The evolution of the concept of environmental discourses: is environmental ideologies a useful concept? Aliaksandr Novikau* Department of Politics and International Affairs, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA. Abstract The concept of environmental discourses currently has two distinct meanings in environmental politics. The first approach emphasizes its traditional meaning, as textual ...

This article aims to describe a model of strengthening Buddhist moderation through the symbolic value Gandavyuha reliefs at Borobudur Temple. The problem focused on teachings manifested in various cultures. adherents have ideologies until sectarian classes emerge. Buddhists believe that Temple is local wisdom sacred values and religious as guide for behavior. To approach this problem, theory in...

The Islamic Revolution of Iran has included symbolic aspects. The fundamental question of the article is that, what are the symbolic aspects of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and why the Islamic Republic of Iran has used these features to influence Islamic countries? Since the bearers of the word and the symbolic goods have the most legitimacy in social and political fields, this revolution has...

This study examines the vogue of adopting foreign-origin place names in Chinese cities and governments’ endeavors to regulate toponymic landscape. The naming practices, management, public attitudes concerning foreign toponyms are analyzed reveal cultural politics ideologies China’s context. It is found that emplaced urban space mostly have Western origins or roots, their profusion largely attri...

This article foregrounds pandemic fiction’s subversive and visionary potential through the example of Ling Ma’s dystopian novel "Severance" (2018). Emphasizing capacity for symbolic intervention in a era, I argue that text undermines tropes nation-building strategic employment minor feelings, opacity, spectral liminality. My analysis focuses on Chinese American protagonist’s conflicted relation...

Culture influences action not by providing the ultimate values toward which action is oriented, but by shaping a repertoire or "tool kit" of habits, skills, and styles from which people construct "strategies of action." Two models of cultural influence are developed, for settled and unsettled cultural periods. In settled periods, culture independently influences action, but only by providing re...

In this review, we highlight the importance of understanding diversity ideologies, or people’s beliefs and practices regarding diversity, for social psychological research on intergroup relations. This review focuses on two diversity ideologies, colorblindness and multiculturalism, and their impact on core issues related to intergroup conflict, such as stereotypes, prejudice, attitudes toward i...

The revolution of 2020 in Belarus has often been described as a new 1989 and there is no doubt that the emancipatory appeal Belarusian protests similar to one sustained revolutions. But will building democratic system—the major aspiration protesters—follow scripts liberalization westernization evidence other eastern central European countries? Will self-determination post-Lukashenka follow scen...

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