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Preparing Artists to Save the World: Community-Engaged Arts Practice as Critical Pedagogy Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Sarah Peters, Tully Barnett
The sustained marginalisation of creative arts in higher education in Australia risks the delivery of superficial learning experiences that are disconnected from the relationality of place, people,...
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A translational sociology: interdisciplinary perspectives on politics and society Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Kun Long
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A Timely Example of Deep Listening: Tackling the Epistemological Crisis in the North Khoisan Consciousness: An Ethnography of Emic Histories and Indigenous Revivalism in Post-Apartheid Cape Town Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 June Bam
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Carrie Mae Weems’ Intersectional Tropes: Engaging Black Feminism Within Arts Teacher Education Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Montserrat Rifà-Valls, Sara López Ruiz
In this article, we approach the visual tropes in Carrie Mae Weems’ bodies from an intersectional perspective through mobilising critical arts and black feminist studies for art pedagogies. A const...
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Khoisan Consciousness: An Ethnography of Emic Histories and Indigenous Revivalism in Post-Apartheid Cape Tow Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Basil Coetzee
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Response to Ntongela Masilela and the New African Movement: A Critical Appreciation Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Bridget Thompson
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Ntongela Masilela’s Insidious Historico-Biographical Method: An Uneasy Balance Enabling the Re-reading of Memoir and Contemporary History Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Busani Ngcaweni, Kgomotso M. Masemola
Whereas the intellectual labour of re-memorialising what has come to be understood as the “living archive of Ntongela Masilela” hinges on the broad corpus that he churned out as he steadily carved ...
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Between Calligraphic Untranslatability and Symbolic Translatability: Xu Bing’s Pictographic Art Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Zhen Zhang
Emily Apter’s conception of the “untranslatable” taps into the dynamics and difficulties of translation between languages and cultures. The process of translation is described as a “intransigent nu...
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New Perspectives on Geography of Media Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Jinghua Yuan, Yuhui Chen
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Emic and etic perspectives on Khoisan revivalism: a response to Bam, Coetzee, Gordon, and Øvernes. Khoisan Consciousness: An Ethnography of Emic Histories and Indigenous Revivalism in Post-Apartheid Cape Town Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Rafael Verbuyst
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The art of Making Public: Mapping Networks of Art Mediation Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Siebren Nachtergaele, Lieze De Middeleir, Griet Verschelden, An De bisschop
Current art mediation practices often show experimental forms of relating “art” and “public” and are navigating in non-linear ways at the intersection of art and education. In this paper we explore...
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People Living with HIV/AIDS are Nothing to be Afraid of: A Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of HIV/AIDS Stigmas and Mythologies in One Selected IsiXhosa Short Story Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Mlamli Diko
HIV/AIDS stigmas and mythologies continue to sabotage and delay the South African government’s attempts to manage and mitigate this epidemic. As a result of this, many people are reluctant to test,...
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Art Gallery Education Between Translation and Dialogism: Artwork, Learning and Pedagogy Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Anwar Tlili
Drawing on insights drawn from multidisciplinary studies of the arts and translation studies, this article aims to conceptualize the work of translation within art gallery education. It unpacks and...
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Coloniality and Migrancy in African Diasporic Literatures Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Jie Guo, Xiaobo Dong
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Media Characteristics and Subject Boundaries of Metaverse Art Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Yiran Xiong
Digitization is the primary form of Metaverse art, making the Metaverse digitally re-enable the unfolding of art. First, as a digital art form, non-fungible token (NFT) art acts as a media technolo...
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Verbuyst and the Khoisan Phenomenon: A review of Khoisan Consciousness – an Ethnography of Emic Histories and Indigenous Revivalism in Post-Apartheid Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Siv Øvernes
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Subject, Time, Space, User, Integration: Five Breaking Points of Metaverse Literature and Art Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Ling Yu, Luo Jiangyu, Zhang Yu
The power of new media lies in its ability to cultivate creativity in various domains. Metaverse literature and art open up new possibilities in five dimensions, surpassing the limitations of tradi...
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The Loneliness Room: Creative Practice as Critical Pedagogy Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Sean Redmond
Loneliness has become one of the most pressing research issues of the contemporary age, with a vast literature emerging from health, education, the social sciences, and cultural studies to better u...
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Kaziyang’emasisweni: Ntongela Masilela and Mazisi Kunene’s Dialogue of Great Civilisations Across Time Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Zodwa Motsa
In Theory of the Idea, Plato proposes an intersection of the abstract and the concrete as the genesis of a new product. This discussion is centred on the Platonian notion and ingenuity of the graft...
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From “The Cotton Wool” to Criticality: Unpacking FC Bergman’s The Sheep Song Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Geert Vandermeersche, Elvira Crois, Line Dalile, Sara Demény, Camille Dumont, Aline Verbeke, Free De Backer
This article discusses the relationship between the critical potential of the arts and dominant notions of criticality. Traditionally, “critical thinking” is often equated with rationality and deli...
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Uncomfortable Knowledges and Transformative Learning: Reimagining the Museum in the Art of Gustafsson&Haapoja Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Heidi Kosonen, Johanna Turunen, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen
Destructive human action is causing interconnected ecological and social challenges on an unprecedented scale. Scholars and artists from varied fields have critically expressed their concern about ...
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Analysing the Character Types and Power Relationships in Metaverse-Themed Movies from the Perspective of Discipline and Anti-discipline Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Bai Lian, Wang Li
Since the end of 2021, the concept of “metaverse” has received widespread attention in academic field. Movie sector has long been exploring it prospectively and presenting it innovatively, resultin...
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Ntongela Masilela and the New African Movement: A Critical Appreciation Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Bongani Ngqulunga, Busani Ngcaweni, Keyan Tomaselli
This article examines the intellectual legacy left by the late literary historian, the well-travelled Ntongela Masilela, a hitherto under-studied cultural and literary scholar whose analytical sign...
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The Social Cohesion Dilemma: Theoretical Reflections on Critical Music Pedagogy Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Carolin Müller
Critical pedagogy has become a crucial element in managing post-migration societies, especially concerning the social cohesion dilemma that diversity creates. Through an ethnography of critical mus...
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The Decolonial Turn in Khoisan Studies: Opportunities, Pitfalls, and new Directions in Longstanding Debates Concerning Southern Africa’s Indigenous People Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Rafael Verbuyst
A “decolonial turn” is arguably afoot in Khoisan Studies, an interdisciplinary field of enquiry that originated in the colonial era and focuses on the Khoisan indigenous peoples of Southern Africa....
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Unlearning Imperialism Through Artistic Remediation: A Critical Pedagogy Approach Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Ana Cristina Mendes
Analysing art that emerges from remediation can be a form of critical pedagogy in and of itself. This article focuses on art forms that involve remediation as a strategy of the critical pedagogy of...
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“I Searched for Form and Land, for Years and Years I Roamed”: Reflecting on an (A)Typical Academic Journey Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Geoff A. Goldman
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Vol. 37, No. 5, 2023)
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Rapid Communication: Critical Management Studies/Cultural Studies Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Lauren Dyll, Keyan G. Tomaselli
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Vol. 37, No. 5, 2023)
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An Investigation of Exploitation and Labour Within Memes Production: A Case Study of South African Student Meme Pages Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Gcina Mgcina, Ufuoma Akpojivi
This study investigates labour, and exploitation within the production and consumption of student memes in South Africa. Using two case studies of two prominent South African student meme pages fou...
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“Memory, the Guardian of all Things”: Ntongela Masilela and the Project of Re- membering Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Sam Tlhalo Raditlhalo, Busani Ngcaweni
This article is a contribution to the commemorative special issue of Critical Arts, which is dedicated to the memory of Ntongela Masilela, who passed away on 6 July 2020. Masilela was a world-renow...
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Zulu masculinities in South African soap opera: Uzalo, Imbewu and Isibaya Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Melba Nzimande, Lauren Dyll
This paper explores the production and consumption of contemporary Zulu masculinities presented in three South African soap operas by Zulu male audiences living in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Expl...
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Order and Chaos: A Study on the Female Figure and Metaphor in Nymph of the Luo River in the Context of Iconology and Spatial Study Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Nan Li, Dawei Lu
This study aims to explore the multifaceted aesthetic, social and cultural metaphors, and implications behind the portrayal of the goddess in Gu Kaizhi’s (顾恺之, 344–406CE) handscroll painting entitl...
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Political Imagination and Utopian Pedagogy Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Suvi Salmenniemi, Pilvi Porkola, Hanna Ylöstalo
This article contributes to the theorisation of utopian pedagogy by exploring how arts-based exercises can be used in engaged pedagogy to facilitate the cultivation of political imagination. Engagi...
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Towards a Critical Pedagogy for Inclusion: Disability-led Arts and its Radical Promise in Singapore Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Bella Choo, Grace Lee-Khoo
The inclusion of disabled people in Singapore (and globally) is gaining traction given the dominance of transnational instruments like the United Nations Convention on the Rights for Persons with D...
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Media Power and Hegemony in South Africa: The Myth of Independence Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Baoqin Wu
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Text-Image Theory: Reflections on the Sign Crisis Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Wang Yingzi
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Vol. 37, No. 4, 2023)
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Acculturation and Ethnic Costume Preservation: A Grounded Theory Study on Heterogeneous Strategies in Japan and Korea Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Ping Qu, Lanying Jiang
There has been increased focus on the role of national costumes in preserving national cultural heritage. As a carrier of culture, ethnic costumes are not only fashion but also symbols of history, ...
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Correction Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-12-14
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2023)
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Digital Virtuality and Autopoiesis: the transformation from world elements of literature and arts to metaverse Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Shan Xiaoxi
Currently, the metaverse points to the human “world” in the context of a “multiverse.” Historically, large-scale multiplayer online games, the iteratively developed internet, and virtual reality ha...
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Subject Validity Issues and Potential Solutions in the Era of Metaverse–Starting with the Concern Over Property Rights in Crypto Art Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Qian Xie
In a pre-digital epoch, humans possessed the material means of production through material labor, which allowed them to exercise subjective agency and establish their existence as subjects through ...
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The Role of Wushu Martial Arts Representation in the Contemporary Mass Culture of the World Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Chunlei Xue, Huizhong Bai, Yunfei Niu, Ruijie Zhang
Wushu occupies a considerable place in world culture as one of the most widely known martial arts. Wushu is a remarkable part of modern popular culture and is present in the context of cinema, comp...
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Speaking Back to the Landscape Canon: Cultural Translation in Phumulani Ntuli’s Cloud Migration and the Liewe Land! Exhibition Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Landi Raubenheimer
In this article I argue that contemporary artists in post-and decolonial contexts are adopting deliberate approaches to respond to and revise canonical art, in what I interpret as acts of cultural ...
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The Development Stages of Metaverse and Its Cultural Consequences Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Jun Zeng
The discussion on the metaverse requires considering its cultural consequences through its artistic imagination and technological realization. The current stage of the metaverse presents a sharp co...
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Art, Images, and Their Media as Sites of Memorialisation Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-11-26 Lyrene Kühn-Botma
In this article, I hypothesise that it is in the interaction with digital or material picture objects, or engagement with art dealing with the topic of grief and loss, that the viewer may experienc...
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Theorizing Afrophobia Beyond Apartheid: Conflict Cultures in Neill Blomkamp's District 9 Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-11-26 Addamms Mututa
The persistent Afrophobic attacks on black African immigrants in South Africa since the 1990s alert us to a new cultural watershed. Just when the country had done away with apartheid, the black-on-...
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Will the Metaverse Revolutionize the Narrative? Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-11-26 Zhiqiang Zhou
The metaverse narrative “inverts” the relationship between human beings and the story. It uses the whole human body as “feeling node” and creates hallucinatory immersion consciousness and interacti...
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Robots, AI, and the Metaverse: Distinguishing the Intelligent Images in Science Fiction Movies Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Chen Yu
The metaverse represents a significant leap forward in the creation of immersive and intelligent imagery. The evolution of intelligent imagery in sci-fi movies is characterized by the emergence, de...
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Theatre in Transition: Lars Elleström's Media Modalities and the Rise of “Video Theatre” Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Eleni Timplalexi
During the COVID-19 pandemic, pre-recorded and recorded videos were extensively live-streamed or displayed on online platforms, usually as a substitute for the “real thing”. Online theatre became a...
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The Disparity View: The Metaverse as an Equivalent of Life Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Feng Wang
The metaverse and real life are not in opposition. From the long-term perspective of technology development, nearly all forms of life are shaped by technology. The metaverse, temporarily in juxtapo...
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Ecological Thinking about the Metaverse from a Posthumanist Perspective Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Yigang Liu
The metaverse is a burgeoning technological domain, ranging from data-driven algorithms to advanced artificial intelligence. Immersive virtual reality does not reflect the ecological crisis in fict...
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“Heed the Mute Language of Nature”: An Ecosemiotic Approach to Urban Wildlife Photography as Translation of Solastalgia1 Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Xany Jansen van Vuuren, Helen-Mary Cawood
This paper attempts to conceptualise urban wildlife photography as so-called intersemiotic translation by reconceptualising the photographer as a translator who acts as “a mediator in an experienti...
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Ruinscapes and Temporalities in Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Şevket Sarper Dörter
Zoo City is set in an alternative Johannesburg, in which animals and humans, and magic and science, co-operate and co-exist. In this alternate setting, people who commit murder are “animalled” with...
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Small is Beautiful: Japanese Aesthetic Consciousness in the Animated Adaptation of The Borrowers Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Sijia Wu
British writer Mary Norton’s well-known novel The Borrowers was successfully adapted into the Japanese animated film Arrietty the Borrower (Karigurashi no Arrietty), rewritten by Hayao Miyazaki and...
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Shame, Techne and Embodied Translation in Lara Foot’s Tshepang: The Third Testament Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Abigail Wiese
This article discusses the techne of performance aesthetics in Lara Foot’s play Tshepang: The Third Testament (2004) in relation to the emotion of shame and the question of how the performers and a...
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Translation as Metamorphosis in the Animated Poetry-Film Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Diek Grobler
Adapting or translating poetry to a new medium destabilises the significance of each of the elements of a poem’s make-up. Hanna Andrews states that in translating poetry, the “idea or emotion itsel...
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Depictions of Black Defiance and Sovereign African Personhood in SEK Mqhayi’s U-Don Jadu Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Nomalanga Mkhize, Melathisi Ncityana
SEK Mqhayi’s novel u-Don Jadu has most commonly been characterised as a novel depicting an idealistic aspiration for social equality between Black and white in South Africa. In the novel, the prota...
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Phenomenology as Experiential Translation: Towards a Semiotic Typology of Descriptive and Expressive Ways of Making Sense of Experience Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Jakob Boer
This paper critically assesses and argues for the value of first- and second-person phenomenological approaches to researching aesthetic experiences. Against the background of a review of academic ...
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Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Africa Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Jianmei Yang, Suiqi Lou
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Alleviative Objects: Intersectional Entanglement and Progressive Racism in Caribbean Art Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Jarula M. I. Wegner
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Vol. 37, No. 5, 2023)
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Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Huimin Hao
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)