Intercultural bridges in teenagers' theatrical events : performing self and constructing cultural identity through a creative drama process

The overriding aim of this drama educational case study is to deepen the understanding of meaning making in a creative intercultural youth theatre process and to examine it in the context of the 10th European Children's TheatreEncounter. The research task is to give a theoretical description of some key features of a creative drama process as the basis for theory about meaning makingin physical theatre. The first task is to illuminate the culture-historical connections of the multilayered practice of the EDERED-association. The second taskis to analyse and interpret theatrical meaning making. The ethnographical research site is regarded as a theatrical event. The analysis of the theatrical eventis divided into four segments: cultural contexts, contextual theatricality, theatrical playing and playing culture. These segments are connected with four research questions: What are the cultural contexts of a creative drama process? How can the organisation of the Encounter, genres, aesthetic codes and perception ofcodes be seen to influence the lived experiences of the participants? What are some of the key phases and characteristics in a creative practice? What kind of cultural learning can be interpreted from the performance texts? The interpretative question concerns identity and community (re)construction. How are the categories, `community�� and `child�� constructed in the Encounter culture? In this drama educational case study the research material (transcribed interviews, coded questionnaire answers, participant drawings, videotaped process text and performance texts) are examined in a multi-method analysis in the meta-theoretical framework of Dewey's naturalistic pragmatism. A three-dimensional research interest through a combination of lived experiences, social contexts and cultural-aesthetical practices compared with drama-educational practices required the methodological project of cultural studies. Furthermore, the critical interpretation of cultural texts is divided into three levels of analyses which are called description, structural analysis and theoretical interpretation. Dialogic validity (truthfulness, self-reflexivity and polyvocality) is combined with contextual validity (sensitivity to social context and awareness of historicity) and with deconstructive validity (awareness of the social discourses). My research suggests that itis possible, by means of physical theatre, to construct symbolic worlds where questions about intercultural identity and multilingual community are examined and where provisional answers are constructed in social interaction.

Role of the cultural values as a key part in the implementing of healthy practices : exploratory research

El concepto de organizaci��n saludable cada vez toma m��s fuerza en el ��mbito empresarial y acad��mico, a raz��n de su enfoque integral y al impacto generado en distintos grupos de inter��s. Debido a su reciente consolidaci��n como concepto, existe un limitado cuerpo de investigaci��n en torno al tema. Para contribuir a la generaci��n de conocimiento en este sentido, se desarroll�� un estudio exploratorio el cual ten��a como objetivo identificar la relaci��n existente entre la implementaci��n de pr��cticas saludables en las organizaciones y los valores culturales. En el estudio participaron 66 sujetos a quienes se les administr�� un cuestionario compuesto por nueve variables, cinco provenientes del modelo de Hofstede (1980) y cuatro m��s que evaluaban la implementaci��n de pr��cticas organizacionales saludables. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que los valores culturales predicen la implementaci��n de pr��cticas saludables.

La influencia de la construcci��n de identidad cultural vietnamita en la guerra de independencia de Vietnam (1946-1954)

La presente investigaci��n tiene como objetivo explicar la influencia de la construcci��n de identidad cultural vietnamita en la Guerra de Independencia de Vietnam entre 1946 y 1954. Se argumenta que la construcci��n de identidad cultural justific��, promovi�� y legitim�� la guerra de independencia como instrumento pol��tico ya que ���en tanto proceso relacional��� gener�� durante la colonizaci��n francesa pr��cticas de diferenciaci��n fundamentadas en la reivindicaci��n de los valores, tradiciones, costumbres, creencias y s��mbolos vietnamitas en torno a la resistencia. Ello propici�� una ruptura en las relaciones pol��ticas imperantes, lo que condujo a la b��squeda de un nuevo orden social basado en la autodeterminaci��n. Se utiliza una metodolog��a de tipo cualitativa, fundamentada en el an��lisis documental e historiogr��fico.

Estudios sonoros desde la Regi��n Andina UIO-BOG = Sonic Studies from the Andean Region

El presente trabajo se basa en el an��lisis de las pr��cticas sonoras y, a partir de ah��, de una apuesta por un nuevo campo de estudios, el de los Estudios Sonoros; cuyo fin ��ltimo es establecer una perspectiva epistemol��gica y pol��tica de las pr��cticas experimentales con sonido, en di��logo con proyectos provenientes de los Estudios Culturales, como son el proyecto modernidad/ colonialidad, las teor��as poscoloniales y los estudios subalternos. Desde estas posiciones te��ricas y pol��ticas, estoy conciente de que el sonido, y sus posibilidades experimentales, articulan un r��gimen influyente en el mundo contempor��neo. Raz��n por la cual, sobre todo, esta es una reflexi��n desde las pr��cticas sonoras que surgen en dos ciudades andinas: Quito y Bogot��, como una expresi��n emergente para establecer encuentros Sur-Sur, que puedan generar di��logos epistemol��gicos sobre el sonido. En otras palabras, en este libro estoy proponi��ndo a mis lectoras y lectores, una especie de ���juego epist��mico���: comprender el sonido como un lugar de conocimiento.Y el sonido es conocimiento precisamente porque el sonido nos permite vernos (y permite verme) como un sujeto hist��ricamente ubicado. En el cap��tulo primero abordar�� la pregunta de c��mo se fue articulando el r��gimen discursivo del sonido como arte, dentro de di��logos y conflictos que se generaron en el contexto de la Guerra Fr��a que, para el caso de Latinoam��rica, constituy�� la transferencia de conocimientos articulados desde promesas como el desarrollismo y la modernizaci��n. Tambi��n analizar�� el c��mo se configuraron, tanto en Quito como en Bogot��, las nuevas subjetividades ���art��sticas��� frente al discurso de las vanguardias europeas del siglo XX y el experimentalismo estadounidense. Como ver��n mis lectoras y lectores, estos modelos, aparentemente originales e innovadores, fueron influidos por formas de saber y poder moduladas alrededor de la idea de la renovaci��n de las artes a trav��s del sonido, formulaci��n que instal�� el sonido como dispositivo/materia desde el cual, en detrimento de lo local, se articul�� la fantas��a de un universal deseado: las m��quinas de sonido y de reproducibilidad t��cnica. En el segundo cap��tulo me centrar�� en algunas pr��cticas de experimentaci��n sonora para indagar cuestiones como el estilo, procedimiento posmodernista ampliamente diseminado dentro de las instituciones art��sticas y de ��stas hacia la vida cotidiana. A partir de lo cual intentamos esclarecer el porqu�� de la confiscaci��n y sometimiento de lo sonoro bajo el cuidadoso encierro del r��gimen discursivo del arte, que de manera eficiente lo absorbe como un ���nuevo��� medio para disciplinarlo y nombrarlo como proyecto sonoro, pieza sonora, instalaci��n sonora, performance sonoro, acci��n sonora, objeto sonoro, paisaje sonoro, composici��n, loop. En otras palabras, c��mo todo lo que genera el posmodernismo es apropiado por las universidades para crear la noci��n de ���pastiche���, en donde todo cabe, bajo la indulgencia del ���estilo���, procedimiento desde el cual se va instalando el r��gimen de verdad de un nuevo universal deseado: El Arte Sonoro. En este mismo cap��tulo, indagamos sobre las l��gicas de producci��n de estas pr��cticas, para avanzar hacia las l��gicas culturales donde lo sonoro se define y redefine por el posicionamiento y el lugar desde el que act��an los sujetos. Bajo estas consideraciones, queda planteada la propuesta, acu��ada por esta investigaci��n, la de un nuevo campo de estudio: Los Estudios Sonoros, propuesta que debe ser entendida como lo que algunos intelectuales latinoamericanos llaman epistemes emergentes11, precisamente porque esta investigaci��n hace un esfuerzo por esclarecer las interdependencias existentes entre pr��cticas art��sticas con sonido, el campo discursivo del arte y otras construcciones discursivas de la modernidad-colonialidad que establecen y regulan la formaci��n del r��gimen sonoro. En el cap��tulo tercero analizar�� c��mo un ���medio de creaci��n��� se vuelve hegem��nico y c��mo ciertos artistas que usan el sonido, bajo la pretensi��n de representar la marginalidad, marginalizan a��n m��s a las personas que han sido hist��ricamente subalternizadas. Seguido de este an��lisis, en el cap��tulo cuarto, indagamos sobre las t��cticas que marcan nuevas formas de adhesi��n, de representaci��n y de resistencia cultural, las mismas que son estrategias suplementarias frente, y en contra, de los discursos dominantes de las pr��cticas art��sticas con sonido y las geopol��ticas de conocimiento.

Advances in Discourse Studies

Methods of approaching the study of discourse have developed rapidly in the last ten years, influenced by a growing interdisciplinary spirit among linguistics and anthropology, sociology, cognitive and cultural psychology and cultural studies, as well as among established sub-fields within linguistics itself. Among the more recent developments are an increasing ���critical��� turn in discourse analysis, a growing interest in historical, ethnographic and corpus-based approaches to discourse, more concern with the social contexts in which discourse occurs, the social actions that it is used to take and the identities that are constructed through it, as well as a revaluation of what counts as ���discourse��� to include multi-modal texts and interaction. Advances in Discourse Studies brings together contributions from leading scholars in the field, investigating the historical and theoretical relationships between new advances in discourse studies and pointing towards new directions for the future of the discipline. Featuring discussion questions, classroom projects and recommended readings at the end of each section, as well as case studies illustrating each approach discussed, this is an invaluable resource for students of interdisciplinary discourse analysis.

On paternalistic leadership fit: exploring cross-cultural endorsement, leader-follower fit, and the boundary role of organizational culture

Although cross-cultural leadership research has thrived in international business literature, little attention has been devoted to understanding the effectiveness of non-western theories beyond their original contexts. The purpose of this study is to examine the cross-cultural endorsement of paternalistic leadership, an emerging non-western leadership theory, using data from GLOBE project. Using multigroup confirmatory factor analyses we found measurement equivalence of a scale derived from GLOBE���s data, which enabled us to compare the endorsement of paternalistic leadership dimensions across 10 cultural clusters and 55 societies. Our study revealed that there are significant differences in the importance societies give to each dimension, suggesting that paternalism as leadership style is not universally nor homogeneously endorsed. Furthermore, results suggest that different patterns of endorsement of each of these dimensions give rise to idiosyncratic shades of paternalistic leadership across societies. Implications for theory and future research on international business are discussed.

Ind��stria cultural e forr�� eletr��nico no Rio Grande do Norte

The present study aimed to understand how and to what extent the electronic forr��, currently hegemonic in the music market in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, establishes and maintains relations of domination in the social contexts in which it is produced, transmitted and received. Based, in significant form-content, on the writings of the first generation of theorists of the so-called Frankfurt School (Critical Theory), particularly with Theodor W. Adorno, and systematically using the contributions of the Cultural Studies (from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies of Birmingham) and of the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, this study aimed to perform, in the fertile intersection of these references, a critical possibility of interpretation of the electronic forr�� predominantly spread in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. To this end, aiming at a better apprehension of the so-called capital circuits/culture circuits , this study resulted from a qualitative investment of research, based on structured interviews with musicians, entrepreneurs of the sector and music consumers, as well as on the analysis of the themes contained in the official discography of the electronic forr�� band called Garota Safada (Shameless Girl). As a general empirical conclusion, it was possible to infer that far from the significant presence of domination or mere prevalence of oppositions, there is a relational pluralism of forms of domination and ways of resistances present in the production and consumption of electronic forr��, regardless of gender, age, income, education or place of residence. However, the artifices of the cultural industry has been shown to be efficient: from large-scale businessmen to small producers enabled by the so-called open markets . The currentness of the concept of cultural industry is based on the idea that its products are offered systematically (the systematic insistence of everything to everyone) and on the notion that its production primarily meets the administrative criteria of control over the effects on the receiver (capacity of prescription of desires). Thus, the Adornian reflection on the pseudo-individualization leads to the inference that even in some of the most apparent ways of negotiation and/or refusal regarding the consumption of forr��, certain behaviors of the cultural industry still prevail both in the very (re)interpretation of the forr�� and in the choice of other music genres also standardized, rationalized and massified. Therefore, despite the absence of cause-effect relation and the recognition of the popular capacity of re-elaboration and contestation of the media consumption, some world views prevailing in relation to the electronic forr�� establish or, at least, support some hegemonic ideologies, especially those concerning the life style, consumption and genre relations (fun by all means). Therefore, due the massification of certain songs, some ways of dissemination of values, beliefs and feelings are potentially experienced from the electronic forr��. So, it is presumable that in the current advance of the process of semiformation (Halbbildung), the habitus of a part of the youth from the state of Rio Grande do Norte reinforces and is reinforced by the centrality of the trinomial fun, love and sex present in the songs, emphasized in some constructive practices of sense and in certain flows of social significance

Estudo lexical do patrim��nio lingu��stico-cultural de Curu����-PA: voc��bulos de pesca

Coordena����o de Aperfei��oamento de Pessoal de N��vel Superior (CAPES)

Multiculturalismo, diversidade cultural e cotidiano escolar: uma an��lise da tem��tica em filmes de escola

This work has as its theme the multiculturalism, cultural diversity and their reflections in school everyday, more specifically on the interactions between the various subjects and social groups that make up a school and the teacher as mediator of the relationship between these guys. The theme Multiculturalism refers in the first instance, to the theoretical movement beginning in the mid-20th century in the United States and that spreads in the Western world as a way of tackling the conflicts generated depending on the economic issues, policies, and, in particular, cultural-ethnic, in an attempt to combat discrimination and prejudice, given the difficulties of individuals and groups to welcome and socialize with the plurality and cultural differences (SILVA; BRANDIM, 2008).At the same time, multiculturalism refers to cultural studies, through the Centre for Contemporary cultural studies, founded by em1964 Hoggart, and connected to the English language Department of the University of Birmingham in England.In contemporary times, due to the phenomenon of globalization and public policy to challenge prejudice and discrimination the subjects and social groups, regardless of color, creed, ethnicity, sexual orientation and nationality, this theme has been recurring in order to recognize plural identities and ensure and directly affects the school as a place of cultural diversity and conflicts generated by the very diversity.The present work aims to analyze and understand how the issue of multiculturalism and cultural diversity in school films. Our study will be based theoretically in Cultural Studies authors and uses the qualitative approach, working with movie content analysis of school, seeking to seize on the same relations of coexistence, conflicts and the mediations of teachers

John Gledson reescreve Milton Hatoum: a teoria e a experi��ncia da tradu����o cultural

Coordena����o de Aperfei��oamento de Pessoal de N��vel Superior (CAPES)

Scientific concepts and public policies: Semiotic-cultural obstacles concerning intergroup and intercultural relationships

I attempt to articulate Jahoda's (2012) critical reflections regarding definitions of culture in recent cross-cultural studies and Moghaddam's (2012) claims of an omnicultural imperative to guide the elaboration of public policies for managing relationships among human groups from different cultural origins. For this, I will approach some aspects of the socio-historical and ontogenetic roots of the notion of culture. The notion of culture and the consequent public policies involving intercultural managing are being transformed as our global society develops. It has been proposed that some ways of dealing with the culture of the other are crucial to achieve awareness in respect of one's own cultural positioning when making science and attempting social interventions. Finally, the experience of Brazilian psychologists working on challenges faced by Amerindians dealing with the national society they live in will be presented as a pioneering work aiming to interfere in the development of public policies ethically concerned with the assurance of cultural integrity of currently marginalized social groups.

Governance of Digital Game Environments and Cultural Diversity : Transdisciplinary Enquiries

Digital game environments are of increasing economic, social and cultural value. As their influence on diverse facets of life grows, states have felt compelled to intervene and secure some public interests. Yet, the contours of a comprehensive governance model are far from recognisable and governments are grappling with the complexity and fluidity of online games and virtual worlds as private spaces and as experimentation fields for creativity and innovation. This book contributes to a more comprehensive and fine-grained understanding of digital game environments, which is a precondition for addressing any of the pressing governance questions posed. Particular attention is given to the concept and policy objective of cultural diversity, which also offers a unique entry point into the discussion of the appropriate legal regulation of digital games. Governance of Digital Game Environments and Cultural Diversity will be of interest to researchers of media law, internet law and governance, cultural studies, anthropology and sociology. As the book addresses a highly topical theme, it will attract the attention of policymakers at national, regional and international levels and will also serve as a great resource tool for scholars in new media and, in particular, digital games and virtual worlds.

Governance of Digital Game Environments and Cultural Diversity : Transdisciplinary Enquiries. Preface

Digital game environments are of increasing economic, social and cultural value. As their influence on diverse facets of life grows, states have felt compelled to intervene and secure some public interests. Yet, the contours of a comprehensive governance model are far from recognisable and governments are grappling with the complexity and fluidity of online games and virtual worlds as private spaces and as experimentation fields for creativity and innovation. This book contributes to a more comprehensive and fine-grained understanding of digital game environments, which is a precondition for addressing any of the pressing governance questions posed. Particular attention is given to the concept and policy objective of cultural diversity, which also offers a unique entry point into the discussion of the appropriate legal regulation of digital games. Governance of Digital Game Environments and Cultural Diversity will be of interest to researchers of media law, internet law and governance, cultural studies, anthropology and sociology. As the book addresses a highly topical theme, it will attract the attention of policymakers at national, regional and international levels and will also serve as a great resource tool for scholars in new media and, in particular, digital games and virtual worlds.

Cultural Politics of Resilience in Kingston, Jamaica

Recently, resilience has become a catchall solution for some of the world���s most pressing ecological, economic and social problems. This dissertation analyzes the cultural politics of resilience in Kingston, Jamaica by examining them through their purported universal principles of adaptation and flexibility. On the one hand, mainstream development regimes conceptualize resilience as a necessary and positive attribute of economies, societies and cultures if we are to survive any number of disasters or disturbances. Therefore, in Jamaican cultural and development policy resilience is championed as both a means and an end of development. On the other hand, critics of resilience see the new rollout of resilience projects as deepening neoliberalism, capitalism and new forms of governmentality because resilience projects provide the terrain for new forms of securitization and surveillance practices. These scholars argue that resilience often forecloses the possibilities to resist that which threatens us. However, rather than dismissing resilience as solely a sign of domination and governmentality, this dissertation argues that resilience must be understood as much more ambiguous and complex, rather than within binaries such as subversion vs. neoliberal and resistance vs. resilience. Overly simplistic dualities of this nature have been the dominant approach in the scholarship thus far. This dissertation provides a close analysis of resilience in both multilateral and Jamaican government policy documents, while exploring the historical and contemporary production of resilience in the lives of marginalized populations. Through three sites within Kingston, Jamaica���namely dancehall and street dances, WMW-Jamaica and the activist platform SO((U))L HQ���this dissertation demonstrates that ���resilience��� is best understood as an ambiguous site of power negotiations, social reproduction and survival in Jamaica today. It is often precisely this ambiguous power of ordinary resilience that is capitalized on and exploited to the detriment of vulnerable groups. At once demonstrating creative negotiation and reproduction of colonial capitalist social relations within the realms of NGO, activist work and cultural production, this dissertation demonstrates the complexity of resilience. Ultimately, this dissertation draws attention to the importance of studying spaces of cultural production in order to understand the power and limits of contemporary policy discourses and political economy.��