Baird Callicott et al. have argued that Aldo Leopold developed a descriptive technique that has something in common with phenomenology and that it would not be farfetched to explore A Sand County ...Almanac as a kind of Heideggerian clearing in which usually unnoticed beings come to light. They further suggest that Leopold describes animal others as fellow subjects who co-constitute the world and that through his method of observation, description, and reflection Leopold reveals a multi-perspective experience of a common environment that discloses an inter-species intersubjectivity comparable to Husserls more formal descriptions of intersubjectivity. I shall argue that the similarities between Husserl and Leopold are stronger and deeper than Callicott et al. suggest. Husserls method is designed to expose what has been hidden by ideological positivism, while Leopolds method is designed to reveal what has been concealed by what he labels conventional physics. Both agree that what we might today call a scientistic worldview denies, devalues, and dismisses subjectivity, meaning, and value from rational discourse. In Husserls view this leads to cultural crisis and barbarism, while in Leopolds view it leads to ecological catastrophe. For Husserl the only alternative is a cultural renewal rooted in a rethinking of the dominant scientistic worldview while for Leopold the alternative lies in the construction of a new ethical system. These two alternatives are deeply compatible. Finally, I will discuss the ways in which Husserls understanding of the intentionality of our subjective experiences and Leopolds integration of the evolutionary and ecological kinship of humans and non-humans with the social sciences have important implications for the possibility of intercultural understanding and dialogue and thereby allow us to overcome the thesis of incommensurability that denies the possibility of meaningful intercultural understanding and dialogue.
The rising influence of actors and worldviews from the Global South in contemporary movements calls for renewed approach, method and epistemology in social movement studies. It raises practical, ...theoretical, methodological and epistemological challenges. How to study global movements without ceding to the pitfalls of methodological globalism and epistemic extractivism? How to conciliate the diversity of struggles with the global dimensions of a movement? This reflexive paper draws on the author's previous research on global movements since 1999 to discuss these challenges and propose an approach built on four pillars: multi-site research, transnational analytical tools, dialogues with local actors and researchers, and an ethic oriented towards intercultural dialogues. Under these premises, global sociology becomes a collective project that combines researchers' and actors' reflexivities in a common quest for a better understanding of our world and the actors who seek to transform it.
This introductory paper briefly discusses the pressing need for intercultural citizenship education in a human world made small, currently shut down due to a pandemic. We further argue for a renewed ...relationship between the arts and intercultural citizenship education that explores sustained imagined worlds; stimulates empathy; promotes the critical development of languages towards dialogue; inspires social, cultural, and political action; and demands transformation. Lastly, we present the six papers that comprise this issue and document, illustrate, and examine art matters in languages and intercultural citizenship education.
En el contexto de la Guerra de Arauco, a fines del siglo XVI e inicios del siglo XVII, el jesuita granadino Luis de Valdivia plantea la propuesta de la Guerra Defensiva entre la Corona Española y el ...Pueblo Mapuche. La Guerra Defensiva implica, por una parte, el reconocimiento de una frontera física, pero también significa el reconocimiento de los indígenas a su propia libertad y forma de vida. En esta situación, se genera un esbozo de diálogo intercultural e interreligioso entre españoles y mapuches que forjará, a través del tiempo, procesos de aculturación e inculturación. En el presente trabajo se busca mostrar las luces y sombras de este diálogo tanto a través de la Guerra Defensiva como en la búsqueda de la evangelización del Pueblo Mapuche.
The Council of Europe's
Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture
(RFCDC) was published in April 2018, and is currently being implemented in a number of Council of Europe member ...states. The RFCDC consists of three main components: a conceptual model of the competences
that learners need to acquire in order to respond appropriately and effectively to democratic and intercultural situations; validated and scaled descriptors and learning outcomes for all of the competences in the model; and guidance for ministries of education and education practitioners on
curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, teacher education, the whole-school approach, and building learners' resilience to radicalization. This article describes the policy background that motivated and accompanied the development of the RFCDC, and the process through which it was developed. It
also provides an overview of the contents of the RFCDC, and an explanation of the impact that the framework is beginning to have on Council of Europe actions in the sphere of formal education.
As international students seek degrees in U.S. institutions of higher education, their role as students is forefronted and recognizable by faculty and peers. However, what often remains invisible are ...international students' social and personal experiences during academic study abroad. Although there is a great deal of feminist research on academic identity and motherhood, almost nothing has been written regarding the experiences of international women who become mothers while pursuing graduate studies in the U.S. This poetic ethnographic study focuses on the lived experiences of eleven international graduate student first-time mothers from Chinese mainland and Taiwan who became new mothers during their programs of study in the U.S., especially how they kept learning their ongoing, dynamic, multifaceted, and embodied “language” of motherhood through various kinds of social interactions, and among divergent practices, beliefs, and cultures. This article explores how poetic inquiry can contribute to the understanding of international graduate student mothers’ experiences as a social, cultural, and educational phenomenon. This article also discusses the issues of ethics and self-reflexivity of conducting poetic inquiry research.
Meng Jinghui’s adaptations of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s plays Liu, Jingling; Monisova, Irina V.
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Vladimir Mayakovsky’s dramatic heritage has had a great impact on Chinese avant-garde director and playwright Meng Jinghui. The study traces the stages of Mayakovsky’s presence in Chinese theater art ...to focus on Meng Jinghui’s three productions of “The Bedbug” (2000-2017). The dramatists share the same desire for theatrical innovation and a similar understanding of theater art. However, they have different worldviews and aesthetic approaches. Meng Jinghui modernized the original Russian pretext and turned to some theatrical principles, first stipulated by Vsevolod Meyerhold. His remakes are stylistically original textual interpretations that have gained a prominent place in the modern Chinese avant-garde fringe theater. Meng Jinghui followed Mayakovsky in a number of formal techniques and the overall satirical orientation only to reshape and deconstruct the basic ideas of the original play, thus creating a different temporal and cultural chronotope. Authentic as it may seem, Meng Jinghui creativity results sprouted from a dialogue and polemics with the Soviet poet and playwright.
The aim of this research is to study the intercultural aesthetics of traditional Chinese dance performances. The research used a survey that was conducted by the Global Times Poll Centre in 2020 and ...included data from 1945 questionnaires from respondents aged 18-69 years from 16 major cities in China. It is based on the concept of the communication and aesthetics of dance arts, proposed by Fang et al. This model of dance art is based on three important postulates. The beauty of an impression is made up of two elements: the scene and the emotion. Impression comes from scenes, and performances – from emotions. The research results show that Chinese dance is a way of artistically expressing national identity, which can provide one of the dominant roles in the process of improving the interaction of Chinese (Eastern) and Western cultures and forming a positive image for creating good neighbourly relations with other countries of the world. Today, the issues of improving interaction and mutual understanding between the countries of the world, which are represented by different cultures, are becoming topical. Dance contributes to the mutual enrichment of cultures, as well as motivation to learn, respect, and appreciate other cultures.
Cilj je ovoga članka proučavanje interkulturalne estetike u izvedbama tradicionalnog kineskog plesa. Istraživanje je upotrijebilo pregled što ga je proveo Global Times Poll Centre 2020. godine, a uključilo je podatke iz 1945 anketnih upitnika što su ih ispunili ispitanici starosti od 18 do 69 godina iz 16 glavnih gradova u Kini. Temelji se na pojmu komunikacije i estetike umjetnosti plesa kako su ga predložili Fang i ostali. Taj model plesne umjetnosti temelji se na tri važna postulata. Ljepotu nekog dojma tvore dva elementa: scena i emocija. Dojam proizlazi iz scena, a izvedbe iz emocija. Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da je kineski ples način umjetničkog izražavanja nacionalnog identiteta koji može odigrati jednu od važnijih uloga u procesu unapređenja interakcije između kineske (istočnjačke) i zapadnih kultura te izazvati pozitivnu sliku pri stvaranju dobrih susjedskih odnosa među raznim zemljama svijeta. Danas su postale aktualne teme unapređenja interakcija i međusobnog razumijevanja među zemljama koje predstavljaju različite kulture. Ples ne samo da pridonosi uzajamnom obogaćenju raznih kultura nego i motivira na učenje, poštovanje i razumijevanje drugih kultura.
This article aims to analyze the topic of culture and intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in Russian as a foreign language (RFL) at an academic level. The work offers a critical overview of ...the main relevant studies in the Russian language on RFL and ICC from 2008 to 2022. The findings show that even the most recent research (in the wake of lingvostranovedeniye and lingvokul’turologiya) still leans on an ambiguous, essentialized, and nationalistic idea of ‘culture’. Finally, through a critical reinterpretation of intercultural dialogue, the author provides a first insight into some new perspectives on RFL teaching.
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