Freedom of expression, aspiration and gender: A cultuling in the student demonstration by Siti Nurbayani, Elly Malihah, Millary Agung Widiawaty, Moh. Dede, Bayu Iqbal Anshari, Asep Mahpudz, Erry Sukriah, Sri Wahyuni

“…The demonstration slogans incorporated humor, sarcasm, and references to popular culture. Slogans were often written in all caps, including social media hashtags. …”
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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…Lacking the economic resources for such a luxury of patriarchal imagination, black nationalist practice most frequently resorts to more figurative embodiments of the gigantic feminine in art, poetry, song, and dance.Gaines’s gigantic female who voices and embodies black American epochal and epical history, Miss Jane Pittman, is cast as novel and film (1974) at the height of the black nationalist moment, when metaphorical she/males emblematizing the masculine heroism of black nation-building are proliferating all over the place in black popular culture. This paper analyzes Miss Jane Pittman in this historical context of the black nationalist gigantic female icon. …”
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CONTRIBUTORS by Prof Ronit Frenkel

“…Ronit Frenkel, as the incoming editor, plans on maintaining the panAfrican scope of the journal while increasing its coverage into fields such as books, art, literature and popular cultures. …”
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Contributing Authors by Ronit Frenkel

“…Ronit Frenkel, as the incoming editor, plans on maintaining the pan-African scope of the journal while increasing its coverage into fields such as books, art, literature and popular cultures. The Thinker is a ‘hybrid’ journal, publishing both journalistic pieces with more academic articles and contributors can now opt to have their submissions peer reviewed. …”
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Contributors to the Edition by Prof Ronit Frenkel

“…Ronit Frenkel, as the incoming editor, plans on maintaining the pan-African scope of the journal while increasing its coverage into fields such as books, art, literature and popular cultures. The Thinker is a ‘hybrid’ journal, publishing both journalistic pieces with more academic articles and contributors can now opt to have their submissions peer reviewed. …”
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Contributors to this edition by Ronit Frenkel

“…Ronit Frenkel, as the incoming editor, plans on maintaining the pan-African scope of the journal while increasing its coverage into fields such as books, art, literature and popular cultures. The Thinker is a ‘hybrid’ journal, publishing both journalistic pieces with more academic articles and contributors can now opt to have their submissions peer reviewed. …”
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Contributors to this edition by Ronit Frenkel

“…Ronit Frenkel, as the incoming editor, plans on maintaining the pan-African scope of the journal while increasing its coverage into fields such as books, art, literature and popular cultures. The Thinker is a ‘hybrid’ journal, publishing both journalistic pieces with more academic articles and contributors can now opt to have their submissions peer reviewed. …”
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CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS EDITION by Prof Ronit Frenkel

“…Ronit Frenkel, as the incoming editor, plans on maintaining the pan-Af rican scope of the journal while increasing its coverage into fields such as books, art, literature and popular cultures. The Thinker is a ‘hybrid’ journal, publishing both journalistic pieces with more academic articles and contributors can now opt to have their submissions peer reviewed. …”
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En route vers la désinvisibilisation… et la dévulnérabilisation ? by Yann Descamps

“…Sports Mangas are very popular cultural artefacts both in Japan and France. In these works, just like in the media coverage of sport in these two countries, women athletes stand in the shadows of their male counterparts, who are constructed as undisputed, hegemonic athletic ideals. …”
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Kay Boyle et la revue transition (1927-1938) : « A new meaning to my life » by Céline MANSANTI

“…Moreover, Jolas’ “Revolution of the Word” project allowed Boyle to join what she called a new literary tradition: in her case, a progressive kind of modernism, characterized by its feminism and its capacity to mix highbrow and popular cultures, aesthetic investigations and political commitment. …”
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Une chambre à soi : genres et corps en art by Luc Schicharin, Anne-Laure Vernet

“…During the course of 2 symposium respectively called « Genderqueer Workshop : a Reflexion on Contemporary Bodies through the Arts », and « A Room to One’s Own : Genders and Bodies in Art » held from March 2015 to January 2016, the problematic of political subjectivity has been approached through an aestethical and philosophical study of works of art which are organized according to the codes of contemporary art and of militant artistic practices coming from subcultures and popular cultures. Thanks to the interdisciplinarity of the many lecturers, all coming from an international network, the diversity in epistemological analytic context, methodology and analysis, allowed an approach both sharp and renewed of the problematic of the contemporary bodies in art. …”
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‘A Part of Some Other’s Experience’: <em>Dark Victory</em>, Interdependence, and the Limits of ‘Normalcy’ in the 1930s by Anna Debinski

“…This echoes the increasing conflict around ‘normalcy’ evident in the period’s popular cultural material. Rejecting the ableist idealisation of independence, popular disabled figures such as Franklin D. …”
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Digital Games as Safe Places: The Case of Animal Crossing by Ferreira Cátia, Ganito Carla, Gonçalves Soraia

“…Digital games have become a popular cultural pastime and a profitable media industry, with an average player age of 32. …”
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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND MUSEUM OBJECTS: RESULTS OF THEIR COMPARATIVE LEGAL ANALYSIS AS OBJECTS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY by Gennady B. Zolotov

“…Based on this, the field of applied results consists of public relations related to the processes of museumisation of industrial heritage aimed at preserving and popularizing cultural values of industrial activity. The conclusions obtained made it possible to note the differentiation of objects of protection in copyright and patent law, it was established that industrial designs cannot be represented by methods and means of protection peculiar to copyright object. …”
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EXPLORING THE TOURIST ATTRACTIVENESS OF CULTURAL SITES: THE CASE OF KAZAKHSTAN by Dinara KADYRBEKOVA, Aza YEVLOYEVA, Albina BEIKITOVA, Yerkegul DYUSSEKEYEVA, Bakyt AKTYMBAYEVA, Adil MOLDAGALIYEV, Yerlan ISSAKOV, Lóránt Dénes DÁVID*

“…The study was conducted in the context of the search for ways to popularize cultural heritage in domestic tourism. Fifteen distinct variables were identified to delineate the allure of these sites, encompassing criteria such as historical significance, aesthetic and architectural value, integration of a cultural object with the natural landscape and environment, involvement of the local community in the promotion and preservation of cultural heritage, among others. …”
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