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NOV 2021 | ISSUE 38

Here’s Your Reading Summary

Kicking off this month’s theme on culture, we have four fresh reads on the topic of cultural appreciation vs cultural appropriation. Cultural appreciation occurs when one understands and learns about another culture in order to facilitate cross-cultural communication and to broaden their understanding of the world. However, cultural appropriation occurs when one uses one aspect of a culture that does not belong to one for their personal interest. It often becomes even more controversial when appropriation is carried out by a majority group against minority cultures. Enjoy the newsletter to learn more about the topic.

Read 4 riveting texts about he difference between Cultural Appreciation vs Appropriation
In our Literary Journal, Natalie explores the mysterious collaborative fiction community, the SCP Foundation

This Week’s Reads:
Cultural Appreciation VS Appropriation

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Does Cultural Appropriation Cause Harm?

The author argues that there are three potential harms with cultural appropriation: nonrecognition, misrecognition, and exploitation. Discerning whether these harms are present or absent offers a means of placing specific instances of cultural appropriation on a spectrum of harmfulness and it may be avoided.

On Cultural Appropriation

This article discusses the key modes of cultural appropriation as diffusion, acculturation, and assimilation, often situated within conceptions of cultural property and cultural heritage. It emphasizes the metacultural discourse that marks instances of cultural appropriation and the inequality that often characterizes the parties to such episodes.

Moving From Cultural Appropriation to Cultural Appreciation

This paper analyses visual culture in social media and art in classrooms from the perspectives of both cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation. The author hopes that the methods and questions discussed will help teachers and students to move from cultural appropriation to cultural appreciation.

No ‘Thing to Wear’: A Brief History of Kimono and Inappropriation from Japonisme to Kimono Protests

In this article, the author considers the kimono protests in the 2015 Boston Museum of Fine Arts an occasion to consider the contemporary debates about cultural appropriation and appreciation. She proposes a theatrical ethic of ‘inappropriation’ as a means of moving discourse beyond appreciation and appropriation.

Literary Journal

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SCP: Secure, Contain, Protect – Take a peek into the mysterious SCP foundation for a glimpse into what potentially lies beyond our perceived reality.

In this week’s ReadNUS article, Natalie Lem shares about the burgeoning internet collaborative fiction sensation, the creepy and mysterious SCP Foundation.

Curious about what objects and strange entities violate our natural laws? SCP Wiki is an internet forum of collective fiction dedicated to documenting fictional paranormal occurrences. To introduce you to this fascinating collaborative community, Natalie will bring you through its general premise and analyse an SCP article in all its gruesome glory.

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Open Access (OA) is a publishing model that makes research information available to readers at no cost, as opposed to the traditional subscription model in which scholarly information is accessible by paying a subscription. One of the most important advantages of open access is that it increases the visibility and reuse of academic research results.

Publishing as Gold OA requires authors to pay Article Processing Charges (APC). We are delighted to announce two initiatives to support NUS researchers in publishing OA.

Institutionally Paid OA for NUS Authors

NUS Libraries, School of Computing, and the Office of the Deputy President (Research & Technology) have worked together to enter into a 5-year open access agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). For all submissions to ACM made between Jan 1, 2021 and Dec 31, 2025, NUS corresponding authors can publish OA at no cost to the author.

Library-Supported Free-to-Publish Model

NUS Libraries is now a supporting institution of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) from Sep 2020 to Sep 2021. The OLH is an academic publishing platform that supports 22 fully OA academic journals from across the humanities disciplines. Unlike many OA publishers, the OLH does not charge any author fees. Instead, an international library consortium covers its operational costs.

Check out more waivers and discounts from other publishers such as Cambridge University Press and American Chemical Society.

Contact Scholarly Communication to find out more about open access publishing!

*Based on NUS Libraries’ internal analysis of compiled Web of Science data.