Language personality’s verbal component structure: the system of basic contexturologemes by D I Ivanov

“…The article studies the specifics of verbal component structure of the synthetic language personality in countercultural linguistic epoch of Russian rock. Special attention is paid to a certain type of new conceptual codes — the system of basic contexturologemes.…”
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When You Do Not Fit In: Ugliness as a Theological Problem by Dávid Cielontko, Jan Zámečník

“…As a counterpoint to these tendencies, the article emphasises the idea of the ugly suffering servant Christ, which contains pastoral and countercultural potential.…”
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Neotrance and the Psychedelic Festival by Graham St John

“…This article explores the religio-spiritual characteristics of psytrance (psychedelic trance), attending specifically to the characteristics of what I call <em>neotrance</em> apparent within the contemporary trance event, the countercultural inheritance of the “tribal” psytrance festival, and the dramatizing of participants’ “ultimate concerns” within the festival framework. …”
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Ré-habiter la Terre. Cinquante ans d’utopies biorégionalistes by Paolo Stuppia

“…In line with its countercultural origins, Bioregionalism seeks a transition to local alternatives. …”
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Vaporwave is dead, long live vaporwave! by Harper, A

“…Popular music subcultures have acknowledged, engaged with, or rejected digital platforms to varying degrees; their relationship to it is often made fraught, ambivalent and ironic by projections of the Internet as inauthentic or impersonal and their inheritance of Romantic-influenced countercultural aesthetics. The genre vaporwave offers a key example of this, especially given that it emerged and exists almost exclusively on digital platforms. …”

Kulturne Determinante Globalizacije i Održivi Razvoj / Sustainable Development and Cultural Determinants of Globalization by Đukić Petar

“…As a set of permanent material and immaterial values and human creations, culture, as such, is exposed to a multitude of problem, countercultural and degrading processes stemming from conflicts of interest and, sometimes, from very rapid changes and uncritically accepted innovations, forms and standards. …”
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City Lights and the Emergence of Beat Poetry: How Howl and Other Poems redefined Poetic and Cultural Boundaries in the mid-1950s by Peggy Pacini

“…This paper examines how City Lights, a San Francisco-based small press, became not only the lighthouse in the Bay for Beat and Beat-related artists and poets but also a countercultural organ of dissent channelling new poetic visions and aesthetics starting from the mid-1950s. …”
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The Postmodern Challenges in Chuck Palahniuk’s Prose by Jekaterina Korjuhina

“…Among the epithets used are: "king of countercultural prose", author of fascinating anti-social novels, cult author and a number of others. …”
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« Tutto era innominabile ma niente era inimmaginabile » by Cinzia Scarpino

“…Joan Didion’s «The White Album» – the key essay of the 1979 nonfiction book of the same name – offers the reader a reflection on the ethical and aesthetic predicament of chronicling the countercultural Zeitgeist of 1960s California by imposing a narrative line on «stories without a narrative». …”
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Kampung Dreamworld : a critical look at contemporary nostalgia by Leow, Si Min

“…As a response to the fear and uncertainty of the future, nostalgia has been adopted as an individual instrument of survival and a countercultural practice. Contemporary nostalgia serves as a defense mechanism against time, providing us with comfort and allowing us to critically reflect about the present and future. …”
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Globalisasi dan Diaspora Cina dalam Perspektif Post-Kolonial: Dinamika Strategi Ekonomi dan Identitas Budaya by Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib

“…ABSTRACT This article attempts to draw the effect of globalization shown through the success of Chinese Diaspora in pursuing global capitalism across national and cultural borders which in turn enriched cultural values and class strategy. The countercultural-production of diasporan Chinese is a complex dynamic process rooted in the history of diasporan and European colonialism. …”

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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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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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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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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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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