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I Am the Invincible Sword Goddess: Mediatization of Chinese Gender Ideology through Female Kung-Fu Practitioners in Films

Hiramoto, Mie; Teo, Cherise Shi Ling - In: Societies 4 (2014) 3, pp. 477-505

The media are avid portrayers of gender binarism and the belief in male-female distinctions, which are mainly attributed to perceived differences of a physical nature. In this paper, we investigate representations of female kung-fu practitioners (nuxia) in films to discuss how processes of...

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Culture Matters: Individualism vs. Collectivism in Conflict Decision-Making

LeFebvre, Rebecca; Franke, Volker - In: Societies 3 (2013) 1, pp. 128-146

Does culture matter in decision-making? Existing literature largely assumes that the cognitive processes that inform decision-making are universally applicable, while only very few studies indicate that cultural norms and values shape cognitive processes. Using survey based quasi-experimental...

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The Death and Life of Walter Benjamin

Kishik, David - In: Societies 3 (2013) 4, pp. 457-463

What if Walter Benjamin actually made it to New York as he was escaping the Nazis, settling there for the rest of his long life? What if he was working on a sequel to his Arcades Project, translating his ideas about Paris, capital of the nineteenth century, to his new city and own epoch? And...

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Catharsis and Media Violence: A Conceptual Analysis

Gentile, Douglas A. - In: Societies 3 (2013) 4, pp. 491-510

as watching media violence or playing violent video games, continues to enjoy widespread public support despite a lack of … mean that viewing media violence can purge the viewer of aggressive feelings or behaviors. Furthermore, he describes … modern media violence does not meet these requirements. Third, the empirical support is not only lacking, a large empirical …

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“Not Really a Musical Instrument?” Locating the Gumleaf as Acoustic Actant and Environmental Icon

Ryan, Robin - In: Societies 3 (2013) 2, pp. 224-242

Leaf instruments have occupied a post-European contact role in constituting Australian societal networks, and their epistemologies reflect native/exotic binaries in the species selected by Indigenous and non-Indigenous musicians respectively. Accordingly, this essay examines some musical...

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Visualized and Interacted Life: Personal Analytics and Engagements with Data Doubles

Ruckenstein, Minna - In: Societies 4 (2014) 1, pp. 68-84

A field of personal analytics has emerged around self-monitoring practices, which includes the visualization and interpretation of the data produced. This paper explores personal analytics from the perspective of self-optimization, arguing that the ways in which people confront and engage with...

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“Nothing Exists Except an Earthenware Pot”: Resisting Sovereignty on Robinson’s Island

Martel, James R. - In: Societies 2 (2012) 4, pp. 372-387

In this essay I would like to focus on “The Beast and the Sovereign”—and especially the Second Volume—as being something of an exception to Derrida’s usual hesitations about sovereignty. In other works, such as “Rogues”, Derrida displays a deep ambivalence about sovereignty insofar...

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Camera Arriving at the Station: Cinematic Memory as Cultural Memory

Kilbourn, Russell J. A. - In: Societies 3 (2013) 3, pp. 316-331

This paper explores the modern metropolis as an ironically concrete metaphor for the collective memory and the mourning of cinema’s passing, as it—the “city”—is digitally constructed in two recent, auteur-directed, special effects-driven blockbuster films, Inception and Hugo. The...

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At the Stage of Their Fate: Salvaging the Urban Obsolete in Sydney

Fraser, Emma - In: Societies 3 (2013) 4, pp. 464-481

Chronicling the interiors and exteriors of selected abandoned buildings in Sydney, this article examines the problem of memory in spaces that are not only isolated and devalued, but often have played no role in the life of the casual visitor or observer. How can the ruins of someone else’s...

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Passive Flora? Reconsidering Nature’s Agency through Human-Plant Studies (HPS)

Ryan, John Charles - In: Societies 2 (2012) 3, pp. 101-121

Plants have been—and, for reasons of human sustenance and creative inspiration, will continue to be—centrally important to societies globally. Yet, plants—including herbs, shrubs, and trees—are commonly characterized in Western thought as passive, sessile, and silent automatons lacking a...

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