The article at hand explores the concept of playful scholarship, focusing specifically on use playfulness in re-assessing collaboration between academia and societal partners to tackle “intractable policy controversies” (Schön Rein 1994, p. 23)—i.e., challenges which opposing parties operate with conflicting frames (often without even noticing). After arguing that earlier attempts using games o...

Many histories of the civil war and biographies of Margaret Lucas Cavendish recount the story that, in 1648, parliamentary soldiers desecrated the Lucas family tomb, scattered the remains of Cavendish’s mother and sister, and tore out the corpses’ hair to wear in their hats. Tracking down the sources of this widely repeated story, this essay examines the role of textual accounts in producing th...

Although explicit references to religion are rare in the marketplace, pictorial representations and rhetoric evocative of religious figures and concepts manifest a unique strategy in contemporary American beer branding. By reflecting societal views, prejudices, and preferences, advertising provides an enclosed narrative of how people think and in turn illustrates the way in which society is str...

When conceptualizing “The Unexpected Caribbean” special issue for the journal of Women, Gender, and Families Color, we, as editors, sought to contest many stereotypical visualizations Caribbean its diasporas highlight some unexpected counternarratives innovations in representation that appear literature, arts, society. Focusing on women, gender, families allowed us consider how women—typically ...