn: 978-0299325046.', Kalala J. Ngalamulume

History Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.