The notion of culture has loomed large in discourses and polemics regarding European integration and immigration in the European framework. While culture, as in fundamental cultural difference, is ...identified as the source of contemporary political quandaries, its incarnation as intercultural dialogue is conceived as their solution. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the arts settings of Berlin and Istanbul, this article elucidates how this type of "culture talk" intersects with recent cultural policy formations in the European Union and the national arenas of Germany and Turkey. Much of the political productivity of culture arises from a constant slippage between the different, often contradictory, meanings accorded to the culture-concept. This extension of the "rhetoric of culture" engenders a shift from a governance of culture to one through culture by relaying an array of pressing political concerns from the realm of social and economic policy to that of culture in the sense of artistic expression.
Le projet dont nous allons traiter ici porte pour titre « unité et diversité des identités euro-méditerranéennes », il paraît cependant nécessaire de présenter une définition des termes « identités » ...et « Méditerranée » avant toute chose. Les identités euro-méditerranéennes, aussi diversifiées soient-elles, partagent pourtant un territoire commun. Le bassin méditerranéen représenterait à la fois un lieu géographique mais aussi un espace nourri de souvenirs et de nostalgie. Cette diversité territoriale engendre ce qu'on appelle l' « homme géographiquement pluriel », celui qui fait siens plusieurs territoires en même temps. L'identité ne serait-elle pas le produit des interactions avec autrui, un résultat de la diversité ? L'identité émanerait de la diversité et la diversité, elle, serait méditerranéenne. Très peu s'accordent sur une définition exacte de la « Méditerranée » ; elle se définit pourtant par une interaction constante entre le réel et l'émotionnel, le tangible et l'imaginaire : la Méditerranée est bien un lieu mythique. Le mythe méditerranéen existe certes dans les pensées, mais se discerne aussi sérieusement dans les faits: on le retrouve dans le quotidien, le vécu, l'expérience. Il est indispensable aujourd'hui de repenser la Méditerranée, de la concevoir comme une interface dynamique et tangible, susceptible d'assurer la connexion et la mise en relation de différents territoires car justement, elle rend possible la rencontre des diversités.
Ethnographic materials, including depth interviews and a video, are analyzed to better understand how expatriate retirees living in the Lake Chapala Riviera region of Jalisco, Mexico manage personal ...identities in retirement. Using concepts from narrative gerontology, this study demonstrates how expatriates' stories and descriptions of Mexicans and Mexican ways of life reflexively construct storytellers' identities and provide a logic for intercultural relationships. While the host population is characterized as happy, friendly, helpful, enterprising and polite, concurrent stories by the same narrators portray them also as untrustworthy, inaccessible, lazy and incompetent. A discourse analysis that extends Cavarero's narrative identity theory argues that these contrasting conceptions of the host culture and population are deployed so as to reflexively position expatriate retirees as interpersonally attractive, culturally tolerant and pragmatically adaptable. Implications for the subjective experience of international migrant retirees are drawn from the descriptive analysis.
Cette thèse étudie l’Art poétique de Paul Claudel et son influence dans sa création avec un regard critique chinois. Pour éviter des interprétations excessives, nous élaborons une approche ...interculturelle. Dans le processus concret de la lecture, nous employons d’abord l’art de la critique des anciens esthètes chinois, résumons de manière synthétique notre ressenti intuitif inspiré par l’ensemble de l’œuvre de Claudel en deux sentiments : la marche et la fuite. Puis, nous faisons appel à la méthode traditionnelle occidentale de l’analyse textuelle et à la méthode de la recherche documentaire, afin de relier les effets aux textes. L’observation du développement et de la transformation de ces deux forces permet de traverser la complexité apparente de l’œuvre du poète, et de révéler l’influence directe et des convergences possibles entre sa pensée et la pensée orientale.
This thesis studies Art poétique of Paul Claudel and his influence in his creation with a Chinese critical perspective. To avoid excessive interpretation, I develop an intercultural approach. In the actual process of reading, I use the classical Chinese aesthetic and literary theories to summarize synthetically the aesthetic effect of the works as a whole, and proposes the two kinds of effects as “walk” and “escape”. Then I use the traditional western method of textual analysis and the method of documentary research, to link effects to text. The observation of the development and transformation of these two forces can cross the apparent complexity of the poet’s work, and reveal the direct influence and possible convergences between his thought and Eastern thought.
In Denmark, all engineering programmes in HE have practical elements; for instance, at Bachelor's level, an internship is an integrated part of the programme. Furthermore, Denmark has a ...long-established tradition of problem-based and project-organized learning, and a large part of students' projects, including their final projects, is done in cooperation with industry. This interaction with industry is important because students learn about the culture of the companies with which they are involved and they usually find it very motivating to discover that the companies can benefit from their work. Given the difference between theoretical teaching at a university and practical work done in a company, internships help students to combine practice and theory. Many large projects involve teams and this offers students good learning opportunities and enables them to improve their interpersonal skills. In addition, students learn to learn, an increasingly important requirement since knowledge can rapidly become outdated. Engineers must now be able to work in an international context and to address this need a ‘European Project Semester’ (EPS) was introduced in 1995. EPS is based on experience from problem-based learning in an international context, with exchange students working in international teams. The focus is on international teamwork and intercultural communication and students not only acquire technical skills but also improve their communication skills and their international competences.
The Portuguese approach to cultural diversity anchors on the principle of Interculturality; within the framework of mutual respect, it embraces the value and richness of diversity and dialogue. This ...intercultural approach is embedded in the paradigm of an equal value of all cultures and cultural miscegenation, moving thus far beyond a multicultural coexistence framework. This intercultural approach supposes more than simply accepting the 'other'; it implies 'hosting' the 'other' within us and accepts being transformed within that encounter. This paper analyses various policies and measures regarding intercultural education in Portugal, where progress has been made but where there is still a journey to be made.
Die Maison Heinrich Heine sollte von Beginn an nicht nur als Wohnheim, sondern auch als Kulturzentrum mit Ausstrahlung nach außen dienen. Das produktive Spannungsverhältnis zwischen außenpolitischer ...Zielsetzung und kulturpolitischer Eigeninitiative ist dabei bis heute wirksam. Reprinted by permission of Europa Union Verlag, Bonn
This paper offers a critical analysis of two central issues in Luigi Ferrajoli’s
Principia iuris
, and more generally of his theory of rights. One is the way in which ‘expectations’ play a crucial ...role in his deontic theory by establishing the logical basis for his guarantee-based conception of law and rights. The axiomatic way in which Ferrajoli arrives at his conception of fundamental rights is questioned, for it fails to give a full account of the nature of subjective rights. The other issues discussed here is Ferrajoli’s own defence of the universality of fundamental rights, and how this is made to depend on a ‘normative technique’ that one can associate with legal discourse and modern law in Western societies. This, however, poses the problem of how this formal universalism can be reconciled with the intercultural dialogue that Ferrajoli also advocates.
Human Rights' thought & practice have long been trapped in a double dilemma: between universalism & relativism on the one hand, & between theories & practices on the other hand. On the theoretical ...level, the opposition between the universality of human rights, especially defended by lawyers, & the relativity of cultures, especially defended by anthropologists, seemed insurmountable. On a more pragmatic level, the universality of human rights was challenged at the grassroots level & brought about the question of the applicability of human rights' declarations in various socio-cultural settings. There is today a reorientation of the debates. Through their inscription into the broader context of globalization & the semantic reconfiguration of the politico-economico-legal field around the notions of "governance" & of "sustainable development," unveiling a pluralist & intercultural horizon for human rights' thought & action becomes possible. It implies to reflect upon the emergence of a new ethics for collective responsible action, founded on the recognition of our individual & collective fragility. The contribution of anthropologists, who have been shying away from human rights debates for long, is very precious in this enterprise. Adapted from the source document.
