scholarly journals Gatherings of Jewish Artists in Interwar Lithuania

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Evelina Bukauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
Exhibition Space ◽  
Social Basis ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Artistic Legacy

Summary The main subject of this paper is the Jewish artists of interwar Lithuania and their efforts to unite. It analyses the aspirations of Jewish artists to unite into groups, to represent and present their art, and to maintain their national identity. The article introduces the main organisers, participants, circumstances and goals of the artists’ gatherings. It discusses three cases: the cultural policy pursued by National Jewish Council’s Section of Culture at the institutional level; Jewish artists who gathered on a social basis; and the Art Gallery of Neemiya Arbit Blatas as a unique exhibition space in inter-war Lithuania, which mainly exhibited the works of Jewish artists. The paper focuses not on the artistic legacy or its value, but rather on the processes of cultural life of Jewish artists in interwar Lithuania.

scholarly journals Cultural Policy and Cultural Life: Québec’s Experience

AmeriQuests ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrée Tremblay
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
History Of

The object of this article is draft a brief history of cultural policymaking in Québec through various initiatives adopted by successive governments in the largely French-speaking province since the middle of the 20th century. These initiatives have been instrumental in the development of an amazingly rich and diversified cultural life within Québec.

scholarly journals АКТУАЛІЗАЦІЯ НАЦІОНАЛЬНОЇ ІДЕНТИЧНОСТІ В УМОВАХ КАРНАВАЛІЗАЦІЇ МІСЬКОГО ЖИТТЯ

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-32
Author(s):  
Міхно Н. К.
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
Ukrainian Society

The main attention in this article is focused on the definition of the characteristic features of the processes of carnivalization of urban space in the conditions of modern Ukrainian society. The changes that occur in the space of everyday life against the background of General trends in social life – globalization, virtualization, changes in the specifics of communications, the spread of emotional capitalism. The main functional imperatives of carnival as a form of collective action are fixed. It is determined that in the conditions of carnivalization of urban life there is an actualization of national identity against the background of a number of events of socio-political, economic, national and cultural life of Ukrainian society. The data of sociological studies that record the growth of patriotism, civic responsibility and the level of national identity in recent years. Invited to pay attention to the instruments of incorporation of the symbols of the national community in the process of the ritual of the festive action.

Perception of Patriotism by Schoolchildren of the Siberian Federal District

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-129
Author(s):  
Tatiana Anatolyevna Aseeva ◽  
Yaroslava Yurievna Shashkova
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Siberian Federal District ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Mass Survey ◽  
School Students ◽  
Great Chance ◽  
Government Program ◽  
Patriotic Education

In 2020, the actualizing of another Government program called Patriotic education of Russian Federation citizens has been fulfilled. The main subject of the program is school students, as the Analysis of their idea of patriotism provides us with a Great chance to evaluate the effectiveness of patriotic education in Russian Federation, as well as to find the dominating idea of a citizen in minds of the Youth. In this article, based on Data coming from a mass Survey of senior school students from Siberian Federal District, we define students ideas of patriotism, as well as forms of behavior, acceptable for a patriot, and finally, subjects and reasons for Russian patriotism development and establishing. It was found that the idea of patriotism among school students is quite stereotypical with explicit retrospective, militaristic and imperial tendencies. There is also a correlation between patriotic identity and national identity. Thus, the school students who identify as Russians are highly patriotic, while school students with local national identity are less keen to be patriotic, according to their own words.

Sectarian Allegiance & Political Authority: the Watch Tower Society in Zambia, 1907–35

1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Assimeng
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
The Political ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
African Religion ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Single Person

Therelationship between religious movements and political authorities in Africa has been a growing problem in political and social development. So long as these institutions of cultural life were less differentiated, and the head of the political unit was automatically the leader of organised religion, the difficulties appeared less acute. Because regal and sacerdotal roles were performed by a single person, conflicts of authority and allegiance hardly arose.1Traditional African religion was also accommodating to foreign deities, a situation congruent with polytheism, and there was no assumption of religious exclusiveness.2But, with the advent of different brands of Christianity and Islam, the relations between religious and political authorities changed; the former increasingly became church missionaries and the latter the agents of the colony, and eventually of the state. Perhaps the most extreme religious rejection of secular authority is found in the Watch Tower movement, whose early relations with the state of Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) are the main subject of this article.

scholarly journals Searching for an Ally. The Soviet Diplomats in Latvia and Their Contacts with Kastus Ezavitau 1925–1926

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Daria A. Korotkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
School Education ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
The Press ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
The Creation

This article is dedicated to the research of unknown fragments of national Belarusian emigrant groups’ history. Soviet diplomatic plans to establish ties with the local Belarusian population and to expand Communist propaganda in Latvia required contact with the leaders of the Belarusian movement, including Ezavitau. The main subject is the activity of Kastus Ezavitau in the middle of the 1920s. There was no possibility for Belarusian activists in the region of Latgale, where most Latvian Belarusians lived, to avoid collaboration with the Soviet permanent mission because of a lack of money and the discrimination policy of Latvian authorities. Local Belarusian activists had to fi ght for infl uence over the Latgale peasants, who often could not yet decide on their national identity, with the much more active and infl uential Polish and Russian diasporas. The Soviet mission provided fi nancial support to the press, and for school education in Belarusian, but forced them to carry out their demands in return. Analysis of a number of archival documents shows that, contrary to the widespread idea of his pro-Soviet mood, this collaboration was involuntary and undesirable for Ezavitau during this period, as we may see in the documents. He tried to provide more independent activity, such as the creation of the Belarusian party, but was permanently stopped by his super- visors in the Soviet mission. Soviet diplomats were not satisfi ed by collaboration with Ezavitau either but had no other candidate with whom to establish a permanent contact.

scholarly journals Combating Coloniality: the cultural policy of post-colonialism

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 228
Author(s):  
Kevin V. Mulcahy
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Distinguishing Characteristic ◽  
Social Concern ◽  
Economic Dependency ◽  
External Governance ◽  
Post Colonialism ◽  
Cultural Dominance

<p>The distinguishing characteristic of cultural policy in countries characterized by a legacy of coloniality is the importance of the identity formation and the politics that are involved in formulating its definition. At root, coloniality is an experience involving dominating influence by a stronger power over a subject state. However, this is not just a matter of external governance or economic dependency, but of a cultural dominance that creates an asymmetrical relationship between the ‘center’ and the ‘periphery,’ between the ruling ‘hegemon’ and the marginalized ‘other.’ In these circumstances, what constitutes an “authentic” culture, and how this informs national identity, is a central political and social concern.</p>

scholarly journals “Everything simple and clear has been turned into incredibly complex by someone”. Correspondence between Leonid Zurov and Viktor Manuilov (1961  –1967)

Literary Fact ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 119-181
Author(s):  
Alexei Lyubomudrov
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Scientific Biography ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sentiment ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
First Time

For the first time а complete correspondence between Leonid Zurov (1902  –1971), the writer of the Russian Diaspora, and Viktor Manuilov (1903  –1987), a famous literary researcher, is introduced into a scientific usage. The main theme of their letters is the problem of transferring to Russia Ivan Bunin’s manuscript and memorial heritage, of which Zurov became the owner. The publication clarifies the reasons why the long and hard negotiations ended without any success. It allows to define more exactly the details and circumstances of this case. The correspondence affects the names of many key figures of cultural life both of the Russian abroad and Metropolitan area. It characterizes those persons who actively supported the return of Bunin's legacy as well as officials who blocked the process. The material reflects the struggle of Russian writers, scientists, museum curators against the Soviet bureaucratic machine for which Bunin was always ideologically alien. It paints a picture of the public sentiment and the Soviet cultural policy of the 1960s. Some letters concern Zurov’s articles devoted to M. Lermontov as well as his work on the novel “Winter Palace”. The publication allows to clarify Zurov’s psychological portrait and to identify a number of significant episodes in the V. Manuilov’s scientific biography

scholarly journals Orthodox culture in a secular state: Legal and political instruments of educational and cultural policies in Serbia

2015 ◽  
pp. 711-724
Author(s):  
Vesna Djukic ◽  
Biljana Djukic
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Secular State

The topic of the paper is the relationship of the secular state towards the Orthodox culture in Serbia during the 20th and 21st centuries. Basic research problem is a usability of cultural values of Orthodoxy in contemporary Serbia after a period of antireligious propaganda in Yugoslavia. Therefore, the research is focused on the question of whether secular state legal and political instruments encourage or limit the protection, preservation, and the inclusion of Orthodox culture in the cultural life of the majority of the Serbian people on the territory of Serbia. Basic methods of empirical research is the media archeology applied in order to establish how much relevant data are available on-line. The survey results show a lack of participatory mechanisms of decision making on key issues of cultural life and cultural development, which is reduced to the secular dimension of culture. Therefore, the contemporary cultural policy mainly relates to the protection and preservation of the Orthodox cultural heritage, while in the arts, creativity and in?novation, there are no systemic solutions that encourage generic potential of Orthodox culture and influence the development of human capabilities in accordance with the Orthodox Christian values.

Becoming With Art Differently: Entangling Matter, Thought and Love

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 399-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jody Thomson ◽  
Bronwyn Davies
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
New South ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Exhibition Space ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Beaten Track

In this article, we put new materialist concepts to work in an experiment in thinking-with-matter. We write our way into an encounter with two artworks by Australian French Impressionist John Russell, hanging in an exhibition space at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In being-with and becoming-with the pictures, we go off the beaten track, not concerning ourselves with aesthetics, critique, meaning-making, or sociocultural conventions. We begin with W. J. T. Mitchell’s question what do pictures want? We extend his question, drawing on new materialist philosophers, to explore what is made possible when the matter of paint-on-canvas is encountered, not as inert, but as lively, affective, and intra-active. Our experiment moves to what happens in between ourselves as human subjects and the more-than-human matter of these works of art.

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