Search results for "Cultural studie"

Money, morality and magistrates: prosecuting and judging in the Republic of Benin

2018

Since 2012, Beninese magistrates have gone on multiple strikes. Most of them complain about their substantial workload, low pay, and poor working conditions. They also highlight the discrepancies b...

World Anthropology with an Accent: The Discipline in Germany since the 1970s

2016

China in Pakistan and the wider region: A cautious but effective leader?

2018

This article assesses China–Pakistan-Afghanistan relations in the period 2014–2018 and asks whether China has exercised distinct pressure on Pakistan to be a more constructive partner for Afghanistan. A central argument is that even as China has failed to alter Pakistan’s policies significantly in the short term it is still continuing to successfully build power and trust in Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as with their neighbours to the north and west. This bodes well for China’s exercise of regional leadership in a long-term perspective.

Commentary: ethnography, critique and the state. Some thoughts on “fiscal anthropological insights into the heart of contemporary statehood”1

2018

This commentary explores the assets and liabilities of anthropology for the study of core functions of statehood (such as taxation) that increasingly become a matter of transnational negotiation an...

Expecting justice: struggling with the indeterminate between ideals and practices

2018

This commentary contextualizes Jacobs’ study as a contribution to a body of anthropological research concerned with theorizing the state, and more importantly concerned with closing the analytical ...

Prácticas devocionales y espacios litúrgicos de Sibila de Fortià, reina de la Corona de Aragón (r. 1377–1387)

2021

Sibila de Fortia se convirtio en esposa del rey Pedro el Ceremonioso y reina de Aragon en unas circunstancias inusuales que supusieron una crisis de legitimidad desde los albores de su reinado. En el presente articulo, se analiza como la reina Sibila, para compensar las debilidades de su pasado y fortalecer su imagen como meritoria ostentadora de la dignidad regia, desarrollo en los primeros anos de su reinado una estrategia de afirmacion personal basada en la demostracion, promocion y proteccion de la religiosidad en la Corona de Aragon en momentos tan significativos como el Cisma de Occidente.

Kaspar l'obscur ou l'enfant de la nuit

2020

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Du dialogue interculturel à la construction identitaire interpersonnelle et numérique - possibles exploitations pédagogiques de la série télévisée Em…

2020

In this article, we propose to sketch some working hypotheses around the problem of the use of television series in the teaching of the FLE, addressing in an interdisciplinary way the possible fields of exploitation of contemporary cinema. We will focus most of our observations on the use of cultural stereotypes and intercultural communication, considering their expanded exploitation and illustration in the American television series Emily in Paris (2020). The issue of personal and cultural identity will also be explored from the perspectives of new media usage.

Political and informative impact of social media: fields of action and comparison with the media

2017

En este trabajo se desarrolla un ensayo teorico sobre las esferas de actuacion de las empresas de redes sociales que plantea la hipotesis de que estas, como los medios, tienen naturaleza de actores politicos y no son simples canales. Para analizar esta hipotesis utilizamos una metodologia descriptiva que se apoya en el analisis bibliografico y en la vision que ofrecen los medios sobre el impacto de las redes sociales contemporaneas. En primer lugar, se revisa el cumplimiento de los cuatro rasgos senalados por Borrat (1989) a proposito del periodico como actor politico; en segundo lugar, se proponen cuatro grandes esferas de actuacion politica e informativa de estas empresas: 1) la creacion …

Evaluation in Political Discourse Addressed to Women: Appraisal Analysis of Cosmopolitan's Coverage of the 2014 US Midterm Elections

2017

Abstract Before the US midterm elections of November 2014, the well-known women’s magazine Cosmopolitan decided to include politics in its contents. The editorial board stated that their aim was to encourage readers to vote and to be engaged with women’s rights advocay in the election process. To that end, Cosmopolitan created a new website, CosmoVotes, with content ranging from discussion of political issues to endorsement of specific candidates who were believed to advance women’s issues. Topics include labour rights, abortion, contraception, health, minimum wage and social equity. This paper evaluates the discourse of this new section of the Cosmopolitan website, together with readers’ r…