The reasons for the phenomenon of child marriage are complex and include the fact that in customary law, marriageable age was never reckoned as an actual number but depended on puberty.
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South Africa is increasingly beginning to focus on the potential role cultural and creative industries can play in job creation and economic growth.
Decluttering, spearheaded by Marie Kondo and Japanese minimalist consumerism, has taken on quasi-spiritual connotations. What are we actually trying to get rid of when we throw out all our stuff?
A review of some of the top arts and culture stories from the past year.
Film sagas like Star Wars transcend the screen, connecting viewers to their pasts, to one another and to the hero within.
When a pregnant celebrity announces “no hot nannies,” what does it say about parenting, gender roles and our culture?
Not all technologies are created equal. Researchers devised a new model to explain why, after eons of nothing much new, we sometimes see an explosion of innovation in the archaeological record.
Public ‘restroom’ is a euphemism of the highest order. We don’t find it restful.
A linguist explains how words get co-opted from one language to another.
The new Australian film Tanna, which won two awards at Venice Film Festival, is as much a tale about romance as it is globalisation.
Technological advances in music production have all but obliterated the need for popular music to be transcribed into musical notation. So why is musical literacy still important?
Award-winning documentary film On the Banks of the Tigris explores the influence of Iraqi Jewish musicians in the cultural life of Iraq and paints a portrait of a country that was once a thriving multicultural centre.
What will the hipster come to symbolise about life in the early twenty-first century when historians of the future reflect on this era?
Whether it’s the Islamic State, the Ku Klux Klan – or, yes, even American political parties – groups use music in many of the same ways, for many of the same reasons.
Depictions of women bullying women are a mainstay of reality television shows, just as reports of Twitter fights between female celebrities are regular tabloid fare. It’s a phenomenon with a long history.
Plans to build a new telescope on a Hawaiian mountain highlight the complexities and sensitivities that arise when science interacts with indigenous communities.
When you scrape below the surface it’s not hard to see that ‘culture’ is the wrong answer to almost every question.
South Africa is emblematic of why violence against women responses in Africa are failing. While good measures are being rolled out, it lacks a united, comprehensive, multi-disciplinary response.
Darwin’s insights into life on Earth may have revolutionised biology, but scientists sometimes get carried away. It’s not the only game in town.
Here’s how some of the world’s oldest cultural institutions are using drones and 3D printing to bring their collections to life.
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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
