This paper reproduces an interview from June 2021 with Professor Søren Askegaard, president of the international Consumer Culture Theory Consortium. In discusses current status in academy, challenges facing researchers consumer culture, and outlines some his thoughts on possible future directions for field. The wide-ranging touches issues including emerging cultures, politics those developing r...

The persistence of African cultural traits among Black Americans has long been recognized. Elements of present-day Afro-American speech, music, dance, and diet have been identified as African in origin (e.g ., Blassingame 1972; Garrett 1966; Lomax 1970). It is likely that during the 18th and 19th centuries such elements were more pronounced than today. As Blassingame writes: "The most remarkabl...

A standard view of Southern history identifies the Civil War and emancipation as a key stage in the transition to capitalism or “modernization”. This interpretation is closely associated with the work of Charles and Mary Beard, and was epitomized in C. Vann Woodward’s Origins of the New South, a survey of postbellum Southern history that remains highly influential today, more than half a centur...

After the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill began in April 2010, studies were initiated on northern Gulf of Mexico common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Mississippi Sound (MSS) to determine density, abundance, and survival, during and after the oil spill, and to compare these results to previous research in this region. Seasonal boat-based photo-identification surveys (2010-2012) w...

It is well known that Karl Marx explained profit in capitalist economies as arising primarily from the exploitation of productive labor. Less generally understood is Marx’s theory as to the economic logic of capitalist exploitation, in particular the sense in and degree to which the latter depends on direct capitalist control of production, which Marx termed the subsumption of labor under capit...

It is late evening in the bustling global city of Hyderabad, India, in July 2004—a large billboard with a single human figure looms out of the horizon alongside a new highway bridge that adjoins high-rise office buildings, apartments, and shopping complexes. A young Indian woman dressed in low-rise blue jeans and a tight tank top with her thumb inserted suggestively into the waistband of her je...

This paper showed the results of a qualitative investigation that looked into intracultural communication between Brazilian teachers and students of English, and intercultural communication between American teachers and Brazilian students of English. The aims were to identify and describe contextualization cues used by both Brazilian and American speakers of English, and to connect these cues w...