Cultural Psyche Research Articles

In Dreams I Am a Person of Color

This paper is a journey into my inner life as a Jewish poet whose family fled Europe because of Nazi persecution. In dreams I encounter Black kindred spirits who spark a series of eight dream sonnets. They are aspects of Self. They speak to the connections between Black and Jewish experience and culture. I share my experience of the transformational process of making art out of unconscious imagery, and also as an expression of intergenerational trauma. It is a potent way to work with and heal ancient wounds. I am influenced in this endeavor by August Wilson’s play, Gem of the Ocean, in which the aged matriarch, Aunt Ester, takes lost souls on an imaginal journey to the “City of Bones” deep in the ocean—the ancestors’ realm—where the spirits of those who did not survive the Middle Passage congregate. Aunt Ester knows a core truth: one must touch down to the burial ground in one’s cultural psyche to know the truth of one’s path in life. She is the spiritual guide who accompanies me. The form of my poems is influenced by the American sonnets of Terrance Hayes. My dream sonnets borrow Hayes’ intense, unrhymed, 14-line structure. Hayes also shows up in a dream, which becomes the first sonnet in the series. He is the creative animus who enables this work.

The Cultural Psyche: The Selected Papers of Robert A. LeVine on Psychosocial Science. DineshSharma, editor. North Carolina: Information Age Press. 2021. xix + 379 pp.

EthosVolume 51, Issue 2 BOOK REVIEW The Cultural Psyche: The Selected Papers of Robert A. LeVine on Psychosocial Science. Dinesh Sharma, editor. North Carolina: Information Age Press. 2021. xix + 379 pp. Joan G. Miller, Corresponding Author Joan G. Miller [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0001-6458-4402 Correspondence Joan G. Miller, Professor of Psychology; Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology, The New School University, 80 Fifth Avenue, New York, NYC. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Joan G. Miller, Corresponding Author Joan G. Miller [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0001-6458-4402 Correspondence Joan G. Miller, Professor of Psychology; Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology, The New School University, 80 Fifth Avenue, New York, NYC. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 20 June 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12395Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. Volume51, Issue2June 2023 RelatedInformation

Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America by Angie Schmitt

Reviewed by: Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America by Angie Schmitt Cade Gouin and Yujie Hu Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America Angie Schmitt. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2020. 248 pp. $28.00 paperback (ISBN 9781642830835). Over the last 100 years, the automobile zeitgeist has evolved into an unforgiving powerhouse, sinking its talons deep into the cultural psyche of the United States. Accompanying and underlying the dominion of the automobile is a disturbing and inequitable epidemic of violence against pedestrians, the second-rate users of an infrastructure which was systematically developed against their best interests. As the vehicles we drive and the roadways we use become more hostile to pedestrians, the consequences of this problem are distributed unequally across the population—as is the case with many systemic problems in the US. This dynamic is the motivating force behind Angie Schmitt's Right of Way, an illuminating, exhaustively researched yet intimate and down-to-earth exploration of the "silent epidemic" of traffic violence and pedestrian deaths. Right of Way presents the facts and the research, explores how we arrived where we are, and points toward a better future, illustrating cold statistics with raw, personal stories of key players in the movement for pedestrian safety—many of whom were thrust into their roles without warning and without desire—instead born out of necessity and desperation. The introduction chapter provides a broad overview of the topics covered in the book, including the central systemic problem, explanations for why the problem exists, and the response to the problem from society at large. Kicking off chapter 1 with the story of a Philadelphia family almost entirely wiped out by night-time street racers, "the Geography of Risk" explores the idea that the danger to pedestrians is not distributed evenly across space. But this is not just an idea, it is reality; firstly, pedestrian-friendly infrastructure (crosswalks, crossing signals, protected shelters and bus stops, protected bike lanes, etc.) is often severely lacking in low-income, transit-dependent, and minority communities. To make matters worse, these communities—which are also typically lacking in political power—frequently find their neighborhoods split mercilessly by the most dangerous type of roads we build—wide, high-speed, entirely car-centric roadways called "suburban arterials." Most pedestrian deaths within any given city are concentrated on these roads. Current demographic trends show an upper-class return to the city from suburbia, forcing the lower class outward to areas that were designed [End Page 119] specifically around car commuting. Regional culture, politics, and the era in which a city developed are also predictors of the level of pedestrian support. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 center on the victims and their plight against the vehicular paradigm. Simply put, the biggest risk factors associated with victimization to traffic violence include being black or brown, being elderly, being low-income, having less than a high school education, speaking a primary language other than English, being homeless, abusing drugs or alcohol, living in the Sun Belt (due to most cities being developed almost completely under the car-centric paradigm), and walking at night. Importantly, these pedestrian risk factors are intersectional and additive, meaning that an individual with multiple risk factors is orders of magnitude more likely to be a victim. Despite unquestionably being the more vulnerable of the two parties in an interaction between a pedestrian and a vehicle moving at speed, the burden of responsibility is culturally placed on pedestrians much more than drivers, evidenced by the language used by the media, by traffic safety officials, and by policymakers. This culture of "pedestrian shaming" or "windshield bias" has led to increasingly strict criminalization of walking, despite drivers, developers, and policymakers having more power to change their own behavior, and despite much evidence of widespread failure by drivers to appropriately yield to pedestrians where required by existing laws. Chapter 5 directly challenges the most popular vehicle design trends of today, and Chapter 6 goes head-to-head with the norms of the traffic engineering profession. The rise of "killer cars" may sound dramatic, but it is true: Americans have become obsessed...

Iqbal's Culute-friendly Economic Vision

(1) Pakistan is lucky in having internationally recognised political and philosophical role models in the shape of Quaid-i-Azam and Allama Muhammad Iqbal. (2) Both of them were Founders of Pakistan and had their own vision of the way Pakistan’s society and economy was to be shaped—a society based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice. (3) Pakistan, inspite of making many infrastructural advances, has not developed a truly modern, democratic, welfare society. This goal can be achieved more effectingly if we follow the footsteps of both Quaid-i- Azam and Allama Muhammad Iqbal because both of them lived among public, understood the shortcomings and potentials of their community, and were familiar with the multidimensional process involving major changes in social structures, popular ideas, and national character and institutions as well as historical and cultural psyche: of Pakistan nation. (4) Note the following instructions which Quaid-i-Azam gave to the State Bank of Pakistan on 1st July 1948:

Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories, by Barbara Black

Reviewed by: Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories by Barbara Black Eloise Moss (bio) Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories, by Barbara Black; pp. x + 245. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2019, $64.95, $34.95 paper, $29.95 ebook, £54.95. The grand hotels of Victorian London provide the spatial crucible for Barbara Black's fascinating investigation of the role of hotels in shaping ideas of citizenship, national identities, morality (including discourses of crime, anonymity, and sexual fantasy), as well as global cross-cultural encounters since the mid-1800s. Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories is crammed full of literary and cinematic references to hotels and to the memoirs of both staff and famous guests—though predominantly focusing on the latter, particularly literary greats such as Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Ouida. The hotel magnates of the era, César Ritz and Richard D'Oyly Carte, are also afforded plenty of scrutiny here for effectively bringing the metropolis's hospitality industry up to the same standard as its Parisian and American counterparts, ensuring that London's hotels could become future "palaces" for luxury stays by exiled kings, diplomats, and celebrities (65). As such, one of the important contributions of this book (hinted at in its title) is to lay the groundwork for exploring the crucial role of hotels in determining the future course of international politics, gesturing toward the powerful motor of commercial hospitality spaces in the history of global diplomacy. [End Page 308] Hotel London is, however, a deep interrogation of hotel stays as a form of cultural psyche rather than a social history, although the second chapter, "Hotel Individualism," does offer architectural and social biographies of five case-study hotels: Brown's, Claridge's, the Langham, the Midland Grand, and the Savoy. Black argues that her focus on the similarity between hotels and the literary project, including the motifs of hotels as spaces of personal reinvention and arbiters of exclusion and inclusion in these texts (and in real life), shifts away from existing historiographical approaches to these buildings often written in an American history context. While scholarship on hotels in modern British history has been largely undertaken from a social historical perspective (particularly in work by John Walton and Kevin James, whose extensive scholarship on late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century British hotels does not feature in this book), literary scholar Charlotte Bates's oft-cited article about the interwar hotel, "Hotel Histories: Modern Tourists, Modern Nomads and the Culture of Hotel Consciousness" (2003), reached very similar conclusions to Black's work, with a comparable blend of disciplinary approaches—though some might simply call this cultural history. Emma Short's excellent recent book Mobility and the Hotel in Modern Literature: Passing Through (2019) is another example of this, though, being published in the same year as Hotel London, one could not expect Black to have drawn upon it. Where Black's work ranges more widely is in the dazzling set of connections it draws between hotels' cosmopolitanism—material, in the form of international goods and services, as well as human in these institutions' diverse populations—and the enduring power of London itself as a nexus of the global consumer economy, explicitly situating hotels as part of the dynamic trends outlined in Judith Walkowitz's study of pre-World War II Soho, Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London (2012). Black charts how Victorian women's access to hotels as spaces of leisure and sociability, having been coaxed into hosting tea parties and dinners at hotels rather than at home by savvy hoteliers, is an important contribution to the history of the democratizing effects of these commercial spaces. Power and inequality recur as key themes (though are much less developed in relation to race and ethnicity), and are assisted by Black's deft integration of a wide range of theoretical essays on the transitional, experimental nature of hotels by authors such as Wayne Koestenbaum, while the presiding spirit of the text is Walter Benjamin. This elegant conceptual framing of hotels as homes away from home, yet inherently transitional spaces, accompanied by...

Sea Level Rise and Its Impacts on Indian Coastal Cultural Heritage: Climate Change Threats to Unique Built and Unbuilt Cultural Heritage

Sea level rise (SLR) is a major cause of concern resulting in loss of land area, erosion of existing built systems and a danger to ecological resources. In addition to this it will also pose a great threat to loss of cultural heritages that are linked with the coastal history of many countries, like indigenous and colonial forts, fishing communities and socio-religious built environments and rituals. GMSL (Global Mean Sea Level) is expected to rise by an estimate of 1.2-3 meters over the next 50-80 years and the estimations are rising with new advancements in climate change research. Many cities are already experiencing severe effects of SLR and many others are already preparing their edges for the oncoming threat. Many of these strategies are engineering measures, however, with so many impacts on cultural systems to be expected, one must also integrate many such measures into systems of urban design, in order to affect the behavioural patterns and cultural psyche. There is an immediate need to identify the various vulnerable built and unbuilt cultural spaces and activities, the intensity of impact to these resources and map out measures of mitigation that are derived from human settlement studies.

Women and Mathematics: A Reverse Pyramid of Time

Can women do mathematics? The pedagogic-identity of this ‘hard science’ has made this question almost universal, across phases of history. Mathematics has been synonymous with ‘rationality, calculability and precision’ which have socially been constructed as male attributes. The origin of ‘female math-anxiety’ and consequent invisibility of women in the domain of mathematics points to the age-old cultural psyche of the male dominated societies. This paper attempts to study the struggles of the women mathematicians to overcome the hurdles of patriarchy in getting their due intellectual recognition and social acceptance.

Memory and genocide in graphic novels: the Holocaust as paradigm

ABSTRACTThis article looks at representations of genocide in a range of graphic novels. Considering the prominent position that the Holocaust holds in the Western cultural psyche, it questions whether this ‘mythological’ status can prove productive or whether, alternatively, it leads to the displacement of memories of other global atrocities. In my figuration, the Holocaust operates as a Western paradigm through which we may approach and engage with other atrocities. In the end, I argue that graphic novels are ideally suited to articulate the complexities between global and local memories because they are always engaged with the relationship between language (as a signifier for national identity) and image, which transcends local knowledge and allows for accessibility on a more universal level. Meaning is created in graphic novels through the interaction of both forms: text and image; just as in the age of global memory, identity is created through the interactions between the local and the global.

Joey Walks the Old Lost Land in Artistic Fraud’s The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland’s new production, an adaptation of Wayne Johnston’s award-winning 1998 novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, revisits the complex legacy of Newfoundland politician Joseph R. Smallwood. Smallwood, the man responsible for bringing Newfoundland into the Canadian federation, and who served as its premier for more than two decades, was loved by many for his genuine passion for Newfoundland and resented by many others for his often disastrous political decisions. In this article, Barry Freeman finds in Robert Chafe’s adaptation of the novel for the stage not an examination of Joey as a political figure but a consideration of the deeper cultural psyche of Newfoundland trying to extricate itself from colonial rule.

Taming the Tide: Employee retention as HRM Practice of Generation Y Employees in Asian Context

This article seeks a newer outlook to prevalent Human Resource Management practices for the Generation Y employees in Asian perspective. Psyche of Generation Y employees are embodied with set of values, both in the arena of personal and professional, totally different from that of baby boomers. So the present human resource practices suffer from both culture lag and ethnocentrism while engaging with generation Y employees. Such operational limitation can be very fatal for any organization because it may aggravated into cognitive dissonance. The booming economy of Asia is posing another challenge to all the organizations in that region due to its’ amorphous nature. The As a result, this paper would outline the human resource practices that are aligned with the cultural psyche of generation Y employees in an Asian perspective.

Startling Starts: Smart Contact Lenses and Technogenesis

Startling Starts: Smart Contact Lenses and Technogenesis

Destabilizing the local referent: The flight of Laurence Fearnley’s Butler’s Ringlet

In her novel Butler’s Ringlet, New Zealand novelist Laurence Fearnley pays equal attention to the signs that act as local referents for a specific locale – the Southland region of New Zealand – and to the modes of signposting that have been used to simultaneously construct and destroy the specificity of local realities more generally. The novel’s process of examining various forms of signposting (from the signs that demarcate tourist spots, to the stereotypes that permeate a cultural psyche) provides a lens to consider literature’s participation in a semiotic economy. In such an economy, signs can all too readily become mistaken for the scene. Sharing the New Zealand realist tradition’s preoccupation with place, Fearnley, nevertheless, destabilizes her own local referents, preventing them from fixating into an authoritative presence of a local reality. Fearnley’s duty of care to her subject matter rests in allowing the un-signposted uniqueness of a local reality to hover between her textual and visual representations.

News Coverage on the Kaaliyaattam and the Necessity of FolkloreJournalism

Kollam Sri. Pishaarikavu is a Saakteya Kavu (the kavu where the goddess personifying the creative power of the universe is worshipped) situated in the Quilandy Taluk of the calicut district in kerala. The festival of this temple (Kavu) is known as Kaaliyattam. On analyzing the media reports of this festival, it can be deduced that these do not represent the regional culture of the region. The practice of the media in interpreting folklore according to their tastes and interests has been widely criticized. On analyzing the media representation of the Kaaliyattam festival, it will be evident that the approach of the media towards folklore should undergo a seminal change. The age demands of us an attitude to convey culture on the basis of the traditional cultural psyche of the folk. The idea of folklore originates on the basis of such concept. This paper puts forwarded the necessity of formulating a new branch in journalism, viz., Folklore Journalism, by analysis the media reports of the Kaaliyattam festival and the lacunae in them.

El concepto estadounidense de “éxito” frente a su homónimo español: dos visiones sociológica, semántica y etimológicamente diferentes

Este artículo pretende demostrar la afirmación de que el sustantivo success (“éxito”), tal y como se utiliza en los Estados Unidos, es cultural y lingüísticamente muy diferente al sustantivo éxito en español. La traducción literal a menudo es incapaz de reflejar la inmensa pluralidad semántica del concepto norteamericano y tiende, por ende, a caer en la parodia simplista por parte del hispanohablante que lo asocia al materialismo e individualismo estadounidense. Desde la etnolingüística, la etimología, la semántica y la lexicografía comprobaremos la falta de equivalencia cognitiva de los dos términos, sus divergentes connotaciones en la lengua y en último término su diferente contextualización en la memoria psicológica cultural de los dos grupos de hablantes.

Jung Has His Humanities

Susan Rowland's C. G.Jung in the Humanities (2010) retraces many of Jung's major preoccupations as a writer and thinker in light of their impact and influence on the humanities, specifically on literature, art, film, alchemy, politics, and gender, as well as the potential for further study in the twenty-first century. Her work centers on Jung's grasp of myth as a generative instinct in the soul and its utterances in poetry, art, and religion as they mirror the cultural psyche. Studies of specific works of literature such as Shakespeare's Hamlet and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex illuminate the way art is mimetic of the soul's yearnings and can reflect the two imposing creation myths of Father Sky and Mother Earth that Jung wished to bring back into alignment and conversation.

Israeli Poetry of the Holocaust (review)

Reviewed by: Israeli Poetry of the Holocaust Stephen Katz Israeli Poetry of the Holocaust, by Yair Mazor. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009. 229 pp. $49.50. Yair Mazor, one of the more prolific scholars of Hebrew literature in America, presents us with insight into one of the more painful themes in the Hebrew literary canon: the Holocaust. In a series of fifteen informative chapters, at [End Page 188] times composed in a puzzling alliterative English, preceded by a substantial introduction on literary art and aesthetics, Mazor lays out his discussion of the poetry of eleven poets in a total of sixteen poems. In so doing, the author disproves his own assertion that "[t]he Holocaust is not a very common topic in contemporary Israeli poetry" (p. 31) as he foregrounds the persistence of this theme among many, if not all, established writers of prose and verse. His samples are a source and resource for readers who seek a glimpse into the preoccupation with the Holocaust and its deep imprints on the popular, literary, and cultural psyche of Israelis to our times. His comments leave room (and call) for alternate readings and interpretations of the very selections he presented. Primarily, Mazor raises challenging issues for readers to consider regarding the weight of aesthetic values that may lie and be discerned in poems whose message has been considered of greater significance. In the debate represented by the likes of T. Adorno, about writing aesthetically following the profound impact made by the Holocaust on art, Mazor takes the affirmative position. He draws reader attention to those very components, which he often terms the "aesthetic mechanism" of poetry, and accompanies these with his original insights and interpretations out of close readings of the poems. Though the task remains a challenging one—many writers, including the Hebrew novelist Aharon Appelfeld, have found ways of doing so—Mazor demonstrates a number of pathways to address the challenge. By accompanying his analyses with a full translation of each poem—incidentally, it is long overdue that publishers should make it a pro forma procedure to present the Hebrew originals for such selections—he leaves room for readers to add their interpretations, consider the nuances of translation, and join his camp of advocates for discerning the aesthetics of poetry. A survey of Holocaust literature (with special emphasis on poetry) in Israel would have been a useful addition to inform the uninitiated, as would have been an explanation of the rationale behind his inclusion of some poets while excluding others. Most prominent among those left out are the works of U. Z. Greenberg and A. Gilboa, though one could go further. Also absent is an explanation of the rationale about the order of the discussion where the poems of individual poets, such as Yehuda Amichai and Roni Someck, are scattered among several chapters and are addressed without regard to previously made comments or a desire to observe common traits in the writings of each. The notion of Israeli poems of the Holocaust also cries out for clarification. These are only Hebrew poems in the original, not poems composed in Israel in other languages. The issue of definition is more problematic: the poem "Don't Be Afraid, My Child," by David Fogel, for example, cannot be rightfully considered Israeli. It was composed in Europe before the establishment [End Page 189] of the state. Similarly, the notion of what constitutes a Holocaust poem is a slippery one in that some of the selections predate the outbreak of the Holocaust. The above-mentioned poem by Fogel is a good example, having been composed before the onset of the war (and the date of composition of each poem is sorely missed in all cases) and its message as well as tone may be merely another of his post-First World War poems expressing angst, "gloom and doom" (p. 59), or "a suggestion of deterioration and decay" (p. 62) so characteristic of his oeuvre. The book is also in need of some serious editing and rechecking of facts. One can enumerate only a few examples, such as in the case of the latter, for example, the assertion that Gnessin wrote in the twenties...

Radical Lessons: Thoughts on Emma Goldman, Chaos, Grief, and Political Violence Post–9/11/01

Radical Lessons:Thoughts on Emma Goldman, Chaos, Grief, and Political Violence Post–9/11/01 Loretta Kensinger (bio) Introduction Since that fateful day in September 2001, and in its terrible aftermath, I have often sought inspiration from a wider community of humans seeking to create a different, less terrifying, world.1 In concluding her 1912 article, "The New Year," Emma Goldman boldly asserted, "Out of the chaos the future emerges in harmony and beauty" (323).2 Chaos is all too easy to feel these days. According to a U.S. State Department Fact Sheet some 3,212 people died in the September 11 attacks in the U.S., though undocumented workers likely remain undercounted in these figures. In 2006 Gilbert Burnham and colleagues "estimate[d] that, as a consequence of the coalition invasion of March 18, 2003, about 655,000 Iraqis have died above the number that would be expected in a non-conflict situation. . . . About 601,000 of these excess deaths were due to violent causes" (1426). In October 2008 the Web site "Just Foreign Policy" estimated that over 1,273,378 Iraqis have died in the bombing and occupation of that country; CNN reports over 4,500 coalition deaths in Iraq, with the death of U.S. soldiers now outnumbering the estimated State Department death toll of September 11, 2001.3 These figures say nothing of the maimed and scarred, nor do they speak to the civilians and combatants that continue to die in the ongoing war in Afghanistan. Police actions, insurgencies, despotic acts of dictatorship, violent episodes of ethnic and religious hatred, class desperation, imperialism and nationalism rage throughout the globe in Chechnya, Pakistan, Burma, Palestine, Israel, Columbia, Kashmir, and in so many, many other places. And if these human struggles were not enough, environmental chaos caused by global warming brings ever more dire weather to threaten our communities and lives. Beyond these real world tragedies, Susan Faludi in her 2007 book The Terror Dream, unmasks the new gendered nightmare that has haunted the American cultural psyche in the aftermath of the events of 9/11/01, including the disappearance of women's voices as events are recast in heroic masculine terms embracing a new myth of super-men with females in need of protection. Yes, the world seems precariously chaotic these days. The chaos can become overwhelming. In my experience, feelings of chaos are often intimate partners of grief and grieving. [End Page 50] The Oxford Pocket American Dictionary places boundaries on the meanings of these powerful words. Grief's first meaning is "intense sorrow or mourning," its second "the cause of this"; to "grieve" is first to "cause great distress to" and second to "suffer grief" (346). The proximity among "grief," "grievance" and "grievous" cannot be missed when trying to grasp and ground these emotions in the concrete of dictionary definition. To mourn is to "feel or show deep sorrow or regret for" and to "show conventional signs of grief after a person's death" (517). Anyone who has experienced the loss of close loved ones knows the nature of this powerful emotion: its unpredictability, its numbness, its anger, its depth. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas write, "In each death there is an end of the world, and yet the rhetoric of mourning allows us to speak of this end and multiply it, both to anticipate it and repeat it—with regard not only to one friend, one proper name, but many, one death after another"(15).4 The events of 9/11/01 and its aftermath, let alone the other catastrophes the twenty-four hour news cycle brings us daily, have clearly brought distress, suffering, and strong emotions. Considering just the "day that shook the world," as the BBC referred to it, we can see the moments of collective grief in numerous places (qtd. in Winter and Hawthorne 11). At its most basic, we feel the mourning in nine-year-old Madeleine-Therese Halpert's haiku: Terror in their eyesChildren now lost foreverInnocent like me (88) One wonders which children, in which regions of the world, the author is thinking of. Robin Morgan provides more political complexity to this reckoning of...

The archaeology of anxiety: the Russian Silver Age and its legacy

(c. 1890-1917) has been one of the most intensely studied topics in Russian literary studies, and for years scholars have been struggling with its precise definition. Firmly established in the Russian cultural psyche, it continues to influence both literature and mass media. The Archaeology of Anxiety is the first extended analysis of why the Silver Age occupies such prominence in Russian collective consciousness.Galina Rylkova examines the Silver Age as a cultural construct - the byproduct of an anxiety that permeated society in reaction to the social, political, and cultural upheavals brought on by the Bolshevik Revolution, the fall of the Romanovs, the Civil War, and Stalin's Great Terror. Rylkova's astute analysis of writings by Anna Akhmatova, Vladimir Nabokov, Boris Pasternak and Victor Erofeev reveals how the construct of the Silver Age was perpetuated and ingrained.Rylkova explores not only the Silver Age's importance to Russia's cultural identity but also the sustainability of this phenomenon. In so doing, she positions the Silver Age as an essential element to Russian cultural survival.

Searching for cultural psyche in body type variance: American vs Japanese body type estimations

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate cross‐cultural differences between American and Japanese college students' body type under/overestimation regarding their own bodies within the framework of self‐construal theory.Design/methodology/approachInformation from 137 American college students and 160 Japanese college students was collected in using a survey method. Their height, body weight, gender, and self‐estimated body types from three different options (underweight, normal weight, and overweight) was collected in order to assess the relationship between self‐estimated and real body types of these participants. The real body type based on one's body mass index and the self‐estimated body type were compared for each participant.FindingsJapanese students were found to be more in the underweight category and less in the overweight category than American students. It was also found that Japanese students, and female students in general, were more likely to overestimate their body types and American students, and male students in general, were more likely to underestimate their body types.Research limitations/implicationsThe present study used self‐report survey method and should be considered a pilot study. In future research, the height and weight of participants should actually be measured to obtain more reliable data. Future research should investigate other possible psychological factors for creating different body types between different cultures.Originality/valueThe present study was the first cross‐cultural study regarding body type under/overestimation regarding their own bodies between American and Japanese college students.

Branding in the Non-profit Context: The Case of Surf Life Saving Australia

Whilst brand management as a specific sub-field of marketing management is well developed in business research, it is still an emerging area in non-profit organisations. Non-profit organisations are faced with distinct brand challenges, which include issues related to multiple stakeholders in managing the brand and the need to negotiate partnering and sponsorship arrangements. Newly established non-profit organisations can begin their organisational development with strong branding strategies, however many established non-profit organisations have a strong brand heritage, which requires special preservation, renewal and extension strategies. This paper uses a case study methodology to examine the branding issues in Surf Life Saving Australia, a volunteer community beach safety organisation that holds a unique position in the Australian community and cultural psyche, which nevertheless must continually renew and extend its brand heritage in order to achieve its evolving organisational objectives. While the organisation is unique, the paper identifies issues in stakeholder brand management and brand preservation, renewal and extension with wider theoretical and practical implications for non-profit organisations and contemporary perspectives on branding.