This paper argues that the pleasure of viewing anime (Japanese animation) enables anime otaku’s playful practices and engenders an imperceptible politics in viewers’ own favor. First, by examining two anime works, Fooly Cooly (2003) and Revolutionary Girl Utena (1999-2001), I argue that anime images embody the pleasure of evasion and the pleasure of transgression as a form of resistance to the ...

The article traces the response of the hospital chaplain witnessing ungrieved death. Linking grief with cultural recognition, the article analyzes the absence of grief on the occasion of death within outcast social spheres. It then outlines the ways chaplains both participate in the cultural norms that render lives ungrievable and, conversely, in the solidarity of God, who cares for every life ...

This paper discusses the design issues of playful interaction within a museum through the study of a museum guide prototype that integrates a tangible interface, audio display, and adaptive modeling. We provide an overview of our case study, summary of our user evaluation, and discuss our use of ecological approaches from the domains of acoustics, ethnography and information technology in order...

The European Union (EU) has developed cultural policy initiatives that seek to promote Europeanization with the purpose of constructing identity narratives and facilitating citizens’ sense belonging Europe EU. article focuses on perspective through ethnographic research one central action in EU policy, Heritage Label (EHL). We analyse interviews conducted selected EHL sites Central East (CEE) c...

Student social connectedness is indicated to be changing with the increasing digitalisation of universities. This narrative literature review aims bring new meanings hybrid university learning environment (HULE), and develop a framework for benefit student by using placemaking theories. It searches through academic evidence experience three attributes connectedness: socialising, support, sense ...

As employees cannot always readily stretch their competencies and professional identity on the job through regular crafting, we ask question: Are there alternative ways of crafting inside organizations which people can themselves? Using grounded theory methods, step into shoes federal active in Open Opportunities, a digital market for temporary assignments U.S. government. We find that use such...

In a policy context of personalisation, disability support organisations recognise the increasingly contentious nature clustering people according to disability. Instead, they are placing more emphasis on activities that promote community inclusion. Accordingly, work between with cognitive and their workers is mobile. this context, drawing research using conceptual framework based in recognitio...

The influence of colonialism and the emergence globalisation have gradually induced a mixed culture that neither can be attached to innateness traditionalist attributes home country nor foreignness Western idiosyncrasies. Though not directly clipped into identity diaspora in spatial existence, residents also experience an equal or more departure context perpetuating traditional through their li...