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Canada. Québec. Ministère de la culture et des communications; Bernier,
Ivan; Ruiz Fabri, Hélène
Implementing the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of
the Diversity of Cultural Expressions : future actions. - Québec :
Ministère, 2006. - 28 p. - ISBN 2-550-46721-3
This study looks at the steps which are necessary so that the Convention on
Cultural Diversity can realise its full potential as international legal
instrument, now that it has been adopted by UNESCO. The authors start by
describing the necessary requirements for the coming into force of the
Convention - 30 ratifications by member states - and the resulting time
frame. Only after the entry into force of the Convention the actual
implementation phase in form of national measures and policies can start.
The following section is dedicated to the Convention organs - the Conference
of Parties and the Intergovernmental Committee - and to how they will
operate. The main chapter is dedicated to the implementation monitoring. The
authors highlight the difficulties to enforce the commitments made in the
Convention, examining the mechanisms of monitoring by governments, by civil
society both at national and international level, and by the Convention
organs. They also look at legal monitoring in the event of disputes over the
interpretation or enforcement of commitments. This paper illustrates how
closely implementation is linked to monitoring and that some countries who
sign the UNESCO Convention might need help in setting-up cultural diversity
policies. The paper is a good starting point also for reflections on the
monitoring of other "good faith commitments". - Available online in PDF:
http://www.mcc.gouv.qc.ca/diversite-culturelle/eng/pdf/UNESCO-anglais.pdf.
Keywords: international instruments - cultural pluralism - cultural
legislation - monitoring - UNESCO - cultural policy - international
cooperation - government policy - civil society
Call number: CP.B.7.0/7aVersion française: |
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Canada. Québec . Ministère de la culture et des communications; Bernier,
Ivan; Ruiz Fabri, Hélène
La mise en oeuvre et le suivi de la Convention de l'UNESCO sur la
protection et la promoion de la diversité des expressions culturelles :
perspectives d'action. - Québec : Ministère, 2006. - 30 p. - ISBN
2-550-46267-X
Available online in PDF:
http://www.mcc.gouv.qc.ca/diversite-culturelle/pdf/UNESCO-francais.pdf.
Call number: CP.B.7.0/7b |
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Council of Europe. Culture and Cultural Heritage Department. STAGE Project;
Konstantios, Dimitrios; Konstantios, Nikolas; Tsombanoglou, Liana
A manual for museum managers. - Strasbourg : Council of
Europe, 2005. - 56 p. -
DGIV/CULT/STAGE(2005)4.
This handbook gives an overview of museum management and provides guidelines
to tackle the main issues of museums today. In the first section, the
authors describe the major changes in this field in the last twenty years.
In the central part the authors focus on managing resources, considering
collection handling procedures like the acquisition and conservation of the
objects, and look into the broad range of activities of museums to enhance
historical, artistic and scientific education of the visitors. In the final
section, authors analyse communication strategies and marketing issues,
highlighting the importance of caring about the visitors' taste and
expectations and to find new ways to increase the number of visitors. The
authors show that museums, in this new age, have to combine their cultural
and educational mission with a business approach, in order to be competitive
with regard to other cultural and entertainment industries. - Available online
in PDF:
DGIV/CULT/STAGE(2005)4.
Keywords: guide - museum administration - museum planning - cultural
personnel training - museum programmes - educational aspect - marketing -
museum attendance
Call number: CP.D.9.6/1 |
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Council of Europe. European Centre for Modern Languages; Camilleri,
Antoinette Grima
How strange! : the use of anecdotes in the development of
intercultural competence = Comme c'est bizarre! : l'utilisation d'anecdotes
dans le développement de la compétence interculturelle. - Strasbourg
: Council of Europe, 2002. - 100 p. - ISBN 92-871-5033-8
This bilingual book deals with education in intercultural skills in foreign
language classes. Thus, it sets out to give a theoretical and practical
background on how to motivate students to learn about cultural differences
and to appreciate them. The first part is concerned with the theoretical
interaction between communication and culture, including the importance of
intercultural competence in language learning. The second part consists of
anecdotes dealing with intercultural misunderstandings. Section three
focuses on practical ideas of developing cultural awareness and competences
in the classroom. Here, the author touches subjects such as cognitive
handling of ambiguity and unfamiliarity in intercultural contact, affective
participation in a new cultural group, and verbal/nonverbal behaviour. In
part five, she applies her 'storyline method' to language classes, showing
how anecdotes can be used in achieving the aim of learning not only a
language but its culture as well. - Available online in PDF:
http://www.ecml.at/documents/pub129bil2003_camilleri.pdf.
Keywords: guide - intercultural education - intercultural
communication - education and culture - language instruction - foreign
languages - teaching methods - lesson plans - story telling - customs and
traditions - cultural pluralism - nonverbal communication - communication
skills - stereotypes - student attitudes - cultural values - educational
sciences
Call number: CP.B.7.5/4 |
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Culture, heritage, and art : special issue. - [Vancouver]:
Canadian Journal of Communication Corporation, 2006. - 284 p.
(Canadian journal of communication ISSN 1499-6642 Vol. 31, no. 1, 2006)
The first section in this special issue on the nexus between culture,
heritage and art is dedicated to the topic of social effects of culture.
These articles have been commissioned in the framework of a research
programme of the Department of Canadian Heritage to explore how cultural
participation is linked to the improved capacity to take part in the
collective life of society. The introductory paper by Stanley describes the
six major effects of culture, arts and heritage that were identified:
enhancing social understanding; creating and retaining identity; modifying
values and preferences for collective choice; building social cohesion;
contributing to community development; fostering civic participation. The
following articles offer case studies of specific cultural activities,
heritage sites or artistic endeavours in Canada, that highlight the process
of cultural participation in a variety of communities. They analyse, for
example, a festival of South Asian homo- and transsexuals in Toronto
(Fernandez); the holistic worldview approach to culture of the Batchewana
First Nation indigenous communities (Broad et al.); the role of the Dutch
Church in Halifax in social relations (Williams); cultural life and
collective understanding in a small city (Dubinsky); the linkages between
the cultural capital in communities and the social capital it generates (Jeanotte);
the potential of museums, in particular the Ha Long Bay Ecomuseum, to create
meaningful participation (Worts). The research gathered here illustrates
that cultural citizenship is central to the quality and vitality of its
social, economic and political life. - Available online:
http://www.cjc-online.ca/viewissue.php?id=113.
Keywords: cultural participation - social impact - community
participation - social participation - social integration - community
development - Canada - cultural life - historic monuments - indigenous
populations - cultural education - museums - research results - multiethnic
societies
Call number: CP.B.8/21 |
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European Parliament. Directorate General Internal Policies of the Union.
Policy Department Structural and Cohesion Policies; Malik, Jamal
Inter-religious dialogue : briefing paper. - Brussels :
European Parliament, 2006. - x, 29 p. - Doc No IP/B/CULT/ST/2006_018 - Doc
No PE 369.019
Commissioned to write a paper on inter-religious dialogue, the author
quickly extends the topic beyond confessional boundaries to the larger realm
of intercultural dialogue, because, as he argues, any individual's or
community's life experiences are much wider and more complex then issues of
religious identity, and that many problems are related to social and
educational inequalities rather than to religion. A meaningful dialogue
takes into account the heterogeneity of socio-religious groups and includes also
non-religious groups. The paper covers the form and content of dialogues,
deals with dialogue partners and forums, and looks at the possibilities and
limits of intercultural dialogue. Emphasis lies on education and media,
highlighting the need for public meeting points. The last section makes recommendations
to European policy makers. In each section,
the focus lies on practical examples. Of further interest are the extensive
bibliography and list of links attached.
Keywords: intercultural communication - cultural differentiation -
minority groups - religious groups - interethnic relations - value systems -
stereotypes - cultural pluralism - cultural education - educational needs -
information exchange - media - policy making - political participation
Call number: CP.B.7.2/33 |
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Les initiatives citoyennes en Europe. - Paris : Scop-SA
Alternatives économiques, 2005. - 144 p. : ill.
(Alternatives économiques. Pratique, ISSN 1291-1704 ; n° 19, mai 2005)
This guide offers a panorama of citizen initiatives and solidarity actions
from 15 European countries. They illustrate public private partnerships in
the areas of social cohesion, ethical banking, consumer responsibility,
environmental protection, urban development, human rights, and international
humanitarian action. The short presentations are complemented by additional
information resources indicating definitions, key associations, programmes
and legal instruments. The guide builds on information gathered by the
Council of Europe's Social Cohesion Directorate. The introductory part
includes a synthesis, a typology of the associative cultures in Europe,
terminological clarifications, an interview with Terry Davis, the Secretary
General of the Council of Europe, and a short outlook on the civil societies
in Eastern Europe. Practical instructions for lobbying, as well as
guidelines for setting up a citizen initiative are provided as well.
Keywords: civil society - public sector - private sector -
associations - interest groups - nongovernmental organisations - social
integration - financial institutions - consumer education - consumer
protection - sustainable development - urban development - human rights -
international solidarity - Council of Europe activities
Call number: CP.G.2/14 |
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Nottingham Trent University. Theory, Culture and Society Centre;
Featherstone, Mike et al. (eds.)
Problematizing global knowledge : special issue. - London, etc.
: Sage Publications, 2006. - 616 p.
(Theory, culture and society ISSN 0263-2764 Vol.23, no.2-3, April 2006)
This bulky special issue of the Theory, Culture and Society journal is a
prototype of an alternative knowledge corpus which is based on new forms of
conceptual tools and an interdisciplinary thinking, and, at the same time,
critically uncovers the mechanisms and processes that traditionally form
knowledge. The New Encyclopaedia Project is a cultural studies approach to
global knowledge, based on the instruments of critique and deconstruction.
It exemplifies the endless exchange in the emergence of knowledge, the
incomplete, unfinished nature of any encyclopaedia, and offers an
alternative to the Western-centric assumption there is a universal generic
knowledge, valid for human beings in all times and places. The introductory
chapter provides an overview of the development of encyclopaedias from the
cosmopolitan enterprise by Diderot, over the national encyclopaedic
undertakings meant to assert national identity, to modern international
projects. But even alternative approaches such as the open Internet
encyclopaedia Wikipedia follow traditional disciplinary divisions which tend
to favour the reproduction of established classifications and existing
knowledge monopolies. In front of this background the editors present the
aims and the logic of the New Encyclopaedia Project, evident also in the
structure of the current issue. Knowledge is approached in terms of the
broader framework that determines its production, and thus the entries are
organised in three large sections: meta-concepts (e.g. language, time,
science, body, media, culture), meta-narratives (e.g. civilisation,
religion, modernity, nation, market) and the sites and institutions where
knowledge is produced, authorised and disseminated (e.g. university,
library, public sphere). The entries are cluster topics which can be thought
through in an inter-disciplinary manner. Each entry is supplemented by
further texts which visualise another possible configuration of the concept
or way in which the entry could have been written, covering also non-Western
perspectives. Thus, the entry on culture (Hutnyk) is accompanied by further
texts including on postcolonial cultures (Patke) and on cultural diversity (Isar).
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Abstracts and -within the Council of Europe- also the full text of articles
are available online:
http://tcs.sagepub.com/content/vol23/issue2-3/.
Keywords: compilation - knowledge - encyclopaedias - cultural studies
- epistemology - conceptualization - ruling class - science - international
level - archives - Internet - society - culture - cultural anthropology -
cultural change - cultural pluralism
Call number: CP.J TCS23_2-3 |
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Switzerland. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Agency for Development and
Cooperation (SDC); Pro Helvetia; Landry, Charles
Culture at the heart of transformation -- the role of culture in
social and economic development : lessons learnt from the Swiss cultural
programme. - [Zurich] : Pro Helvetia; [Berne] : SDC, 2006. - 54 p. :
ill.
This study was commissioned by the Swiss Agency for Development and
Cooperation (SDC) and the Arts Council of Switzerland Pro Helvetia. It
assesses the experiences and results of the co-operation projects conducted
by Pro Helvetia's Swiss Cultural Programme in South-East Europe and Ukraine
(SCP) on behalf of the SDC. After a brief overview of the Swiss Cultural
Programme, the author presents the difficult context of transformation
countries and spells out how arts and culture is linked to the development
of the society. He then goes on to examine how this transformative effect of
arts and culture has been used in the Swiss initiative, highlighting the
characteristics and added values in their approach of starting development
work from culture. The programme focused on the capacity-building of
organisations and supported projects that foster independent thought,
encourage imagination, bring communities together, build citizenship and
democratic competence, and reinforce civil society. Themes covered are urban
and rural revitalisation, cross-cultural understanding, involvement of the
young, the potential of creative industries, etc. In the remaining section,
the author examines, in detail and from a 360 degree perspective, what has
to be taken in consideration in this type of development work. The study
illustrates how cultural work goes beyond other forms of international
co-operation, because it liberates creative energy to the benefit of the
entire society. - Available online in PDF:
http://162.23.39.120/dezaweb/ressources/resource_en_65267.pdf.
Keywords: culture and development - cultural change - cultural
programmes - development programmes - economic and social development -
Switzerland - cultural organisations - youth - cultural industry - urban
areas - urban renewal - community participation - Albania - Bosnia and
Herzegovina - Bulgaria - Macedonia - Romania - Yugoslavia - Ukraine -
imagination - creativity - intercultural communication
Call number: CP.B.1.1/38aVersion française: |
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Suisse. Département fédéral des affaires étrangères. Direction du
développement et de la coopération (DDC); Pro Helvetia; Landry, Charles
La culture au coeur du changement -- rôle de la culture dans le
développement économique et social : enseignements du programme culturel
suisse. - [Zurich] : Pro Helvetia; Berne : SDC, 2006. - 54 p. : ill.
Available online in PDF:
http://162.23.39.120/dezaweb/ressources/resource_fr_65267.pdf.
Keywords: culture and development - cultural change - cultural
programmes - development programmes - economic and social development -
Switzerland - cultural organizations - youth - cultural industry - urban
areas - urban renewal - community participation - Albania - Bosnia and
Herzegovina - Bulgaria - Macedonia - Romania - Yugoslavia - Ukraine -
imagination - creativity - intercultural communication
Call number: CP.B.1.1/38b |
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Tilburg University. Centre for Science and Values; Halman, Loek; Luijkx,
Ruud; Van Zundert, Marga
Atlas of European values. - Leiden : Brill, 2006. - 139 p. :
ill - ISBN 90-04-14460-9
(European values studies ; 8)
This colourful and carefully edited volume presents the opinions, beliefs
and feelings of Europeans. The data is based on a survey, carried out in 44
countries in the framework of the European Value Study, a Dutch research
project. The topics are organised in seven thematic chapters, covering the
areas of Europe, family, work, religion, politics, society and well-being.
The results of each topic -feeling European, importance of work, traditional
beliefs, support for democracy, satisfaction with life, disapproval of
homosexuality, etc.- are presented in form of maps and graphs, accompanied
by a short explanatory text, in some cases also by a further going outlook.
Statements such as "God is most important for the Maltese and Turks; the
least for the Czechs" summarise the insights made. The atlas underlines the
observation that there is no such thing as a clear set of European values.
Democracy, freedom, equality, human dignity and solidarity are important for
almost all Europeans, but that makes them not to specifically European
values.
- More information on the European Values Study, as well as the data of the
surveys, is available at
http://www.europeanvalues.nl/. A selection of texts, maps and graphs is
available at
http://www.atlaseuropeanvalues.com/.
Keywords: value systems - survey analysis - statistical data - moral
values - belief - Europe - religion - family - children - working life -
social systems
Call number: CP.A.2/43 |
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Yúdice, George
The expediency of culture : uses of culture in the global area.
- Durhham N.C., etc. : Duke University Press, 2003 - ISBN 0-8223-3168-3
(Post-contemporary interventions)
This book deals with the new role of culture in today's increasingly
globalised world where it is used to better social conditions, to bolster
civil society, to boost economic growth and to aid urban development. Also
the legitimisation of culture and its funding is nowadays based on its
explicit political and economic utility. The author approaches culture as a
resource which is targeted for exploitation not only by global capital
-media, consumerism, tourism- but also by indigenous activists and NGOs
fighting for social justice. From being a resource it follows that there are
struggles around the resource. To illustrate this, the author examines
examples of cultural activism of identity groups, civil society activities
and cultural development initiatives in the United States and Latin America,
such as funk dance and Afro reggae activism in Brazil, the Zapatista
movement in Mexico, the globalisation of Latin America in Miami, and the
inSITE festival on the San Diego/Tijuana border. In his analysis, he pays
much attention to the political context, as well as to the effects of
international economic interests -such as international property regimes and
free trade agreements- on culture. In the conclusions, he looks at the role
of culture in times of crisis, illuminating this question in relation to the
September 11 attacks and discussing its cultural consequences. The author is
rather pessimistic about the prospects of grassroots movements. Although
they understand themselves as a resistance against the ravages of
neo-liberalism, they precisely fulfil the neo-liberal expectations that
assistance should rather be situated in civil society than in governments,
the author argues, seeing civil society become a maiden to liberal policies
that reduce and privatise the social and the cultural.
Keywords: cultural change - international level - cultural objectives
- international trade - consumers - political movements - civil society -
cultural development - social integration - nongovernmental organisations -
cultural action - cultural behaviour - cultural industry - intellectual
property - free trade - international division of labour - cultural studies
- political aspect
Call number: CP.G.1/51 |
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