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.
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.
ABSTRACTThis Perspective considers the potential value and limitations of introducing Responsible Innovation approaches from the Global North into Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. We reflect on ...the relationship of predominantly Western European understandings of responsibility and endogenous ‘Antipodean’ forms of responsibility, including Indigenous relationalities, collective stewardship, and care that extends to more-than-human worlds. Commencing a dialogue between these different modes of responsibility, we outline incommensurabilities, complementarities, and tensions within two core dimensions of Responsible Innovation, namely anticipation and inclusion. To realise benefits from introducing Responsible Innovation and avoid neo-colonial enforcements of adventitious understandings of responsibility, ‘Antipodean’ practitioners need to understand their multidimensional cultural contexts with the aim of collectively reconfiguring responsible practices. Pursuing intercultural dialogue with ‘Antipodean’ modes of responsibility can, in turn, help to responsibly innovate Responsible Innovation outside of the Global North and strengthen the concept’s foundational ethos of collective stewardship by making it more inclusive and multifaceted.
Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is changing people’s lives in varying degrees. People’s emotional experiences are increasingly diverse, as the impact of this major public event continues to expand. This ...paper explores how COVID-19 affects people’s emotions through an analysis of creative movement projects in China and Italy and focuses on the educational value of dance. It takes a cross-cultural perspective using the qualitative research method of art-based inquiry. This study attaches importance to the characteristics of the arts and humanities and takes dance as an important medium to link emotional experience and personalized expression. Dance, poetry, and pictures are used to record participants’ reflections on their emotional changes during the epidemic. Through the analysis of dance body language and participants’ feedback, this study found that people’s emotional experience caused by the epidemic can be expressed through dance. After analyzing dance language, we can further interpret this metaphorical process and make people’s emotional experience concrete and apparent. Participants were drawn from different cultures; thus, they have different perceptions of the pandemic. Although the emotional experiences from Eastern and Western perspectives vary, the changing emotions of the participants in this study shared certain similarities, that is, from a mood of repression and struggle to a mood of release and tolerance.
Although scholars and practitioners have repeatedly touted the importance of negotiating effectively across cultures, paradoxically, little research has addressed what predicts intercultural ...negotiation effectiveness. In this research, we examined the impact of cultural intelligence (CQ) on intercultural negotiation processes and outcomes, controlling for other types of intelligence (cognitive ability and emotional intelligence), personality (openness and extraversion), and international experience. Transcripts of 124 American and East Asian negotiators were coded for sequences of integrative information behaviors and cooperative relationship management behaviors. CQ measured a week prior to negotiations predicted the extent to which negotiators sequenced integrative information behaviors, which in turn predicted joint profit, over and beyond other individual differences. Additional analyses revealed that the level of integrative sequencing was more a function of the lower-scoring than the higher-scoring negotiator within the dyad. Other individual difference characteristics were not related to effective intercultural negotiation processes. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
A Non-Occidentalist West? de Sousa Santos, Boaventura
Theory, culture & society,
12/2009, Letnik:
26, Številka:
7-8
Journal Article
Recenzirano
In this article I argue that, in spite of the apparently unshakable hegemony of the historical, philosophical and sociological arguments invoked by the canonical history of Europe and the world to ...demonstrate the uniqueness of the West and its superiority, there is room to think of a non-Occidentalist West. By that I mean a vast array of conceptions, theories, arguments that, though produced in the West by recognized intellectual figures, were discarded, marginalized or ignored because they did not fit the political objectives of capitalism and colonialism at the roots of Western modernity. In the article I tackle specifically three topics: the conceptions of antiquity, modern science and a teleology of the future. Among many others who might be selected, I resort to three eccentric figures — Lucian of Samosata, Nicholas of Cusa and Blaise Pascal — to exemplify some of the paths that might guide us in the construction of a non-capitalist, non-colonialist inter-cultural dialogue. Such paths are here designated as those of learned ignorance, ecology of knowledge, wager on another possible world and artisanship of practices.
This paper proposes the need to move beyond current integration and diversity discourses (and their practices). It argues that whilst purportedly aiming to attack social divisions, on the one hand, ...these are underpinned by binary and essentialized constructions of these very divisions, on the other. They thereby reinforce notions of ‘us’ and ‘them’. In order to retain their more progressive concerns with heterogeneity and inclusion, the paper brings into focus an intersectional approach that considers the complex and irreducible nature of belonging and social hierarchy. The paper also considers the potential of notions of solidarity and interculturalism in dealing with some of the social issues involved.
This article explores the contradictions inherent in new media representations of sexual minorities in two bordering post-Soviet countries, Belarus and Lithuania. These nations are divided by their ...non/membership of the European Union and, being at the western periphery of the former Russian imperial centre, remain directly affected by the Russian mediascape and its information flows. While both countries’ state media closely adhere to the Russian establishment’s homophobic discourse, the role of new media remains largely uncharted. This article uses discourse analysis to (a) examine the influence of Russian media on each nation’s digital discussions about sexual minorities and (b) explore new media’s potential to mediate the intersection of sexual minorities and nation-building in two post-Soviet states. The analysis is centred on a set of online media publications (including their ‘comments’ sections), generated by the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 being won by Conchita Wurst, a drag performer with a beard.
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