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Hobkirk, Angela. "Defining diversity : an exploration of the perceptions of first semester students at a mid-sized midwestern institution /." View online, 2009. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131566329.pdf.
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Frot, Emmanuel. "Cultural transmission, public goods, and institutions." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2007. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1975/.
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This thesis discusses the consequences of different institutional forms in various settings, with a particular focus on the interactions between institutions, cultural transmission, and public goods. Chapter 1 introduces the main ideas, motivation, and results of the subsequent chapters. It provides a detailed summary of the thesis. Chapter 2 considers how institutions that modify behaviors affect the transmission of cultural traits. It argues that they create an environment that crowds out the behavior they were trying to promote. When applied to a model of public good provisions it illustrates how institutions that reduce free riding may decrease the level of public good in the long run. Chapter 3 extends this framework to make institutions endogenous. Individuals vote for their preferred institutional arrangement and the outcome is determined by majority voting. The crowding out of behaviors imply that agents have an incentive to affect strategically the transmission of preferences through collective socialization. Institutions can induce the formation of additional institutions such as schools in order to guarantee their sustainability. Chapter 4 considers that children acquire preferences through the choice of friends in the population, and that parents try to influence this choice. It shows how this creates a game between parents where their efforts to socialize their children to a particular cultural trait constitutes a public good. It studies the consequences for cultural groups of being intolerant and how they can survive cultural transmission. Chapter 5 uses the important example of commons as an institutional failure. It examines the case for privatization in an environment with different resources that may not be all privatized. It shows that labor reallocation reduces the gains of privatization, potentially to the point of reducing welfare. First best institutions may fail in a second best environment.
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Bäckström, Vilma. "Vems är kulturen? : Därför är resurssvaga unga underrepresenterade i den offentliga kulturens rum." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96677.
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The purpose of this study is to understand the lack of inclusion of young adults from resource-poor areas when it comes to public cultural institutions, e.g., visits to art exhibitions, theaters and libraries. Previous research has shown that the Swedish culture is socioeconomically divided when it comes to the cultural participation (Lundquist 2017; Myndigheten för kulturanalys 2019; Magnusson & Wärnlöf Bové 2019). There are still inequalities – not all residents have the same opportunity to participate in cultural contexts. With the help from six young adults from resource-poor areas in the city of Gothenburg, semi-structured interviews are held to evaluate the reasons of why the cultural participation is low. By applying key concepts from Pierre Bourdieu's (Bourdieu 1962 see Broady 1988) theory such as cultural capital and habitus, the findings suggests that there is a place-bound identity creation of the informants that not only creates their identity, but also limits them as individuals. Another key finding is that the multiethnic environment in these areas are also sociocultural conditions for participations in new contexts. Additionally, the informants cultural capital turned out to be low, yet different for every informant of why their cultural participation is low.
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Wessels, Bridgette. "The cultural dynamics of innovation." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310240.
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Booker, Nichole M. "Cultural Competence: Educating Public School Teacher Candidates in Matters of Diversity." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1258413531.
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Abbey, Jennifer Ann, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Death and late-stage dementia in institutions: a cultural analysis." Deakin University. School of Nursing, 1995. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050825.153139.
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The first purpose of this study was to describe the deaths of fifteen nursing home residents with late-stage dementia. The devastating effect of dementia on a person has been called a living death (Woods, 1989). The caring which occurs when someone is going through this process in a nursing home was recorded and analysed.
In analysing this act of caring, the second purpose was to look for the origins of the structures and the sources of pressure that shaped the context and therefore helped determine the behaviour of the various groups under observation. These groups were residents and their relatives, the staff of the nursing home and the treating doctors.
Before commencing observations and carrying out this study, an understanding needed to be developed of: the condition of dementia as it is perceived by health professionals and presented in the media; the institutions in which the majority of people with dementia end their days; the background and conditions of the staff who nurse in them; the models of care that guide and determine policies; and the conceptions of life and death which underpin relevant laws and moral standpoints.
Accordingly, in part 1. chapter 1 the history, causes, pathology and effects of dementing conditions are examined. Relevant medical and lay literature including media influences are examined which pertain to the subject of death and dementia and nursing home care. The history of this institutional care is briefly examined together with the growth of the discipline of gerontological nursing. Chapter 2 discusses some of the effects of this history on present day care and the concept of emotional work being carried out within the present day aged care public policy regulations. The moral arguments surrounding illness and dying in Australian society today are briefly discussed.
Chapter 3 describes the conceptual framework for the study, the ethnographic method that has been employed and an outline of critical theory as the basis for analysis. The chapter concludes by recounting the practical steps taken to arrange the field work, secure the consent of participants, record data and gather documents, and outlines the ethical considerations given to the undertaking of the study. Chapter 4 describes the context in which the study took place and the first tentative exploration of the culture from an etic perspective.
Part 2 describes the death trajectories observed and raises some questions about alternative strategies that may have been considered within a different paradigm of caring. In chapter 5 the death trajectories of each of the fifteen residents in the study are described, each written with a particular emphasis to illustrate aspects of the
culture of care that emerged through thematic analysis. Observations, comments and feelings from staff and family are wound in and around these case studies. Chapter 6 looks more closely at the impact of policy and institutional pressure on the milieu in which these deaths took place.
Part 3 draws conclusions from the observations and makes suggestions for emancipatory change as viewed from the author's standpoint of critical ethnographic analysis. In the final chapter an argument is presented for policy change that leads a movement towards palliative care practices for people with late-stage dementia. Approaches to implementation of palliative care will need to take account of any expression by the resident such as an advanced directive, indicating a preferred approach to treatment in the period prior to death; a need for a better understanding of such issues as the significance of body breakdown, the manifestations of pain and electrolyte imbalances; the surrounding ethical complexities and shift in public opinion, and perhaps, most of ail, the culture of the institutions in which this dying will take place. A definition of late-stage dementia which might be used in determining patterns of care is set out.
A discussion about changes in practice which relate lo communication with treating doctors, the administering of antibiotics, the relief of pain, the mobilisation of residents and the provision of food and water takes place in light of the evidence found. The discussion of these issues is raised in the form of debate. Each aspect needs more rigorous analysis and information so that evidence-based practice, rather than care which is value-laden and emotional, can be used when treatment decisions are made for people with late-stage dementia.
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Marrone, Jenna. "INSPIRING PUBLIC TRUST IN OUR CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: ARCHIVES, PUBLIC HISTORY, AND THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE IN PHILADELPHIA." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/162224.
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History<br>M.A.<br>The so-called culture wars of recent years have created an ethos of caution in our cultural institutions. Museums often avoid exhibits and programming that might prove controversial for fear of public backlash. This paper examines how public historians and archivists might work together to devise strategies for positive public engagement in controversial history projects. Archives have the power to ensure the public's trust in their cultural institutions, while primary source material can be utilized to promote constructive conversation among audiences. Public conflict will be directed into more productive channels if museums create a safe space for dialogue.<br>Temple University--Theses
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Hosseini, Beheshti Seyed Ali Reza. "The politics of cultural diversity : a survey in the liberal-communitarian debate." Thesis, University of Hull, 1998. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:8030.
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This thesis explores the politics of cultural diversity through a survey in the debate between liberal and communitarian thinkers. My aim is to show which side of the debate represents a more adequate position in relation to the politics of the existing cultural diversity in western liberal democracies compatible with the claims of multiculturalism which have emerged in the past two decades. In order to do so, I have chosen a selection of philosophers from each group: Alasdair Macintyre, Charles Taylor and Michael Walzer from the communitarians: and John Rawls, Joseph Raz and Will Kymlicka from the liberals. The critical examinations of their arguments which are presented here concern the normative aspects of the problem and concentrate on three main themes: (i) their concept of the self; (ii) their accounts of the foundations of political morality: and (iii) their suggestions for the politics of cultural diversity. Apart from the Introduction and the Conclusion, the thesis consists of two main parts: Part I contains an introduction to the communitarian critique of modernity and liberalism, followed by three chapters on the selected communitarians. In the same way, Part II consists of an introduction to liberal political thought and three chapters on the selected liberal thinkers. In appreciation of the extent to which cultures may differ from each other in their ideal models of morality, the role which culture plays in constituting one's identity and the extent to which it is affected by communal relationships, and the significance of conceptions of the good life in political morality, communitarians' arguments seem more adequate and fruitful than those of their liberal counterparts, in respect of the politics of cultural communities. The politics of cultural diversity. i.e. the political relations between cultural communities, however, seems to be left with modus vivendi models which can be developed into a model of civil association of cultural communities.
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Becker, Jurgen Reiner. "Influence of values on the attitude towards cultural diversity." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4298.
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Thesis (MComm (Industrial Psychology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Although fifteen years have passed since the change in political dispensation in South
Africa, the integration of citizens belonging to the previously disadvantaged sections
of society is still progressing at a bewilderingly slow pace. Gaining access to the
world of work is instrumental in the alleviation of poverty and the promotion of
economic and social stability in a country still plagued by the legacy of apartheid.
While South Africa is currently in the process of breaking down the scaffolding of
apartheid and promoting the welfare of all South Africans along more equitably lines,
the overall success of relevant initiatives fundamentally hinges on both the former
oppressors and the formerly oppressed coming to terms with the past and, more
importantly, engaging in a process of constitutional reconciliation and compromise to
overcome unconstructive attitudes brought about through decades of colonialism,
racism and segregation.
Following from this, attitudes towards cultural diversity in general and, more
specifically, the forces (i.e. nomological network of antecedents) that shape such
attitudes, informed the research question that initiated the current study. Preliminary
theorising culminated in the formulation of a tentative theoretical model explicating
the relationship between various variables and the attitude towards cultural diversity.
The proposed theoretical model in an effort to answer the question that initiated the
research implied that values influence the attitude towards cultural diversity.
Furthermore, it was argued that the relationship between values and the attitude
towards cultural diversity is moderated by race and gender.
The proposed theoretical model was formally assessed with the use of a convenience
sample of 1 357 students from four prominent universities in South Africa (Northwest
University, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, University of Stellenbosch, and
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University). A quasi double cross-validation procedure
was utilised whereby a single sample was divided into two equal subsamples: (a) a
calibration sample and (b) validation sample.
A combination of qualitative and quantitative research paradigms was utilised in the
current study. Only quantitative results are reported formally, although the qualitative
technique of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was utilised extensively during the
stages of theorisation. The statistical analysis became naturally segmented in four
distinct sections: the validation of the Schwartz Value Survey (SVS) and the Cultural
Diversity Belief Scales (CDBS); the refinement of the SVS and CDBS; testing of the
proposed theoretical model via Structural Equation Modelling (SEM); and testing the
moderating effects of race and gender on the attitude towards cultural diversity by
means of moderated regression analysis.
Partial support was found for the proposed linkages between values main effects and
the attitude towards cultural diversity, as well as for the moderating effects of race
and gender on the value-attitude linkages.
Conclusions were drawn from the results obtained and recommendations for future
research have been made.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Alhoewel die politieke bewind in Suid-Afrika reeds vyftien jaar gelede verander het,
vorder die integrasie binne die samelewing van die voorheen benadeelde gedeeltes
van die bevolking teen ‘n verstommend stadige pas. Die verkryging van toetrede tot
die wêreld van werk dra by tot die verligting van armoede en die bevordering van
ekonomiese en maatskaplike stabiliteit in ‘n land wat steeds deur die nalatenskap van
apartheid geteister word. Met Suid-Afrika tans betrokke by die aftakeling van die
apartheidsteierwerk en die bevordering van die welsyn van alle Suid-Afrikaners op
meer gelyke grondslag, rus die algehele sukses van relevante inisiatiewe daarop dat
die voormalige verdruktes en die voormalige verdrukkers met die verlede vrede maak,
maar ook meer dat hulle deur ’n proses van grondwetlike versoening en akkoord die
onopbouende houdings wat deur dekades van kolonialisme, rassisme en segregasie tot
stand gekom het, kan oorkom.
Vanuit hierdie agtergrond het houdings teenoor kulturele diversiteit in die algemeen
en, meer spesifiek, die magte (d.i. nomologiese netwerk van voorafgaande gebeure)
wat aan sulke houdings vorm gee, die navorsingsvraag laat ontstaan wat tot die
huidige studie gelei het. Die voorafgaande teorie-ontwikkeling het tot die formulering
van ‘n tentatiewe teoretiese model gelei om die verhouding tussen verskeie
veranderlikes en die houding teenoor kulturele diversiteit te ontvou. In ‘n poging om
‘n antwoord te vind vir die vraag wat tot die navorsing gelei het, het die voorgestelde
teoretiese model geïmpliseer dat waardes die houding teenoor kulturele diversiteit
beïnvloed. ‘n Verdere argument was dat die verband tussen waardes en die houding
teenoor kulturele diversiteit deur ras en geslag gemodereer word.
Die voorgestelde teoretiese model is formeel geassesseer met gebruik van ’n
gerieflikheidssteekproef bestaande uit 1 357 studente vanuit vooraanstaande
universiteite in Suid-Afrika (die Universiteit van die Noordweste, die Kaapse
Skiereiland Universiteit van Tegnologie, die Universiteit van Stellenbosch en die
Nelson Mandela Metropolitaanse Universiteit).’n Kwasi dubbele kruis-validering
(quasi double cross-validation) prosedure is gebruik waardeur ‘n enkelvoudige
steekproefneming in twee gelyke steekproewe verdeel is: (a) ‘n kalibreringssteekproef
en (b) ‘n valideringsteekproef.
’n Kombinasie van kwalitatiewe en kwantitatiewe navorsingsparadigmas is in die
huidige studie gebruik. Slegs kwantitatiewe resultate word formeel gerapporteer,
alhoewel kwalitatiewe Kritiese Diskoers-analise (Critical Discourse Analysis)
omvattend gebruik is gedurende die teoretiseringstadia. Die statistiese ontledings het
op natuurlike wyse in vier duidelike afdelings verdeel: die validering van die
Schwartz Value Survey (SVS) en die Cultural Diversity Belief Scales (CDBS); die
verfyning van die SVS en die CDBS; die toets van die voorgestelde teoretiese model
met behulp van Structural Equation Modelling (SEM); en die toets van die
modererende effekte van ras en geslag op die houding teenoor kulturele diversiteit
deur middel van modererende regressie-analise.
Gedeeltelike ondersteuning is gevind vir die voorgestelde verband tussen hoof-effekte
van waardes en die houding teenoor diversiteit, sowel as vir die modererende effek
van ras en geslag op die waardes-houdings verband. Gevolgtrekkings is gemaak uit
die resultate wat verkry is en voorstelle in verband met toekomstige navorsing is aan
die hand gedoen.
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Ghassemieh, Negar. "An Architectural Response to Cultural Diversity; The Mosaic: International Student Housing." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51654.
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"We build dwellings that, perhaps, satisfy most of our physical needs, but which do not house our mind."-- Juhani Pallasmaa
My architecture thesis began with the question of the relationship and threshold between the realms of public and private and familiar and unfamiliar, while looking particularly in residential spaces. Humans consciously or unconsciously "use" the idea of their "home" environment to express something about themselves.
The question that arose from this dialogue captured my attention which led me to explore a deeper meaning of what would be an ideal home for students like myself- ones who were starting a new chapter of their lives by moving to a foreign country. The idea of "Home" as a symbol of ones self, is a set of rituals, personal rhythms and routines of everyday life. The idea of Home cannot be produced all at once; it has a dimension of time and is a gradual product of the family's and individual's adaptation to the world.
My thesis project has explored and proposed an architectural response to cultural diversity through student housing for existing Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area universities. The Mosaic is a place to express the personality and define the vessels of memories between individuals and society.<br>Master of Urban and Regional Planning
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Acharya, Manju Prava, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Constructing cultural diversity: a study of framing clients and culture in a community health centre." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1996, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/29.
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The clinical community in Western society has long practised medicine as organized by "two dominant principles: 1) the principle of essentialism which states that there is a fixed "natural" border between disease and health, and 2) the principle of specific treatment which states that having revealed a disease, the doctor can, at least in principle, find the one, correct treatment. These principles have served as the
legitimization of the traditional, hierarchical organization of health-care" (Jensen, 1987:19). A main feature of medical practices based on these principles has been to address specific kinds of problems impeding or decaying health. This research is centrally concerned with essentialism and the institutional fixation of problems as two important nodal points of Canada's biomedical value and belief system. More specifically, I hope to show in an organized way how these principles shape staff knowledge of client and culture in a community health centre (CHC) in Lethbridge, Alberta. My analysis is based on four guiding points: 1) that in our polyethnic society health care institutions are massively challenged with actual and perceived
cultural diversity and cross cultural barriers to which their staff feel increasingly obliged to respond with their services; 2) while the client cultural diversity is "real", institutional responses depend primarily on how that diversity is imagined by staff -often as a threat to a health institution's sociocultural world; 3) that problem-specific, medicalized thinking is central in this community health centre, even though its mandate is health promotion and this problem orientation often combines with medical essentialism to reduce
"culturally different" to a set of client labels, some of which are problematic; and 4) while a "lifestyle model" and other models for health promotion are at present widely advocated and are to be found centrally in this institution's (CHC) charter, they have led to little institutional accomodation to cultural diversity.
In this thesis my aim is to present an ethnographic portrait of a community health centre, where emphasis is given to the distinctive formal and informal "formative processess" (Good 1994) of social construction of certain perceived common core challenges facing the Canadian biomedical community today - challenges concerning cultural difference and its incorporation into health care perception and practice. I am particularly interested in institutions subscribing to a "health promotion model" of health care, a term I have borrowed from Ewles and Simnett (1992). Ewles and Simnett descrive the meaning of "health promotion" as earlier defined by WHO (World Health Organization): this perspective is derived from a conception of "health" as the extent to which an individual or group is able, on the on hand, to realise aspirations and satisfy needs; and, on the other hand, to change or cope with the environment. Health is, therefore seen as a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living; it is a positive concept emphasising social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities (Ewles & Simnett, 1992:20) Health is therefore concerned with "a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity" (Ewles and Simnett, 1992:6), I am interested in determing how threats to this defintion prevail in a community health centre's ideology of preventive care, and how that ideology encodes dimensions of diversity. I, however, want to go much further than this by exploring everyday staff discourse and practice, to understand how client cultural diversity is formed and informed by what staff do and say. How, in short,
do individuals based in a health promotion organization socially construct their clients as objects of institutional concern? We need, as Young (1982) suggest, "to examine the social condition of knowledge production" in an institutionalized health care service provision subculture. There are, I believe, also practical reasons for conducting this research. Over the past ten years the Canadian health care system increasingly has had to focus on two potentially contradictory goals: reducing costs, and lessening persistent inequalities in health status among key groups and categories of persons in the Canadian population. Many now argue that one of the most central dimensions of the latter - of perisistent health inequalities in Canada - is ethnocultural. Few would seriously argue, for example, that Canadian First Nation health statistics are anything but appalling. Moreover, radical changes in immigration patterns over the past three decades have greatly increased urban Canadian cultural diversity. Caring "at home" now assumes international dimensions (McAdoo, 1993; Butrin, 1992; Buchignani, 1991; Indra, 1991, 1987; Galanti, 1991; Dobson, 1991; Waxler-Morrison, 1990; Quereshi, 1989). A growing voiced desire to provide more pluralistic health care and health care promotion has become persistently heard throughout the clinical community in Canada (Krepps and Kunimoto, 1994; Masi, 1993). Even so, for many health professionals cultural difference evidently remians either irrelevant or a threat to the established order of things. Applied research on health care institutions undertaken to investigate how better to meet these challenges nevrtheless remains very incomplete and highly concentrated in two broad areas. One of these is structural factors within the institution that limit cross-cultural access (Herzfeld, 1992; Hanson, 1980). Some of these studies have shown the prevalence of a strictly conservative institutional culture that frequently makes frontline agency workers gate-keeprs, who actively (if unconsciously) maintain client-institution stratification (Ervin, 1993; Demain, 1989; Ng, 1987; Murphy, 1987; Foster-Carter, 1987; de Voe 1981). In addition, extensive research has been conducted on disempowered minority groups. This research has examined the frequency, effectiveness and manner with which ethnic and Native groups make use of medical services. Some institutional research on cross-cultral issues shows that under appropriate conditions health professional like nurses have responded effectively to client needs by establishing culturally sensitive hiring and training policies and by restructuring their health care organizations (Terman, 1993; Henderson, 1992; Davis, 1992; Henkle, 1990; Burner, 1990). Though promising, this research remains radically insufficient for learning purposes. In particular, little work has been done on how such institutions come to "think" (Douglas, 1986) about cultural difference, form mandates in response to pressure to better address culturally different populations and work them into the institution's extant sub-cultral ideas and practice (Habarad, 1987; Leininger, 1978), or on how helping instiutions categorize key populations such as "Indians" or "Vietnamese" as being culturally different, or assign to each a suite of institutionally meaningful cultural attributes (as what becomes the institution's working sense of what is, say, "Vietnamese culture"). This is so despite the existence of a long and fruitful ethnographic institutional research tradition, grounded initially in theories of status and role (Frankel, 1988; Taylor, 1970; Parson, 1951), symbolic ineractionism (Goffman, 1967, 1963, 1961), ethnomethodology (Garfinkle, 1975), and organizational subcultures (Douglas, 1992, 1986, 1982; Abegglen & Stalk, 1985; Ohnuki-Tierney, 1984; Teski, 1981; Blumers, 1969). More recent work on anthropological social exchange theory (Barth, 1981), on institutional and societal discipline (Herzfeld, 1992; Foucault, 1984, 1977), on the institution-client interface (Shield, 1988; Schwartzman, 1987, Ashworth, 1977, 1976, 1975), and on framing the client (Hazan, 1994; Denzin, 1992; Howard, 1991; Goffman, 1974). I also hope that this study makes a contribution to the study of health care and diversity in southern Alberta. Small city ethnic relations in Canada have been almost systematically ignored by researchers, and similar research has not been conducted in this part of Alberta. Local diversity is significant: three very large Indian reserves are nearby, and the city itself has a diverse ethnic, linguistic and ethno-religious population. Also, significant province wide restructuring of health care delivery was and is ongoing, offering both the pitfalls and potentials of quick institutional change. Perhaps some of the findings can contribute to making the future system more responsive to diversity than the present one.<br>202 p. ; 29 cm.
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Chavez-Haroldson, Maria Teresa. "LatinX Diversity Officers in Higher Education: Capacitating Cultural Values as Champions of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1583658860303437.
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Hoffmann, Amy M. "Alternative interpretive strategies for multi-generational learning in public horticulture institutions." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 134 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1605142581&sid=6&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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de, Gioia Kathryn. "Beyond cultural diversity : exploring micro and macro culture in the early childhood setting /." View thesis, 2003. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20060511.142734/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2003.<br>"A thesis submitted to the School of Applied Social and Human Sciences, University of Western Sydney in fulfilment of the Doctor of Philosophy". Includes bibliography : leaves 248 - 270.
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O'Connor, N. "Finding effectiveness : balancing core museum mission with the demands of governance and public management requirements at the National Museum of Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680233.
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Junanto, Deny. "The use of performance information in the Indonesian public sector : the role of rational/technocratic and political/cultural frameworks." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8305/.
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Public administrative reform in Indonesia accelerated after the country experienced economic and political turbulence in 1999. As part of the reform policy, the central government introduced performance management systems in order to improve the capacity of public institutions, particularly local governments. The thesis uses semi-structured interviews to answer, how effective is the performance management system in Indonesian local government? How do rational/technocratic and political frameworks affect the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of performance management system? The evidence suggests the performance management system in the Indonesian public sector is ineffective. This is indicated by gaps between performance indicators and actual performance, by the non-use of performance information and by the behaviour of those who are supposed to be influenced. The ineffectiveness may be explained by both rational/technocratic factors, and political/cultural factors. Based on our findings, those elements affect effectiveness of the performance management system. However, respondents emphasised that political/cultural elements were more fundamental to successful use of performance information, but present more difficult and challenging issues to reform. Indonesian government agencies compete with each other to maintain a role in the context of decentralisation, each seeking to prevent too much accumulation of power by any other agency. Therefore, although the government agencies may favour a technocratic approach, they will resist any comprehensive technocratic scheme of system integration, particularly in the performance management system. The Indonesian public sector may thus represent a case of ‘political technocracy’ in which rationality is limited by political interests.
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OTUATA, Althea Michelle. "Cultural Competence of Public Health Nurses Who Care for Diverse Populations." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6800.
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Despite advances in health, science, and technology, U.S. healthcare lags in providing access to care and quality care to racial and ethnic minorities. Cultural competence has been noted as a strategy to improve access and quality. The purpose of this project was to assess public health nurses' cultural competence before and after participating in cultural competence informational modules. Two conceptual models were used in this project for theoretical guidance: Leininger's cultural care diversity and universality theory and Campinha-Bacote's process of cultural competence. To assess the nurses' cultural competence, the Cultural Competence Self-Assessment Checklist questionnaire was e-mailed to 57 public health nurses at a local health department. Survey participants remained anonymous. Data were collected on demographics. A paired t test was conducted to compare the statistical significance of the results. A quantitative software tool was used to analyze the data. Study results showed a confidence interval of 95% at p = 0.15, indicating that cultural competence informational modules made a significant difference between the pretest and the posttest of the Cultural Competence Self-Assessment Checklist. Thus, cultural competence informational modules make a difference in public health nurses' awareness, knowledge, and skills, which can enhance their ability to provide culturally competent care to racial and ethnic minorities. The implications of this project for social change include supporting health care professionals' ability to promote and implement cultural competence practices for all populations to decrease health disparities
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Lee, Toby Kim. "Public Culture and Cultural Citizenship at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11165.
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This dissertation explores the relationship between state, citizen and public culture through an ethnographic and historical examination of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in northern Greece. In the two-year period leading up to and following its fiftieth anniversary in 2009, the festival was caught up in the larger economic, political and social crises that have overtaken Greece in the last five years - a painful period of rapid transformation and neoliberalization for one of Europe's staunchest social-welfare states. As the Greek state faces bankruptcy - both economic and political - it is being forced to revisit the terms of its social contract with its citizens. In a country where "culture" was once touted as a national "heavy industry," the relationship between the state and cultural production is also being restructured. Public culture is one of the areas of social life in which people are now struggling with these changes and attempting to redefine what it means to be a citizen of the Greek state - utilizing and revising local, national and transnational identities in the process.<br>Anthropology
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McKrell, Lindsay. "Public libraries adapting to change : from cultural institutions to agents of change in learning & community development." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26756.
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This thesis is an examination of public libraries in Britain today. It sets forward the hypothesis that a new type of librarianship is emerging to meet the needs of change in the socioeconomic environment, and that this is based on a community development approach. The thesis examines the role of public libraries within their communities through a historical, contemporary and international review of literature and a national questionnaire survey of community development strategies in public library authorities. The survey forms part of a research programme funded by the British Library Research and Innovation Centre on the social impact of libraries. It was designed collaboratively, by myself, Andrew Green of the Community Services Group of the Library Association and Kevin Harris of the Community Development Foundation, although all subsequent work has been my own. In-depth analysis is followed by telephone interviews with four library authorities chosen as case studies, to establish the relationship between policy and practice. The thesis as a whole considers the history and development of libraries. After suffering years of policy drift, a poor research base and a low public profile, public libraries are considering how best to quantify their social impact. Rapid socioeconomic change has had a marked effect on the labour market and social cohesion in the UK, resulting in greater demand for training, education and information. Government has responded with community-oriented policies aimed at improving public access to the information society, making local government more accountable, empowering communities and supporting citizenship in an increasingly active democracy. Rapid advances in Information Technology have increased the potential of public libraries to contribute to this process and act as lifelong learning facilitators and providers. This thesis presents evidence of public libraries' changing role as an educative medium. A majority of public libraries responding to the survey are engaged in interagency work to support the independent learner and empower communities. Many are doing so as part of a community development strategy, or are working on such a strategy. Respondents to the survey of public library authorities expressed the desire to involve their public in a meaningful way. Those library services with a written community development strategy have taken practical steps to achieve this and have set up systems to monitor their progress. A new model for management of community-oriented services is proposed, highlighting issues of policy and practice such as staff training and service accessibility. Conclusions are drawn on an effective role for public libraries in Britain and the need for further research on how this can be achieved.
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Dennis, Evan Marks. "Adaptation to Social Ecological System Shocks| Transformation in San Diego's Water Institutions and Culture between 1990 and 2010." Thesis, Indiana University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10830114.
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<p> Between 1990 and 2010 changing perceptions of water-scarcity and evolving adaptation strategies to water stress transformed water management in San Diego, California. This project examines how perceptions of water scarcity affect the programmatic variety, geographic scale, and types of adaptations that are undertaken. It also investigates whether a cultural consensus developed within San Diego County as a whole about what causes particular water problems. Lastly, the research shows how adaptation responses to the collective action problem of water provisioning contributed to resolving the other collective action problems of wastewater production and water conservation. The project presents San Diego as an example of polycentric governance arrangements that were adaptive to the challenges of a changing social-ecological system. </p><p>
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Dougherty, Dana. "Embodying the City: Identity and Use in Urban Public Space." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32225.
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Certain urban public spaces seem to embody the cities in which they are found, helping to make those cities the vibrant places they are. This project explores how urban public spaces can be created to reflect the vitality of the city by embracing the culture and the people who reside in it.
Through literature review and case studies, a framework is developed focusing on the areas of identity and use in the design of public spaces. Identity is looked at in terms of place attachment, spatial identity, and how surrounding uses affect the identity of a space. Use is explored in terms of designing a public space to encourage a diversity of uses at different times. Identity and use are inevitably linked: much of a spaceâ s identity depends on the uses that take place there and whether or not the space meets the needs of its users. In the same way, a space will not be used unless potential users can identify with it and feel a connection to it.
A design project is carried out in an urban neighborhood based on this framework to create a space that is connected to its users and its city.<br>Master of Landscape Architecture
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Elton, Juanita S. "An Exploratory Study of Cultural Competence: Examining Cross Cultural Adaptability in Peace Officers." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1364914071.
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Izevbigie, Scotty O. "Cultural Integration in Newly Formed Public-Private Partnership Organizations." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6336.
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The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) formed public-private partnerships (PPPs) with local and international private companies during the construction of the Port of Miami Tunnel (POMT) project. These PPPs had employees from different cultural backgrounds who brought new cultures, ideas, innovation, and experiences to their PPPs. The limited PPP literature did indicate that different cultures should be properly integrated to avoid challenges and conflicts in the new organization. If not properly managed and integrated, cultural conflict can create communication problems, increased employee dissatisfaction, higher turnover, and poor employee performance. Using Risberg's communication theoretical foundation, the purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of PPP employees to see how their intercultural communication facilitated cultural integration. Data were generated through semi-structured, open-ended interviews with 11 employees of the PPPs formed with FDOT during the POMT project. Data were coded and analyzed using a thematic analaysis procedure. Findings were that cultural aspects like social interaction, comfort in interacting with people from different cultures, empathy, respect for others, knowledge about other cultures, open-mindedness, and managerial support helped in facilitating cultural integration in the respective PPPs. Positive social change implications may include the improvement of PPP efficiency and efficacy with: greater leadership awareness of the challenges and opportunities of diversity; new policies and management strategies that take advantage of different cultural contributions; and, policies that encourage cultural competency and sensitivity.
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Fluckiger, Beverley, and na. "Childrens cross-cultural literacy experiences in three worlds: Enacting agency." Griffith University. School of Cognition, Language and Special Education, 2007. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20070814.144647.
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The literacy experiences of a small group of culturally-diverse children were examined in this study. The experiences, too, were diverse and influential. The children, five girls aged four five years, attended the same Preschool, in an inner suburb of a large city in Australia. Data were gathered at home, during the last two months of the preschool year and, for three of the children, during writing sessions in the first six months of Year One. Vygotskian ideas on meaning-making were integrated with other perspectives on development, literacy learning and teaching from a sociocultural, theoretical framework. The purpose was to identify dimensions of childrens literacy experiences and provide insight into ways in which children negotiate culture, literacy, and schooling, challenge current perspectives, contribute to research knowledge and determine how teachers might take account of cultural diversity in classrooms to better support children in literacy learning. A grounded theory method was employed using multiple data collection tools and techniques in both home and school contexts. Data were coded using a process of constant comparison to identify features, characteristics and dimensions of childrens literacy experiences. Independent inter-rater agreement on the coding of features at home, Preschool and school was 98.4%. Findings included a variety of values, beliefs and perspectives amongst parents and between teachers in relation to literacy learning, roles and relationships, and home-school connections. Childrens literacy experiences at home differed in terms of nature, frequency and resources and experiences in each of the settings were very different. A major finding was that children acted as agents of their own learning: mixing, transferring, trying out, adapting, and experimenting to determine appropriate practices and make decisions including when to exercise choice to enact agency. These assimilation and accommodation adaptations were identified as akin to code-switching, labelled as culture-switching, and identified as areas requiring further research.
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Yeung, Lisa Wing-tsui. "Public discourses, social identities and political realities : the production of discursive space in decolonising Hong Kong." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390823.
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Coffman, Steven Alan. "The Effect of Cultural Awareness Training on Staff in Intergovernmental Service Agreement Facilities." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5842.
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No system-wide diversity training exists at Immigration and Customs Enforcement Intergovernmental Service Agreement (IGSA) facilities. This study was conducted to determine if diversity training has a short-term effect on cultural awareness of staff in these facilities in the midwestern United States. This information is important to administrations in IGSA facilities when deciding to include diversity training in the annual required training of staff, as the efficacy and relevance have been unknowns. The theoretical foundation of this study is Smircich's organizational culture theory. A nonequivalent control group research design was utilized to collect survey data from 48 participants at 2 midwestern facilities. The survey, adapted from Underwood, was used for each group before and after treatment, as applicable. A repeated-measures ANCOVA was used for data analysis. There was no statistically significant difference between training and control groups in the final survey cultural awareness scores (F(1, 31) = 2.27, p = .17). These results indicate no statistically significant short-term benefit to staff in the IGSA facilities in completing diversity training to increase cultural awareness. It is recommended that this study be interpreted as a limited study, as the participating facilities represented less than 2% of such facilities in the United States. A recommendation for future research is to include more facilities and longitudinal data. Despite the statistically nonsignificant finding, there were implications for positive social change. Individual participants showed changes in cultural awareness. While not statistically significant, the acquired knowledge may prove significant in their lives, and the lives of those they encounter.
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Dooley, Karen Teresa, and k. dooley@qut edu au. "Adapting to Diversity: Pedagogy for Taiwanese students in mainstream Australian secondary school classes." Griffith University. School of Cognition, Language and Special Education, 2001. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20030102.105906.
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This study investigated pedagogy for Taiwanese students in mainstream Australian secondary school classes. The aim was to explore the construction of pedagogy for these students within the communicative contingencies of both the classroom and the community of talk around the classroom. Accordingly, the study documented and explicated the ways in which teachers adapted geography lessons for Taiwanese students, and further, the fit of teachers' descriptions and explanations of those adaptations within broader school community debate over provision for ethnic minority students. The significance of the study resides in its contribution to educational research, policy and practice in conditions of cultural diversity and formal cultural inclusion. The study's contributions arise from its attention to the forms of teacher-student interaction that are often considered to be a major point of difference between pedagogy in Australia (and other Western nations) and in Chinese (and other Asian) contexts. The focus is on the degree of teacher-directedness or student-centredness, as demonstrated by such factors as rote learning and participation in whole class spoken activities. Review of the current literature indicated that such dispositions may not only be brought to Australian pedagogic contexts by Chinese students, but may also be constructed within these contexts themselves. Analysis of theoretical perspectives on culture and pedagogy that were of high profile in Australia during the 1990s indicated that the investigation of this possibility requires an approach that makes it possible to attend to the structuring of such contexts. Accordingly, this study was conducted from a perspective that made it possible to document and explicate the construction of socialising conditions within the communicative particularities of lessons for Taiwanese students as pedagogic practice enacted in classrooms, and of debate amongst those interested in the education of the students as pedagogic talk within a school community. The theoretical framework of the study drew primarily on Basil Bernstein's sociology of educational knowledge. This perspective provided the fundamental concepts for describing the categorisation of Taiwanese students in the teacher-student interaction of the classroom and in school community talk about such. Analytic concepts developed by researchers concerned with classroom talk were specified in Bernsteinian terms to facilitate the translation between these theoretical objects and the sets of lesson and interview data examined in the study. These concepts made it possible to describe the pedagogic activities of teachers and students, and their constituent social actions, as enacted in the lessons, and as constructed in the interview talk of school community members. The two data sets were produced and analysed by methods derived from the Bernsteinian perspective. The aim was to: i) test the generic and formal Bernsteinian sociology of educational knowledge; and ii) produce findings generalisable to culturally diverse Australian school settings. One of the main findings of the study was that the adaptation of geography lessons for Taiwanese, Chinese, Asian and other ESL students produced a more constrained and teacher-directed form of pedagogy than that which was provided for other students. The other main finding was that the geography teachers described and explained these adaptations by categorising the students as 'reluctant' in whole class spoken activities and 'dependent' in written seatwork activities. Other school community members interested in the education of Taiwanese students evinced substantial agreement in this regard. However, these interviewees constructed the 'reluctant' speech and 'dependent' seatwork of the students from complex collaborative and competitive positions available in professional-academic talk. This pointed to struggles amongst those who would inform the provision of pedagogy for Taiwanese and other Chinese, Asian and ESL students. The study's theoretical significance resides, in part, in its capacity to describe the moment-by-moment classroom interaction of Taiwanese students without pre-empting the empirical salience of categories of cultural identity. Rather, attention is focused on the ways that students are categorised according to their capacity to undertake particular communicative interactions, categorisations in which cultural identity is not necessarily made overtly salient. In this way the study refined and tested the Bernsteinian model of classroom practice, while also locating analytic tools for describing classroom talk within broader relations of social power and control. Methodologically, the study's significance arises from its capacity to generate descriptions of the particularity of classroom practice, and talk about such, as pedagogic practice and talk. For policymakers the study points to the professional-academic discourses that need to be made available to teachers if they are to engage in the conversations about pedagogy that are central to emergent, second-wave conceptions of cultural equity in the state of Queensland where the study was conducted. For practitioners questions arise from the possibility that the dispositions of Taiwanese and other Chinese, Asian and ESL students to teacher-directed forms of pedagogy may be constructed in Australian contexts. These pertain to the desirability of the outcomes of adaptations undertaken in the name of cultural equity, in addition to the implications of teachers' own professional-academic socialisation for debates over 'who' should get 'what' pedagogic provision. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the utility of the study's perspective and findings given current developments in the racial and cultural politics of Australian educational institutions.
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Coward, Ann Art History & Theory UNSW. "Museums and Australia???s Greek textile heritage: the desirability and ability of State museums to be inclusive of diverse cultures through the reconciliation of public cultural policies with private and community concerns." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Art History and Theory, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/31957.
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This thesis explores the desirability of Australia???s State museums to be inclusive of diverse cultures. In keeping with a cultural studies approach, and a commitment to social action, emphasis is placed upon enhancing the ability of State museums to fulfil obligations and expectations imposed upon them as modern collecting institutions in a culturally diverse nation. By relating the desirability and ability of State museums to attaining social justice in a multicultural Australia through broadening the concept of Australia???s heritage, the thesis is firmly situated within post-colonial discourse. The thesis analyses State multicultural, heritage, and museum legislation, in New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland, with regard to State museums as agents of cultural policy. Results from a survey, Greeks and Museums, conducted amongst Australia???s Greeks in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, reveal an anomaly between their museum-going habits and the perception of those habits as expressed by government policies promoting the inclusion of Australians of a non-English speaking background in the nation???s cultural programmes. In exploring the issue of inclusiveness, the thesis highlights the need for cultural institutions to shift the emphasis away from audience development, towards greater audience participation. The thesis outlines an initiative-derived Queensland Model for establishing an inclusive relationship between museums and communities, resulting in permanent, affordable, and authoritative collections, while simultaneously improving the museums??? international reputation and networking capabilities. By using the example of one of the nation???s non-indigenous communities, and drawing upon material obtained through the survey, and a catalogue containing photographs and lists of Greek textile collections found in the Powerhouse Museum (MAAS), Sydney, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Immigration Museum, Melbourne, the Queensland Art Gallery and the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, as well as collections owned by private individuals, the thesis focuses on the role played by museums in constructing social cohesion and inclusiveness.
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Couret, Magali. "La production de l'œuvre publique d'art contemporain." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010256/document.
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L'art contemporain se veut transgressif, c'est un art fugitif dont on garde trace dans ses souvenirs, grâce à des photographies et des protocoles conservés dans les archives des institutions et prêts à être «réactivés». Située à la frontière de plusieurs domaines de création et confrontée à une forte dématérialisation, l'œuvre d'art contemporain déroute le juriste. Aujourd'hui, elle ne résulte plus du travail d'un artiste agissant seul dans son atelier, mais d'équipes réunissant les talents de multiples professions qui fragmentent sa réalisation en plusieurs phases. De fait, la scénographie ou le procédé artistique l'emportent souvent sur l'œuvre elle-même. Ce procédé prend le nom de «production» d'art. C'est pourquoi l'art contemporain constitue un objet d'étude complexe en droit, lequel s'attache encore trop à la forme de l'œuvre plutôt qu'à ses modes de création. La production artistique contemporaine est un domaine où les usages et les coutumes naissent au gré de pratiques efficientes, et prennent petit à petit le pas sur le droit. Dès lors, un fossé se creuse entre les professionnels de l 'art contemporain et le droit, ce qui a tendance à induire la coexistence de pratiques divergentes et d'interprétations diverses des coutumes établies, ainsi que le chevauchement de la coutume et de la législation, sans que des directives d'application de l'une ou l'autre ne soient adoptées. La question à laquelle nous tentons donc de répondre dans cette thèse est celle de savoir comment réduire cet écart entre la pratique des professionnels de la création contemporaine et le droit afin d'apporter sécurité juridique à la production artistique, et plus particulièrement au sein de la commande publique<br>Contemporary art transgress, it is a fugitive art, which we remember thanks to our memories, to photographs and protocols owned by institutions, ready to be revived. The contemporary work of art is dematerialized and located in-between many fields of creation. That is why legal experts have troubles understanding it. Nowadays, a sole artist does not make the work of art anymore. Although, it is the result of the work of a team, gathering multiples professionals, who divide the creation of the work of art up in many phases. That phenomenon is called « production of art». Thus, contemporary art is a complex subject for the law, which is still focused on the form and materials constituting the work of art, instead of being focused on the ways it is produced. The artistic production is regulated by customs, which tend progressively to take advantage on the law. In fact, this creates divergent practices and interpretations of the rules. Plus, the law and the customs sometimes tend to overlap, and no one knows which one should be applied. The question we try to answer in this thesis is how is it possible to reduce the gap between the professional practices and the law, in pursuing the goal to bring legal security in the artistic production, and most specifically, in the field of public call for artists
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Bal, Louise, and n/a. "THE MAINTENANCE OF THE FRIULAN-ITALIAN COMMUNITY IN AUSTRALIA." University of Canberra. Education, 2001. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20090609.081955.
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The aim of the study was to develop an in-depth understanding of the migration
experiences of the Italian community of Australia, with a case study of the regional
Friulan community of Sydney. For the ways in which people identify themselves at
different times and in different environments may not always be consistent. The purpose
of the study was to add to the exploration of the diversity, cultural variety and richness
cultural communities have brought to Australia. The study set out to fulfill an important
function in adding to the accounts of the diversity of ethnic groups in Australia, their
structure and cultural backgrounds and the values of family members. Since culture is
concerned with meaning, there is of course a very close relationship between culture and
language, through which kin relationships, obligations and duties are expressed and
appropriate behaviour defined. It is that meaning and relationship that led me to
investigate the Italian and Friulan communities.
The study took on the form of an ethnography enabling me, the researcher, to participate
in order to develop an in depth understanding of the experiences of the Italian migrants,
in particular the Friulan community. The data was collected by using key informant
interviewing. The participants were encouraged to freely reflect on their past and present
experiences to enable them to make a comparative analysis of their experiences in
Australia and in their country of origin. This enabled the migrants to take on the role of
culturally knowledgeable informants supplying information which was significant to them
and which reflected their perceptions of their life experiences. The data has been
faithfully recorded to represent the immigrant's point of view.
The study revealed that many of the first and second-generation are highly involved with
their Italian heritage and operate comfortably with a bicultural ethnic identity. The
second generation have reconstructed the Italian-Australian family, thus changing the
Italian community and providing links between the Italian, the Anglo-Australian and the
other ethnic communities. Ethnicity is continually negotiated and is a constant source of
transformation for people of immigrant background. If Italian-Australians continue to
associate, both through family and cultural practices then the Italian-Australian identity
will continue. The big question is what will happen in the third and fourth Italian-Australian
generation. It is here that the question of ethnic and national identity becomes
highly relevant.
Cultural diversity presents challenging issues for Australia: what it means to be an
Australian; the relationship between national and personal identities; identifying and
working in both the cohesive and divisive forces in a multicultural society; and the form
and flavour of a future republic. None of these issues are new, yet all are of immediate
concern, and the symbolic importance of the approach of the twenty-first century invests
them with particular meaning.
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Erguc, Ozdemir Gizem. "The Role Of Institutions In Promoting Public Interest Within The Context Of Cultural And Natural Heritage Conservation: The Case Of Gokova." Thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12611217/index.pdf.
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This thesis discusses the role of institutions in promoting public interest within the context of cultural and natural heritage conservation. Due to the fact that the concept of public interest is controversial and may differ from one context to another, and that there are numerous institutions, the role of institutions in public interest promoting process limited to the context of conservation. A large number of public institutions develop policies that have significant implications for the conservation of cultural and natural resources in Turkey. The aim of these policies is to promote public interest by safeguarding natural and cultural assets. Moreover conservation institutions adopt different public interest approaches based on their establishment laws, therefore they carry out different activities to attain the objectives of their institutions. Consequently, promotion public interest by such institutions becomes even more ambiguous under these circumstances. Within this context, the Gö<br>kova case provides a good basis for the investigation of the ways in which public institutions conduct their activities in the quest to promote public interest.
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Nathan, Smitha. "'Esprit public' in the Haute Garonne, 1804-1830 : propaganda, influence and dissent in the cultural institutions of the Empire and Restoration." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.422480.
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Perry, Susan White. "Social Equity for the Long Haul: Preparing Culturally Competent Public Administrators." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29767.
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Each year, over 6,000 students complete Master of Public Administration (MPA) degrees in over 200 university accredited programs. Many of these graduates commit to a career in the public service in one of thousands of public sector organizations at all levels of government or in the non-profit sector. Are students qualified to work successfully with multiple <i>"publics"</i> and to work towards achieving the goals of social equity? The core curricula of 123 National Association of School's of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) accredited MPA programs were examined and the analysis focused on the following question: To what extent do NASPAA accredited programs provide cultural competency training to MPA students through their curricula? This dissertation assesses the current state of the field and recommends cultural competency standards to be adopted by public administration programs.<br>Ph. D.
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Er, Basak. "The Evolving Concept Of Flexible Integration Within The European Union: A Tool For Managing Diversity?" Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605525/index.pdf.
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This thesis scrutinizes &ldquo<br>flexible integration&rdquo<br>as an evolving concept within the European Union. It aims to understand the framework in which the debate on flexibility has taken place before the institutionalisation of the mechanism with the Treaty of Amsterdam through examining the different conceptualisations, past examples and the political debate associated with these examples. After analysing the Treaty provisions on flexible integration, the thesis attempts to answer the question whether this mechanism can be perceived as a tool for managing diversity in economic and political sense.
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Chahine, Salim, Johnathan D. Arthurs, Igor Filatotchev, and Robert E. Hoskisson. "The effects of venture capital syndicate diversity on earnings management and performance of IPOs in the US and UK: An institutional perspective." Elsevier, 2012. http://epub.wu.ac.at/3486/1/JCF_CORFIN%2DD%2D11%2D00041_RR1_Final_25_Oct_2011.pdf.
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This study examines the extent to which principal-principal agency conflicts within venture capital (VC) syndicates lead to additional principal-agent conflicts in IPO firms in two institutional contexts. Using a matched sample of 274 VC-backed IPOs in the US and the UK, it shows that the diversity of a VC syndicate increases pre-IPO discretionary current accruals, used as a proxy for earnings management, but the impact of such diversity is higher in the US. There
is also evidence of higher underpricing and lower aftermarket performance in firms with higher
earnings management and VC diversity, and these negative performance effects are also higher in the US. Our findings indicate that local and informal institutions have a significant effect on multiple agency conflicts in IPO firms and performance outcomes.
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Choo, Lay Hiok, and n/a. "Cross-Cultural Collaboration Between Parents and Professionals in Special Education: a Sociocultural and Ethnomethological Investigation." Griffith University. School of Education and Professional Studies, 2005. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20051114.154210.
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This thesis examines the issue of parent participation and cultural diversity in the Australian special education context. Previous research in the U.S. had suggested that the low participation by parents of culturally diverse backgrounds was due to cultural barriers that hindered their partnership with professionals. In reviewing and critiquing this previous research, it became clear that the key concepts of collaboration, disability and culture required reconceptualisation. The theoretical tools deployed in this reconceptualisation are drawn from sociocultural theory and ethnomethodology. Seventeen parents of Chinese and Vietnamese backgrounds and 20 professionals were interviewed regarding the provision of special education for children attending either a special school or special education unit. Follow-up interviews were carried out to probe specific issues related to the salience of culture in parent-professional communication, their understanding of disability, and barriers to parent participation. In addition, the communication books that were passed between parents and professionals on a regular basis were obtained for 7 of the children. These books provide a unique insight into the way parents and professionals accomplished the category of Child-with-a-disability during their entries regarding the mundane practicalities of school and home. In suspending judgment about parent-professional collaboration, this thesis adopts the multiple foci of sociocultural analysis to gain a critical understanding of parent-professional relationships through time and across personal, interpersonal, community and institutional settings. Within this framework, this thesis found that parents and professionals prefer and enact a 'communicating' type of parent participation. Their preferences seemed to depend on a range of circumstances such as their work commitments, financial resources, language resources and changing educational goals for the child. The approach taken in the thesis also affords the specification of diverse models of collaboration (e.g. obliging/directing, influencing/complying, respectful distancing, coordinating, collaborating), each of which may be regarded as worthwhile and acceptable in specific local circumstances. This study found that overall the parent-professional relationship was a trust-given one in which participants unproblematically regarded the professionals as experts. The professionals' reports revealed them to be doing accounting work - creating a moral view of the good parent and good professional. The emphasis on context in both sociocultural and ethnomethodological approaches reframes parental and professional discourse about disability as being context-driven. In employing Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) to examine parents' and professionals' descriptions of the child in the communication book and the research interviews, positive as well as negative attributes of the child were obtained. Interpreting the findings in terms of the context of home and school reveals how negative attributes of the child became foregrounded. For example, the orientation to the child as lacking capacity to remember was an outcome of parents and professionals orienting to their (institutional) roles and responsibilities to manage the practicalities of school. The comparison of views reveals strong agreement between the parents and professionals about the child. Interpreting the data based on the task-at-hand of particular data collection settings provides one explanation. For instance, the communication book is a site where parents and professionals align with each other to co-construct a version of the child. Culture is not treated as a static set of traits and behavioural norms that accounts for the communication difficulties between Western-trained professionals and culturally-diverse parents. Rather, culture is theorised in this thesis as an evolving set of semiotic resources and repertoires of practice that participants draw upon and enact in their everyday activities. Using MCA, the ways in which participants deployed cultural categories, the social ends achieved by such deployment, and the attributes they assigned to these cultural categories, are documented. This approach takes cultural difference to be a resource that people use to account for conflicts, rather than as a determining cause of conflict. The documentation of how participants legitimised their explanations to add credibility to their accounts captures their moment-by-moment cultural categorisation work. In comparison to prior research, the significance of this approach is that it looks seriously at the parents' and professionals' mundane and enacted notions of collaboration and participation, the child with a disability, and culture. This thesis has interwoven several data sources and applied complementary analytics in order to reveal and understand some of the everyday complexity of cross-cultural parent professional interaction in the special education context. There is reason to look carefully at the daily achievements of the participants for it is where the intricacies of a phenomenon lie.
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Vitorino, Daniela Alexandra Guilherme. "Martim Moniz como lugar urbano de multiculturalismo." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/16786.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.<br>Apesar de Portugal ser considerado um país de longa tradição multicultural, a cidade de Lisboa tem vindo a ser, cada vez mais, cenário da interação e da convivência entre imigrantes dos mais diversos pontos do mundo. Neste sentido, o ajustamento entre a apropriação do espaço consoante as diferntes culturas e a arquitetura continua a ser uma questão central, para a qual o arquiteto e o sociólogo deverão ter um olhar atento.
Tendo como área de estudo o Martim Moniz que permite percecionar uma diversidade social, étnica, cultural e geracional, o presente trabalho pretende compreender se a cidade está preparada para oferecer espaços públicos de convivência intercultural e até que ponto e de que forma, é possível albergar e acomodar a diversidade de indivíduos, grupos e modos de vida, independentemente da sua origem.
De modo a requalificar e reabilitar um quarteirão adjacente ao Martim Moniz, é proposto o desenvolvimento de um Centro Multicultural. Para além de resolver alguns problemas urbanos, provocados pelo tecido urbano denso e fragmentado, consegue, no mesmo espaço, desenvolver atividades variadas que promovem as interações humanas entre toda a população, incluindo autóctones, imigrantes e turistas.
O facto de se estar perante uma estrutura social e cultural heterogénea e marcada por múltiplas tensões constitui um desafio acrescido à ação da Arquitetura. Esta situação leva à adoção de estratégias criativas gerando aquilo que se pretende: dinâmicas de convivência, sociabilidade e criação cultural e artística,<br>ABSTRACT: Even though Portugal is considered a country with a long multicultural tradition, the city of Lisbon has been increasingly a scene of interaction and coexistence among immigrants from all over the world. In this sense, the adjustment between the appropriation of space according to different cultures and architecture remains a central issue to which the architect and the sociologist must observe closely.
Martim Moniz is a study area that allows to perceive a social, ethnic, cultural and generational diversity. The present work intends to understand if the city is prepared to offer public spaces of intercultural coexistence and to what extent and in what way it is possible to accommodate the diversity of individuals, groups and lifesstyles regardless of their origin.
In order to requalify and rehabilitate a block adjacent to Martim Moniz, it is proposed the development of a Multicultural Center. The Multicultural Center will allow not only solving some urban problems caused by the irregularity of the territory and the construction as well as to develop varied activities in the same space that promote human interactions among the entire population including autochthonous immigrants and tourists.
The fact that there is a heterogeneous social and cultural structure and marked by multiple tensions constitutes an added challenge to the action of Architecture. This situation leads to the adoption of creative strategies generating what is intended: dynamics of coexistence, sociability and cultural and artistic creation.<br>N/A
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Phillips, Marianne, and edu au jillj@deakin edu au mikewood@deakin edu au wildol@deakin edu au kimg@deakin. "The Internationalisation of Singapore Television: Singaporean Regional and Global Perspectives and Contexts." Deakin University. School of Literary and Communication Studies, 2001. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20040818.141118.
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In this study l investigate the Singaporean characteristics of broadcast media internationalisation. I ask the question "e
Does Internationalisation lead to homogenisation and commercialisation of the television culture in Singapore or does it give way to more diversity, thus stimulating cultural differentiation?"e
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I explain how Singaporean Television media culture takes part in the processes of globalisation, and how it challenges existing cultures and creates new and alternative symbolic and cultural communities, within the context of regional communication.
In this thesis 1 conclude that whilst Singapore definitely does not have equity in information, wealth or resource flows it is attempting to liberalise. To do so, the government recognises that serious inadequacies and imbalances must be addressed and that the path to greater political and economic growth is through an actively informed public. Despite regulatory restrictions on data flow and technical and service ownership, Singapore is encouraging regional alliances, depoliticising cultural differences and concentrating on economic imperatives to build mutual knowledge and understanding, multilateral agreements, collective ownership, mutual exchange and cooperative dissemination.
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Subandono, Subandono. "Institutions, croissance économique et entrepreneuriat : causes et conséquences des activités entrepreneuriales sur le développement économique des régions indonésiennes." Thesis, Paris 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA010041.
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Le but de cette thèse est d'examiner les causes et les conséquences des activités productives des entrepreneurs. Cette étude utilise la base de données sur les régions d'Indonésie pour mettre à l'épreuve des faits nos hypothèses. Le premier chapitre scrute le rôle de l'entrepreneur dans la dynamique du marché du travail. Son originalité est d'introduire la structure du chômage et de travailleur indépendant pour expliquer la relation entre l'entrepreneuriat et le chômage. Le deuxième chapitre cherche à renouveler le raisonnement sur les relations entre les institutions et l'entrepreneuriat. La particularité de cette étude est d'expliquer ces relations au travers de l'ontologie d'Aristote de la contingence et de la prudence. Le troisième chapitre étudie les conséquences de la diversité culturelle sur l'entrepreneuriat. Nous proposons que la diversité culturelle n'influence pas seulement la compétence des individus à découvrir des opportunités, mais qu'elle se trouve également à l'origine de ces opportunités. Le quatrième chapitre étudie les effets des activités productives des entrepreneurs sur la croissance économique. Nous proposons quatre types de modèles économiques: Innovation-économie managériale, innovation-économie entrepreneuriale, imitation-économie managériale et imitation-économie entrepreneuriale. Le cinquième chapitre a pour but de comprendre les conséquences de l'entrepreneuriat sur le processus de la convergence économique. Nous proposons que l'égalisation du capital entrepreneurial à la période initiale soit un facteur nécessaire à la formation de convergence club<br>This dissertation aims to examine the causes and consequences of entrepreneurial productive activities. This study makes use Indonesian cross-region database to investigate empirically our hypotheses. The first chapter observes the role of entrepreneurship in the dynamic of the labor markets. The value of this chapter is to consider the structure of unemployment and self-employment to uncover the entrepreneurship-unemployment relationships. The second chapter seeks to renew the explanation of the relationships between institutions and entrepreneurship. The originality is to explain this relationship through Aristotle's ontology of contingency and prudence. The third chapter investigates the consequences of cultural diversity on entrepreneurship. We propose that cultural heterogeneity not only influences the ability to discover profit opportunities, but it also is the origin of these opportunities. The fourth chapter studies the effect of entrepreneurial productive activities of economic growth. The novelty of this chapter is to propose that a country's model of economic growth may fall into four possible economic models: innovation-managed economy or innovationentrepreneurial economy and imitation-managed economy or imitation-entrepreneurial economy. The fifth chapter aims to understand the consequences of entrepreneurship on the process of convergence. We propose that the equalization of entrepreneurial capital at the initial period is a conditioning factor of convergence club formation and different types of entrepreneurship based on technology intensity matters for explaining the process of catch-up
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Morgan, Trina J. "Minority College Students’ Attitudes and Beliefs Regarding the Profession of Dental Hygiene in Comparison to their Oral Health and Dental Knowledge." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2564.
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The purpose of this study was to find out the attitudes and beliefs of minority college students enrolled at Missouri College in Brentwood, Missouri in reference to the dental hygiene profession. In particular, does their oral health and dental knowledge relate to their knowledge of profession of dental hygiene? One hundred and six students gave their consent to participate in the study via Survey Monkey. The study was conducted in May 2015 for a period of four weeks. Four statements were designed to gauge minority students’ knowledge of dental hygiene as a career. No differences were found based on gender, age, education and ethnicity. A difference was found based upon the respondent’s program of study. Further research is needed spread the word about dental hygiene programs and to explain the role of the dental hygienist.
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Urzander, Jakob, and Mårten Larsson. "Upper echelon, cluster development and performance : A study of governance and shared value strategy in Swedish institutions of higher education." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-44173.
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Background: The "introduction of new public management" in institutions of higher education has brought a measurement-minded form of governance based on "doing more with less". At the same time, universities have increasingly become institutions where documentation proving the conformation to norms of society is more important than the actual outcomes of the organization. A more viable strategic mind set based on the core goals of higher education is therefore required in order to increase the congruence between stated goals and outcomes. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to explore how the demographics in boards and top management teams in higher education affect performance through the mediating role of cluster development. Method: This thesis has an abductive research approach as we emanate not only from previous theoretical discussions on public governance, upper echelon and cluster development, but also from a qualitative pilot study where we explore the cluster development concept in the university context. Our quantitative study is a cross-sectional study based on partly a survey sent to most directors and managers in higher education in Sweden, and partly independent data collection from financial reports and other sources. Results and conclusion: The results are based on a small sample with few observations which imply that we cannot draw strong conclusions based on our statistical findings. We can however discern different indications of relationships between certain demographic diversity factors in boards and top management teams and certain aspects of cluster development. There are however mixed indications regarding the relationship between cluster development and university performance.<br>Bakgrund: Införandet av new public management i universitet och högskolor har fört med sig ett mätningsfokuserat styre som bygger på "att göra mer med mindre". Samtidigt har lärosätena allt mer blivit institutioner där dokumentation som styrker samhällets krav är viktigare än det faktiska utfallet i organisationen. En mer livskraftig strategisk utveckling som baseras på de verkliga målen för högre utbildning krävs därför för att öka kongruensen mellan uppsatta mål och utfall. Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur demografiska egenskaper i styrelser och ledningsgrupper inom universitet och högskolor påverkar prestation genom klusterutveckling. Metod: Denna uppsats har en abduktiv forskningsansats eftersom vi inte endast utgår ifrån tidigare teoretiska diskussioner om offentlig styrning, upper echelon och klusterutveckling, men också från en kvalitativ förstudie där vi utforskar klusterutveckling i universitetssammanhang. Vår kvantitativa studie är en tvärsnittsstudie baserad på dels en enkät som skickats till de flesta styrelseledamöter och medlemmar i ledningsgrupper i alla svenska universitet och högskolor i Sverige. Den är även dels baserad på självständig datainsamling från årsredovisningar och andra källor. Resultat och slutsats: Resultaten baserar sig på ett litet urval med få iakttagelser vilket innebär att vi inte kan dra säkra slutsatser utifrån våra statistiska analyser. Vi kan dock urskilja olika indikationer på samband mellan vissa demografiska mångfaldsfaktorer i styrelser och ledningsgrupper och vissa aspekter av klusterutveckling. Det finns dock blandade resultat om förhållandet mellan klusterutveckling och universitetens och högskolornas prestation.
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Ndungu, Naomy W. G. "A blessing or curse on efficacy: Impact of cultural norms on the learning experiences of Somali immigrant girls." Ashland University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ashland1575763393311021.
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Mendes, Ana Beatriz Vianna. "Conservação ambiental e direitos multiculturais : reflexões sobre justiça." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/281309.
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Previous issue date: 2009<br>Resumo: Sob um prisma interdisciplinar, focado nas ciências humanas, este trabalho se dedica ao estudo de situações de ação que ocorreram em áreas destinadas à conservação ambiental. Selecionamos unidades de conservação (UCs) que carregam pressupostos distintos em relação à possibilidade de conservação ambiental e presença humana: o Parque Nacional do Jaú e a Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável de Mamirauá, ambos situados no Amazonas. A análise de situações de ação observadas nestas UCs, a partir da ótica do pluralismo jurídico, permitirá discutir se e como as normas positivadas pelo Estado são impostas e como são manipuladas, negociadas e subvertidas no âmbito local. Tais situações de ação não envolvem apenas questões de direitos e deveres socioambientais vistos sob a ótica jurídica estatal - trata-se aqui da sobreposição de dois bens tutelados constitucionalmente: meio ambiente e diversidade cultural. Elas nos levam a refletir também sobre a importância e os limites do conhecimento científico, do direito positivado e do próprio Estado como entes legítimos para definir e gerir as políticas públicas brasileiras, notadamente as destinadas à proteção ambiental e à proteção da diversidade cultural. A partir do reconhecimento de que o direito estatal não tem o monopólio dos Direitos que regem a sociedade, e de que a ciência não tem o monopólio da verdade, este trabalho desnuda algumas fragilidades nas formas modernas de conhecimento e de juridicação, evidencia a crise das instituições estatais na criação, legitimação e efetivação de direitos e políticas públicas, e ressalta a importância da participação dos grupos sociais locais para a definição das regras e acordos socioambientais e, em última medida, para a efetivação da democracia<br>Abstract: From an interdisciplinary approach, focused on human sciences, this work is concerned with action situations that have occurred in protected environmental areas. We have selected two protected areas that have different presuppositions in relation to the possibility of conservation and human presence: Parque Nacional do Jaú (Jaú National Park and Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável de Mamirauá (the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve), both located in the Amazon. From a juridical pluralistic viewpoint, the analysis of action situations observed in these protected areas allows us to discuss if and how the positivated norms are imposed and how they are manipulated, negotiated and subverted on the local level. These action situations do not involve only questions regarding socio-environmental rights and obligations seen from a state juridical point of view - here we are dealing with the superposition of two constitutionally protected domains: environment and cultural diversity. These actions also lead us to reflect on the importance and limits of scientific knowledge, on the positivated rights, and on the State itself as legitimate delineators, capable of defining and managing Brazilian public policies, in particular those destined to the protection of the environmental and cultudiversity. After recognizing that state law does not have a monopoly on the Laws that regulate society, and that science does not have a monopoly on the truth, this work reveals some fragile settings in modern forms of knowledge and jurisdiction, highlighting the crisis of the state institutions in creating, legitimating and effectuating public policies and rights, and stresses the importance of the participation of local social groups in defining socio-environmental rules and agreements and, last but not least, effectuating democracy<br>Doutorado<br>Doutor em Ambiente e Sociedade
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Perlo, Nicoletta. "L'évolution du droit public du cinéma en France et en Italie." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AIX32015/document.
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À partir de la première décennie du XXe siècle, tous les pays de l’Europe occidentale sont intervenus dans le secteur du cinéma pour poursuivre des objectifs publics, à la fois culturels et économiques, qui ont évolué au rythme des régimes politiques successifs. Le droit public du cinéma s’est donc développé autour de trois formes d’intervention étatique : le contrôle des œuvres, la promotion de l’industrie et de l’art cinématographiques et la régulation du marché du cinéma. À l’heure actuelle, le cinéma vit des transformations économiques et technologiques importantes, qui perturbent le droit public du cinéma au point d’en remettre en discussion la nécessité. Notre travail de recherche vise à démontrer qu’une fois qu’un État considère que la protection de la diversité et de la liberté de la création, la garantie d’une offre cinématographique plurielle et la protection de la sensibilité des mineurs sont essentiels pour le développement de la société démocratique, l’intervention publique dans le domaine du cinéma s’impose. La France et l’Italie sont à cet égard deux pays emblématiques. Parmi les premiers à élaborer un droit public du cinéma fort et étendu, les deux pays passent de la construction d’un modèle normatif commun à une divergence radicale de leurs législations en matière de cinéma. La comparaison entre la France et l’Italie montre, tout d’abord, la nécessité constante du droit public du cinéma pour la promotion de la diversité cinématographique et la protection des mineurs. Ensuite, elle met en valeur à quel point l’efficacité du droit public du cinéma dépend de la capacité du législateur d’interpréter les transformations du marché et de la technologie et de les traduire en droit. Enfin, la confrontation des deux droits indique qu’à l’ère du numérique, l’axe d’intervention publique le plus important devient la régulation de la concurrence du marché interne au cinéma et du marché de ses moyens de diffusion<br>In the cinema industry, since the early twentieth century, all the Western European countries pursued different objectives within their respective cultural and economical policies. These were based accordingly to their varying systems of government.European cinema public law developed according to three public intervention modalities. These modalities are the following key aspects; film censorship, the promotion of the art and industry of the cinema, and finally cinema market regulation.Currently the cinema is going through important economic and technological transformations. These changes cloud over the law of cinema to such an extent that the necessity of which is being questioned.This thesis means to prove the necessity of state intervention in film to protect cultural diversity, freedom of expression, and underage sensibility in the virtual vehicle of film. This thesis proposes that if State considers these concepts important for a democratic society then it is vitally essential to intervene. In this light, Italy and France are two emblematic countries that are among the first to elaborate a strong articulated public law of cinema. France and Italy have moved from the construction of a common normative model to a framework of radically diverging laws. The comparison between these two countries demonstrates some principal dynamics. The most imperative of these is the permanent need for a common cinema law oriented to the promotion of cinema diversity and the protection of the underage population. Furthermore, this comparison underlines how much the efficacy of public cinema law depends on the legislator’s capacity to interpret the market of cinema and relevant technological transformations and thus, how they are integration into the law. Finally, this Franco-Italian comparison points out that in today’s digital era, the most important public intervention becomes the regulation of the following two base concepts. Regulating the cinema’s market competition is essential in this public intervention. It is equally critical for cinema law to allow equal access to the diffusion of cinematic works in the varying media outlets such as television and the Internet
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Gonçalves, Eliane Pereira. "(Des)Prezado público: a disputa pelo direito à diversidade religiosa em uma empresa pública de comunicação." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8161/tde-10032017-134917/.
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O campo da comunicação pública no Brasil transita em uma área sombreada. Os canais de radiodifusão públicos são confundidos com aparelhos de governo e operam como tal. A criação da EBC foi uma tentativa de inflexão nessa tradição. O que a diferenciou de outros sistemas públicos foi a decisão de colocar a gestão de seus conteúdos na mão da sociedade civil, por meio de um Conselho Curador, formado em sua maioria por representantes desta. Essa pesquisa estudou como se concretizou esse processo de representação da sociedade na EBC por meio da análise de um caso debatido no âmbito desse Conselho: a disputa pela diversidade religiosa grade de programação nas emissoras da EBC, em particular a TV Brasil. A pesquisa concentrou-se no período de 2009 a 2013, quando foram analisadas notas taquigráficas, mensagens do público que integra a audiência, documentos oficiais e entrevistas de profundidade com telespectadores. Com isso foram analisados os diferentes pontos de vistas sobre o processo que recomendou a suspensão da programação religiosa das emissoras da EBC e depois o recuo a essa decisão. A decisão, tomada pelo Conselho, apesar de ser afinada com a sociedade civil organizada e minorias, o isolou de outras instâncias de poder: o legislativo, o judiciário, o executivo e as instituições religiosas e, especialmente, gerou um processo que levaria a exclusão de um público majoritário das emissoras. A decisão fragiliza o Conselho enquanto instância de representação e revela o descolamento deste em relação às demandas da sociedade. O que coloca uma questão fundamental para a discussão da comunicação pública: o quanto o público que deveria ser objeto da comunicação pública vem sendo desprezado?<br>The field of public communication in Brazil transits in a shadowy area. The public radio-broadcasting channels are mistaken by govenrment devices and are handled as so. The EBC creation was an attempt of breaking this tradition. What made it differ from other public sistems was the decision of placing the control of its contentes in the hand of the civil society, by a Curator Board, composed mainly by its own representatives. This research studied how the process of the society being representated in EBC took place by means of the analysis of a case discussed in the scope of that Council: the dispute about the religious diversity, scheduling the EBC station, in particular TV Brasil. The study focused between the years 2009 to 2013, when shorthand notes were reviewed, as well as messages sent from the people taken place in the audience, oficial documents and in-depth interviews with viewers. Thus it was possible to go through the different points of view about the case in which recommended the suspension of the religious progamming in the EBC broadcasting stations and then the withdrawing of the decision. The determination, taken by the Council, although being lined up with the organized civil society and minorities, isolated itself of other political power levels: the legislative, the judiciary, the excutive and religious institutions, and specially, resulted in a process in which would exclude a vast majority of the public from the transmitter. The decision weakens the Council while representative body and reveals its displacement in relationship to the societys demand. Therefore, a fundamental question is put into discussion concerning public communication: how much should the public who is object of the public communication has been despised?
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Monteiro, Ana Clédina Rodrigues. "A formação de professores e a diversidade cultural nos projetos pedagógicos dos cursos de licenciatura em Matemática." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2013. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/10968.
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Previous issue date: 2013-06-21<br>This study started from the assumption that the primary school has faced challenges to work with new social subjects presenting with ways of being, thinking and acting different from those who had in earlier times, posing as a central issue: how the courses in Mathematics are organized and how they are contributing to the training of teachers who will work in situations marked by cultural diversity? Thus, the study sought to identify the incidence of themes related to cultural diversity in the context of public policies and educational courses in Mathematics, from theoretical studies on the concept of cultural diversity and the guidelines issued by the government for the training of teachers of basic education. Therefore, we carried out a survey of facts that led to the development of such issues at the international and national levels, beyond the identification of Brazilian educational policies relating to the topic, analysis of legal documents that prompted the organization of higher education courses for training teacher of Mathematics and content analysis of Pedagogical Projects Course in Mathematics, in the North, Midwest and Southeast. The study pointed out as one of its results that many proposals for courses in Mathematics points have converged with the policy guidelines aimed at teaching one to consider cultural diversity in the school, but there are few courses that effectively understand the importance of this work and develop a curriculum that values in the same proportion the specific knowledge of the field of mathematics and knowledge of didactic and pedagogical reasons, linked to the axis of cultural diversity<br>O presente estudo partiu do pressuposto de que a escola básica tem enfrentado desafios para atuar com novos sujeitos sociais, que se apresentam com modos de ser, pensar e agir diferentes daqueles que se tinha em épocas anteriores, suscitando como questão central: de que maneira os cursos de Licenciatura em Matemática estão organizados e como estão contribuindo para a formação de professores que atuarão em realidades marcadas pela diversidade cultural? Assim, o estudo buscou identificar a incidência das temáticas relativas à diversidade cultural no âmbito das políticas públicas educacionais e dos cursos de Licenciatura em Matemática, partindo de estudos teóricos sobre o conceito de diversidade cultural e das orientações emanadas do poder público para a formação de professores da educação básica. Para tanto, realizou-se um levantamento sobre fatos que propiciaram o desenvolvimento de tais temáticas nos âmbitos internacional e nacional, além da identificação de políticas públicas educacionais brasileiras relativas ao tema, a análise de documentos legais que induziram a organização dos cursos superiores para a formação de professores de Matemática e a análise do conteúdo de Projetos Pedagógicos de Cursos de Licenciatura em Matemática, localizados nas regiões Norte, Centro-Oeste e Sudeste. O estudo apontou como um de seus resultados que muitas propostas de cursos de Licenciatura em Matemática apresentam pontos convergentes com as orientações políticas voltadas para um trabalho docente que considere a diversidade cultural no âmbito escolar, mas poucos são os cursos que efetivamente compreendem a importância desse trabalho e desenvolvem uma matriz curricular que valorize na mesma proporção os conhecimentos específicos do campo da Matemática e conhecimentos de fundamentação didático-pedagógica, atrelados ao eixo da diversidade cultural
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Hamrén, Ellinor. "EU, Turkey and the Kurds : The Turkish Discussion on Minority Rights." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Political Science, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6761.
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<p>This is a study of the Turkish discussion on minority rights. The minority issue in Turkey was placed on the Turkish agenda in connection with intensified negotiations with the European Union on Turkish membership. The unusual and complex circumstances regarding the minority issue in Turkey makes it interesting and relevant to study this topic. The particular focus of this study is on the Kurdish minority and on the alternative discussion regarding the minority issue pursued within civil society groups and the academic sphere. The aim is to contribute to the understanding of the debate on minority rights within these groups. Interviews and collection of literature were made during a field study in Turkey in 2006. A result of this field study was the observation that there are forces working for a change in the notion of Turkish citizenship, and that the minority concept is controversial in Turkey for a number of reasons. Another observation was that the tension between assimilation and cultural identity is an important aspect of the discussion on minorities in Turkey. The Turkish debate has been contrasted to the debate on multiculturalism within political theory. This debate on multiculturalism is about how to deal with culturally diverse societies. There is one main position in favour of multiculturalism and one against. The ideas put forward in the Turkish discussion have been compared with this debate and it has been found that the Turkish discussion differs from this debate in some respects.</p>
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Muñoz, Del Campo Norma. "L'état et la culture au Chili, 1989-2008 : les enjeux et défis d'un processus de construction d'une catégorie d'intervention publique." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030051/document.
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Cette recherche porte sur le processus de constitution de la culture au Chili comme catégorie d’intervention publique entre 1989 et 2008.Ce processus s’amorce dans un contexte historique et socio-politique particulier caractérisé par la fin de la dictature annoncée par le plébiscite de 1988 et confirmée lors des élections démocratiques de 1989. La culture acquiert alors un rôle fondamental dans le développement social et politique du Chili. Son institutionnalisation cherchait en effet à ordonner un domaine d’intervention fragmenté et institutionnellement fragile et qui n’avait jusqu’alors jamais été doté d’une institution supérieure.Cette étude propose ainsi d’envisager le processus d’émergence de la culture comme un problème public pour ensuite analyser son institutionnalisation qui déboucha sur la création,en 2003, du Conseil National de la Culture et des Arts. La compréhension de ce processus et l’étude de la mise en œuvre du CNCA conduisent à mieux identifier les enjeux qui caractérisent et déterminent l’action publique culturelle dans le Chili d’après dictature. Cette recherche s’inscrit ainsi dans les débats posés par l’analyse des politiques publiques et en reprendra les principaux outils théoriques afin de mieux aborder le processus de constitution d’une catégorie d’intervention publique à travers trois axes centraux, les idées, les acteurs et les institutions, qui permettront d’articuler les approches cognitives de politiques publiques aux approches néo-institutionnalistes et d’instrumentation de l’action publique.L’analyse se développe alors autour de deux plans, l’un centré sur l’articulation entre les concepts et les valeurs et le repositionnement et le rôle des acteurs au sein d’un cadre institutionnel particulier. L’autre plan considère plus spécifiquement les enjeux de la mise en œuvre de l’institution culturelle et les tensions propres à ce processus relatives à la construction d’un idéal culturel national, à la récupération et à la recomposition d’espaces de pouvoir et à un cadre institutionnel flou et profondément marqué par les enclaves autoritaires héritées du passé<br>This research deals with making culture a Public Intervention Category in Chile, from1989 to 2008.The process began in a particular historical and socio-political context characterized bythe democratic transition heralded by the 1988 plebiscite and consolidated by the 1989elections. At this time culture began to gain a fundamental role in the social and politicaldevelopment in Chile. Previously denied a formal organizational structure, the newinstitution’s cultural interventions were fragmented and fragile.This dissertation analyzes the National Council on Culture and Arts (NCCA) created in2003 and its work in the context of culture emerging as a public matter. In doing this we areable to identify the different issues in cultural policymaking that arose since the end ofauthoritarian rule. This investigation is a contribution to the debates on the analysis of publicpolicy, utilizing its main theoretical tools to dissect the process of establishing a category ofpublic intervention through three central themes: ideas, actors and institutions. Hence, thiswould connect the cognitive approaches of public policy marked by neo-institutionalism andinstrumentalist policymaking focuses.The analysis approaches the issue on two levels. The first one centers on the articulationbetween concepts and values with the realignment of policy actors within a specificinstitutional framework. Secondly, we will focus on the issues that arose in theinstitutionalization of culture, and the tensions involved in this process. We will especiallystress the deadlocks generated by the construction of a national cultural ideal under aninstitutional order characterized by “authoritarian enclaves” inherited from the former rule
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Oleksiak, Julie. "Des musiques du monde à Royaumont : fabrication de la diversité et programmation de rencontres dans une institution culturelle." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020EHES0037.
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Cette recherche se concentre sur les acteurs culturels qui, en promouvant la rencontre des cultures à travers la musique, portent le message politique induit par une valorisation de la diversité culturelle. J’analyse cette mobilisation particulière de musiques à travers le cas du programme des musiques transculturelles de la fondation Royaumont dans le Val-d’Oise. Mis en place en 2000 et piloté jusqu'en 2016 par Frédéric Deval, directeur artistique, ce programme « conçoit et met en oeuvre des créations qui croisent des cultures et des langages musicaux ». Son refus des catégories « musiques du monde » et world music, n’empêche pas Deval de faire se rencontrer des musiciens du monde entier dans cette abbaye cistercienne pour, non seulement élaborer des créations « transculturelles », mais également inviter des artistes à inventer des « communautés imaginaires » afin de contrer la violence du monde contemporain. L’analyse ethnographique enrichie par une prise en compte de contextes historiques, géographiques, sociaux et culturels plus larges, révèle les mondes (représentations, réseaux d’acteurs, institutions…) sur lesquels une programmation musicale s'appuie et les mondes qu’elle construit en retour. L’émergence d’un monde professionnel qui valorise l’altérité par la musique en France, l’évolution d’une programmation sur la durée, le développement et le fonctionnement d’une institution culturelle, les interactions entre un artiste et une institution et enfin le travail des artistes en résidence de création constituent autant de facettes du cas permettant de comprendre comment se fabrique une programmation musicale. Les interactions multiples entre programmateurs et artistes mais aussi mécènes, politiques, administrateurs et divers salariés d’une institution culturelle marquent l’aspect collectif de la création et de la programmation musicale. Les espaces de communication dans lesquels les appellations « musiques du monde » ou « musiques transculturelles » constituent alors des enjeux de positionnement et de catégorisation. Dans le même temps, l’analyse de l’institution montre d’autres espaces institutionnels moins visibles, faits de négociations constantes et d’ajustements divers, qui sont essentiels pour l’existence de ces discours et de ces musiques. Cette analyse de cas montre que la fabrication de musiques ne peut être pensée, étudiée et analysée sans tenir compte des institutions qui les font exister et des acteurs qui, eux, font exister cette institution tout en s’en servant comme une ressource d’action. Le message politique d’un programmateur de musique transparaît alors à la fois comme une démarche stratégique et comme un moteur de créativité, mais révèle également des modalités d’action qui dépassent le seul cadre de l’engagement artistique<br>This research focuses on cultural actors who, by fostering the encounter of cultures through music, carry the political message born out of an appreciation of cultural diversity. I analyse this particular mobilization of music through a case study, that of the transcultural music program at the Royaumont Foundation, Val-d'Oise, France. Set up in 2000 and led by Frédéric Deval, artistic director, until 2016, this program "conceives and realizes creations that cross-fertilize musical cultures and languages." His rejection of "musiques du monde" and world music categories does not prevent Deval from bringing together musicians from all over the world in this Cistercian abbey to not only enable the development of "transcultural" creations, but also to invite artists to invent "imaginary communities" in order to counter the violence of our world. Ethnographic analysis, enriched by the broader historical, geographical, social and cultural contexts, reveals the worlds (representations, networks of actors, institutions, etc.) upon which musical programming is based and the worlds it builds in return. The emergence of a professional world that values otherness through music in France, the evolution of programming over time, the development and operation of a cultural institution, the interactions between artist and institution and, finally, the work of artists in residence are all facets of this case study that lead to understanding how musical programming happens. The many interactions between programmers and artists, and sponsors, politicians, administrators and employees of a cultural institution, all demonstrate the collective aspect of musical creation and programming. This work brings to light communication spaces in which the designations "world music" and "transcultural music" become positioning and categorization concerns. At the same time, the analysis of the institution shows other less visible institutional spaces made up of constant negotiations and adjustments, which are essential for the existence of discourse and music. This case study shows that music making cannot be thought of, studied and analysed without taking into account the institutions that make it possible and the actors that make the institution while at the same time using it as a resource for action. It is clear then that the political message of a music programmer is both strategic and practical in being a driving force for creativity, but it also reveals modalities of action that go beyond the mere framework of artistic engagement
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Rousseau, Phillip. "Les cultures fragiles : l'UNESCO et la diversité culturelle (2001-2007)." Thèse, Paris, EHESS, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/6185.
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Depuis la ratification, à l’UNESCO en 2007, de la Convention sur la protection et la promotion de la diversité des expressions culturelles, ces dernières sont désormais des espèces protégées par les hautes sphères de la politique internationale.
Émergeant de diverses négociations ponctuelles concernant les biens et services culturels au sein de nombreuses instances internationales, une importante mobilisation politique se concrétisa au tournant du millénaire fort d’un concept, la « diversité culturelle », qui servit de catalyseur pour l’élaboration d’un instrument juridique contraignant au sein de l’UNESCO. Rien ne résume mieux cette montée de boucliers que le mantra récité à maintes reprises à l’intérieur comme à l’extérieur de l’UNESCO : la culture n’est pas une marchandise comme les autres. Pourquoi ? Principalement, argumente-t-on depuis, parce que les biens culturels expriment – identité, valeurs et sens – et que la diversité des expressions est justement à même de mieux représenter la diversité des cultures sur une scène de plus en plus mondialisée.
Cette matérialisation de la problématique de la diversité culturelle s’élabora donc face à la forte charge libre-échangiste des années 80-90. En positionnant la diversité culturelle comme contrepoids à une mondialisation perçue comme étant trop étroitement économique, on souhaitait insister sur une dimension négligée dans l’engrenage commercial bien entamé. La « diversité culturelle » en avait apparemment déjà dessiné les traits et il importait désormais de mettre celle-ci à l’avant-plan.
Cette recherche s’attarde donc sur l’apparition de ce concept et son déploiement à l’international. Une approche ethnographique permet d’examiner son usage, l’institution hôte (UNESCO), les débats suscités, la multiplication des protagonistes au fil de son institutionnalisation et, évidemment, le consensus établi. J’aborde donc une disposition singulière afin d’en cerner certaines assises conceptuelles clef question d’éclairer le domaine d’intervention international qui s’est constitué au nom d’une diversité culturelle que l’on s’attardait justement à inventer.<br>Since the ratification of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions – UNESCO (2007) –, cultural expressions are now protected species under the umbrella of international law.
Emerging from various negotiations and debates about cultural goods and services in various international fora, a major political mobilization took place at the turn of the millennium. It mostly materialized through the concept of "cultural diversity", which served as a catalyst for the elaboration of a legally binding instrument within UNESCO. Nothing sums up better the argument brought forth than the recurring mantra which could be heard inside and outside UNESCO: “culture is a commodity like no other”. Why? Mainly, it is argued, because of what it expresses – identity, values and meaning. The diversity of cultural expressions is therefore able to better represent the diversity of cultures on an increasingly globalized scene.
The materialization of the issue of cultural diversity was mainly a reaction to the multiplication of multilateral and bilateral free trade agreements in the 80s and 90s. By placing cultural diversity as a counterpoint to a globalization seen as too narrowly economic in its scope, the promoters of the project wanted to emphasize its neglected cultural dimension. "Cultural diversity" had apparently already drawn the necessary traits of a globalization with a human face and it was now important to put them to the forefront.
This research therefore focuses on the emergence of this concept and its international dissemination. An ethnographic approach examines its use, the host institution (UNESCO), the debates surrounding the multiplication of actors in the course of its institutionalization, and of course the established consensus. I attempt to identify some key conceptual issues underpinning the field of an international intervention made on behalf of a cultural diversity that was about to be invented.<br>Recherche réalisée en cotutelle - Université de Montréal/EHHESS (Paris)