Asun LÓPEZ-VARELA AZCÁRATE
In his bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2015), Yuval Noah Harari noted that one of the most important...
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Volume 17, Issue 2, 2020
Volume 20, Issue 1, 2023
The United Nations Narrative of Climate Change: The Logic of Apocalypse
Sanja IVIC
This paper emphasizes the crucial role that language use plays in climate change communication. In particular, this paper examines UN...
Read MoreThe Upcycling and Reappropriation – On Art-Specific Circular Economy in the Age of Climate Change
Janez STREHOVEC
Whereas mainstream theories of environmental art and sustainable development consider art as a domain suitable for the application of environmentally...
Read MoreA Call for Sustainable Actions: The Voice of Little Things in Tom McCarthy Micro-story “Mermaid Figurine”
Asun LÓPEZ-VARELA AZCÁRATE
This paper reveals the importance of stories associated to specific objects. The study argues that storytelling can infuse life and...
Read MoreEnvironmentality, Sustainability, and Chinese Storytelling
Weijie SONG
Environmentality teases out the multilayered human-environment contacts and connections in terms of human agency and governmentality, ecological objects and their...
Read MorePropositions for Sustainable Futures in Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam’s Bhimayana
Rina RAMDEV
While critically examining the techno-scientific thrust that props the discourse of sustainability, this paper argues for the inclusion of the...
Read MoreThe Graphic Narrative of Liu Cixin, The Wandering Earth, and its Related Ecological Problems
Qingben LI
Focusing on the ideological connotations and artistic techniques of the graphic novel The Wandering Earth, this paper discusses its adaptation...
Read MoreIndividualism in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: the Highway to Unsustainability
Narie JUNG
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road demonstrates the centrality of individualism to the unsustainability that defines consumer culture in the Anthropocene. His...
Read MoreMeat, limits, and breaking sustainability: Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and Ang Li’s The Butcher’s Wife
Simon C. ESTOK
Many environmental ills derive from humanity’s unsustainable fondness for meat, a fondness that often pushes (and sometimes breaks) environmental limits...
Read MoreThe Role of Environment in Captain Marryat’s Novels and Victorian Culture
Seyyed Ali KHANI HOOLARI, Shamsoddin ROYANIAN
The environment is one of the salient issues that continues to challenge the political and cultural aspects of the society....
Read MoreCollective memory of the Korean independence fighter Beom-do Hong in Soviet Korean Literature
Soon-ok MYONG
The study reveals the political and ideological journey of Beom-do Hong, a Korean independence fighter and general as reflected in...
Read MoreNarratives of the Virocene: a visual ethnography with basis on the film Contagion
Weiwei YE, Maximiliano E. KORSTANJE
Over the recent years, some authors have questioned the hegemony of mankind (Anthropocene) over nature. The recent virus outbreak known...
Read MoreAn Analysis of Korean News Media on Sustainability in the Anthropocene
Aigerim BELYALOVA, Natalya YEM
The fast levels of industrialization, urbanization, globalization, and expansion of mass consumption that most countries in the world are experiencing...
Read MoreLiangzhu Cultural Heritage Speaks to the World. Hangzhou Narratives and Practices of Sustainable Urban Development
Jinghua GUO
The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), strongly believes that heritage—natural and cultural, tangible and intangible—is fundamental to addressing...
Read MoreA Case Study of the Sustainability Narratives in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
Huiyong WU
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics faced many difficulties in the field of sustainable development. These included the reduced attractiveness of...
Read MorePromoting Sustainable Development in Education: Narratives, Challenges and Reflections on Educational Equity in China from a Media Perspective
Shi YAN
Sustainable development in education is one of the goals promoted by United Nations in relation to human development. It is...
Read MoreEco-poetic inquiry for inspiring relationships with local places: exploring a sustainable curriculum of eco-literacy learning
Andrejs KŪLNIEKS
In this paper I outline how Poetic Inquiry can serve to help learners develop a closer relationship with the places...
Read MoreIntroduction
Asunción López-Varela AzcáratePages 7-9 ABSTRACT Since the second half of...
Read MoreThe Impact of the Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe and Beyond
Asunción López-Varela AzcáratePages 11-27 ABSTRACT What is the role of...
Read MoreArt, Ethics, Responsibility, Crisis: Literature and Climate Change
Simon C. EstokPages 29-40 ABSTRACT Literature has an ethical obligation...
Read MoreLanguage, Communication, and Gifting with Genevieve Vaughan
Susan PetrilliPages 41-54 ABSTRACT This essay presents Genevieve Vaughan’s writings...
Read MoreHow Can ‘Race’ Be Transcended in Cross Cultural Dialogues? Applying Critical Thinking to Show Human “Races” as Artificially Constructed
Xiana SoteloPages 55-67 ABSTRACT In line with the cross ethnical...
Read MoreGlobal Crisis: War Against an Invisible Enemy? Don’t Blame the Metaphor
Marta Silvera-RoigPages 69-85 ABSTRACT Much has been written since the...
Read MoreA Cultural Interpretation of the Holistic Success and Individual Obedience of China’s Fight against COVID-19 Crisis
Huiyong WuPages 87-97 ABSTRACT Possibly the main reason why China...
Read MoreSocial Criticism and Ethical Aspects in Patricia Esteban Erlés and Abert Soloviev’s Hypermedial Short Stories
Ana Calvo RevillaPages 99-115 ABSTRACT In online communication, writers incorporate...
Read MoreInter-Artistic Plague Narratives and the Cultural Differences between China and the West
Jinghua GuoPages 117-127 ABSTRACT Artistic representation is an instrument of...
Read MoreEscaping Epidemy: Andrée Chedid’s The Sixth Day
Mohammed M. HassounaPages 129-140 ABSTRACT In early 2020 COVID-19 turned...
Read MoreThe COVID-19 Crisis and Social Responsibility of New Media Art
Qingben LiPages 141-150 ABSTRACT Through a large number of data...
Read MoreOrganizational Culture and Social climate in Kazakhstani Higher Education Institutions during the COVID-19 Crisis: KazNU Case Study
Aigerim Belyalova, Byong-Soon ChunPages 151-164 ABSTRACT The purpose of this...
Read MoreCultural Race and an Inclusive Nationalism Sun Yat-sen’s (1866-1925) Nationalism during China’s Modernization
G. Kentak SonPages 165-180 ABSTRACT Sun Yat-Sen was a Chinese...
Read MoreLeninKichi and the Silenced Collective Memory of Soviet Koreans
Soon-Ok MyongPages 181-193 ABSTRACT This paper investigates the contexts on...
Read MoreThe Metamorphoses of Smokestacks
Weijie SongPages 195-205 ABSTRACT This paper examines Chinese imagery of...
Read MoreGirilayu Batik Motifs and their Forms of Symbolic Contemplation
Agus Sachari, Arianti Ayu Puspita, Desy NurcahyantiPages 207-216 ABSTRACT This...
Read MoreThe Power of (Re)Creation and Social Transformation of Binomial ‘Art-Technology’ in Times of Crisis: Musical Poetic Narrative in Rozalén’s ‘Lyric Video’ “Aves Enjauladas”
María del Mar Rivas-CarmonaPages 217-231 ABSTRACT The epidemic outbreak of...
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