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Culture: a Driver and an Enabler of Sustainable Development

Culture: a Driver and an Enabler of Sustainable Development

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Throughout the past decade, statistics, indicators and data on the cultural sector, as well as operational activities have underscored that culture can be a powerful driver for development, with community-wide social, economic and environmental impacts. Of particular relevance is the cultural sector’s contribution to the economy and poverty alleviation. Cultural heritage, cultural and creative industries, sustainable cultural tourism, and cultural infrastructure can serve as strategic tools for more...

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D C on August 23, 2012

Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650

Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650

In the early modern Low Countries, literary culture functioned on several levels simultaneously: it provided learning, pleasure, and entertainment while also shaping public debate. From a ditty in Dutch sung in the streets to a funeral poem in Latin composed to be read for or by intimate friends, from a play performed for a prince to a comedy written for pupils – literary texts and performances often dealt with highly controversial topics of religion or politics, on a local or national, but more...

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D C on August 20, 2012

Cultural Identity and Change in the Atlantic Archipelago

Cultural Identity and Change in the Atlantic Archipelago

The last decades of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of what we might call the ‘spatial imagination and the growing realization of its absolute centrality to human experience. This development is not only connected with the growth of widespread scepticism towards history in general and institutionalised historiography in particular, but also with a number of factors which have combined to put pressure on the historicism which has dominated western critical/cultural institutions more...

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D C on May 31, 2012

Diversity, Unity, and Nation Building in South Sudan

Diversity, Unity, and Nation Building in South Sudan

This report, part of a series of U.S. Institute of Peace reports on state building in South Sudan, focuses on how the new state will manage its cultural diversity with a view to bringing all its ethnic nationalities together, forming a national identity that can reduce the level of suspicion and ethnicity-based political rivalry. The information and analysis in this report have their roots in the author ’s academic research and interests, as well as his background as a civil servant in the more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 27, 2012

Occupational diversification among Dalits in rural India

Occupational diversification among Dalits in rural India

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The caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India from most other societies.Following the introduction, Section-II of the paper provides a description of the nature of the link between the Indian caste system and occupational structure, along with a summary of previous studies that have looked at occupational mobility over time, mostly within the anthropological/ sociological tradition. In Section III, the authors set out patterns in changes in rural more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 11, 2012

JR's TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out

JR's TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out

JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out. Learn more about his work and learn how you can join in at insideoutproject.net.

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Nadia Afrin on June 30, 2011

A socio-economic impact analysis of cultural diversity

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This paper aims to map out the consequences of migration flows for modern cities, and in particular it analyzes various aspects of urban cultural diversity. It argues that the sustainable and innovative development of cities under conditions of creative cultures is possible, and it presents a ‘pentagon model’ as an analytical tool for investigating the necessary conditions for achieving a balanced and thriving urban development. The paper also pays attention to the socio-economic aspects of more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 26, 2011

The influence of cultural practices on the HIV and AIDS pandemic in Zambia

The influence of cultural practices on the HIV and AIDS pandemic in Zambia

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Culture plays a significant role in people’s lives in Zambia and in Africa as a whole. Consequently, there is a need to take Zambian or African culture seriously in order to look at the salient elements of cultural practices in rites of passage that influence the spread of HIV and AIDS. This article analyzes four rites of passage associated with birth, puberty, marriage and death. There are numerous rites of passage in Zambian culture. Some of these rites help to curb the spread of HIV and AIDS more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 22, 2011

International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures, 2010: Highlights

International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures, 2010: Highlights

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The main goal of the International Year 2010 was to demonstrate the benefit of cultural diversity by acknowledging and exchanges between cultures and the ties forged between them since the dawn of humanity. This is all the more urgent as ignorance becomes more pervasive and gaps in mutual understanding and respect widen. While dialogue remains key, special emphasis should be placed on the human beings in this dialogue, as it is not an abstract or disembodied process but one that involves more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 10, 2011

The Case for Working with our Cultural Values

The Case for Working with our Cultural Values

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This report is intended to catalyse debate on current approaches to tackling a wide range of challenges – including global poverty, climate change and biodiversity loss. Whatever the success of civil society organisations in beginning to address such challenges, these often seem to be intractable or worsening. Throughout this report such challenges are referred to, collectively, as ‘bigger-than-self’ problems. This is to distinguish them from another class of problem: one that it is clearly more...

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D C on March 28, 2011

The Intangible Cultural Heritage Courier of Asia and the Pacific

The Intangible Cultural Heritage Courier of Asia and the Pacific

This issue presents, notably, the Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of ICH and approval of the International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region, proposed by the Korean government as a category 2 centre.

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Moushumi Biswas on January 24, 2011

Culture Report 2010: Western Australia

Culture Report 2010: Western Australia

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Some facts and figures: Over one quarter (29%) of Indigenous people living in Western Australia participated in at least one Indigenous creative arts activity88% of people in Western Australia attended cultural venues and events in the 12 months prior to interview in 2005 - 0624,632 people in Western Australia had a cultural occupation as their main job in the week prior to the 2006 Census$1,352 million of Western Australia’s household expenditure is on cultural goods and servicesWestern more...

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D C on January 13, 2011

In Malawi, Grandparents Shaping Safe Childbirth

In Malawi, Grandparents Shaping Safe Childbirth

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In Malawi, agogos (grandparents) are responsible for passing on tradition. Can they also increase the odds of safe childbirth?

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Najmee Chowdhury on July 29, 2010

Assessment of Minga Peru’s Intercultural Radio Educative Project to Prevent and Control Domestic Violence and HIV/AIDS

Assessment of Minga Peru’s Intercultural Radio Educative Project to Prevent and Control Domestic Violence and HIV/AIDS

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"This report assesses the Intercultural Radio Educative Project that was implemented in Peru between 2006 and 2008, by Minga Peru, a non-governmental organization, with support from UNIFEM. The project was designed to help fight against violence and HIV/AIDS in rural communities and schools of the Peruvian Amazon. The report documents Minga Peru’s on-air and on-the-ground communication strategy, including its intercultural and grounded praxis. The various components of the Intercultural Radio more...

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Imran Uddin on June 24, 2010

Thinking straight: addressing the stigma around mental health

Thinking straight: addressing the stigma around mental health

guardian.co.uk –

John Ewunyu looks like any other 30-year-old man, standing at the entrance to his home in Agora village, in Katine sub-county, on a Saturday afternoon, dressed in purple shorts. He mumbles a greeting. "When he is calm, like now, he is OK," says his mother, Regina Atilo. "He does not drink alcohol. He loves bathing and plays football with little children, who are his best friends." But Ewunyu is often not OK. Atilo says her son was still a small boy when a fierce, dust-churning gust of wind more...

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Eliza Anyangwe on May 21, 2010

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