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UID/EAT/00472/2013 SFRH/BD/92040/2012 ; Recent research in the fields of Ethnomusicology, Anthropology and Sociology frame the concept of lusofonia more as a return movement of the expressive cultures and memories of Portugal's former colonial territories than as a linguistic field of the spoken sphere. In addition, in Portugal, institutional racism has legitimated both sociological and cultural racism perspectives. This friction has implied, among musicians, addressing lusofonia as a space of struggle, decolonialism and intervention. If the documentary Lusofonia, a (r)evolução continues to be influential, so is the claim that the lack remains, of a sustained institutional interest in lusofonia and its musical fusions. Drawing upon the results of 6 years of field research in Lisbon, I want to shed more light on how efforts of cultural entrepreneurs have addressed issues of politics of memory to negotiate national narratives and cultural policies. By mapping social struggles over the definition of collective memory, Ethnomusicology may reveal how political categories blur and dichtomize posctcolonial cultural expression. Initiatives such as Lisboa que Amanhece, Conexão Lusófona, Lisboa Mistura and Musidanças, mentioned in this paper, project intercultural understandings of lusofonia processes as fundamental for Portugal's contemporary, national identity. ; publishersversion ; published

UID/EAT/00472/2013 SFRH/BD/92040/2012 ; Recent research in the fields of Ethnomusicology, Anthropology and Sociology frame the concept of lusofonia more as a return movement of the expressive cultures and memories of Portugal's former colonial territories than as a linguistic field of the spoken sphere. In addition, in Portugal, institutional racism has legitimated both sociological and cultural racism perspectives. This friction has implied, among musicians, addressing lusofonia as a space of struggle, decolonialism and intervention. If the documentary Lusofonia, a (r)evolução continues to be influential, so is the claim that the lack remains, of a sustained institutional interest in lusofonia and its musical fusions. Drawing upon the results of 6 years of field research in Lisbon, I want to shed more light on how efforts of cultural entrepreneurs have addressed issues of politics of memory to negotiate national narratives and cultural policies. By mapping social struggles over the definition of collective memory, Ethnomusicology may reveal how political categories blur and dichtomize posctcolonial cultural expression. Initiatives such as Lisboa que Amanhece, Conexão Lusófona, Lisboa Mistura and Musidanças, mentioned in this paper, project intercultural understandings of lusofonia processes as fundamental for Portugal's contemporary, national identity. ; publishersversion ; published

Expressive isomorphism is characterized as the process through which national uniqueness is standardized so that expressive culture of various nations, or of social sectors within them, comes to consist of similar expressive forms and stylistic elements. Expanding on Meyer, the presence of pop-rock music in world culture is discussed as a major manifestation of expressive isomorphism. This is done by looking at these aspects of pop-rock music: electric instrumentation, ritual classification, ritual periodization, diffusion of styles and genres, legitimation discourses, and the emergence of ethnic rock. Following Bourdieu, a sociological account that focuses on recognition and status concludes the article.

Epitomized by the athletic sneaker industry's lucrative mining of Black bodies and Black culture, the colonization of the racial "Other" by the forces of Western consumer culture has become a defining feature of late capitalism. However, we propose that contemporary consumer culture also offers possibilities for everyday decolonizing practices, specifically those associated with sneaker customization. Drawing on 15 interviews with racially-marginalized sneaker customizers, we explored how individuals used sneaker customization to initiate critical and creative dialogues with the sneaker industry and other late colonizing forces. We found that participants used sneaker customization to assert their humanity through: signaling their personal/group identity; articulating political subversions and solidarities; and seeking to uplift disadvantaged communities. We conclude by encouraging sport scholars to critically engage the possibilities for decolonizing politics as infused within everyday popular cultural practices.

"This collection of papers on the Sunflower Movement and the Umbrella Movement brings together not only studies of Taiwan and Hong Kong, but also contributions from the social sciences and humanities. The volume compares and contrasts the two movements, which both occurred in 2014, focusing on their political dynamics, their expressive practices, and their immediate aftermath and potential long-term traces"--Provided by publisher"--

This article presents the field guide as an alternate format to the anthology in documenting short literary expressions. Anthologies often isolate, collect, and remove literary forms from their habitats by representing them in a book, altering the context by which short literary expressions can be interpreted. After the Gezi Park protests in İstanbul in 2013, several print and electronic anthologies documented public expressions, yet these books offer no or only vague mention of location. Through Henri Lefebvre's Rhythmanalysis: Space Time and Everyday Life, I emphasize the rhythms of the street that are interrupted by public expressions. After a review of Lefebvre's work on rhythms, I offer digital annotation techniques to map the material and medium of public inscriptions of one neighborhood of Kadıköy, İstanbul called Rasimpaşa, a district historically called "Yeldeğirmeni" or "The Windmill." The focus on public graffiti, street art, posters, signs, stickers, or other verbal traces in public space allows for an expansion of the concept of "short literature" to include their lived habitats as rhythmic ensembles.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION AND CONTEXTUAL DEFINITION OF THE ARISTOCRACY -- Chapter 2 THE RELATIONSHIP OF CLASS AND ETHNICITY -- Chapter 3 THE REALIZATION OF EXPRESSION IN THE ETHNOGRAPHIC CONTEXT -- Chapter 4 THE ORGANIZATION OF URBAN LIVING -- Chapter 5 ECONOMY, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION -- Chapter 6 RELIGION -- Chapter 7 SOCIAL ORGANIZATION -- Chapter 8 INTERNAL STRATIFICATION AND ORGANIZATION OF THE GROUP -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Glossaries -- Bibliography -- Index

This article explores the reasons for the introduction of anticorruption agencies of a specific type in Eastern Europe. It is argued that one of the important functions of these agencies—which are stronger on information gathering, coordination and strategy rather than on investigation of concrete cases—is to give to the government some leverage over the anticorruption discourse. Presenting the anticorruption commissions and agencies as (discourse-controlling) instruments gives an answer to the troubling question why governing parties are at all interested in the introduction of such bodies. Apart from instrumentalization in political discourse, anticorruption bodies in Eastern Europe have had other effects as well. As shown in the Baltic case, institutional engineering provides for a brief window of opportunity during which political forces committed to integrity could gain the upper hand. The problem in Eastern Europe, however, is not the lack of such windows of opportunities—it is more the lack of really committed political forces capable of continuous and consistent anticorruption effort.

▪ Abstract  This review contrasts the relative lack of interest in "popular culture" within anthropology with the close, increasingly critical attention this concept has received within cultural studies. Rejecting both a production-oriented model of a manipulative mass culture imposed from above and a reception-oriented model of an expressive culture of the people, cultural studies scholars broke with essentialized conceptions and redefined the popular in Gramscian terms, as a zone of contestation, a site where the struggle for hegemony unfolds. The review uses this approach to relate the production of popular culture to class formation in the United States. Against overemphasis on the ideological effectivity of popular culture and a revisionist tendency to redefine it in affirmative, politically essentialized terms, the review suggests that contradictions and instabilities characterize all stages of the popular cultural circuit: commodity, text, and lived culture.

Capitalism and Crisis in Global California -- Acknowledgments -- The Politics and Poetics of Rebellion -- The Art of Labor Protest -- Multiracial Rebellion in California's Fields -- "A Different Kind of Union": The Politics of Solidarity in the Big Strike of 1934-- Making Policy for the People -- Reimagining Citizenship in the Age of Expulsion -- Radicalism at the Ballot Box -- Expressive Culture and the Politics of the Possible -- The Art of Opposition in the Culture Industry's Capital -- Native Jazz and Oppositional Culture in Round Valley Reservation

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword - 'pull up!': confronting dancehall in/security -- Preface -- Notes on style -- Introduction -- 1 Corporeal in/securities in the dancehall space -- 2 Practice, vision, security -- 3 Me badi a fe me BMW (my body is my BMW): engaging the badi (body) to interrogate the shifting in/securities within the co-culture daaance'all -- 4 Interrogating in/securities in the recording studios of Kingston -- 5 The mask for survival: a discourse in dancehall regalia -- 6 Dancehall dancing bodies: the performance of embodied in/security -- 7 An in/secure life in dance -- thoughts on dancehall's in/ secure lives -- 8 The warrior wine - the rotation of Caribbean masculinity -- 9 'Sounding' out the system: noise, in/security and the politics of citizenship -- Index.

Through the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, and following recent publications that champion the theoretical significance of jurisdiction, this article reads jurisdiction as a technique of legal fiction-making and as capable of exposing an originary ontological category of "being-with." Rather than thought of purely as an expression of the law's sovereign authority, it is argued that jurisdiction is a privileged point at which we can see the law's fragility and thus open to critical intervention and interruption. Following Nancy's understanding of "writing" and "literature" as that which exposes being-with, I suggest that we might name such strategies of creative intervention "juriswriting." This account of jurisdiction, developed by thinking with Nancy's account of ontology, is explored with reference to the common law constructions of jurisdiction in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

This book provides a timely reappraisal of youth cultures in contemporary times. From the Birmingham School to the youthscapes of South Korea, this unique collection explores the impact of globalization and new technologies on youth cultures in contrasting geographic locations. Drawing on international examples of youth cultural formations in the UK, the USA, Russia, Spain, South Korea and India, the book profiles the best of new research in youth studies written by leading scholars in the field. Acknowledging the past to explore the present, the book is a landmark publication in the rich history of research on the expressive cultures of young people, reframing 'resistance' and 'ritual' to offer fresh insights into the meaning and significance of youth cultures on a global stage.

Abstract: The decisive aspect of society development in the modern world is scientific and cultural interaction, cooperation. We hope that this article, devoted to the study of emotional-expressive syntax in Tatar and French, will make a definite contribution to the development of world scientific and intercultural understanding and cooperation. The problem studied in this article is significant and modern. The comparative study of the syntax of different languages, such as Tatar and French, is extremely important, since it is syntax that is the most valuable source of information about the culture of a particular people, the ideas about morality, the relations to the surrounding world, etc., which becomes the property of linguistic consciousness. This is due to the need for a linguistic analysis of Tatar and French language expressive syntax, as well as to the insufficient study of expressiveness category operation at the syntactic level. Expressive verbal sentences of Tatar and French languages are specialized syntactic means and serve to implement the category of emotional expression. Verbal emotional-expressive sentences in Tatar and French are distinguished by a great variety of structural types. The linguistic specificity of the axiological syntactic units of Tatar and French languages is expressed in their emotional-evaluative lexical content and is associated with the cultural and national characteristics of the studied language bearers. The obtained results make a definite contribution to the development of language expressive picture issue, as well as to communicative linguistics, linguistics and functional stylistics