Search results for " cultural studies"

L’ordinaire de la littérature. Des bénéfices pragmatistes dans les études littéraires

2008

International audience; This paper tries to examine why pragmatism, though often evoked and used in numerous academic fields, has had very little influence on French literary studies. To explain such a fact, the authors lay emphasis on the way the concept of literature was coined from romantic and structuralist elements in the French context. Doing so, they also suggest a few insights about what pragmatism could bring to literary studies and criticism, especially concerning the uses of literature, and its cognitive powers.; En dépit du reflux du structuralisme, la littérature continue d’être appréhendée à travers un prisme théorique d’obédience post-romantique, qui occulte son interaction a…

A “participação africana” num desporto olímpico: Lutas espaciais e questões de nacionalidade

2016

Cet article analyse les stratégies de reconnaissance d’une discipline olympique : le canoë de slalom. Il interroge en particulier les processus de diffusion de ce sport en Afrique en étudiant précisément sa place en tant que discipline au sein du mouvement olympique. Mais comment la diffusion d’un sport parmi les pays africains peut-elle cristalliser des enjeux nationaux ? Pour comprendre la complexité de cet objet, le remaniement des aires culturelles issues du joug des empires coloniaux est interrogé. Il s’agit d’inscrire les perceptions de la participation olympique dans les rivalités où elles s’inscrivent depuis les Indépendances. L’enquête restitue l’apport de la nationalité comme crit…

Las huellas de los lectores: de vuelta a los libros de caballerías anotados

2018

Este trabajo tiene el doble objetivo de enriquecer el censo de los libros de caballerías anotados y revitalizar el estudio de los marginalia en cuanto fuente primaria para diferentes acercamientos críticos al género. Del cuadro esbozado emergen resultados que refuerzan las conclusiones de la bibliografía que se ha ocupado del tema, añadiendo un marcado acento sobre el alcance internacional del género, cuyos lectores-anotadores eran, en una relevante medida, extranjeros.

Antispazi. Wilderness Apocalisse Utopia

2015

Neanderthal, revenant, ragazzi selvaggi. Un libro brutto, pieno di brutte storie, di brutte facce. Un anti-Facebook non per raccontare il web-spazzatura ma per seguire le vie carsiche dell’immaginario contemporaneo. Perché circondarci di “mostri” ci ha fatto perdere di vista il grande disegno, e perché una teoria del complotto condita con un po’ di filosofia non può più bastare. Nel complotto è sempre questione di un “loro”, mentre qui i produttori d’immagini e di trappole visuali siamo noi, da utenti ad agenti di collaborazione, da cercatori di spazi liberi ad artigiani conniventi di antispazi. Che cos’è un antispazio? E se l’invenzione dell’Altro fosse anzitutto l’invenzione di un Altrove…

From Ivory Tower to Social Arena:

2021

International audience

Horizon 2000 : prévisions des dépenses d'éducation primaire dans les pays en développement

1990

The aim of the present article is to provide a statistical assessmentof the amount of public money developing countries will nedd to spend in order to meet the estimated demand for primary education in the year 2000 and to evaluate the cost of providing universal primary education by that date.

Ayman Shihadeh, Doubts on Avicenna: A Study and Edition of Sharaf al-Dīn al-Masʿūdī’s Commentary on the Ishārāt

2018

Audience involvement in creative media for development: Making sense of the semiotic interface

2017

This article explores the role that semiotic communication plays in the generation of narrative affect. It also draws on Suruchi Sood’s concept of audience involvement as being capable of increasing self-efficacy and collective-efficacy, both of which are crucial to behaviour change. It therefore, demonstrates how semiotic tropes are used in creative media narratives to elicit affect and in turn generate authentic audience involvement with the subjects of those narratives, a process which eventually has positive consequences for behaviour change communication. Hence, these narratives fueled by semiotics, become the threshing floor where potential audiences are drawn into pro-social discours…

Performing the national territory: The geography of national-day celebrations

2017

The nation is a relatively abstract imagined community that is visualised through a variety of symbols as well as communicative and performative practices. In this paper, we explore how the national territory, one of the foundations of the nation-state, is performed on national-day celebrations and brings the nation into being. Drawing on ethnographic research on national days in Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana, we show how the state's internal administrative divisions and ethnic differences are at once made explicit but also subordinated to the nation. Moreover, we show how in such celebrations, potentially disruptive or competing affiliations such as ethnicity and regional loyalties…

Colita en contexto: fotografía y feminismo durante la transición española.

2018

El trabajo que desarrolló la fotógrafa catalana Colita (Barcelona, 1940) durante la década de los setenta fue aliado del movimiento feminista que se recompuso en el Estado español tras la muerte de Franco. En este artculo estudiaremos sus práctcas fotográfcas al respecto, aquellas que visibilizaron las demandas más importantes del feminismo español del momento: su trabajo para la revista <em>Vindicación feminista</em> (1976- 1979 y el fotolibro <em>Antfémina</em> (Editora Nacional, 1977), que hizo en colaboración con María Aurèlia Capmany. En segundo lugar atenderemos a la fotografa erótca que también desarrolló Colita durante estos años, una producción más problemát…