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"Despite the plethora of research on gender and the many projects designed to improve their status in the Pacific region, women continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised in social, economic and political spheres. How are we to understand this and what does it mean for researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners? This book examines these questions, partly by looking back but also by continuing the effort to explain and understand gender inequities in the Pacific through reference to the concept of societies in transition. The contributors discuss emerging masculinities and femininities in the Pacific in order to chart the development of these in their contexts. Exploring how contemporary Pacific identities are shaped by local contexts and traditions, they focus on how these are remade through interaction with global ideas, images and practices, including new forms of Christianity and economic transformations. Grounded in recent, original research in both the villages and towns of Melanesia, the collection engages with the study of gender in Melanesia as well as scholarship on global modernities."

Culture and globalization. --- Melanesia.

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L'Europe provoqua la première une mondialisation, au XIXe siècle. Elle le fit dans une émulation des nationalités chez elle, et de manière impériale ailleurs. La réaction des peuples consista à s'ériger à leur tour en nations, de l'Amérique (1776) à la Chine (1911) et jusqu'à nos jours, au fur et à mesure des indépendances. Aujourd'hui, la mondialisation est de nature transnationale : elle pénètre tous les pays, entraîne tous les peuples, internationalise de plus en plus d'aspects de la vie courante. La Chine y a pris une part décisive, sans songer pour autant à propager un modèle chinois. Le point commun aux deux mondialisations est leur dimension universelle. Citoyens d'une humanité appelée à se comprendre comme globale, mais faite de nations, de peuples, de cultures diverses, la mondialisation ambiante nous pose la question du sens à lui donner. L'objet de la table ronde qui a réuni aux Treilles, du 16 au 21 mai 2011, dix intellectuels chinois et dix intellectuels français, était de réfléchir aux conditions d'une pensée de l'universel et du particulier, du spécifique et de l'étranger, à partir d'un examen du concept de nation dans les deux traditions française et chinoise. L'écart qu'un tel exercice met en oeuvre et en évidence aide à poser les problèmes très concrets de l'universel (ceux du droit, des valeurs, des normes, etc.) d'une manière critique et constructive. On y prend la mesure du degré auquel les différences culturelles sont une ressource puissante pour la bonne intelligence entre les nations, pour peu qu'on les fasse travailler. Le présent ouvrage rassemble les communications présentées et une synthèse des débats qui ont approfondi cette question clé du siècle présent.

Culture and globalization --- Multiculturalism

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Shuttle 99 was a cultural project between the five Nordic countries and South Africa.The project was initiated by the Nordic Council of Ministers after the wish from Nelson Mandela that the Nordic countries might now, post-apartheid, get to know the diversity of South African arts and culture. The project was divided into five sectors: film and photography, dance, music, literature and visual arts. During the year 1999, more than one hundred projects were carried out and some 1000 persons - both from the North and South - took part in a wide variety of programmes. Projects were organized both in South Africa and in all the five Nordic countries, and the title shuttle&quot, describes the two way traffic that resulted.What happened after 1999? Did Shuttle 99 leave any legacy? Five years after Shuttle 99, the Nordic Council of Ministers commissioned an review of the project. Nicky du Plessis, who assisted Shuttle 99, contacted the major partners in South Africa and in the Nordic countries and collected material about the impact of the Nordic - South African cultural collaboration in both regions. The review analyses the Shuttle model and gives an overview of contemporary cultural policy and concerns in South Africa today. Suggestions for further cultural cooperation between the Nordic countries and South Africa are provided, looking to future partnerships.

Culture and globalization.