2026 Vol.3 No.1

Patriarchal culture in Indonesia continues to produce unequal gender relations and places women in subordinate positions across various areas of social life. This article aims to examine Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophical concept of alterity and to explore its relevance for efforts to promote gender equality within the context of patriarchal culture in Indonesia. Levinas’s philosophy of alterity ... more

The Cultural Warfare goes back many millennia and strives to weaken an enemy and to make a subject docile. Assimilation derails the future of a culture by diverting the population in the future to other practices. The Chronocide, a rather modern concept as a term, attacks the Past, so that the manipulation within the Future of an orphaned population is much easier and without any potential for ... more

Canada is globally recognized as a multicultural and developed nation, yet its foundations lie in the colonial displacement of Indigenous peoples, a history that continues to shape contemporary institutional structures. This study investigates cultural conflict and systemic inequities within Canadian academic institutions, focusing on doctoral scholarship selection pro... more

This study investigates translated film titles as ideological sites in contemporary Chinese media discourse, where gender identities are erased, objectified, misrepresented, or reclaimed. It examines how such paratextual choices trigger cultural conflict and negotiation during cross-cultural circulation. Guided by paratext theory and feminist approaches to media discourse, this study employs th... more

This study comparatively examines daily rituals in Afghan and Turkish cultures in order to identify both shared patterns and meaningful divergences that shape everyday social life in these two historically and culturally connected societies. Drawing on qualitative data from in-depth interviews, supported by relevant academic literature, the study explores how traditions, social norms, and cultu... more

Zimbabwe has a chequered history of settler colonialism whose long-lasting effects and structures are configured into a matrix called 'coloniality' (the colonial logic). In the first three decades of independence, Zimbabwe's higher and tertiary education curriculum was in an inherited situation as it followed the colonial Education 3.0 Model. Hence, it remained an education for disenfranchiseme... more

The Ismaili community in Chitral, Pakistan, faces significant and multifaceted challenges related to cultural preservation, ethnic identity formation, and political marginalization. As a religious and cultural minority within the broader socio-political landscape of Chitral, the Ismailis constantly navigate pressures of assimilation while striving to maintain their distinct traditions and commu... more

This study develops an evolutionary model of post-colonial spiritual adaptation to explain the dynamic resilience of Macau's faith systems under its unique governance framework. Employing collective case study methodology, three multi-layered cases are selected: the Procession of Our Lord of the Passion as a macro-level public ritual, Chinese motifs in Catholic art as exemplified by the Ruins o... more

Over the last few decades, the fight for social justice has increasingly been couched in terms of combating what is referred to as the systemic oppression of marginalized group identities, typically defined in terms of gender, sexuality, religion, or race. According to left-wing social justice educators, these identities are victimized by the system. While there is no lack of studies of identit... more