Using Japanese pop cultural heritage to create a tourist product Exploring otaku tourism by Filipe Segurado Severino

“…This emphasizes the change in travel motivations towards genuine cultural experiences and the strategic significance of popular culture in promoting destinations. The findings indicate that Japan’s strategy of blending its abundant cultural heritage with modern cultural manifestations provides valuable lessons for other destinations seeking to attract tourists based on cultural identity. …”
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Occult African Films as a Reflection of Resurrection Stories: A Socio-Cultural Perspective on Cameroonian and Nigerian Video Films by Floribert Patrick C. Endong

“…In the first place, it examines how Cameroonian and Nigerian resurrection stories describe the spirit world and affect the popular culture in Cameroon and Nigeria; while in the last place, the paper examines how these stories are particularly reflected in Cameroonian and Nigerian films.…”
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Trabalho cultural no Recôncavo da Bahia: uma abordagem a partir da organização das classes criativas by Mariella Pitombo, Frederico Barbosa, Amanda Botelho

“…Moreover, the indicators have restrictions because they do not capture amateur or nonformal activities - a defining feature of the cultural dynamics of the Recôncavo, strongly shaped by expressions of popular culture. In this sense, the economic dynamism mobilized by cultural production in the region may be even more significant than the data reveal, given the limits of quantitative methods.…”
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Nourrir les morts ou « Celui qui fait vivre », les différents régimes de commensalité rituelle chez les Mixe (Oaxaca, Mexique) by Perig Pitrou

“…The public and private celebrations that take place in Mexico in connection with the Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos), as well as the many representations of death in the form of the Catrina and skeletons, are part of a popular culture that extends well beyond the country’s borders. …”
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The Fantastic-Grotesque in Beh’Āzin’s “The Snake Stone” by Nahid Shahbazi Moghaddam

“…The snake, as the main motif of the story, is then discussed as a grotesque motif, and The snake stone is dealt with concerning common beliefs and superstitions in popular culture. In a combination of theory and discussion, the story is read through its elements of the grotesque and its fantastic aspects. …”
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Places and Cultures of Capitalism: Histories from the Grassroots by Elsa Devienne, Andrew Diamond

“…Over the past decade or so, the concept of capitalism has exploded within the domains of popular culture and mainstream political discourse in the United States, a phenomenon driven forward by the visibility of anticapitalist movements like Occupy Wall Street, the appearance of bestselling books like Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century and blockbuster movies like The Big Short, and the meteoric rise of nationally prominent democratic socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. …”
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Religião de matriz africana em São José de Ribamar/MA e a experiência de visitação acadêmica by Linda Maria Rodrigues, Elizandra Rocha

“…The African Matrix religions maintain an annual calendar of activities, called “obligation”, mixed with activities of an internal nature, and activities aimed at community participation, always with strong ties to popular culture. The methodology used was bibliographic research and field research combined with the objectives and methodology of the discipline, which considered an analysis of the so-called region that generates visitors (the City of São Luís) by a transit route (departure and arrival) to the inducing municipality of tourists (the City / Terreiro). …”
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Muslimah Creativity, Piety, and Solidarity in Mohja Kahf’s Hagar Poems by Hasnul Insani Djohar, Willy Oktaviano, Mira Utami

“…In doing so, Kahf uses the strategies of juxtaposition, humor, and irreverence by connecting Muslimah ancient leaders to her contemporary speakers who are crisscrossing Islamic traditions and American popular culture. By engaging with postcolonial and gender studies with the frameworks of leadership and Islamic studies, this paper investigates how Kahf’s women juxtapose ancient folkloric tales and American popular cultures, both to establish their multiple identities and leadership and to illuminate contemporary resonances of ancient Muslimah leaders in the eyes of subsequent generations. …”
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Acoustic exposure and fire: an analysis of ‘correfocs’ in Barcelona by Karla Berrens

“…The paper concludes proposing an aurally sustainable approach to partaking in this inherent element of Catalan popular culture. The originality of this paper is its transdisciplinary approach (between urban sociology, aural studies, and sensory studies) and the bodily effects of place-making during a correfoc.…”
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“Fearing your own queer self”: Depictions of Diasporic Queer Experience in Grace Lau’s Poetry by Joanna Antoniak

“…Through a series of interconnected vignettes, Lau provides an insight into her experiences as both a Canadian and a Chinese immigrant, a lesbian and a failed model child, an aficionado of traditional Chinese culture and an enthusiast of contemporary Western popular culture. The mosaic of experiences illustrates the complexity and intricacy of the author’s identity/ies. …”
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Hindutva as a factor of unification and confrontation in Indian society by Olga L. Solodkova, Mariia S. Antasheva

“…The authors of the study analyse problems of heightened tensions between Hindus and Muslims, the penetration of Hindutva into popular culture, and the political role of caste relations in shaping electoral strategy. …”
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AMERICAN POLONIA’S RESOURCES OF IFLUENCE AND US FOREIGN POLICY by I. D. Loshkariov

“…The second narrative is a reproduction of widespread stereotypes about Poles, including in the popular culture. Thus, institutions of the American Polonia face several tasks. …”
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The Reserve of Poetry by Geneviève Cohen-Cheminet

“…My point is not so much to unearth an Americana collectible that would express American popular culture in the 1920s but to give a measure of insight into the reserved violence of Lorine Niedecker’s aesthetic gesture.…”
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Reframing the filter bubble through diverse scale effects in online music consumption by Dougal Shakespeare, Victor Chareyron, Camille Roth

“…Abstract The impact of platforms’ algorithmic curation devices on users’ consumption diversity has long since been the subject of debate in popular culture and academia alike. In recent years, methods to concretely appraise this debate have taken a comparative turn, with emerging research strands seeking to assess the influence of algorithmic recommendations relative to users’ organic behaviour (i.e. those with a relative lack of algorithmic influence). …”
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Jeux de trompe-l’œil dans une cité déchue : La Nouvelle-Orléans de George Washington Cable dans Old Creole Days by Valérie CROISILLE

“…Drawing from oral popular culture, it was largely inspired by local archives, as Cable, once a journalist, conscientiously skimmed them before drafting his tales. …”
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La bande chantée : tradition orale et croyances pédagogiques dans le Corriere dei Piccoli by Lorenzo Di Paola, Eva Van de Wiele

“…Corriere dei Piccoli emerged during a unique moment in Italian history characterized by the convergence of popular culture and new industrial and cultural practices that foreshadowed the future advent of mass media (Colombo, 1999). …”
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RELIGIOUS COMMUNICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURE MEDIA by Maria S. Petrushkevych

“…Features of media culture that connect it with popular culture and are more likely to influence contemporary religious communication are such: visualization, technicality, handling large amounts of information, the creation of a specific picture of the world. …”
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The Wandering Character in the Coen Brothers’ Films: When the Southern Gothic Meets the Western by Julie Assouly

“…Focusing on an analysis of the Coen brothers’ Western/Southern films through the critical tool of the wandering character, this article will seek to emphasize the possible parallels that can be drawn between Southern and Western cultures, in literature and cinema, arguing that the Gothic roots of the wandering character were transferred from European literature to American Western and Southern literatures and popular culture, thus becoming essential to the generic hybridization pervading the Coens’ filmography.…”
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RELIGIOUS COMMUNICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURE MEDIA by Maria S. Petrushkevych

“…Features of media culture that connect it with popular culture and are more likely to influence contemporary religious communication are such: visualization, technicality, handling large amounts of information, the creation of a specific picture of the world. …”
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Under the Light of the Population Register Dated 1857 An Evaluation upon the Socio-Economic Lives of the Gypsy Living in İstanbul by Ayşegül Kuş

“…The Gypsyies having become the focus of interest since the date the historical records started to mention have been one of the interesting sujects of both popular culture and academic studies. They draw the attention with some differences unlike the others and generally called as nomads. …”
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