Urban festivals built on community involvement can reinvigorate places and create a shared sense of place and purpose that lasts long after the event is over.
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Many cities could learn from Dundee, which overcame industrial decline to become a UNESCO City of Design, with a shiny new cityscape to match
Just as Playboy was emerging as a cultural phenomenon in the United States, a German entrepreneur named Beate Uhse was building a sex business of her own – centered on the pleasure of women.
Island philosophies can be used to decolonise university courses and teaching. They can also advance sustainable development models and, ultimately, achieve responsible tourism.
Traditional medicine is believed to be accessible and affordable but should be made complimentary to contemporary medicine in the treatment of mental disorders.
In order to take Milton Keynes’ cultural bid seriously, you have to begin by taking culture seriously.
Chinese professionals are influenced by the Confucian values. This means they are uncomfortable with refusing tasks or questioning directions, unlike their Australian counterparts.
It can be a painful experience to be rejected by your heritage culture.
There’s little research into origins of the geographic patterns of language diversity. A new model exploring processes that shaped Australia’s language diversity provides a template for investigators.
The term “meme” was coined in 1976. Today, these cultural artefacts have gone viral, and are redrawing the boundaries of acceptable political discourse.
By speaking their truths in societies that would rather not know, queer painters, female rappers and other outsider artists are pushing the bounds of gender and sexuality in the developing world.
New survey from the Australia Council shows pretty much all Australians engage with the arts, and 8-in-10 do so online. However more people are ambivalent about public arts funding, and more people think the arts are too expensive.
Brands affect how products are perceived. The same is true of our names, making them our personal brands.
Recent incidents reveal more than just men behaving badly. They show the consequences when corporate cultures are driven by hyper-masculine personalities at the top.
Look back into prehistory and it’s all about trusting strangers.
United Airlines’ recent stumbles suggest its culture is too ‘tight’ and constrained by rules, leaving employees little room to make judgement calls.
Adults are dumbfounded – and according to an expert on fads, that’s probably the point.
Through subtle parallels to our own lives and choices, literature can help us make sense of political upheavals.
There has been much talk recently about “Australian values”. The new citizenship test will require aspiring Australians to demonstrate they possess them, or can at least reproduce them under exam conditions…
From the Amazon to Nicaragua, there are humans who never learn numbers. What can these anumeric cultures teach us about ourselves?
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Professor of Cultural Economy, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
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Director, Cities of Culture Research Observatory, University of Liverpool
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Director of China-Indonesia Desk, Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS)
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Associate Professor in Marketing, ESCP Business School
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Senior Lecturer in Māori Language Revitalisation, Auckland University of Technology
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Contract Faculty, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University; SEDRD Adjunct Professor, University of Guelph
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Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
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Adjunct Faculty, Fairleigh Dickinson University
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SARCHI Ocean Cultures and Heritage, Nelson Mandela University
