Transcultural Space as a Multicultural Solution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transcultural Space as a Multicultural Solution write by Jannika Anne. This book was released on 2014-12-15. Transcultural Space as a Multicultural Solution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 1,3, University of Heidelberg (Philosophische Fakultät), course: Urbanism; Place-Making, language: English, abstract: The times when a politician could rely on references to a stable, homogenized notions of his place and hope to reach his citizens have long been over. Nowadays, the idea of a culture or identity of a place as unchanging, homogenous to the inside and clearly delimited to the outside, has not only been overcome, but also considered as invalid for any moment in time. This paper tries to outline a possible version of transcultural notions of space. The main point is to raise different perspectives and possibly find a solution for conflicts which concepts such as multiculturalism were not able to solve. First, this paper intends to define transcultural space as it might and would be interpreted in this work. This involves the characteristics, the areas where a transcultural perspective could be particularly useful and the attempt at a working definition. The second section copes with transcultural space in itself, the opportunities it offers, where it might contribute to place-making and urban research and also its limits which have to be mentioned. The third section applies transcultural space perceptions to place, namely Macau. A very short case study investigates if, where and in how far a place can be considered transcultural. The conclusion then summarizes and finalizes the paper.
Of 'Contact Zones' and 'Liminal Spaces'
Of 'Contact Zones' and 'Liminal Spaces' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Of 'Contact Zones' and 'Liminal Spaces' write by Ursula Lehmkuhl. This book was released on 2015. Of 'Contact Zones' and 'Liminal Spaces' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Of 'Contact Zones' and 'Liminal Spaces' introduces the publication series 'Diversity / Diversité / Diversität' of the International Research Training Group (IRTG) Diversity (Trier/Montreal/Saarbrücken). The contributions to this volume address core concepts and research perspectives of our interdisciplinary research group. The IRTG Diversity focuses on a comparative and historically situated analysis of discourses and representations of diversity and cultural pluralism in North America and Europe. The empirical research published in this volume demonstrates how these discourses and representations of diversity create overlapping zones of geographical and chronological reach. These overlapping and highly dynamic zones bear the characteristics of 'contact zones' and 'liminal spaces'. However, they receive their social and cultural dynamism from everyday practices of cultural translation. Contributors: Ursula Lehmkuhl (Trier), Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Saarbrücken), Laurence McFalls (Montreal), Ludger Pries (Bochum), Régine Robin (Montreal/Paris), Philipp Rousseau (Montreal), Werner Schiffauer (Frankfurt/O.), Bertrand Westphal (Limoges).
Spaces of Culture
Spaces of Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spaces of Culture write by Mike Featherstone. This book was released on 1999-03-30. Spaces of Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Spaces of Culture an international group of scholars examines the implications of questions such as: What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and culture in a globalized and networked world? Do critical perspectives still apply, or does the speed and complexity of cultural production demand new forms of analysis? They explore the key themes in social theory: the nation state; the city; modernity and reflexivity; post-Fordism and the spatial logic of the informational city. The contributors go on to analyze the public sphere, questioning the reductive representation of technology as a form of instrumentality, and demonstrating how new technologies can offer new spaces of culture. This analysis of public space is essential to an understanding of issues like global citizenship and multicultural human rights.
The Challenge of Transcultural Diversities
The Challenge of Transcultural Diversities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Challenge of Transcultural Diversities write by Kevin Robins. This book was released on 2006-01-01. The Challenge of Transcultural Diversities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Globalisation trends have increased the transnational flows of cultural goods, media products and information, as well as human transnational migration. This publication considers how these developments are leading to greater and more complex patterns of diversity which are transnational and transcultural in nature, functioning across national frontiers and therefore creating new challenges for national policy frameworks, as well as for the role of the Council of Europe in this new transnational policy landscape.
Space (Re)Solutions
Space (Re)Solutions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Space (Re)Solutions write by Peter Mörtenböck. This book was released on 2014-03-31. Space (Re)Solutions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The rapid changes currently taking place in our urban, political and institutional environments have shifted spatial practice to centre stage both in civic life and academic research. Social networking, political projects, cross-border movements, artistic interventions, urban and environmental initiatives, self-organized educational practices - all articulate the challenges involved in organizing the spaces we share. In this volume, visual culture scholars from around the world discuss the »practical turn« in different fields of critical engagement, proposing fresh ways to assert an interpenetrated space of research and intervention.
