Costume, hair and dance allow her to modernise Tsonga culture – and help shape youth identity.
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‘Antarctic cities’ residents care deeply about the continent, with environmental concerns outweighing economic priorities. Asked about its future, they feel a mix of hope, pessimism and sadness.
Your identity changes when you move house and, if that’s to a different community, your clothes change along with you.
Think moving won’t change you? You might want to rethink that. To feel ‘at home’ you need to accept the new place where you live as part of your changing identity.
City residents all around the world are getting together to create housing tailored to their needs and budgets, instead of being developed for maximum profit.
The secret of creating attractive, liveable places sounds deceptively simple: connect people to places, people to transport and people to people.
Coffee and sex are both highly marketable commodities. But who would have thought that the capital of one of Latin America’s most socially conservative countries would combine them in its cafes?
The ubiquitous cafes across Australian cities attract locals and tourists alike, but surely there’s more to thriving neighbourhoods than a flat white.
Must the aggressive, homogeneous global pattern of development take its course in Melbourne’s long-standing multicultural suburb of Footscray?
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Lecturer, Monash University, Monash University
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Professor and Fellow of the Curtin Academy, Curtin University
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Innovation Fellow and Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Performing Arts, Tshwane University of Technology
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Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts & Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Senior Research Fellow, Digital Media, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in Costume Theory and theatre costumer, Tshwane University of Technology
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PhD Candidate, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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PhD Candidate, Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania
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Paul James is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Globalization and Cultural Diversity, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, School of Built Environment, UNSW
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Professor of Antarctic Studies, School of Humanities, University of Tasmania