Invention Of Tradition Research Articles

ТРАДИЦИЯ ВО ВЬЕТНАМЕ: РЕАЛЬНОСТЬ ИЛИ СИМУЛЯКР?

The article is devoted to the phenomenon of traditionalism in the context of human ontological incompleteness. In culture, there are different ways of representing incompleteness, which can be overcome or corrected. In global reality, the crisis of identity and the sense of increased insufficiency relate to the structural change of personality and identity in a dynamic social reality, where virtual way of the human opening to the world plays an increasingly important role, and types of ontic existence multiply. The response to the increased incompleteness is two postsecular vectors of virtualization — a direct departure into virtuality and traditionalism, the impulse of which is a return to the social reality in some form, taken from the past, that would ensure rootedness, namely that into tradition, and a return to religion in inextricable connection with its national carrier. In the light of the concept of ontological incompleteness and based on field research on traditionalism in Vietnam and other countries, the authors explicate traditionalism as the virtualization of reality and manipulative substitution of the ontological with the ontic. The peculiarity of traditionalism as a worldview and ideology is that it represents tradition itself as a value, whereas it is a construct for the preservation and transmission of values. The paper shows that traditionalism is the most radical cultural form of return of the cultural structures of the historical past, which is represented as a spiritual need. However, these structures are outdated, not constructive, and addressing them, instead of overcoming incompleteness, turns man into a self-sufficient structure, which contradicts the fundamental ontological openness of the human being. The authors explain traditionalism in Vietnam and some other countries as the invention of tradition not based on the historical ground, and show how tradition turns into a simulacrum and virtualization of reality.

Research on Teaching Methods of Higher Vocational Education Based on Multi-source Data Fusion under the Concept of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Education

Abstract With the development of the times, traditional innovation and entrepreneurship education exist in the backwardness of education concept and learning concept. This paper proposes a model for entrepreneurship innovation that incorporates multi-source data fusion technology. From both online and offline sources, we obtain multi-source data about the education and teaching methods of the entrepreneurship innovation education concept in higher vocational colleges and universities. In the process of multi-source data fusion, data is preprocessed to improve its quality and efficiency during data fusion. Using the least squares method to complete the multi-source data fusion operation, combined with the concept of entrepreneurship innovation education, co-designed a data fusion-driven innovative entrepreneurship education teaching model that integrates interactive and targeted teaching methods. The model underwent validation and analysis. The data show that after some time of adopting the targeted teaching method to teach students innovative and entrepreneurial concepts, the difference between the mean value of the level of creative and entrepreneurial concepts of the students in the experimental group mean value (43.79) and the control group mean value (43.79) is 4.55. The sig value is 0.019<0.05. Compared with traditional didactic teaching, the targeted teaching mode based on the multi-source data fusion technology is more helps to improve the level of innovation and entrepreneurship concepts of students in higher vocational colleges and universities.

Inovation in Implementation of Naik Dango Tradition on Dayak Kanayatn Society in The Modern Era

This research aims to explore the innovations of the naik dango tradition implementation in the Dayak Kanayatn people of Landak Regency in the modern era. The research employed descriptive qualitative with multiple side studies ethnographic study methods. The participant for this research were traditional administrators who live in Ngabang and Sengah Temila Districts, Landak Regency, which determined purposively. Data collection was carried out using observation techniques, interviews and documentary studies. Data collection tools include observation guidelines, interview guidelines and note taking. The data were analysed through data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing. The findings of the research revealed that there is innovation in the naik dango tradition of the Dayak Kanayatn people in the modern era. This innovation can be seen in the existence of new things such as (1) changes in practice in carrying out the naik dango in the old era to the modern era, (2) changes in the behavior of the Dayak Kanayatn community in celebrating the naik dango tradition and (3) changes in values ​​in society do the naik dango.

Китайские муалафы как сегмент современной мусульманской уммы в Индонезии

Introduction. The article analyzes the phenomenon of Islam spreading in Indonesia through the prism of converting representatives of the Chinese community to Islam. The achievements of modern historiography make it possible to analyze the transition to Islam in the context of social transformations. The purpose of the article is to study the directions of functioning of the Chinese mualafs community as converted Muslims. Methods. The author uses the achievements of constructivist approaches in modern historical science, interpreting the phenomenon of Muslim converts through the prism of the concept of the invention of traditions and the imagination of communities. Scientific novelty. The author analyzes the problems of development and transformation of the Chinese mualafs identity, which are practically not studied in Russian historiography in general and Indonesian studies in particular. Results. The author identifies the mualaf community as a unique social and cultural group in modern Indonesian society. It is assumed that 1) the adoption of Islam becomes a form of social modernization, as it leads to radical transformations at the level of identity, 2) the Islamization of the Chinese has become a form of opposition to the growing political and ideological influence of China in Southeast Asia, 3) the transition to Islam of the Chinese population of Indonesia actualizes a situation of double marginality, since Chinese Muslim converts are marginalized both by the Muslim Indonesian majority and by the Chinese community to which they formerly belonged. Conclusions. The article shows that the mualafs, who are representatives of the Chinese ethnic group, are developing as a separate community, whose social and cultural identity is just being formed. The basis of this transformation process is preserving elements of Chinese ethnicity that correlate with the norms of Islam.

ПЕЧАТНЫЙ СОЦИАЛИЗМ И (МНОГО)НАЦИОНАЛЬНАЯ ДЕТСКАЯ КНИГА

Presenting the collection of archival articles on the creation of national literatures for children in the USSR, the brief introduction proposes to see the early Soviet construction of a new subfield of national literatures as yet another example of invented traditions. New children’s literatures in Soviet republics demonstrated their deep involvement in the common — Soviet — literary development and simultaneously their cultivated sense of cultural autonomy, marked by specifically national themes, plots, and styles. Translations of international classics into national languages added a necessary “global” and “universal” dimension to national children’s literatures. In turn, the activation and instrumentalization of folklore helped to identify and popularize “specific” ethnic points of view and intonations. As the key example of this dynamics, the introduction examines two performative “parades” of national children’s literatures, which were staged in the journal Detskaia literatura (Children’s Literature) in 1936–1937 and in 1971–1972. Within forty years, almost universal complaints about the lack of qualified children’s writers were replaced with extensive reports about highly developed systems of creation, production and dissemination of literature for children.

The positive significance of ideological and political teaching in colleges and universities based on HOG feature extraction to college students’ innovation and entrepreneurship

Abstract This paper designs an intelligent ideological teaching model integrating innovation and entrepreneurship education under the guidance of the “6C+6E” theory. In this model, the features are first extracted by the convolution operation of the student face image through the Gabor algorithm. The features extracted by HOG algorithm based on integral graph are concatenated to get the fusion of student face features. Then SVM algorithm is used to classify and recognize the student’s facial features. In the classroom, applying this ideological and political teaching mode, the overall concentration situation of the class reached 0.9988 points at the best time. In contrast, the concentration of the traditional innovation and entrepreneurship teaching classroom were all lower than 0.4 points, and the highest rate of students’ heads up in the overall classroom reached 98.19%. After the implementation of the teaching, there is a significant change in the mean score of students’ awareness of entrepreneurial value (P=0.011<0.05) and understanding of entrepreneurial business opportunities (P=0.016<0.05), which has increased by 50.45% and 36.41% relative to the pre-implementation of the teaching. The Civics teaching model constructed in this paper lays the foundation for the effective development of innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities and provides a reference basis for the improvement of students’ innovation and entrepreneurship awareness.

Discussion on the Deep Integration of College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship and College Students’ Civic and Political Education under the Background of Data Technology

Abstract Currently, most of the studies related to the integration of innovation and entrepreneurship education into the ideological and political work of college students are theoretical discussions, lacking empirical evidence and rarely quantitative analysis. Based on data technology, this paper explores the deep integration of innovation and entrepreneurship with college students’ ideological and political education. After mining the significance of the integration of innovation and entrepreneurship and college students’ civic and political education, the study utilizes the Bayesian theory and face recognition model to assess the effect of the deep integration of civic innovation and entrepreneurship education from the perspective of emotional change. Its algorithmic model, which is mainly based on classification criteria, recognizes students’ classroom expressions according to the classroom expression classification criteria and the emotion score calculation formula so as to judge the effect of students’ classroom listening. Through empirical analysis, all dimensions of ideological and political education self-efficacy and entrepreneurial values of innovation and entrepreneurship are significantly positively correlated at the level of 0.01. The average value of emotion scores of innovation and entrepreneurship education classes integrating ideological and political education is higher than that of traditional innovation and entrepreneurship classes by 0.04 and by 4 more students. The innovative entrepreneurship classroom integrated with Civic and Political Education has achieved good teaching results among college students.

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This study takes ‘The Invention of Tradition’ presented by Eric Hobsbawm as a topic and focuses on naengmyeon as a food culture in memory and a food culture that is being created and recreated from the transition to modern times to the present. The purpose is to examine its characteristics. Naengmyeon is especially closely related to social changes during the transition to modernity and the Japanese colonial period, and is an important keyword in understanding food literature or food culture of that era and the division era. Focusing on the movement of the discourse on Naengmyeon from ‘Pyongyang’ to ‘Gyeongseong’ based on contemporary literary materials, we see this as revealing the metamorphosis phenomenon of culture in the transition period to modernity, and identify mobility and hybridity among the characteristics of Korea’s transition period to modernity. This is an attempt to explain.

Desedimentation of Routine: Post-Crisis Invention of Tradition in George Orwell’s Animal Farm

Desedimentation of Routine: Post-Crisis Invention of Tradition in George Orwell’s Animal Farm

Transformational Leadership fostering Open Innovation: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective

Drawing upon dynamic capability theory, this research examines the role of transformational leadership in fostering open innovation in an emerging economy context in Southeastern Europe. Foremost, the study endeavours to tackle a noteworthy limitation, namely the nascent state of open innovation in the current body of literature pertaining to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Using a quantitative survey, we gathered information from 154 Albanian SMEs respondents. Data was analysed using PLS-SEM on the SmartPLS 4.0 version. The results show transformational leadership has a significant relationship with developmental culture and open innovation. In addition, we found that developmental culture mediates the relation between transformational leadership and open innovation. This research provides important practical implications for policymakers, leaders and industry practitioners to develop new business models for innovation diffusion. It requires shifting the focus from traditional innovation approaches towards new solutions to ensure collaboration and knowledge exchange. Existing researchers have highlighted transformational leadership with open innovation in the Western context. However, open innovation is less explored in Southeastern Europe specifically in SMEs which is an important context to unravel the useful insights. Significantly, open innovation became enabler of value creation, improved competitiveness and economic growth.

From traditional innovation to green innovation: How an occurrence of natural disasters influences sustainable development?

AbstractWith the high incidence of extreme events, it is important to examine how the occurrence of natural disasters influences long‐term sustainable development. We give evidence from the changing process of innovation. Using data from OECD countries from 1985 to 2018, we conclude that environmental threats from the occurrence of natural disasters drive countries to pay more attention to sustainable development and promote the change of innovation type from traditional to green innovation. Moreover, for different types of natural disasters, volcanic activities, landslides, and floods show a positive influence, while epidemics dampen it. Based on the sub‐sample analysis, this impact is more pronounced in countries with high levels of economic development, oil exports and right‐wing parties in power. Furthermore, renewable energy consumption acts as a positive moderator, while the moderating effects of government efficiency, corruption and globalization are inhibiting. Our paper provides new insights into natural disaster economics and sustainable development.

‘we are not like them’: reinventing modernity within tradition in the debates on female khatna / female genital cutting in India

Since 2011, female khatna, or the practice of female genital cutting within the Dawoodi Bohra community, has become a big topic of debate in India and globally. The ‘secret’ tradition has been challenged by community activists, tabled in parliament, heard by international courts of law and debated on news channels. In response, a growing number of Bohra women have come to the fore to publicly defend their right to khatna by subverting seemingly Western tropes of autonomy, equality and modernity. Situated in the thick of these polarised exchanges, this article examines the complicated, under-explored relationship between gender and Islam by foregrounding self-narratives of the Bohra women who actively participate within, as opposed to fight against, patriarchal norms to preserve the tradition. I juxtapose their narratives with those of anti- khatna activists to further contextualise and clarify their ‘modern-yet-traditional’ subjectivities. As such, this article combines a postcolonial feminist lens with Eric Hobsbawm’s notion of ‘invention of tradition’, to investigate the multiple ways in which a majority of Bohra women are using the rhetoric of ‘modernity’ in public—by reinventing history, renegotiating patriarchies, reimagining the other and incorporating biomedicine—to preserve and perpetuate this contested tradition.

Innovation Statistics as a Tool for Measuring Transformation of Modern Economy (Case Study: China)

Today, innovative performance of a country is one of the state’s most important tasks, which requires adequate statistics on innovations. The author analyzes the current state of innovation statistics as a tool for managerial decision-making (on the example of China).The paper considers conceptual approaches to the study and measurement of innovation as well as the main characteristics of the statistical indicator sets. The shortcomings of some traditional innovation indicators and methodologies behind international innovation rankings, which are often unable to fully measure the effectiveness of innovation country-level activity and assess the degree of innovativeness of its economy, were analyzed. The paper defines the most notable statistical innovation indicators of the Chinese economy. It is emphasized that when analyzing the innovation potential and progress in the economy, Western analysts use sets of indicators that assess the efficiency of economic institutions, the dynamics of structural change, and the degree of structural modernization of all its sectors on the basis of innovation. The author focuses on the peculiarities of the critical target indicator system of the leading innovation «Made in China 2025» program, which is one of the initiatives of the nationwide five-year plan for the socio-economic development of China.The author concludes that China's success in building an innovation economy is largely due to the choice of an effective system of indicators for strategic planning of innovation development, as well as reliance on domestic demand for innovation with a focus on ensuring the growth of the welfare of the country's citizens and reducing social inequality. It explains the need to develop a system of nationally adapted indicators of innovative development building on international statistical standards.

The Power of Ethics: Uncovering Technology Risks and Positive Value Potentials in IT Innovation Planning

The digital transformation of the economy is accelerating companies’ engagement in information technology (IT) innovation. To anticipate which technologies will become relevant over time and integrate them in their innovation plans, companies often rely on product roadmaps as strategic tools. However, ethical issues resulting from ubiquitous IT use have shown the need to accommodate hyped technical advancements in information systems (IS) design and acknowledge human values with moral relevance. Scholars have argued that this moral relevance can only come from an ethical framework. The empirical study presented here investigates whether the three ethical theories of utilitarianism, virtue ethics, and deontology can complement traditional innovation planning approaches. The mixed-method study covers three IT products – a digital toy, a food-delivery app and a telemedicine system. The results reveal that the three ethical theories boost creativity around values and enrich IT innovation planning by supporting the acknowledgment of more and higher value principles (e.g., freedom or personal growth), more diverse value classes (e.g., individual and social values) as well as more original values (e.g., human contact) in system design. What is more, participants identify and mitigate potential social and ethical issues associated with the IT product. Against this background, the findings in this paper suggest that a “value-based roadmapping” approach could be a vital stimulus for future IT innovation planning.

Business model innovation: Integrative review, framework, and agenda for future innovation management research

AbstractThe business model innovation (BMI) concept has become a well‐established phenomenon of current academic research. While Foss and Saebi's (Journal of Management, 2017, 43, 200–227) seminal literature review on BMI revealed 349 articles on BMI published between 1972 and 2015, an additional number of 1727 articles on the topic have been published since 2016. In contrast to this overall interest in the BMI phenomenon, innovation‐focused journals include only a limited number of publications on BMI. Further, besides the valuable insights and fruitful research directions of extant literature reviews, they tend also to overlook the linkages between traditional innovation management and the majority of BMI research. Given this underrepresentation of BMI research in the innovation management literature, we conduct an integrative literature review to bring the disconnected literature closer together and offer directions for future research. Our literature review applies the review strategy of blending and merging the literature across domains. First, we blend the knowledge base of the BMI domain by applying the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) Body of Knowledge categories. Second, we merge the literature across domains by developing an integrative framework. As recent BMI literature increasingly converged to two lines of research, our framework differentiates between the relatedness of the BMI and BMI openness. Thereby, we offer new avenues for future research that can enrich the dialogue on BMI research in the innovation management community. These results demonstrate how the BMI domain covers aspects that fit, contribute to, and extend classical innovation‐focused research, how both research domains can be merged to enrich each other, and how future research can foster the dialogue across disconnected domains.

The origins of the Canadian Birkebeiner Ski Festival: invented traditions, winter sportscapes, and heritage sport tourism in sustainability and the UNESCO Beaver Hills Biosphere

ABSTRACT The Canadian Birkebeiner Ski Festival emerged as the world’s third Birkebeiner cross-country ski loppet in 1985, emulating the Norwegian Birkebeiner and the American Birkebeiner. This study examines the early years of the Canadian Birkebeiner as a heritage sport tourism event with routes near Edmonton, Alberta, that became an annual festival and attraction in western Canada. Invented tradition, sportscapes, and heritage sport tourism are a conceptual frame to analyse how the Festival represented the Birkebeiner legends, how skiers and skiing constituted landscapes, and how the event contributed to sustainability. The Canadian Birkebeiner resulted in a winter sport festival and sportscape that shaped cross-country skiing, trails, and public lands, and was indicative of fluid social relations and rural place making by means of skiing. Based on archival and oral history sources, the study argues the Canadian Birkebeiner was an invented tradition that originated with a ski loppet instrumental in the negotiation of terrain for cross-country skiing that contributed to winter sportscapes and heritage sport tourism in the Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Provincial Recreation Area, and, ultimately, within the UNESCO Beaver Hills Biosphere. It contributes to studies of winter events with local and broader implications for sustainable heritage tourism.

Why did the civil code of Meiji Japan provide the same surname for couples? Westernization, de-Chineseization, and the construction of a national state

ABSTRACTThis article challenges the question of how and why ‘the compulsory same surname system for couples’ was written into the Meiji Civil Code. Administrative documents related to surnames issued by the Meiji government, documents of the Code Research Committee, and the stenographic records of the Diet deliberations allow us not only to know that the form of the compulsory same surname system for the Couple was influenced and justified by the norms of marriage in Western society, but also to unveil an invention of tradition. ‘the compulsory same surname system for couples’, a product of Westernization, was then combined with the Japanese traditional ‘ie’ system and successfully implemented as a new tradition that was created and established in a short period of time. This article concludes in the Meiji period, during the construction of the modern national state, when ‘the compulsory same surname system for couples’ broke the norm of the surname belonging to the upper class under the feudal era, while the sense of family unity it brought also served to unify the nation. And so, internally, this served to homogenize and unify the nation. Externally, Meiji leaders believed it would play a role in correcting the unequal treaties with the West and removing any perceived influence from Chinese civilization. Using this system of the compulsory same surname for couples as one of the means to build the identity of ‘modern Japan’, was the true intention of the Meiji government.

Innovative and entrepreneurial thinking training combined with psychological nursing intervention on the relief of Graduate’s employment anxiety

BackgroundSevere employment competition and pressure have triggered students in higher vocational school to develop negative emotions of anxiety. They show intense, excessive as well as persistent worries and fears, and even somatic anxiety symptoms. In order to alleviate the anxiety triggered by the employment pressure of graduates of higher vocational school, the study introduces psychological care to intervene in graduation innovation and entrepreneurial thinking training and analyzes its ability to alleviate anxiety.Subjects and Methods48 graduates suffering from anxiety disorders in a higher vocational school were used as experimental research subjects, and the experimental group received a training program combining psychological nursing intervention and innovative entrepreneurial thinking; the control group received traditional innovation and entrepreneurship training courses. The Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAMA), Hamilton Depression Scale (HAMD), Symptom Self-assessment Scale SCL90, and Self-Acceptance Questionnaire (SAQ) were evaluated before the experiment, and after the 2nd, 4th, and 8th weeks of the experiment, respectively.Results Graduates who participated in the training on the integration of psychological care into innovative and entrepreneurial thinking showed a significant decrease in the scores of all scales compared to the pre-experimental period (P<0.05), and the relief of anxiety was more pronounced compared to the control group (P<0.05).ConclusionsPsychological care integrated with innovative and entrepreneurial thinking training had a significant effect on the anxiety of graduates. They had a more rational and accurate control of the employment situation and restored their confidence in their future work and life.AcknowledgementThe project of higher education research in 2022 approved by Inner Mongolia Higher Education Society (No.NMGJXH-2022XZ006).

The Impact of Opening a High-Speed Railway on Urban Innovation: A Comparative Perspective of Traditional Innovation and Green Innovation

Transportation infrastructure is essential to regional innovation systems, and the high-speed railway (HSR) is reshaping China’s regional innovation pattern. Previous research lacks an analysis of the impact of opening an HSR on urban traditional and green innovation. This paper uses urban panel data from 285 prefecture-level cities in China from 2003 to 2019 to study the impact and mechanism of opening an HSR on urban innovation from a comparative perspective. The results of a multi-period difference-in-difference (DID) model show that opening an HSR can promote both traditional and green urban innovation, especially impacting urban green innovation. A further analysis of the mechanism of action found that high-quality talent and communication infrastructures are two crucial mechanisms of transmission for the opening of an HSR to affect urban innovation. In addition, heterogeneity analysis showed that opening an HSR promotes traditional urban and green innovation for cities in general. However, for central cities, the opening of an HSR has no significant impact on green innovation and has little effect on promoting traditional innovation. The policy inspiration of this paper is that, in the face of an innovation gap and the inequality of regional innovation and development, the construction of HSRs should be promoted according to local conditions. Construction and layout resources should be shifted from central cities to general cities to narrow the regional innovation gap. In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to the roles of the flow of high-quality talent and communication infrastructure in promoting urban innovation and sustainable urban development.

The “decline” of London’s curry houses invented tradition, authenticity, gastromythology

ABSTRACT Curry houses are among Britain’s most prominent historical, cultural, and gastronomic links with Asia. Recent developments in the context of Britain’s “declining” curry culture suggest that the industry’s challenges cannot be explained through watertight analyses of immigration controls, the allegedly latent racism of British society, its aggravation by the Brexit discourse, shrinkage of South Asian talent and the turn towards healthy and green consumer choices. There is an elusive force that I recognise as gastromythology – that negotiates between invented traditions and authenticity. In offering gastromythology as a new analytical index in studies of consumption and foodways, I suggest that mythologies – in the sense deployed by Roland Barthes – indispensably shape the mnemonic history of food cultures. Declining or saturating mythologies signal a break away from the cultural conditions that cradled the culinary tradition, in the first place, as is true of curry, especially when seen against a rapidly changing political backdrop.