La integración cultural y social en las migraciones intraeuropeas

Cuando un migrante llega a una sociedad distinta, debe elegir cómo vivir en ella. En esta elección cuentan su pasado, su presente y especialmente su futuro en términos de expectativas de movilidad. Comprender cómo viven los residentes extranjeros en su país de destino implica considerar conceptos clave como procesos de socialización, shock cultural, competencia intercultural o procesos de aculturación que implican aprender nuevas competencias culturales. A partir de los datos de la Encuesta Social de Migraciones Internas Europeas (EIMSS) este trabajo se centra en el análisis de dos dimensiones, la integración cultural y la integración social, que van a caracterizar el modo en que los migrantes europeos viven en su nuevo entorno social, y su relación con la percepción de la discriminación que tiene el migrante o su adaptación psicológica, en términos de nostalgia y satisfacción con la vida.

Hardware gimmick or cultural innovation? Technological, cultural, and social foundations of the Japanese video game industry

This paper examines the role of creative resources in the emergence of the Japanese video game industry. We argue that creative resources nurtured by popular cartoons and animation sector, combined with technological knowledge accumulated in the consumer electronics industry, facilitated the emergence of successful video game industry in Japan. First we trace the development of the industry from its origin to the rise of platform developers and software publishers. Then, knowledge and creative foundations that influenced the developmental trajectory of this industry are analyzed, with links to consumer electronics and in regards to cartoons and animation industry.

Cultural and Social Cognitive Predictors of Academic Satisfaction in Southeast Asian American College Students

This study examined the predictive utility of Lent’s (2004) social cognitive model of well-being in the context of academic satisfaction with a sample of Southeast Asian American college students using a cross-sectional design. Path analysis was used to examine the role of perceived parental trauma, perceived parental acculturative stress, intergenerational family conflict, and social cognitive predictors to academic satisfaction. Participants were 111 Southeast Asian American and 111 East Asian American college students who completed online measures. Contrary to expectations, none of the contextual cultural variables were significant predictors of academic satisfaction. Also contrary to expectations, academic support and self-efficacy were not directly linked to academic satisfaction and outcome expectation was not linked to goal progress. Other social cognitive predictors were related directly and indirectly to academic satisfaction, consistent with prior research. Limitations and implications for future research and practice are addressed.

PRESERVAÇÃO DO PATRIMÔNIO CULTURAL: PRÁTICA SOCIAL UTILIZADA PARA MANUTENÇÃO DO PODER POLÍTICO

Este trabalho se situa na continuidade do debate incitado por vários estudiosos sobre as metamorfoses dos centros históricos. Procura-se enunciar algumas contradições entre discursos e práticas manifestadas na cidade de São Luís - MA tendo como pano de fundo o protagonismo do programa de revitalização versus atuação do poder público sobre o legado cultural. O objetivo principal consistiu em analisar como determinados políticos se apropriaram da questão da proteção do patrimônio histórico-cultural. Os temas referentes a (re)apropriação das áreas centrais antigas adquiriram na atualidade incontestável relevância. Na maioria das vezes, os resultados das intervenções nos centros antigos são apresentados como fatos que só têm lado positivo, já que, o movimento que seleciona a “memória oficial”, escolhida por governos em nome da tradição dá supremacia para a valorização do acervo cultural arquitetônico. Do ponto de vista teórico-metodológico, a pesquisa é de caráter exploratório permeada pela interdisciplinaridade. Foram consultados documentos institucionais relativos ao programa de preservação, partindo para identificação de fatos, e estratégias desveladas para sua implementação. Percebeu-se que a prática preservacionista funcionou, um lócus privilegiado, de oportunidades de investimentos rentáveis ao poder político, o que acabou resultando em novas configurações urbanas com a manutenção do status quo de determinados indivíduos.

Conhecer para dominar : o desenvolvimento do conhecimento antropológico na política colonial portuguesa em Moçambique, 1926-1959

Em Portugal, a Antropologia, enquanto prática científica nas suas diversas assunções, leva já um século de existência, estando todavia por fazer uma História da Antropologia Portuguesa. Existem, é certo, visões parcelares, mas mesmo essas surgidas apenas nas últimas duas décadas e referindo-se, quase que exclusivamente, ao contexto «metropolitano»10. A dimensão colonial, ou tem sido sistematicamente ignorada, ou tem-se prestado a leituras algo marcadas por uma visão demasiado ideológica 11. Esse quase desconhecimento do seu próprio passado poderá ter origem naquela «cegueira histórica» referida por Thomas Kuhn e que conduz, como consequência mais evidente, a «uma distorção drástica da percepção que o cientista possui do passado da sua disciplina»12, ou, então, resultar do relativo atraso da Antropologia Portuguesa. Mas estas são leituras demasiado extemporâneas, isto é, sem que se proceda à retrospecção factual e analítica das práticas antropológicas portuguesas não se poderá emitir qualquer parecer nessa área. Torna-se imperioso, por isso mesmo, reconstituir a História da Antropologia Portuguesa, conhecer as suas motivações, dar conta das suas limitações, o que conduzirá, necessariamente, a uma mais completa compreensão das suas realizações, tanto as do passado, como as do presente.

Autonomía o ciudadanía incompleta: el pueblo mapuche en Chile y Argentina

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Apparatus eruditionis tam rerum quam verborum per omnes ortes et scientias [Texto impreso]

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Social Procurement: Promoting the sustainability of NPOs through the transformation of economic, social and cultural capital

Social procurement provides a key source of income for the Third Sector, and is vital for the sustainability of many nonprofit organisations. Social procurement involves the exchange of economic capital from one organisation, typically government (although for-profit and non-profit organisations can also purchase), with a nonprofit organisations in order to deliver other forms of. It is this transformation of economic capital into other forms of capital (cultural, human, social) in the social procurement process, which is the focus of this paper. Four case studies, which are representative of the four main types of social procurement, will be examined in order to trace how economic capital is transformed into other types of capital in each of these cases. In so doing, the paper will advance our understanding of social procurement theoretically, and lead to a wider discussion about the role of social procurement in ensuring the sustainability of nonprofit organisations, and the civil societies in which they operate.

Social and cultural borders in Rio de Janeiro : the everyday life of community and mainstream photojournalists

This paper takes a multimethod approach which combines ethnographic techniques and discourse studies to investigate two contrasting professional groups: community photographers, who are favela dwellers who have developed photographic projects in Brazil‘s favelas, and photojournalists of the mainstream media. Its purpose is to determine how a cultural and social divide in the city of Rio de Janeiro shapes both community photographers and mainstream photojournalists’ practices, discourses, and identities. While community photographers strive to establish a humane and positive view about favelas and their residents by shifting the focus from poverty, shortages, violence, and criminality to images of the ordinary life, mainstream photojournalists express the view that their role is of primary importance for the defence of human rights in the favelas by helping to prevent, for instance, police abuses and violations. As the data analysis indicated the existence of socio-spatial borders all over Rio de Janeiro, this study adopted the idea of a divided city without denying interconnections between favelas and the city’s political life. Through the analysis of categories which emerged from the data, the complex world of documenting favela life is explored. The major themes touched upon are: the breakdown between the mainstream media and the favela communities; the different kinds of relationships which arise in Rio’s low income suburbs; and the gradual return of mainstream news workers to favelas.

Co-creating stories in social learning systems : The role of community media and cultural organisations in disseminating knowledge

This paper investigates how community based media organisations are co-creative storytelling institutions, and how they learn to disseminate knowledge in a social learning system. Organisations involved in story co-creation are learning to create in fluid environments.They are project based, with a constant turnover of volunteers or staff. These organisations have to meet the needs of their funding bodies and their communities to remain sustainable. Learning is seen as dialogical, and this is also reflected in the nature of storytelling itself. These organisations must learn to meet the needs of their communities, who in turn learn from the organisation’s expertise in a facilitated setting. This learning is participatory and collaborative, and is often a mix of virtual and offline interaction. Such community-based organisations sit in the realm of a hybrid-learning environment; they are neither a formal educational institution like a college, nor do their volunteers produce outcomes in a professional capacity. Yet, they must maintain a certain level of quality outcomes from their contributors to be of continued value in their communities. Drawing from a larger research study, one particular example is that of the CitizenJ project. CitizenJ is hosted by a state cultural centre, and partnered with publishing partners in the community broadcasting sector. This paper explores how this project is a Community of Practice, and how it promotes ethical and best practice, meets contributors’ needs, emphasises the importance of facilitation in achieving quality outcomes, and the creation of projects for wider community and public interest.

New Perspectives on the Role of Cultural Intermediaries in Social Inclusion in the UK

Based on interviews with arts administrators responsible for addressing targeted groups labelled “socially excluded,” this paper highlights new understandings of the term “cultural intermediary” (Featherstone 1991; Bourdieu 2000) within art galleries and art centres. It considers the unique role of such figures in crossing the exclusion/inclusion boundary within the arts and developing more personal approaches to marketing activities in their institutions through relationship building. While it is acknowledged here that such workers find themselves in a privileged position in being able to shape questions of taste and particular consumerist dispositions to understanding the art world, little, if not no, effort has been made to understand this process. As such, there remains a void between the cultural policy‐oriented conception of social inclusion, which implies a version of repairing the “flawed consumer” (Bauman 2005), and the way in which such policy is played out on the ground.

Conocimiento de medio natural, social y cultural : contenidos digitales del currículo para quinto de Educación Primaria Región de Murcia.

Unidades didácticas digitales adaptadas al currículo educativo de la Región de Murcia que sirven de apoyo al profesor en el aula, al tiempo que fomentan la interacción con los alumnos a través de la tecnología. Están concebidas como recursos complementarios al libro de texto tradicional. La publicación forma parte del proyecto AULA XXI cuyo objetivo es avanzar en la integración plena de las TIC en el ámbito educativo regional. Se incluyen actividades de aprendizaje dinámicas que favorecen una actitud más activa del alumno en clase, a la vez que le proporciona una guía para seguir los contenidos de repaso o ampliación a través de sistemas de autoevaluación.

Desafíos educativos en la construcción del espacio cultural-social común en Sudamérica.

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Propuesta para la asignatura Ejercicios de Interpretación (mediación lingüística y cultural) en el ámbito social.

Se crea una red temática sobre interpretación en los servicios públicos formada por equipos docentes de tres universidades europeas: Salamanca, Hildesheim (Alemania) y Bolonia-Forli (Italia). Es una red con una vertiente didáctica que consiste en dotar de contenidos a una asignatura práctica de la Licenciatura en Traducción e Interpretación, con vistas al proceso de convergencia europea. Para ello los tres equipos elaboran una serie de materiales didácticos multilingües basados en situaciones-tipo de encuentros multiculturales en servicios sanitarios, administrativos o sociales, por lo que se trata de incluir la mediación social y cultural en los servicios públicos. En segundo lugar, se pretende dar una respuesta profesional a la necesidad, cada vez más presente en los países a los que pertenecen las universidades participantes, de disponer de profesionales de interpretación en los servicios que las distintas administraciones prestan a los ciudadanos inmigrantes, es decir, crear el perfil profesional de del intérprete social o comunitario. Los investigadores se han comunicado y realizado el proyecto a través de una intranet.