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Volume 1 Number 3 July 2008
New Arts for a New Citizenship
European new cultural diversity has resulted both in inclusion and integration and, quite the reverse, in diverse forms of conflict. The role that art can play within such a scenario take...
From: Transformative Studies Institute
The Pinball and the Machine: Global Cultural Homogeneity and the Commodity Form
In this essay, I argue that Arjun Appadurai’s “disjucture,” as a form of maintaining cultural heterogeneity and difference, exists only in light of the shifting global paradigm. That is, ...
From: Transformative Studies Institute
Revisiting Weber’s Theory of Law: An Examination of the Canadian Arbitration ...
For this paper, we use Max Weber’s (1930) theory of law to examine the Canadian Arbitration Act of 1991. Weber stated that western law would become a formal-rational system because of the...
From: Transformative Studies Institute
Camp is for Girls: The Role of Single-Gender Summer Camps in Connecting Child...
Children are increasingly spending more time indoors. The result is less contact with and understanding of the natural world. While older adults once played outside as youth, children’s l...
From: Transformative Studies Institute
Animal Rights Struggles to Dominate the Public Moral Imagination
Many of the mediated activities of the contemporary animal rights movement are explained as “sociological warfare”, which is intended to alter the public moral imagination regarding anima...
From: Transformative Studies Institute
Born to be Wild, Educated to be Good: A few thoughts about the systemic contr...
The paper outlines three different types of knowledge transmitted in school: orientation skills, cultural knowledge, and reflexive knowledge. It also outlines two different paradigms stru...
From: Transformative Studies Institute
