Search results for "Cultural exchange"
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International tourism, security and intercultural dialogue in the Arab World
2012
International tourism presents one of the rare possibilities of mass active face-to-face cultural exchange and spatial exploring of the ‘other’. Beyond its cultural dimension, international tourism is a major economic sector in many countries. It provides jobs and foreign currency. One the one hand, tourism is a fragile industry that requires security, stability and tolerance. On the other hand, tourists are soft targets of terrorist attacks, not only in the Arab and Muslim worlds, but indeed worldwide. The article explores the actual and the invented types of segregation in the name of security and terror prevention measures in Arab countries. It demonstrates how the dichotomy of security/…
Sports practice, intercultural exchanges and citizenship: Integration through Judo
2012
El presente artículo presenta las dimensiones teóricas y metodológicas del 'Programa experimental de integración socioeducativa a través del judo' para jóvenes del barrio de Ruzafa en la ciudad de Valencia. El objetivo principal de dicho programa, que comenzó en octubre de 2008 y finalizó en junio de 2011, consistió en elaborar una guía didáctica para utilizar la práctica del judo como herramienta de socialización en el deporte y a través del deporte, prestando particular atención a la relación entre la práctica regular del judo, la inserción social y la construcción de ciudadanía a través de la convivencia intercultural. La investigación sociológica ha acompañado el proceso de diseño, real…
Contatti di popoli ed etnogenesi delle tribù nomadi sahariane
2006
The contribution focuses on the problem of mobility in the Roman world as a means of contact and collaboration. North Africa was in ancient times a land of cultural exchange, of passage of peoples and people. The research dwells on local identities, studies the origins of these peoples, discusses and tries to understand the ancient dynamics, which led them to clash and meet.
Soviet-American Art Exchanges during the Thaw: from Bold Openings to Hasty Retreats
2013
[Introduction] East-West artistic connections during the Cold War were a complex range of phenomena including the circulation of works of art, travelling by art professionals, the exchange of practices and the adoption of art currents from the other side of the Iron Curtain. The Cold War has also been said to have influenced the arts and artistic processes in a number of ways. Yet, art has always shunned political borders, wavering between the guidance of individual and governmental patrons, and borderless expression. This chapter discusses an attempt at an extensive exchange of exhibitions between the Soviet Union and the United States around the late 1950s that involved New York’s Museum …
Zasady finansowania współpracy euroregionalnej na przykładzie Euroregionu Silesia
2016
The tasks of the Euroregion Silesia in the pre-accession program Phare CBC were different on both sides of the border and were limited contem- porary rules that force countries not belonging to the community of the EU. After the entry of both countries to the EU and the incorporation of the program INTERREG III A, the activities of the Euroregion as the so-called. Fund Manager of the Micro sometimes codified and today authorities of both parts Euroregion perform tasks in close cooperation with each other. With the Fund may be funded projects in the field of culture, sports, education, education, tourism, the environment, eco- nomic development planning, use of information technologies and o…