ANEKA RAGAM SPIRITUALITAS DALAM KEBUDAYAAN KONTEMPORER by Ngainun Naim

“…The emergence of this movement is influenced by the effort to release from religious countercultures. Other manifestation of this spiritualism is in the form of fundamentalism movement. …”
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The Spillovers of Competition: Value-based Activism and Political Cross-fertilization in an Indian Campus by Jean-Thomas Martelli

“…The recent spur of student-led mobilizations in India led to the portrayal of select public universities as the epitome of resistance, dissent and countercultural politics. Departing from essentialist approaches to student politics, this article outlines the processes by which campus spaces activate the formation of political attitudes among participants. …”
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From the Hood to the White House: The Cultural Imaginary of Presidential Blackness in Head of State by Atalie Gerhard

“…I focus on how the film attributes an anti-establishment legacy to a minority president based on his countercultural identity performances although he remains complicit with foundational institutions of government. …”
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Visions of China: Avant-Orientalism, Art Rock, and Conflicted Otherness by Gabriele

“… The essay reexamines the countercultural positionality of art rock musical works by considering the often-dismissed correlations between Western rock and the Oriental. …”
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The Art of Life, the Dance of Poetry: Gender, Experiment and Experience in Mina Loy and Diane di Prima by Isabel Castelao-Gómez

“… Mina Loy and Diane di Prima’s experimental poetic contributions to their early “situational avant-gardes” (the 1910s Modernists and late 1950s Beats in New York) vindicated the relation of gender and experiment within their countercultural movements, redefining these groups’ poetic and ideological tenets. …”
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Ivan Kozlenko’s Tanzher and the Odesa Myth: Multidirectional Memory As a Strategy of Subversion by Vitaly Chernetsky

“…This article analyzes the project of utopian transgression the novel seeks to enact and situates it both in the domestic socio-cultural field and in the broader contexts of global countercultural practices. It also examines the challenges faced by post-communist societies struggling with the new conservative turn in national cultural politics. …”
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“Ecologically camping, eating, drinking wine.” Material and knowledge flows in the Minimum Cost Housing Group’s ECOL Operation, 1971-76 by Lee Stickells

“…This highlights a more complex background to the counterculturally-inflected ventures of 1970s ecological design. …”
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Danza del vientre vs. Neoburlesque: ¿prácticas subversivas o tecnologías de género? by Mª Dolores Tena Medialdea

“…This essay analyses the commercial reification of two types of dance, the named Oriental or belly dance and the striptease, which raised as popular countercultural spectacles in Western metropolis during the last colonial period. …”
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Storytelling – EDU: Educational - Digital – Unlimited? by Theo Hug

“…Böhme), thus being justified as "literal countercultures" in which it is imperative to defend literality as the foremost achievement in the process of civilization, whereas otherwise calls for "new literacies" cannot go unnoticed. …”
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Exploring and Illustrating the (Inter-)Disciplinarity of Waste and Zero Waste Management by Jonathon Hannon

“…The scope of this challenge increases with the adoption of more holistic, aspirational, countercultural approaches, such as zero waste. It is argued that, enhancing interdisciplinary training and collaboration in research, education and industry/community practice, will improve performance across the spectrum of worldviews, from waste to zero waste.…”
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Becoming-Black Bloc, Becoming-Anartist: the art of prolonging and remodulating counter-cultural lines of flight by Gian Luigi Biagini

“…The text describes the practice of the Anartist, which consists of interventions that subvert the urban space with an antagonist and countercultural spin inspired by the Black Bloc. The evil aura and the symbolic violence of the Black Blocks, a sort of magical Black Mana, are folded into a subversive aesthetic expressiveness that opens a line of escape in the urban space and provokes a viral infection in the Integrated Spectacle of Capitalism. …”
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Christian Year by Robin Knowles Wallace

“…The diversity of humanity is exhibited in the Christian year through a variety of debates arising from the value that a church or tradition might place on observing various holy days; how the Christian calendar is related to other calendars; whether the gospel and the Christian year itself is considered countercultural, assimilated to colonizers’ calendars, or accommodated to Indigenous calendars; and how much society and environment should affect an understanding of the Christian year. …”
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Paul's Perspective on the Role of Women in Leadership and its Relevance to the Church in Africa by Nathaniel Oluseyi Oyewole

“…In some areas, his approach is countercultural, and in others, it is conventional. The paper adopts an analytical approach to unravel Paul’s perspective of women's leadership roles from Pauline's literature and scholars' opinions. …”
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Mystical Experience: Women’s Pathway to Knowledge by Maria Clara Bingemer

“…Our conclusions will be based on this and on the countercultural benefits that mystical experience lived through by women can bring to contemporary times.…”
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De los nuevos entramados tecnosociales: emergencias políticas y educativas About new techno-social networks: political and educational emergencies by Rocío Rueda Ortiz

“…<br>This article is based on a qualitative research done with five countercultural groups in Colombia, which intensively use information and communication technologies. …”
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'Grasp All, Lose All': Raising Awareness Through Loss of Grasp in Seemingly Functional Interfaces by Diogo Marques

“…From baroque proto-cybertexts to countercultural gestures by historical avant-gardes, there is a longstanding tradition of disruptive strategies used by artists at the interstices of societies’ demands for order, control, and functionalism. …”
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La città ostile: architetture e strategie dell’esclusione nelle metropoli contemporanee by Santina Musolino, Emanuele Rossi

“…The paper will therefore propose a sociological reflection on these strategies and, in particular, on what is configured as a real “architecture of order” (Di Cesare 2020; Ascari 2019), that is a type of architecture that implies a massive presence within our cities of urban furnishings such as spikes, protrusions, benches with bollards, metal nets, fences and obstacles of all kinds that have the task of making the life of those already on the edge of the city even more complicated: poor, foreigners, countercultures (Ascari 2019). Taking into consideration the national and international literature on the subject, this contribution will try to reconstruct the dynamics and social effects of a way of conceiving the city in which security and control tendencies represent a real war against the most fragile and marginal people, outlining an idea of an increasingly hostile and repulsive city. …”
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The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1965-1982): exhibitions, spectatorship and social change by Floe, H

“…Chapter one examines the museum’s relationship to utopian countercultures through the metaphor of the museum as 'garden'; chapter two considers the erstwhile 'permanent' collection and its connection to corporate patronage; chapter three investigates the parallel forces of institutional critique and institutionalization; and chapter four addresses didactic strains in the museum’s representation of an emergent multiculturalism. …”

El operaísmo y el resurgimiento de la Sociología italiana by Giuliano Tardivo, Maximiliano Fernández

“…Operaísmo and the resurgence of Italian Sociology In this paper, an analysis of operaísmo (workerism), a political and countercultural movement in Italy of the sixties and seventies, is carried out from a historical and sociological viewpoint. …”
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Convergencias y divergencias entre los lenguajes narrativos, cinematográficos, pictóricos y clínicos en Girl, Interrupted de Susanna Kaysen y James Mangold / Convergences and diver... by Francisco José Cortés Vieco

“…Understanding the female experience as a polyphonic, sororal text —both written and audiovisual, they capture the daguerreotype of a bourgeois girl, yet an outcast, whose physical and psychological development is interrupted by patriarchal institutions: family and psychiatry, which (mis)diagnose her insanity, and lock her up in an asylum, in order to correct countercultural behaviors: her suicidal and sexual pulses. …”
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