Translating ‘Sustainability’ in Hawai'i: The Utility of Semiotic Transformation in the Transmission of Culture

DOI: 10.1080/14442213.2014.954601 The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Volume 16, Issue 1, 2015, pages 55-73 Kyung-Nan Koh Abstract This paper examines how businessmen and educators in Hawai’i have semiotically ‘translated’ sustainability to promote sustainability practices. Using data gathered from an educational institute that was co-founded by a corporation and a college, I analyse how the source discourse was, using Silverstein’s term, ‘transformed’ so

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MENA REGION: POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA

Call for Papers: The 21stAnnual Research Conference March 16-18th, 2015 The American University in Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt Conference Website: http://conf.aucegypt.edu/AUC2015 Conference Email: auc.conf2015@aucegypt.edu   Introduction The American University in Cairo (AUC) is hosting its annual conference on the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region post-2015 development agenda. AUC is the region’s premier English-language university connecting the region and the

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