scholarly journals Hermeneutics and intercultural understanding in the age of globalization

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-29
Author(s):  
Mico Savic
Keyword(s):  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutics ◽  
Intercultural Understanding ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Cultural Dialogue

In the article the author considers the relevance of intercultural understanding in the age of globalization and points out the role which Gadamer?s hermeneutics plays in this context. First, the author presents the main characteristics of globalization, taking into account Giddens? understanding of the contemporary epoch as a radicalization of modernity and Heidegger?s interpretation of the contemporary era as the ending of metaphysics as nihilism. The author emphasizes that the question about conditions of possibility of intercultural understanding becomes an important question of philosophy in the situation of intensification of cross-cultural encounters. Then he argues that Gadamer?s philosophical hermeneutics, especially its conception of effective-historical consciousness, provides an acceptable ground for explanation of possibility of cross-cultural dialogue. As the author concludes, the importance of the ethics of finality is affirmed in that way by hermeneutics in the contemporary world.

Hopeful Cross-Cultural Encounters to Support Student Well-Being and Graduate Attributes in Higher Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 474-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Daddow ◽  
Darren Cronshaw ◽  
Newton Daddow ◽  
Ruth Sandy
Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
Religious Expression ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Graduate Attributes ◽  
Cultural Dialogue

The impetus to ensure Australian students, once enrolled, complete their university qualification has become more pressing. Student retention impacts funding in a tight fiscal environment and is used as a benchmark for quality performance. Evidence of increased levels of psychological distress in university students threatens this retention. Risks to student well-being can be compounded for diverse and international students with vulnerabilities that include social isolation, negotiating cultural difference, and marginalization. This article reports on the evaluation of an extracurricular program available to all students in an Australian university that enabled respectful interfaith and cross-cultural dialogue, called Finding Common Ground. The program sought to reduce social isolation, support mature religious expression, counter marginalization, and strengthen graduate attributes. The research highlighted hopeful and surprising cross-cultural encounters, impacted positively on student well-being, enhanced cross-cultural learning, and disrupted the propensity for polarization or “silence” in university (and social) discourse on religious beliefs.

scholarly journals Interculturalism and socio-economic development of Indigenous islander populations: The case of the Kuna Yala

2018 ◽  
pp. 36-46
Author(s):  
Stefan Gröschl
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Intercultural Understanding ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Cultural Dialogue

Many Indigenous islander populations in Latin America and the Caribbean have been facing high levels of poverty and widespread economic and social exclusion. Based on a case study approach, this paper proposes the concept of interculturalism as a means toward collaboration between Indigenous islander communities and non-Indigenous stakeholders, to influence the Indigenous islander communities’ socio-economic development. The study focuses on the Indigenous people of the autonomous Kuna Yala region of San Blas in Panama and explores how intercultural principles and characteristics could contribute to a cross-cultural dialogue between the Kuna people and external stakeholders, and to the socio-economic growth through tourism development in the Kuna region. Considering that certain aspects related to the Kuna culture are of a compound and complex nature, mutual trust and awareness, intercultural understanding and dialogue are critical in this process.

scholarly journals Te Papa: A Forum for the World?  A Narrative Exploration of a Global Public Sphere

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Philipp Schorch
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Dialogue ◽  
The Public Sphere

<p>The reinvention of the museum as "forum" within the new museology and the notion of the "public sphere" are inextricably linked. Both concepts have been theoretically scrutinised in museum studies, critical theory, cultural studies and other academic disciplines, but there is a lack of empirical insights into their actual functioning. This thesis offers an empirical interrogation of the "museum forum" idea. It sheds ethnographic light on cross-cultural encounters in a "cosmopolitanised" world illuminating what it means to experience a museological space and how a public sphere is "lived". Drawing on a long-term narrative study of global visitors to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa), this thesis humanises Te Papa as a particular global public sphere, or discursive space. The critical hermeneutic analysis facilitates an understanding of "cross-cultural dialogue" and the "public sphere" as interpretive actions, movements and performances made by cultural actors. By exploring individual experiences instead of totalised abstractions, this study dissects the complexity of cultural worldmaking and politics elucidating "interpretive contests" and their "enunciation". Due to the in-depth empirical insights and their multilayered contextualisation, the "museum forum" evolves from an abstract idea into a concrete discursive world of negotiations. This thesis examines Te Papa as a particular place, space and empirical reality. It interrogates seemingly universal concepts such as "culture" and "politics" producing empirically situated, contextualised and rich theoretical propositions of significance for the human sciences in general as well as critical museum studies in particular.</p>

scholarly journals Te Papa: A Forum for the World?  A Narrative Exploration of a Global Public Sphere

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Philipp Schorch
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Dialogue ◽  
The Public Sphere

<p>The reinvention of the museum as "forum" within the new museology and the notion of the "public sphere" are inextricably linked. Both concepts have been theoretically scrutinised in museum studies, critical theory, cultural studies and other academic disciplines, but there is a lack of empirical insights into their actual functioning. This thesis offers an empirical interrogation of the "museum forum" idea. It sheds ethnographic light on cross-cultural encounters in a "cosmopolitanised" world illuminating what it means to experience a museological space and how a public sphere is "lived". Drawing on a long-term narrative study of global visitors to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa), this thesis humanises Te Papa as a particular global public sphere, or discursive space. The critical hermeneutic analysis facilitates an understanding of "cross-cultural dialogue" and the "public sphere" as interpretive actions, movements and performances made by cultural actors. By exploring individual experiences instead of totalised abstractions, this study dissects the complexity of cultural worldmaking and politics elucidating "interpretive contests" and their "enunciation". Due to the in-depth empirical insights and their multilayered contextualisation, the "museum forum" evolves from an abstract idea into a concrete discursive world of negotiations. This thesis examines Te Papa as a particular place, space and empirical reality. It interrogates seemingly universal concepts such as "culture" and "politics" producing empirically situated, contextualised and rich theoretical propositions of significance for the human sciences in general as well as critical museum studies in particular.</p>

South Sea Tales

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Louis Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Robert Louis Stevenson ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
South Sea ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Subject Material

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction. In these stories, as in his work generally, Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles: his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of ‘The Beach at Falesé, the folktale plots of ‘The Bottle Imp’ and ‘The Isle of Voices’, and the modernist blending of naturalism and symbolism in The Ebb-Tide. But beyond their generic diversity the stories are linked by their concern with representing the multiracial society of which their author had become a member. In this collection - the first to bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume - Stevenson emerges as a witness both to the cross- cultural encounters of nineteenth-century imperialism and to the creation of the global culture which characterizes the post-colonial world.

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