shutterstock_1431069410 the iafor journal of cultural studies Volume 5 – Issue 2 – Autumn 2020 Editor-in-Chief: Holger Briel ISSN: 2187-4905 iafor The IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 5 – Issue – 2 IAFOR Publications IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies Editor-in-Chief Holger Briel, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Editorial Board Senka Anastasova, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Republic of Macedonia Yasue Arimitsu, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan Sue Ballyn, University of Barcelona, Spain Gaurav Desai, University of Michigan, USA Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney, Australia Florence Graezer-Bideau, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Donald E. Hall, Lehigh University, USA Stephen Hutchings, University of Manchester, UK Eirini Kapsidou, Independent Scholar, Belgium Graham Matthews, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Baden Offord, Curtin University, Australia Tace Hedrick, University of Florida, USA Christiaan De Beukelaer, University of Melbourne, Australia Katy Khan, University of South Africa, South Africa Production Assistant Nelson Omenugha Published by The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan Executive Editor: Joseph Haldane Publications Manager: Nick Potts IAFOR Publications Sakae 1-16-26 – 201, Naka Ward, Aichi, Japan 460-0008 IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 5 – Issue 2 – 2020 IAFOR Publications © Copyright 2020 ISSN: 2187-4905 Online: jocs.iafor.org IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 5 – Issue 2 – Autumn 2020 Edited by: Holger Briel Table of Contents Notes on Contributors 1 From the Editor 3 Manifestations of Orí (Head) in Traditional Yorùbá Architecture 5 Adeyemi Akande ArchDaily and Representations of Domestic Architecture 21 in the era of Digital Platforms Bruno Cruz Petit & Tomás Errazuriz Infante Small Palm Oil Plantation as Political Arena: Environmental Narratives 37 among workers and NGOs in Aceh, Indonesia. Giulia Zaninelli Lights, Action, Naughty Bits: A Thematic Analysis of New Zealanders’ 49 Attitudes to Naked Attraction Justin Matthews and Angelique Nairn Face and Authority: Cultural Challenges of Teaching in China 69 Paweł Zygadło IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 5 – Issue 2 – Autumn 2020 Notes on Contributors Article 1: Manifestations of Orí (Head) in Traditional Yorùbá Architecture Adeyemi Akande teaches Art and Architectural History at the Department of Architecture, University of Lagos. His research interests include the material, arts and architectural cultures of Pre-20th century West Africa. He holds a PhD in Cultural Art History and over the last three years has in particular concerned himself with the study of the dynamics and interplay of cultural arts, architecture, and urban character in tropical Africa. He is also an established art and architecture photographer and a member of several academic organisations, including the Society of Architectural Historians and the Royal Historical Society. Article 2: ArchDaily and Representations of Domestic Architecturein the era of Digital Platforms Bruno Cruz Petit is Fellow-Researcher at the Universidad Motolinía del Pedregal (Mexico) and a member of Sistema Nacional de Investigadores de México, Level 1. He has a degree in Political Science and Sociology from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, a diploma from the Institut de Sciences Politiques in Paris, and a Master's and a Doctorate degree in Sociology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; he is also the author of the books Breve historia social del interior doméstico (Mexico, Ediciones Motolinía, 2011) and Transformación en el espacio interior doméstico contemporáneo (Ed. EAE, Spain-Germany, 2011). His research lines are focused on the relationship between space and society: urban and housing sociology, design theory, sustainability, and anthropology of the house. He currently teaches Anthropology of Design and Interior Design History and has written papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals, such as Interiority, Home Cultures, Revista de Arquitectura de la Universidad Católica de Colombia, Vitruvius (Brazil), Ángulo Recto, Arte- individuo y sociedad (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain). Tomás Errázuriz Infante, Phd, is an Associate Professor at Universidad Andrés Bello. He is Co-director of Editorial Bifurcaciones; and co-founder of Cosas Maravillosas, a collective that studies and promotes daily practices that circumvent the obsolescence of consumer objects. He researches the relationships between daily life and the material culture created in domestic and mobility spaces. His most recent publications include ‘“Till Death Do Us Part”: The Making of Home Through Holding onto Objects’ (in Martinez, Laviolette, Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough: Ethnographic Responses. 2019), “What if we tear the wall down? Empowered owners, mutant houses and the twilight of confined architecture” (with C. Sepúlveda and J. Bravo; ARQ, N° 101) and “Everything in Place: Peace and Harmony in an Overcrowded Home” (Visual Communication, Vol. 18, N° 4). He currently leads a Research project on the relationship between repair, reuse, and affects in the domestic space. Article 3: Small Palm Oil Plantation as Political Arena: Environmental Narratives Among Workers and NGOs in Aceh, Indonesia Giulia Zaninelli is a PhD candidate at the University of Milan Bicocca, Italy. She holds degrees in Anthropological and ethnological sciences from the University of Milan Bicocca and in Human Sciences of Environment, Landscape and Territory from the University of Milan Statale. Currently she is working on a short ethno-documentary about small oil palm plantations' farmers in Sumatra. Her research interests include environmentalism, alternative food production, ethnobotany, rural communities. 1 IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 5 – Issue 2 – Autumn 2020 Article 4: Lights, Action, Naughty Bits: A thematic analysis of New Zealanders’ attitudes to Naked Attraction Justin Matthews is a Lecturer in the Digital Communication Department within the School of Communication Studies for the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He teaches across the discipline of digital communication and media after an extended career in the commercial sector extensively engaged as a digital producer and strategist. His research is primarily focused across the area of user interfaces and experiences, future studies, narrative design and game studies. Angelique Nairn is a Senior Lecturer in the Public Relations Department within the School of Communication Studies for the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. As a graduate of the Bachelor of Communication Studies, she went on to complete a BCS Honours (first class) and her PhD. Angelique is currently working on multiple research projects from explorations of morality in television programming, to how organisations encourage identification in their external communications, to the experiences of work among creative people. Article 5: Face and Authority: Cultural Challenges of Teaching in China Paweł Zygadło is Associate Professor in the Department of China Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong- Liverpool University. He earned his PhD in Philosophy from the National Chengchi University in Taipei in 2013 and then went on to work in mainland China. His research interests include Chinese philosophy, Chinese pragmatics, socio-cultural psychology and intercultural communication. He authored one book and several journal articles. His most recent research project, The Concept of Face in Contemporary Chinese Society: Theory and Practice, funded by Research Development Fund of XJTLU, examines the adaptation and meaning of the notion of Face (lianmian) in 21st-century Chinese society. 2 IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 5 – Issue 2 – Autumn 2020 Editorial If in the last issue, published about six months ago, I had timidly expressed the hope that by the time the publication of this issue of the IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies had rolled around, things might have gone back to normal, by now, dear readers, we all know that I was sadly mistaken. On the contrary, one can easily argue that things have become much worse since then; COVID-19 is still with us, many people (arguably many more than necessary) have died from it, receding economies have brought hardship to millions and many freedoms thought inalienable have been curtailed, hopefully only temporarily so. Academia is one of the worst hit sectors, with students unable to travel, normal teaching services suspended and conference travel all but dead. No matter how one looks at the present, it is clear that humanity will not be able to return to the old normal; it is too early to say, but many things have already changed. Online services have skyrocketed and will continue to do so, business travel and whole business models have been taken over by new forms of work organisation (e.g. home office), and Zoom, a video service barely know six months ago, has become a household name and an interface default. While not being able to tackle issues at large, in the pages of the current issue of this journal, we can at least offer some travel-related sensations, as the topics therein allow one to circumnavigate the globe through the pages and topics to follow. The issue opens with a short thematic focus on architecture beginning with Adeyemi Akande’s Manifestations of Orí (Head) in Traditional Yorùbá Architecture. This text examines Yorùbá architecture and claims cogently that at least some of its features are situated in close proximity to Yorùbá spirituality