Search results for " urban"

Is culture-led redevelopment relevant for rural planners? The risk of adopting urban theories in rural settings

2016

In the paper, the author argues that cultural strategies and theories about urban planning may be irrelevant or even counterproductive outside urban and suburban contexts. In many rural settings the problem is not the destruction of the cultural heritage or how to counterbalance the influence from corporate interests, but rather the absence of such interests in the first place. From a study of two rural municipalities in southern Norway, the author demonstrates that culture-led strategies may be more of a distraction than an instrument for creating economic growth. Measured by the common goals for rural development in Norway, the cultural strategy has only been a success in one of the cases…

Socio-economic differentiation in the post-communist rural Baltics : the case of three kolkhozes

2016

ABSTRACTThis paper uses longitudinal quantitative data to examine socio-economic differentiation in the rural Baltic areas after decollectivization. It argues that the rural social structure in the post-Soviet Baltics is best determined by two criteria: source of income (income from farming entrepreneurship or income from salaries) and land holdings. Four rural groups are identified: people getting their main income from farming can be differentiated into large landowners engaged in the commercial production of agricultural goods and people with small or medium-sized farms; and people earning their main income from wages can be separated into people with no farming activities and people who…

Heritage and Cultural Policy in France under the Fifth Republic

2003

International audience; In the French historical tradition, four approaches at least have been heavily exploited. One seminal study defines the concept longitudinally in terms of religion, the monarchy, the family, the nation, the administration and science. Another essay uses allegory in an attempt to penetrate the proclaimed, avowed or unspoken motives underlying the notion of heritage. Another work uses the criterion of restoration to determine when a historical monument falls into the category of heritage. Fourth, a recent ground-breaking treatise considers heritage in historical and archaeological practice as reflecting representations of citizenship and the nation. Our angle of attack…

Contribución al análisis sociológico de la creatividad y la digitalización del campo cultural: creación, intermediación y crisis

2019

The so-called transition to the digital paradigm is eroding the autonomy of the cultural field achieved during the XIX and XX Centuries, subjugating them to economic and technological dynamics. However, the hegemonic discourse tends to interpret this as an overall positive process for the creative domain, focusing on the increase in information resource and creativity tool availability. However, an analysis of the theories and concepts of the sociology of culture reveals a more ambivalent balance. While the notion of authorship and creation can be interpreted from a more cooperative and relativistic view it is arguable whether this concept can be eliminated altogether. Also, although cultur…

An analysis of metaphors in the biographies of the ‘GDR children of Namibia’

2020

Metaphors are linguistically dense images that transfer terms from their original usage to a different context and describe actions and objects beyond their literal meaning. This article uses Rudol...

La culture en campagne : de l'atonie à la mobilisation antifasciste. Politique culturelle et débat public en France lors des élections de 2002

2004

International audience; Cet article part de l'absence de débat sur la politique culturelle au cours de la campagne électorale des élections présidentielles et législatives du printemps 2002. Il montre les ressorts de cette atonie, avant d'expliquer le réflexe anti-fasciste qui marque les semaines qui suivent le premier tour des présidentielles et la présence de Jean-Marie Le Pen au second tour. L'analyse de la défaite du candidat socialiste est aussi un moment de remise en cause du modèle français de politique culturelle. Le débat s'estompe vite et ne débouche pas sur la mise en place d'une politique culturelle 'refondée'.

De la reivindicación política a la industrial: la cultura en la Transición a través de tres documentales musicales

2015

Resumen: La Movida ha quedado en el imaginario colectivo como la manifestacion mas evidente de la consecucion de la libertad de expresion, por la que se aposto durante los anos de transicion de la dictadura a la democracia, asi como tambien de la definitiva incorporacion del pais a la actualidad cultural de los paises industrializados capitalistas. Sin embargo, antes de la explosion de este fenomeno cultural, otros habian sido calibrados en terminos similares. El acercamiento a los documentales musicales La nova canco (1976) , Canet Rock (1976) y Nos va la marcha (1979) , peliculas interesadas en dar cuenta de la emergencia o la consolidacion en Espana de la nova canco, el rock progresivo y…

Macro-regional strategies of the European Union, Russia and multilevel governance in northern Europe

2017

The dawn of the secular state? Heritage and identity in Swedish church and state debates 1920–1939

2015

This article provides a study of political positions concerning the role of religion in modern society in Sweden between 1920 and 1939. It aims to increase understanding of the Swedish secularization path, with special emphasis on issues related to heritage and national identity, by comparing the dominant perspectives on these issues in the Church of Sweden and in the Social Democratic Party during that period. It addresses how these positions have influenced policies during the period, as well as some of their implications for later path dependence. It explores relations between religious issues and the concept of national heritage, as well as how the fact that both were at that time commo…

Regional industrial restructuring resulting from individual and system agency

2018

The article discusses mechanisms and policy that stimulate regional economic restructuring. Economic restructuring is conceptualised through the notion of path development. The article distinguishe...