🇰🇷Here, "Korea" becomes a space onto which young women project a progressive, borderless social idea.
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🇰🇷Here, "Korea" becomes a space onto which young women project a progressive, borderless social idea.
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But "Koreaish" is more than an aesthetic trend. Dr. Inouchi shows that it reflects a broader post-feminist sensibility in neoliberal Japan.
🔎a move away from rigid divisions and categories
🔎a renewed valorization of softness as ideal femininity
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💫 One illuminating concept: "Soft unity"
"Koreaish" is experienced as qualia of softness, blurred boundaries, and muted unity across colors, textures, and styles. This is a "soft unity," which becomes a culturally shared sign of sophistication, calm, and desirability.
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✅ New Firstview Article!
What does it mean to call something "Koreaish"?
Read Dr. Ayumi Inouchi's new article that examines how young Japanese women experience "Korea" as a sensuous aesthetic felt through makeup, hairstyles, photography, and everyday embodied practice.
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✨By remixing K-pop signifiers, political messaging became affective, playful, and widely shareable. Here, civic stanning emerged as a pragmatic and creative form of participation, blending activism with the semiotic resources of global youth culture.
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🕶️ The authors argue that the re-semiotization of K-pop signifiers constitutes "civic stanning": A form of fan-based citizenship in which K-pop signifiers becomes a means of enacting social and political agency.
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🆕New Article Alert🆕
What happens when K-pop fandom meets electoral politics?
Read Drs. Christian Go @sociolinggo.bsky.social and Leif Garinto's new article on how Filipino K-pop fans mobilized lyrics, imagery, and fancams in the 2022 elections to craft vehicles for political expression.
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🎊New Issue Alert!🎊
Signs and Society 13:4 is now live!
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Dr. Yamane shows how Kiowa War Mother songs are not simply commemorative but creative responses to settler colonialism that sustain gendered personhoods, maternal authority, and cultural continuity through choreo-musical practice!
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At the center of the article are ✨two chronotopes of Kiowa martial motherhood ✨: the pre-reservation and the post-reservation. These time-spaces are evoked through musical drumbeats, ritual performance, and the blending of “Old” and “Modern” Kiowa language.
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🎊New Article Available!🎊
What can "songs" tell us about gender, time, and Indigenous resilience?
In "Songs to Soothe a Mother," Dr. Maxwell Yamane examines how "Kiowa War Mother songs" created during World War II carry gendered histories across generations.
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An illuminating concept: 🦴caveman chronotope🦴
An imagined time-space where the prehistoric past is cast as a world of health, robustness, and masculinity, turning it into a utopian solution to problems and anxieties about modernity.
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By examining paleofantasies circulating in everyday U.S. media over roughly 20 years, Dr. Kramer shows that these paleofantasies were not only male-dominated but also intrinsically masculinized, fueled by anxieties about modernity.
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Remember the trend of the Paleo diet and barefoot running? Have you ever wondered whether there was more to it than recipes and running rituals?
If so, SAS suggests reading our latest article by Dr. Elise Kramer, “The Caveman in the Mirror”!
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🔍Through the concept of hygge, Dr. Journey reveals how sensory experiences of light shape not only the politics of energy transition but also the contours of Denmark’s racial imagination.
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🌆Dr. Journey shows how this technological shift doesn’t just alter the city’s appearance! It transforms how people feel about urban space.
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💡In this piece, Dr. Journey explores Copenhagen’s changing lightscape as the city replaces its warm sodium streetlights with cold, energy-efficient LEDs as part of its Climate Plan to become the world’s first carbon-neutral capital.
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🆕 New Article Alert!
✨ Have you heard of the Danish concept of hygge, often translated as “coziness”? ✨
Check out Dr. Rebecca Journey’s (@beccajourney.bsky.social) new article, “A Semiotics of Coziness and Disappearing Night”!
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An illuminating concept: 💎pearl nationalism💎
📄"National revival through submissive women who are like pearls" (Pg. 2)
👉It is a metapolitical project that aligns gendered chronotopes to imagine a return to an imagined tradition through modern mass-mediated spacetime.
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🆕 New Article!
Check out Dr. Catherine Tebaldi’s (@cat-tebaldi.bsky.social) new article on "tradwives," who are social media influencers who promote an idealized, "feminine" womanhood by staging nostalgic chronotopes of tradition, from 1850s homesteads to 1950s suburban homes.
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An illuminating concept from the article: 🕌Prophetic Spacetime🕌
This is Dr. Thompson's term for a chronotope that fuses the Prophet's time-space into a living moral template: timeless, universal, and imagined as a utopian model to which present-day Muslims are called to return.
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🕰️Using the lens of "chronotope," Dr. Thompson traces how these texts move across gendered chronotopes shaped by nostalgia, religious authority, and East Africa's shifting sociopolitical landscape.
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🆕New Article
Check out Dr. KD Thompson's @katrinadalythompson.com new article examining ✨nearly a century of Swahili-language Islamic marital booklets✨
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Guest edited by Dr. Aurora Donzelli, this special issue explores practices and ideologies of translation as “an object of ethnographic investigation” within capitalist worldmaking.
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