Towards a positive cross-cultural lexicography: Enriching our emotional landscape through 216 ‘untranslatable’ words pertaining to well-being

Although much attention has been paid to culture-specific psychopathologies, there have been no comparable attempts to chart positive mental states that may be particular to certain cultures. This paper outlines the beginnings of a positive cross-cultural lexicography of ‘untranslatable’ words pertaining to wellbeing, culled from across the world’s languages. A quasi-systematic search uncovered 216 such terms. Using grounded theory, these words were organised into three categories: feelings (comprising positive and complex feelings); relationships (comprising intimacy and pro-sociality); and character (comprising personal resources and spirituality). The paper has two main aims. First, it aims to provide a window onto cultural differences in constructions of wellbeing, thereby enriching our understanding of wellbeing. Second, a more ambitious aim is that this lexicon may help expand the emotional vocabulary of English speakers (and indeed speakers of all languages), and consequently enrich their experiences of wellbeing. The paper concludes by setting out a research agenda to pursue these aims further.

Intimate Ecologies: An exploration of the languages of contemporary exhibitions and making in museums and related cultural spaces in the UK

Intimate Ecologies considers the practice of exhibition-making over the past decade in formal museum and gallery spaces and its relationship to creating a concept of craft in contemporary Britain. Different forms of expression found in traditions of still life painting, film and moving image, poetic text and performance are examined to highlight the complex layers of language at play in exhibitions and within a concept of craft. The thesis presents arguments for understanding the value of embodied material knowledge to aesthetic experience in exhibitions, across a spectrum of human expression. These are supported by reference to exhibition case studies, critical and theoretical works from fields including social anthropology, architecture, art and design history and literary criticism and a range of individual, original works of art. Intimate Ecologies concludes that the museum exhibition, as a creative medium for understanding objects, becomes enriched by close study of material practice, and embodied knowledge that draws on a concept of craft. In turn a concept of craft is refreshed by the makers’ participation in shifting patterns of exhibition-making in cultural spaces that allow the layers of language embedded in complex objects to be experienced from different perspectives. Both art-making and the experience of objects are intimate, and infinitely varied: a vibrant ecology of exhibition-making gives space to this diversity.

Contributos da comunicação não-verbal na integração social, cultural e educativa de imigrantes numa perspectiva de multiculturalidade: um estudo de caso

Dissertação mest., Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Algarve, 2009

O que é património cultural

A locução património cultural junta numa unidade semântica incindível dois elementos linguísticos, um substantivo e um adjectivo. Mas nem o objecto que o substantivo património nomeia nem a qualidade que o adjectivo cultural lhe confere acusam por si um sentido preciso e explícito; pelo contrário, ambos são difusos, quando não equívocos. Convém, por isso, examinar previamente e em separado cada um dos termos- património e cultura -, para depois alcançamos a significação unitária do sintagma património cultural.

The rise and demise of a book-review magazine interpreting the cultural work of Books in Canada (1971-2008)

This interdisciplinary study examines the contribution that a book-review magazine makes to the cultural identity of its readers. It is the result of reflections on the cultural work of Books in Canada , on whether or not this periodical was a cultural worksite and if that is the case how it performed that cultural work. In addition, it interrogates factors that may have contributed to the magazine's demise. The study affirms that Books in Canada, a cultural enterprise from 1971 to 2008, mirrored and helped to shape book and literary culture in Canada through its circulation, through the personalities of its editors, through its front covers and through its reviewers and their reviews. Furthermore, it proposes that the demise of the enterprise was due to a combination of factors. The study begins with an introduction to book reviewing and special-interest magazines. Chapter I examines the interplay between selected visual and textual contents published in Books in Canada in its founding years. These components reflected and helped to fuel the cultural nationalism that was sweeping Canada subsequent to the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal. There were also persistent rumours and comments about the magazine that caused certain"cracks in the foundation" to appear. Chapter II compares the aims and editorial challenges of Val Clery, founder of Books in Canada , with those of Adrien Thério, founder of Lettres québécoises, and of the editors of the magazines' twentieth-anniversary issues, Paul Stuewe in the case of the former and André Vanasse in the case of the latter. Evidence in the content of the magazine, editorial and otherwise, indicated that the"contracts" that the editors made with their readers over the years were similar, to reflect and shape a cultural identity, but the result of their"projects," that is, the nature of those identities, was distinctly different. Evidently then, personal aims, preferences and political leanings of editors can have a major impact on the content of a book-review magazine and thus on the cultural work that it does. Therefore, in Chapter III, I focus on selected contents published during the tenures of two of Books in Canada 's key editors, Paul Stuewe and Olga Stein, in order to understand ways that their choices constituted a form of cultural work. The second part of this chapter moves from an analysis of the cultural work of editors to an examination of the cultural work of reviewers. Here, through a close-reading of a selection of reviews published in Books in Canada, and in other periodicals, I argue that reviewers do cultural work in the way that they negotiate their presence in a review, and in how they signal that presence through lexical choices and through the degree of intellectual interaction that they invite. Intellectual interaction is at the core of Chapter IV.This chapter consists of close readings of some of the"billboards" of the enterprise, that is, the front covers of Books in Canada , in order to show how these important components do cultural work by requiring readers to make an intellectual leap from image to text. Chapter V suggests that book reviews, the company's"bills of goods," do cultural work in much the same way as the paratexts of a book. One of my own reviews is offered as a case-study along with a number of other reviews of how central components of a book-review magazine do cultural work through the illocutionary force of their sentences. The first part of Chapter VI, the final chapter, measures the legacy of the magazine, in particular, the annual Books in Canada First Novel Award. Created in 1976, this prize is awarded to the author of the novel judged by a Books in Canada prize committee to be the best first novel in English of the year. The second part of Chapter VI sheds light on factors that may have contributed to the closure of the enterprise, including the copyright uproar that accompanied the agreement that Adrian Stein, publisher of Books in Canada and Olga Stein's husband, made in 2001 with the online book merchant, Amazon.com. Furthermore, this penultimate section of the study suggests that one of the most important factors in the magazine's demise was the decision by the Steins to exploit their position as owners, publisher, and editor of a book-review periodical, a government-subsidized one at that, to publish their own lengthy pre-trial defense of Conrad Black. The chapter then zooms back from the particular to the general with a broader consideration of the impact of technology and globalization on the book industry and on the ability of Books in Canada to survive in any form, print or digital.

Promoção do turismo cultural em Cidade Velha

Dissertação de mest., Turismo e Culturas Urbanas, Escola Superior de Gestão, Hotelaria e Turismo, Univ. do Algarve, 2012

Avaliação dos impactos de um projecto turístico - cultural: o festival internacional de jazz de Loulé

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo principal avaliar as perceções e as atitudes dos residentes e comerciantes da cidade de Loulé face ao Festival Internacional de Jazz. A materialização deste objetivo implicou a realização de uma reflexão teórica, a partir de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, sobre o turismo cultural, categorização e classificação dos eventos e por fim uma pesquisa específica sobre as perceções dos impactos dos eventos e os modelos que têm sido utilizados para avaliar as atitudes dos residentes e dos comerciantes face ao seu desenvolvimento. Com base nesta reflexão teórica foi construído um modelo de investigação, o que implicou a utilização de um questionário a residentes e a comerciantes tendo-se usado o processo de amostragem por conveniência; e a realização de seis entrevistas aos organizadores e a entidades que apoiam o Festival Internacional de Jazz de Loulé. Dos questionários e das entrevistas realizadas verificou-se que embora o Festival de Jazz de Loulé seja reconhecido como um dos agentes no processo de desenvolvimento da comunidade, ele não reúne todas as condições por si só para criar uma imagem diferenciadora do concelho e do destino maduro do Algarve.

A inclusão social pelas artes: contributo para uma política cultural inclusiva na Região do Algarve

O presente estudo apresenta como temática a inclusão social pelas artes e realça o papel ativo que a Política cultural pode deter neste âmbito. A Política Cultural, ao privilegiar como campo de atuação o tecido social envolvente, possibilita a materialização da condição de cidadania através da participação social. Assumindo a participação social como uma manifestação da inclusão social, pretende-se demonstrar que a esfera cultural, nomeadamente, a Política Cultural, pode potencializar e devolver a possibilidade de participação social e prover o desenvolvimento de competências pessoais e sociais através das artes. Com base no estudo de caso do projeto de inclusão e educação pelas artes “Lugares Mágicos”, levado a cabo pela Associação Atelier Educativo e pela Direção Regional da Cultura do Algarve, propusemo-nos a verificar o impacte que um projeto deste âmbito nos envolvidos. A recolha de dados foca a importância de avaliação formal do projeto e a relevância desta para fomentar, de forma sustentada, o tornar da inclusão social um lugar-comum na agenda da Política Cultural na região do Algarve. Desta forma, os resultados apurados pretendem fomentar o culminar do estudo num contributo singular de sugestão de atuação ativa da Política Cultural face à inclusão social, na região do Algarve.

Dimensions of Mediterranean Diet: world cultural heritage

The book "Dimensions of Mediterranean diet" develops the reflection around the Mediterranean Diet concept - Intangible Cultural Heritage, which took place by initiative of the University of Algarve, during the first cycle of Seminars on Mediterranean Diet, in 2013. Starting with the multiplicity of this concept, the authors follow exploring the reality of this way of life (between the sky and the earth), which is the result of an age-old training process, integrates a habit of eating well in a healthy life practice and is a vehicle for future sustainability. The images accompanying the text portray this Mediterranean identity, straight from Algarve current realities.

Dimensões da dieta mediterrânica: património cultural imaterial da humanidade

O livro “Dimensões da Dieta Mediterrânica” desenvolve a reflexão em torno do conceito Dieta Mediterrânica – Património Cultural Imaterial da Humanidade, que aconteceu por iniciativa da Universidade do Algarve, no 1º Ciclo de Seminários da dieta mediterrânica em 2013. Começando por definir a multiplicidade deste conceito, os autores seguem explorando a realidade deste modo de vida (entre o céu e a Terra), que resulta de um processo de formação milenar, integra um hábito de bem comer numa prática de vida saudável e constitui um veículo de sustentabilidade para o futuro. As imagens que acompanham os textos retratam essa identidade bem mediterrânea, a partir de realidades algarvias atuais.

Turismo cultural em análise. Contributos metodológicos para a inventariação de recursos turísticos de base cultural

O presente artigo visa refletir sobre o turismo cultural, levando à problematização de conceitos como turismo e cultura, tendo em conta que os destinos turísticos, tradicionalmente assentes no produto “sol e mar”. Neste contexto, o artigo apresenta uma metodologia desenhada com o propósito de delimitar uma proposta para o desenvolvimento de produtos turísticos de base cultural para uma região turística cujo principal produto é o sol e mar, a qual assenta numa matriz concetual estabelecida a partir de um exaustivo enquadramento teórico-conceptual.

Diagnóstico da gestão cultural nos Municípios do Algarve central entre 2000-2010: Silves, Albufeira, Loulé e Faro

Dissertação de mestrado, Gestão Cultural, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade do Algarve, 2013

Competências multiculturais: inteligência cultural e personalidade multicultural em contexto organizacional e social

Tese de doutoramento, Psicologia, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade do Algarve, 2015

Acessibilidade e mobilidade no espaço público dos centros históricos: proposta de um percurso histórico-cultural acessível no núcleo histórico Vila Adentro de Faro

Dissertação de mestrado, Arquitetura Paisagista, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade do Algarve, 2015

A inteligência cultural e a ideologia ética nos estilos de gestão de conflitos

Dissertação de mestrado, Psicologia Social e das Organizações, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade do Algarve, 2015