La fin des cultures nationales
La fin des cultures nationales

Author: Lluís Bonet

Publisher: Editions La Découverte

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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La diversité culturelle prétend au statut de nouvelle norme des politiques publiques, dans un contexte de globalisation accélérée des économies et des sociétés. Elle semble remettre en question le caractère national des politiques culturelles qui se sont développées au cours du XXe siècle. Le rapport entre globalisation, culture et politiques publiques alimente un premier débat, pluridisciplinaire, sur la réalité des changements en cours : qu'est-ce que la globalisation, du point de vue des politiques culturelles ? Un cheval de Troie de la standardisation commerciale, ou une nouvelle façon d'aborder les identités au sein d'une société multiculturelle ? Quant à la pratique de la diversité dans les politiques culturelles, elle s'interprète de façon différente selon les contextes nationaux : les cas anglais ou hollandais contrastent avec ceux de l'Italie, de l'Espagne ou de la France. La manière dont les pays appréhendent la diversité est d'abord fonction de leur propre rapport historique à l'altérité. Elle est aussi fonction de l'évolution des politiques culturelles contemporaines, depuis le rôle qu'elles assignent à l'intervention publique jusqu'à leur degré de centralisation autour de l'État. Prendre au sérieux la diversité culturelle, c'est la soumettre à une critique fondée sur une analyse comparée. Dans cet ouvrage qui réunit les meilleurs spécialistes de la question dans huit pays différents, cette critique se tient à distance des idées reçues, des plus généreuses aux plus rigides, sur les identités culturelles.

Cultures nationales et identité communautaire
Cultures nationales et identité communautaire

Author: Marloes Beers

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9789052016382

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La question de l'identité européenne a souvent été soulevée par les historiens sous l'angle de la civilisation et de l'héritage historique et culturel commun. Mais l'identité européenne n'a que rarement été abordée à travers une grille de lecture liée à l'émergence d'un espace public européen et d'une expérience de vivre ensemble. Cet ouvrage se propose donc de croiser les compétences multiples de jeunes chercheurs européens, afin d'identifier les vecteurs porteurs d'une identité européenne et de mesurer leur réalité ou leurs insuffisances. Ce faisant, il propose des pistes de développement pour cette identité européenne encore en gestation, afin d'en déterminer les enjeux pour l'Europe. À la fois objectif et handicap dans l'histoire des communautés européennes, la question identitaire semble être un enjeu majeur pour aujourd'hui comme pour demain. The issue of a common European identity has been the subject of academic research from diverse perspectives. This book approaches the theme of European identity through the interpretive lens of both European public space and the experience of living together. Young scholars in the field of European studies identify instruments for the development of a European identity and analyse their characteristics and shortcomings. These proceedings offer a spectrum of perspectives on the development of a European identity.

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Publisher: Editions Bréal

Published:

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 2749524865

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Histories, Cultures, and National Identities
Histories, Cultures, and National Identities

Author: Christine Arkinstall

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0838757286

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Issues around national identities have been central in Hispanism in recent years. However, scholarship remains pending on women's contributions to Spanish national agendas. This book addresses the visions of history, culture, and national identity articulated by Rosario de Acuna (1851-1923), angela Figuera (1902-1984), and Rosa Chacel (1898-1994). Their works elucidate the contested formation of Spanish democracy and the gendered politics of culture. Types of liberalism in late nineteenth-century Spain are debated in Acuna's theater and essays in part 1. Figuera's poetry, the focus of part 2, highlights the notion of history as trauma resulting from the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship, to privilege the recovery of historical memory. Part 3 explores Chacel's re-invention, in Barrio de Maravillas and Acropolis, of the liberal cultures of early twentieth-century Spain, from within a post-Franco era eager to reclaim those histories. The conclusion addresses the relevance of the writers' projects for present-day Spain. Christine Arkinstall is Associate Professor in Spanish at The University of Auckland.

Sociology Today
Sociology Today

Author: Arnaud Sales

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2012-08-16

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1446268926

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We are living in a turbulent world marked by fast, continuous social changes that affect the lives of individuals, families, communities, organizations, businesses, nation-states, and international networks. This fundamentally commits contemporary sociology to being a science of change. This collection effectively mirrors this diversity and variety of transformations underway in today′s societies and transnational spaces. Written by a group of internationally renowned sociologists, it offers a cutting edge understanding of what is happening in our life worlds, work lives and frames of social existence. Bringing up issues such as political turbulence, cultural and artistic dynamics, family changes, gender roles, migration flows and social movements, it is a timely contribution that discusses transformation and globalization and their consequences in both theoretical and substansive terms. Illuminating and comprehensive, this book will be of immense use for sociology students on all levels, as well as lecturers, researchers and others who are interested in social life and the consequences of human action. Arnaud Sales is Emeritus Proessor of Sociology at the University of Montreal, Canada.

Canada : Images D'une Société Post/nationale
Canada : Images D'une Société Post/nationale

Author: Nordic Association for Canadian Studies. International Conference

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9789052014852

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Has Canada moved beyond the nation state into the world of the post-national? To what extent have fixed notions of Canadian nationhood been replaced by a more global, decentralized sense of identification? Is nationhood (or post-nationhood) best expressed by statelessness and exile or by belonging? Or can Canadian national identity in fact fruitfully coexist with the post-national consciousness? These are some of the issues covered by this volume, issues seen from a range of perspectives - literary, cultural, political and economic. In the literary sphere the national/post-national debate is explored both through canonical writers, such as L. M. Montgomery, Stephen Leacock, and Marie-Claire Blais, and through recent First Nations, Asian-Canadian, African-Canadian, Ukrainian-Canadian and Quebec writing. The political and economic range is equally diverse, covering such topics as immigration policy, multiculturalism, Canadian-American relations, tourist imaginings of the Canadian North, the Canadian city, and Quebec nationalism. The book brings together 27 original articles from international scholars and creative writers, offering both European and Canadian perspectives. Six articles in French focus specifically on the francophone sphere.

Building a European Public Sphere / Un Espace Public Européen en Construction
Building a European Public Sphere / Un Espace Public Européen en Construction

Author: Robert Frank

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9789052016290

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The book edited by four known specialists of European history presents for the first time a discussion among European historians on the European public sphere since the 1950s. It treats the general perspective and deals also in special articles with the role played by the European Union, by the Council of Europe, and by national media such as television and film. The volume shows that the role of the European public sphere is often underestimated and that it is gradually becoming more influential and forceful not only in politics, but also in culture. Sous la direction de quatre spécialistes renommés de l'histoire européenne, cet ouvrage présente de façon inédite un débat entre historiens de l'Europe sur l'espace public européen et son évolution depuis les années 1950. La question est abordée dans son ensemble, mais certaines contributions traitent aussi plus spécifiquement du rôle joué par l'Union européenne, par le Conseil de l'Europe, et par les médias nationaux, comme la télévision et le cinéma. Ce volume montre que l'on a souvent sous-estimé l'espace public européen, alors que son influence est de plus en plus importante, tant au niveau politique que culturel.

Art, Culture, and National Identity in Fin-de-siècle Europe
Art, Culture, and National Identity in Fin-de-siècle Europe

Author: Michelle Facos

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 9780521815659

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At the turn of the twentieth century, nations, both sovereign and aspiring, feverishly worked to define, foster, and promote national identity. While historians have recognized the significance of this moment for modern identity formations, it has largely been neglected by art historians. Art, Culture and National Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Europe examines the phenomenon of politicized art and its connections to modernism. In eleven essays that focus on as many nations, an international team of authors explore the complex issues facing artists who helped to form a distinct national identity to audiences at home and abroad. The detailed case studies unravel the matrix of circumstances that fostered nationalistic developments, thereby offering a more nuanced understanding of European art and culture around 1900.

La Pologne dans l'Eglise médiéval
La Pologne dans l'Eglise médiéval

Author: Jerzy Kloczowski

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1040240569

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The establishment of Latin Christianity in Poland had a profound impact on its development, and this is the subject of the present volume. The articles range from surveys tracing the main phases of this evolution and the Church’s expansion between the 10th and the 16th centuries, to particular studies of parish organisation and the role of the monastic orders - above all the Mendicants, whose importance Professor Kloczowski considers has been much underestimated. In addition, he has also been concerned to relate developments in Poland to those in the neighbouring parts of east-central Europe, in Bohemia, Hungary and, later, in Lithuania, and to trace the ties linking the area with the West, and especially with Italy. La fondation de la chrétienté latine en Pologne a eu un impact profond sur son développement; ceci forme le sujet du présent volume. Les articles vont d’évaluations retraçant les principales phases de cette évolution et de l’expansion de l’Eglise entre le 10e et le 16e siècle, à des études spécifiques sur l’organisation paroissiale et le rôle des ordres monastiques - surtout les Mendiants, dont l’importance, selon le professeur Kloczowski, a été beaucoup trop sousestimée. Il s’est aussi attaché à établir les rapports entre les développements en Pologne et ceux dans les parties avoisinantes de l’Europe de l’Est centrale, en Bohème, en Hongrie et, plus tard, en Lithuanie. Il tente aussi de retracer les liens unissant cette région à l’Ouest et, plus particulièrement à l’Italie.