Histoire et idées du patrimoine, entre régionalisation et mondialisation
Histoire et idées du patrimoine, entre régionalisation et mondialisation

Author: Karine Hébert

Publisher: Éditions MultiMondes

Published: 2011-01-20T00:00:00-05:00

Total Pages: 551

ISBN-13: 2895449767

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Cet ouvrage montre que le patrimoine est un processus de part en part, mais un processus qui n’a rien d’abstrait. Le patrimoine, en effet, n’existe pas en dehors d’objets, d’institutions et d’acteurs ; il est également toujours situé – dans un moment et dans un lieu. Et si la patrimonialisation n’est pas linéaire, si elle ne se déroule pas devant nous à la manière d’un ruban, elle n’est pas non plus homogène. Avec la mondialisation, le patrimoine se définit maintenant dans une dialectique région-monde, ce qui, pour le chercheur, implique de faire de constants allers-retours entre les plans local et universel. Au total, les enjeux soulevés dans cet ouvrage se traduisent par une série de questions et de difficultés. Comment concilier spécificité et universalisme, sauvegarde et diffusion, conservation et démocratisation ? Difficulté à rendre compte de tous les jeux d’échelle sur le plan patrimonial. Comment un témoin d’un courant culturel étranger, même reconnu comme patrimoine mondial, peut-il en venir à faire partie d’une mémoire patrimoniale « autochtone » ? Difficulté aussi à concilier les représentations, à la fois antinomiques et complémentaires, des experts, des citoyens et des touristes. Peut-on s’approprier un patrimoine qui émane d’un autre pays, d’un autre groupe culturel ? À quel prix sur le plan identitaire ? Qui peut s’arroger le droit de le préserver, notamment lorsqu’on parle de patrimoine mondial ? Comment faire correspondre la mémoire du bourreau et de la victime, du colonisateur et du colonisé, du pauvre et du riche, du contribuable et de l’amateur de prouesses architecturales ? Difficulté enfin à concilier mémoire heureuse et mémoire honteuse, le nécessaire oubli et le devoir de mémoire.

Tourism, Creativity and Development
Tourism, Creativity and Development

Author: Greg Richards

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-11-07

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1134090129

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Destinations across the world are beginning to replace or supplement culture-led development strategies with creative development. This book critically analyzes the impact and effectiveness of creative strategies in tourism development and charts the emergence of 'creative tourism'. Why has ‘creativity’ become such an important aspect of development strategies and of tourism development in particular? Why is this happening now, apparently simultaneously, in so many destinations across the globe? What is the difference between cultural tourism and creative tourism? These are among the important questions this book answers. It critically examines the developing relationship between tourism and creativity, the articulation of the ‘creative turn’ in tourism, and the impact this has on theoretical perspectives and practical approaches to tourism development. A wide range of examples from Europe, North America, Asia, Australia and Africa explore the interface between tourism and creativity including: creative spaces and places such as cultural and creative clusters and ethnic precincts; the role of the creative industries and entrepreneurs in the creation of experiences; creativity and rural areas; the 'creative class' and tourism; lifestyle, creativity and tourism and marketing creative tourism destinations. The relationship between individual and collective forms of creativity and the widely differing forms of modern tourism are also discussed. In the concluding section of the book the contribution of creativity to tourism and to development strategies in general is assessed, and areas for future research are outlined. The diverse multidisciplinary contributions link theory and practice, and demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of creativity as a tourism development strategy and marketing tool. It is the first exploration of the relationship between tourism and creativity and its consequences for tourism development in different parts of the world.

Accounting for Culture
Accounting for Culture

Author: Caroline Andrew

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 2005-03-30

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0776618636

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Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state intervention no longer apply. The concept of cultural citizenship is a relative newcomer to the cultural policy landscape, and offers a potentially compelling alternative rationale for government intervention in the cultural sector. Likewise, the articulation and use of cultural indicators and of governance concepts are also new arrivals, emerging as potentially powerful tools for policy and program development. Accounting for Culture is a unique collection of essays from leading Canadian and international scholars that critically examines cultural citizenship, cultural indicators, and governance in the context of evolving cultural practices and cultural policy-making. It will be of great interest to scholars of cultural policy, communications, cultural studies, and public administration alike.

French Language Policies and the Revitalisation of Regional Languages in the 21st Century
French Language Policies and the Revitalisation of Regional Languages in the 21st Century

Author: Michelle A. Harrison

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-11-11

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 3319959395

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This edited volume presents an analysis of the evolution of French language policies and their impact on French regional languages and their communities. It gathers studies on language revitalisation from several territorial minority languages (Breton, Alsatian, Catalan, Occitan, Basque, Corsican, Francoprovençal, Picard, Reunionese) and evaluates the challenges and opportunities that they face in the 21st century. The chapters tackle different aspects of language endangerment and language planning and adopt varied theoretical and methodological approaches. The first section of the book reconsiders the difficulties in establishing linguistic boundaries and classification for some regional languages. The second section examines the important theme of the new generation of speakers with issues of transmission and identity formation and the changes they can bring to traditional communities. The third section highlights new developments in the context of new technologies and the heightened visibility of regional languages. Finally, the last section presents an overview of the contemporary situation of minority language revitalisation in France and synthesises the key trends identified in this volume: from the educational domain to the European Charter for Minority and Regional languages. This book will appeal to students and scholars of the sociology of language, sociolinguistics, language policy, minority languages and language endangerment.

Framing Age
Framing Age

Author: Iris Loffeier

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-05-12

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1134838972

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Ageing populations have gradually become a major concern in many industrialised countries over the past fifty years, drawing the attention of both politics and science. The target of a raft of health and social policies, older people are often identified as a specific, and vulnerable, population. At the same time, ageing has become a specialisation in many disciplines - medicine, sociology, psychology, to name but three – and a discipline of its own: gerontology. This book questions the framing of old age by focusing on the relationships between policy making and the production of knowledge. The first part explores how the meeting of scientific expertise and the politics of old age anchors the construction of both individual and collective relationships to the future. Part II brings to light the many ways in which issues relating to ageing can be instrumentalised and ideologised in several public debate arenas. Part III argues that scientific knowledge itself composes with objectivity, bringing ideologies of its own to the table, and looks at how this impacts discourse about ageing. In the final part, the contributors discuss how the frames can themselves be experienced at different levels of the division of labour, whether it is by people who work on them (legislators or scientists), by people working with them (professional carers) or by older people themselves. Unpacking the political and moral dimensions of scientific research on ageing, this cutting-edge volume brings together a range of multidisciplinary, European perspectives, and will be of use to all those interested in old age and the social sciences.