Agroecologists mainly work with producers from traditional cultures. Ethno-ecological studies conducted in recent decades, clearly demonstrate that the experience these cultures have accumulated can ...be defined as wisdom, formed as a complex integrating a set of beliefs that lead to a worldview (an ontological dimension), a repertoire of knowledge (an epistemological dimension), and a series of practices (a productive dimension). So far, agroecology has addressed two of these three dimensions interacting with traditional producers (the epistemological and productive dimensions) and, with few exceptions, has neglected the ontological dimension. This paper sets forth the thesis that the ontological perspective leads to spirituality, a theme that has been excluded. Recognizing and integrating spirituality into agroecological practice would reinforce agroecology as a socially and environmentally liberating activity, since it embraces key concepts such as Mother Earth and Harmonious Living (buen vivir, the indigenous principle of harmonizing with the whole of nature).
Milano Città Mondo Alice Cati
CoSMO (Turin, Italy),
12/2020
17
Journal Article
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Drawing from a research programme dealing with media and performative arts as tools for the intercultural dialogue (https://www.migrations-mediations.com/), this essay investigates the practices of ...representation engendered by Milan policymakers who attempt to re-imagine the urban territories by adopting the gazes of migrant subjects settled down in the city. Significantly, many of the cultural projects coping with migrant ‘place-making’ employ the audiovisual device in order to explore how interactions in public spaces shape a new sense of belonging and inclusion within community spaces. By studying the cross-media palimpsest ‘Milano Città Mondo’, this paper aims to provide an analysis of the social and political framework underlying this project in order to deeply understand if a new version of civic identity in terms of inclusiveness and cultural plurality is fully embraced.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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