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2025 Vol.2 No.2

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Navigating Cultural Tensions: Dynamic Integration of Rural-Urban Art Identities in Chinese Art Education

Yaoyao Ding, Yuntao Zou

December 2025: 1-17 DOI: 10.55121/cci.v2i2.647

535 (Abstract) 380 (Download) PDF

This paper explores the cultural adaptation process of rural art students in China after passing the college entrance examination and entering urban art academies. The authors note that traditional cultural theories cannot fully explain the unique challenges faced by this group, such as value conflicts and conceptual differences in teacher-student interactions. Therefore, the paper proposes an “ed... more
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Rescripting Psychic Pathologies: CRISPR-Cas9’s Biochemical Reconfiguration of Mental Health in Cultural and Bioethical Contexts of Post-2000 Speculative Fiction and Autobiographical Narratives

Hamed Jamalpour, Manzar Feiz, Zahra Jamalpour, Golbarg Darvishian Kermanshahi, Fateme Yari

December 2025: 18–35 DOI: 10.55121/cci.v2i2.532

339 (Abstract) 194 (Download) PDF

CRISPR-Cas9’s potential to reconfigure the neurogenomic underpinnings of mental health disorders, such as depression, schizophrenia, and PTSD, heralds a biochemical revolution in psychic pathology, yet it unfolds amid profound cultural conflicts and aspirations for integration. This descriptive study explores how post-2000 speculative fiction and autobiographical narratives rearticulate CRISPR’s b... more
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The “Invisible Wall” of Germany

Mirko Ivanović

December 2025: 36–47 DOI: 10.55121/cci.v2i2.545

340 (Abstract) 211 (Download) PDF

In February 2025, parliamentary elections were held in Germany, the results of which showed an extraordinary division of the electorate of East and West Germany, along the former state border between East and West Germany. These elections showed not only the geopolitical division of Germany but also the deep cultural, economic, and demographic division that this paper will prove. This work is sign... more
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Threshold Sites of Encounter: Dialogic (Place) Making to Enable Cross-Cultural Community Development—Lessons from Tuti Island, Khartoum, Sudan

Robert Brown, Ioana Popovici

December 2025: 48-69 DOI: 10.55121/cci.v2i2.690

266 (Abstract) 312 (Download) PDF

This text explores a possibility for extending our thinking on enacting dialogical placemaking and its potential to contribute to cross-cultural exchange through co-joining making and place as threshold sites of encounter. Advancing our knowledge and practice of dialogical placemaking and cross-cultural interaction is significant owing to the increasing presence of cultural differences, and with i... more
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Rumi and Intercultural Dialogue: The Role of Rumi's Teachings in Resolving Cultural Conflicts

Zahra Ahmadi, Mohammadreza Dehshiri

December 2025: 70-81 DOI: 10.55121/cci.v2i2.836

306 (Abstract) 474 (Download) PDF

Cultural conflicts constitute a major challenge in contemporary multicultural societies, intensified by globalization, migration, and digital connectivity. Yet, scholarship has not systematically examined how Rumi’s mystical concepts may inform modern frameworks of intercultural dialogue and conflict transformation. This study employs a qualitative comparative textual analysis of the Mathnawi-ye M... more
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Not Just a Place: Emotional Belonging and Class Distinction in Nişantaşı-Istanbul

Zeynep Ceylan Gezer Çatalbaş, Ipek Akpinar

December 2025: 82-98 DOI: 10.55121/cci.v2i2.841

394 (Abstract) 223 (Download) PDF

This paper explores how residents of the historic Nişantaşı neighborhood in Istanbul have experienced, remembered, and narrated the area throughout Turkey’s modern urban history. Drawing on in-depth interviews and archival materials from newspapers and magazines, it interprets these sources as subjective memory rather than objective record. By tracing shifts in personal experiences, daily routines... more
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Islam, Cultural Differences, and Intercultural Communication

Muhammad Taqiyuddin, Samih Salah Mohammed

December 2025: 99-107 DOI: 10.55121/cci.v2i2.516

1789 (Abstract) 258 (Download) PDF

This paper explores the intricate relationship between Islam, cultural diversity, and intercultural communication in the context of an increasingly globalized world. Islam, practiced by over 1.9 billion people worldwide, is not a monolithic culture but a religion deeply embedded in a variety of cultural settings across different regions, including Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europ... more
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Turbulence, Conflict, and Three Scenarios of Global Future

Nikolai Rozov

December 2025: 108-120 DOI: 10.55121/cci.v2i2.565

257 (Abstract) 281 (Download) PDF

The article expands the concept of turbulence through a combination of wars and revolutionary waves. The multipolarity of the modern world does not exclude hegemony with leadership, as well as the formation of coalitions, which in case of aggravation of conflicts can return the era of bipolarity. The centers of gravity are usually called the United States and China. The current period is interpret... more

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