2026 September - 9 articles
This paper offers a preliminary conceptual mapping of maxxing culture by treating “-maxxing” not as a series of isolated internet trends but as a platform-native grammar of self-optimization. The argument distinguishes three interacting d...
This article advances a sociotheological account of spiritual harm in Black Church spaces as institutional governance formation—a structurally embedded set of organizational practices through which sacred institutions regulate identity, discipl...
Community-based leisure may support newcomer women’s well-being and belonging, yet its role within settlement practice remains underexamined. This manuscript presents findings from a larger community-based research project that explored Iranian...
How do cultural participants legitimate engagement in situations where cultural participation is experienced as substandard? Drawing on pragmatist approaches to valuation, this article conceptualises justification as valuation-in-action. It maps the...
Concerns about digital determinism loom large in popular culture, where advanced predictive systems are frequently portrayed as capable of forecasting, shaping, and controlling individual and societal futures. From Foundation and Minority Report to B...
Reflective practice is crucial for deepening learning in Intercultural Collaborative Learning (ICL), yet how students’ cultural backgrounds shape these reflections remains under-explored. This study examines how Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnames...
Archive studies have traditionally conceptualized archives as documentary repositories and memory institutions, whereas territorial studies have examined territorialities as processes through which social groups produce, signify, and contest space. A...
This study re-examines the literary rivalry between Xu Ling 徐陵 (507–583) of Liang and Wei Shou 魏收 (507–572) of Northern Qi through a political lens. Analyzing Wei’s “A Beautiful Woman” (Mein&u...
This essay discusses feminist ideas in connection to the occulture—Christopher Partridge’s term for the re-enchantment of art, popular culture, and everyday life through esoteric and spiritual currents—present in opera, musical thea...
