WArethusa is an academic journal established in 1967. It covers the field of Classics using an interdisciplinary approach incorporating contemporary theoretical perspectives and more traditional approaches to literary and material evidence. It frequently features issues focused on a theme related the classical world. The current Editor in chief of the journal is Martha Malamud. The journal is named for the mythical nymph Arethusa and published three times each year in January, May, and September by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
WCommunication, Culture & Critique is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the role of communication and cultural criticism, spanning the fields of communication, media, and cultural studies. It was established in 2008 with Karen Ross as the founding editor-in-chief. Since 2014, the editor-in-chief has been Radhika Parameswaran. It is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Communication Association.
WCommunity-based economics or community economics is an economic system that encourages local substitution. It is most similar to the lifeways of those practicing voluntary simplicity, including traditional Mennonite, Amish, and modern eco-village communities. It is also a subject in urban economics, related to moral purchasing and local purchasing.
WContent curation is the process of gathering information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest, usually with the intention of adding value through the process of selecting, organizing, and looking after the items in a collection or exhibition. Services or people that implement content curation are called curators. Curation services can be used by businesses as well as end users.
WCoptology is the science of Coptic studies, the study of Coptic language and literature.
WCultural mapping, also known as cultural resource mapping or cultural landscape mapping, refers to a wide range of research techniques and tools used to "map" distinct peoples' tangible and intangible cultural assets within local landscapes around the world. Institutions concerned about safeguarding cultural diversity use the term. In its Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, UNESCO notes the importance of States adopting inclusive ways of encouraging cultural diversity...
WCulture, Theory and Critique is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal primarily in the fields of Social Theory and Cultural Studies.
WThe European Journal of Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of cultural studies in areas such as migration, post-colonial criticism and consumer cultures. The journal's editors-in-chief are Joke Hermes, Jo Littler, Helen Wood, Anamik Saha and Chow Yui Fai. It was established in 1998 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
WHeritage Week is an annual nationwide set of hundreds of events organized by the Heritage Council in Ireland.
WIn the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong is a 1998 book by Amin Maalouf, in which he discusses the identity crisis that Arabs have experienced since the establishment of continuous relationships with the west, adding his personal dimension as a Lebanese Christian.
WThe International Journal of Cross Cultural Management is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of cross-cultural management. The editor-in-chief is Terence Jackson. The journal was established in 2001 and is published by Sage Publications.
WThe Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal and the official publication of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies. It covers the cultural history of the period from the late fifteenth to the late nineteenth centuries. The journal was established in 2001 and has been published by the University of Pennsylvania Press since 2011. The journal was published biannually until 2012, when it became a quarterly publication. The editor-in-chief is Daniel Vitkus.
WThe Journal of Religion and Popular Culture is a triannual online peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 2002 and is published by University of Toronto Press. The editors-in-chief are Jennifer E. Porter, Associate professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland and David Feltmate, Associate professor at Auburn University at Montgomery. The journal covers the interactions between religion and popular culture.Thinkers in every religion debate the usage of pop culture in religious preaching. In Orthodox Judaism, Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn has been known to make use of extensive pop culture references.
WThe Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society is a 1997 study of the sense of place, by American author and 1968 Guggenheim Fellowship winner Lucy Lippard. The phrase, coined by Lippard, in this study refers to a sense of place that an individual can have about where she lives, or where he lived in his childhood.
WThe N Word: One Man's Stand is an autobiography by Aboriginal activist Stephen Hagan, and it is also an account of his fight to have the word "Nigger" removed from a sign at the Toowoomba sports oval.
WPaper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood is a non-fiction memoir written by the Canadian writer Wayson Choy, first published in October 1999 by Viking Press. In the book, the author chronicles his experience growing up as an immigrant in Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1940s and 1950s. Paper Shadows received shortlist honours for the 2000 Vancouver City Book Award and won the 2000 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction.
WPostmodern Culture is an electronic academic journal established in 1990. It is the result of an early experiment in electronic content delivery via the Internet. The journal publishes commentary and criticism on a wide range of concerns including literary theory, politics, and contemporary society. Occasionally, the journal will feature special issues centered on a specific theme within the arena of postmodernism. It is published three times a year in September, January, and May by the Johns Hopkins University Press. The current editor is Eyal Amiran.
WA salad bowl or tossed salad is a metaphor for the way a multicultural society can integrate different cultures while maintaining their separate identities, contrasting with a melting pot, which emphasizes the combination of the parts into a single whole. In Canada this concept is more commonly known as the cultural mosaic or "tossed salad".
WSocial Text is an academic journal published by Duke University Press. Since its inception by an independent editorial collective in 1979, Social Text has addressed a wide range of social and cultural phenomena, covering questions of gender, sexuality, race, and the environment. Each issue covers subjects in the debates around feminism, Marxism, neoliberalism, postcolonialism, postmodernism, queer theory, and popular culture. The journal has since been run by different collectives over the years, mostly based at New York City universities. It has maintained an avowedly progressive political orientation and scholarship over these years, if also a less Marxist one. Since 1992, it is published by Duke University Press.
WSoft City is the first book written by Jonathan Raban, and published by Hamish Hamilton (UK) and E. P. Dutton & Company (US) in 1974.
WTechnology and Culture is a quarterly academic journal founded in 1959. It is an official publication of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), whose members routinely refer to it as "T&C." Besides scholarly articles and critical essays, the journal publishes reviews of books and museum exhibitions. Occasionally, the journal publishes thematic issues; topics have included patents, gender and technology, and ecology. Technology and Culture has had three past editors-in-chief: Melvin Kranzberg (1959–1981), Robert C. Post (1982–1995), and John M. Staudenmaier (1996–2010). Since 2011 the journal has been edited at the University of Oklahoma by Prof. Suzanne Moon. Managing editors have included Joan Mentzer, Joseph M. Schultz, David M. Lucsko, and Peter Soppelsa.
WUzbekisation or Uzbekization is the process of something or someone culturally non-Uzbek becoming, or being forced to become, Uzbek. The term is often used to describe the process by which the region now occupied by Tajikistan was incorporated as an autonomous republic within the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic between 1924 and 1929.
WThe West, Christians and Jews in Saudi Arabian Schoolbooks is a January 2003 publication by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE), which was known as CMIP at the time of publication. The publication analyzes how Saudi Arabian school textbooks portray the West, Christians, and Jews.