Modern Institutions and Cultural Spaces

2018 ◽  
pp. 144-159
Author(s):  
Dipankar Gupta ◽  
Ramin Jahanbegloo
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Religious Symbols ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Democratic System

This section ties together Gupta’s life-long research and ideology to his vision for India. He discusses the concepts of space and non-space and posits the nation state as a cultural space. Gupta underlines the distinction between secularism and secularization and argues that in India, secularization is still at a very unfinished state. While we have a democratic system, citizenship and modernity have not progressed. The deification of politicians in Tamil Nadu is discussed. When politicians start patronizing religious functions and use religious symbols in public acts, secularization is compromised to indulge in the politics of majoritarinism and minoritism. India is progressive in intent but it is compromising in deed. The goals of citizenship move ahead, once a victory is achieved, new obstacles appear.

REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA, THE PARLIAMENT, LAW No. 218 from 17.09.2010

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-533
Keyword(s):  
Essential Element ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Cultural Goods ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Republic Of Moldova ◽  
Culture History ◽  
Cultural Spaces

The archaeological heritage is an essential element which defines the oldness and originality of culture, history and traditions of every nation, state or cultural space in relation to other nations, states or ethno-cultural spaces. Every nation has the obligation to preserve its cultural goods and to valorize it for the benefit of the entire humanity.

15. Regions

2020 ◽  
pp. 267-280
Author(s):  
James Bickerton ◽  
Alain-G. Gagnon
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Different Types

This chapter explores the concept of region, defined as a territorial entity distinct from both locality and nation-state. The region constitutes an economic, political, administrative, and/or cultural space, within which different types of human agency interact, and towards which individuals and communities may develop attachments and identities. Regionalism is the manifestation of values, attitudes, opinions, preferences, claims, behaviours, interests, attachments, and identities that can be associated with a particular region. The chapter first reviews the main theories and approaches that are used to understand the political role and importance of regions, including the modernization paradigm, Marxism, and institutionalism. It then considers the various dimensions and aspects of regions and regionalism, with particular emphasis on regionalism from below versus regionalization ‘from above’. It also examines the political economy of regions, tracing the changing economic role and place of regions within the national and global economy.

Spaces and Places

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-87
Author(s):  
Alisha L. Menzies
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Cultural Performance ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Social Dance ◽  
White Spaces ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
The City

This essay is an autoethnographic account of the ways Black cultural performance, specifically Black social dance, works to produce and maintain Black cultural space in predominantly white spaces. I consider the significance of the “City Boy Wit It” song and dance as an expression of Black identity that marks Blackness in Tampa, FL. By framing my personal experiences through a discussion of Black identity and Black space, I critically examine larger issues of Black performativity and Black cultural spaces.

scholarly journals PROMOTING CULTURAL SPACE OF KAMENKA AS AN ELEMENT OF KRASNOYARSK TOURIST DESTINATION ON THE MARKET OF TOURIST SERVICES

2018 ◽  
pp. 91-103
Author(s):  
Татьяна Бутова ◽  
Tatyana Butova ◽  
Наталья Бекетова ◽  
Natalya Beketova ◽  
Артём Казаков ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Target Market ◽  
Krasnoyarsk Krai ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Leisure Facilities ◽  
The City

In recent years cultural and public spaces developing in Russia are involved in the formation of a comfortable environment for the city residents and attracting new tourist flows. The role of the capital of XXIX World Winter Universiade complicates the task of providing attractiveness of Krasnoyarsk for potential tourists. This requires creation of an attractive tourist offer and the identifica- tion of tourism potential for existing cultural organizations and other leisure facilities. Cultural space Kamenka founded in 2013 recently has gained popularity among the population of Krasnoyarsk and other districts of the Krasnoyarsk Krai and Siberian Federal District as a leisure attraction. In this regard, it has the prospects of transformation into a tourist destination. Accordingly, the study of the perspective of the Kamenka’s transformation into a tourist destination is of great practical importance, and it can also help to find a methodological tool for developing marketing strategies that ensure the success of this process. The authors reveal the segment of the Kamenka target market, presented by the potential tourists of the regional tourist services markets, and identify the specificity of the tourist potential of the commodity offer and the reasonably local centered scenario of Kamenka development as a tourist destination. Cultural and educational spaces of Russia and the cultural space Kamenka as innovative destinations use modern promotion technologies based on Internet technologies, effectiveness of which has been evaluated according to the D. Khaldilov's methodology of the social networks effectiveness assessing, adapted to cultural spaces. On this basis the authors give the proposals to improve social networks, which can ensure Kamenka’s successful transformation into the tourist destination, helping the city of Krasnoyarsk to become attractive for tourists, not only while holding the Universiade, but also after it. The authors are grateful to the team of the Cultural space of Kamenka, especially to Anna S. Ivanova and Alina A. Tokmakova for their support in the research.

scholarly journals Tafsir Alquran dan Praktik Politik Umat Islam Indonesia Perspektif Tafsir al-Azhar dan Tafsir al-Mishbah

MUTAWATIR ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-395
Author(s):  
Anwar Mujahidin
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
State Power ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
The Government ◽  
Qur'anic Exegesis ◽  
System Selection ◽  
Nation State Formation

It is a common agreement that Muslims in Indonesia accept nation state as a system which is not based solely on religion, but religion, at the same time, could be the main pillar and source of value in its principal. This paper is aimed at putting Indonesian Qur’anic exegesis into consideration, Hamka’s Tafsir al-Azhar and M. Quraish Shihab’s Tafsir al-Mishbah, related to the issue of state power and government. It attempts to delve into the values constructed by both exegetes on the Qur’anic verses related to the principles of the power and how those values are applied in the nation state formation. The results of the study suggests that some of Qur’anic values composed by both exegetes is: realization of nation state in a well-organized bureaucratic system, that is manifested in a good leadership, which is based on high competency selected based on democratic system selection (mushawarah). These values are able to be exemplified by both exegetes in nation-state frames with reference to cooperative and critical attitude towards the government.

How eurocentric is Europe?

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Flynn
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Space Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Situated Approach

Conceptualizations of translation are often cast in the literature in terms of sets of hegemonic dualities played out across lines of continuous and perhaps irresolvable dominance and resistance in all areas touched on by translation: language, power, ethnicity, gender, etc. This paper will attempt to trace trajectories of thought and inquiry within Translation Studies in order to discover to which extent certain approaches and models can be considered (strictly) as Western, Eurocentric and hence as propagating a priori such power and other imbalances. In this respect, the article argues for a situated approach to understanding the use of certain analytical concepts in given cultural spaces. It further argues that concepts and models be viewed in combination and in contrast with ethnographic studies of translation practices. It therefore asserts that translational practices should be explored on the ground in order to complement and adjust scholarly conceptualizations of translation in the broadest sense. Ethnographic studies of the field allow us to discover the impact of practices on (or in the construction of) a given cultural space or on other practices visible in the same space. This further helps us explore differences between these practices, along with their theoretical underpinnings, and those held by scholars in the same space. Data drawn from an ethnographic study of literary translators in the Netherlands and Belgium will be used to discuss some of the points outlined above.

15. Regions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Bickerton ◽  
Alain-G. Gagnon
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Political Role

This chapter explores the concept of region, defined as a territorial entity distinct from both locality and nation-state. The region constitutes an economic, political, administrative, and/or cultural space, within which diffrent types of human agency interact, and towards which individuals and communities may develop attachments and identities. Regionalism is the manifestation of values, attitudes, opinions, preferences, claims, behaviours, interests, attachments, and identities that can be associated with a particular region. The chapter first reviews the main theories and approaches that are used to understand the political role and importance of regions, including the modernization paradigm, Marxism, and institutionalism. It then considers the various dimensions and aspects of regions and regionalism, with particular emphasis on regionalism from below vs regionalization ‘from above’. It also examines the political economy of regions, tracing the changing economic role and place of regions within the national and global economy.

scholarly journals Globalization processes and formation of cultural space: historiographical aspect

2021 ◽  
pp. 8-21
Author(s):  
Vasyl Sheiko
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Origin And Evolution ◽  
World Community ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Fundamental Values

The paper highlights the urgent problems of the globalization processes of modern civilization and the formation of the cultural space. The analysis focuses on the consideration of scientific literature and resources authors of which to a greater or lesser extent investigate this problem and emphasize the possibilities of cultural methodology regarding the study of globalization transformations and the formation processes of the cultural space of the modern world community. The investigation determines the existing crisis of scientific methodologies that stubbornly poses before researchers the urgent tasks of continuing the search for new methods and principles, the processes of globalization and the formation of cultural spaces in the era of civilizational globalization. A certain problem arises even more acutely for such a young scientific branch as cultural studies. In this regard, the author accentuates an extensive methodological possibility of cultural comparative studies, directly, its application to illuminate the issues of the origin and evolution of cultural space in the era of civilizational globalization. It is in the cultural space there are possibilities of functioning of different cultures, different eras, and the cultural space exists and acts as an operating system of the component of cultural activity united by common fundamental values. An analysis of existing sources and literature on the problems of civilization processes in the course of the formation of cultural space shows that it is the methods and principles of comparative studies within the cultural creation of ethnic groups that make it possible to overcome the tendencies of isolationism between different peoples and their cultures and traditions. Culturological comparative study, its principles and methods, makes it possible to study the genesis and to show the evolution of the spatial field of culture, its content, to highlight the processes of dialogue between cultures, the formation of globalization culture within a specific cultural space. The results of the research allow us to extrapolate the processes of globalization and the formation of cultural space on the materials of the development of Ukrainian culture. At the same time, the main attention is paid to the interaction of culture and economy in the last years of independent Ukraine development in the process of forming its cultural space.

scholarly journals Cultural Identity of the First-Generation Immigrants in Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter and Lahiri’s The Namesake

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 55-64
Author(s):  
Nagendra Bahadur Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Host Country ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
First Generation Immigrants ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cultural Negotiation ◽  
Cultural Spaces

This article examines the problematic cultural identity of the first-generation immigrants in Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter (2001) and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake (2003). The immigrant characters problematize their cultural identity by oscillating in the cultural spaces of their home country and the host country. They tend to adopt new cultural identity of their host country while sustaining the old one of their home country. As a result, they negotiate their cultural identity in the shared cultural space which Homi K Bhabha terms as the third space. While analyzing the third space of cultural encounter, I refer to homeland culture as the first and the host land culture as the second cultural space of immigrants. Negotiating in the third space of the diaspora, the immigrants embody fluid and dynamic cultural identities that go beyond the binary of the host and home country. The process of the cultural negotiation of the immigrants is analyzed in the critical frame of Stuart Hall’s cultural identity and Homi Bhabha’s third space in this article.

CULTURAL SPACES FORMED BY THE DESCENDANTS OF THE EASTERN SLAVS ON THE TERRITORY OF CENTRAL PART OF RUSSIA AS THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
Татьяна Харитонова ◽  
Tatyana Kharitonova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Culture Methods ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
Cultural Spaces

Currently, many states face the threat to lose the national identity, and all progressive mankind should be worried about it. Therefore, the issues related to the preservation of cultural heritage today are quite topical. This primarily applies to intangible cultural heritage, which includes such elements as oral traditions, performing arts, ritual and game culture, methods and technology, in other words the certain cultural spaces. Russia also pays a lot of attention to the identification and preservation of the national intangible cultural heritage. If only two objects are included in the List of UNESCO intangible cultural heritage, so the similar lists of objects of federal importance comprise about a hundred. It’s only the beginning. This article examines the cultural space that is worthy to be included in the List of intangible cultural heritage of humanity. It is based on the culture of the East Slavic tribe of Vyatichi, who settled in the VIII–XII centuries the South-Eastern part of present-day Central Federal District. During the later centuries, this cultural space was developed by the residents of Moscow, Ryazan, Kaluga, Tula, Orel and other Russian provinces (oblasts). To date, cultural space, formed by the descendants of the Vyatichi, represents a unique tourism product that has a sufficiently high attractiveness. The article also discusses the possibility of the implementation of this tourism product in certain entities of the Russian Federation

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