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Au delà de la résistance : la littérature franco-antillaise face au passé colonial et à la mondialisation
Get PDFBeyond the resistance – French West Indian’s literature facing the colonial past and globalization Our aim in this paper is to analyze the different stances taken by four eminent authors from the French Antilles – Aimé Césaire, René Ménil, Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau – with regards to the socio-cultural situation of the region. Their literary projects work out the term “resistance” by means of different concepts and artistic gestures. The anti-colonial revolt of Césaire is challenged by Glissant's archipelagic thinking and Chamoiseau's metaphorical figure of the “warrior of the imaginary”, and there is still the “cannibal poetry” of Ménil. Taking into account the variation of ideological context accompanying the emergence of these concepts, we will see how the idea of resistance inspires the reflection on the writing and the role of the literature in the ever changing Antillean society
Pour une narration plastique : Beau travail de Claire Denis
Get PDFBeau travail by Claire Denis (1999) is a free adaptation of Billy Budd by Hermann Melville. It deals with the story of a warrant officer who can’t stand the arrival of a new legionnaire. In order to direct certain scenes, the director worked with the choreographer Bernardo Montet. Through dance, the composition of the images of Beau Travail invites links with other forms of arts, in particular painting, because Claire Denis work relies on another kind of narration, a plastic one
Quand la « branche » s’autonomise de l’arbre : le cas de la littérature canadienne-française (1934-1948)
Get PDFWhen the "limb" branches away from the tree: the case of French-Canadian literature (1934-1948) Robert Charbonneau, director of La Nouvelle Relève, journalist and writer, at the end of the Second World War, faces off with, to his dismay, many renown French authors, triggering a real quarrel. The various assertions of Parisian intellectuals encourage the editor of L’Arbre (The Tree) to start a work of resistance. With traces of "refusal" and insubordination, his articles address the literary issue from the practical, concrete and policy points of view, taking into consideration the editorial apparatus in its entirety. The man thus resists atypically because he defends the creation of the authors of his country, by adopting the concept of the Americanism of their origin. By his actions, he demonstrates that the French-Canadian production has a double culture: educational francization and de facto Americanism, putting aside the colonial conception of culture and cultural supremacy of France
Zarządzanie dziedzictwem kulturowym na podstawie wartości
Get PDFCultural heritage management based on valuesCultural heritage management is perceived today as a modern system for the protection of historical monuments. However, the original meaning of heritage is intangible: with the emphasis shifted from the object (monuments) to the subject (recipients). Therefore, not only objects but also people become the area of interest. The aim of this article is to present the concept of heritage management based on values. Literature analysis indicates that numerous values are attributed to historical monuments; the article enumerates almost 130 of them. Drawing upon the experience of axiology, the values should be divided into objective (belonging to the object) and subjective (belonging to the recipient). It will allow for an even better identification of heritage resources, and for adjusting the methods of heritage protection, education and promotion. The presented concept is a starting point for the elaboration of modern methods of preserving the relicts of our past and making use of them by contemporary generations
Strategie ochrony i identyfikacji niematerialnego dziedzictwa kulturowego – działania w ramach narodowych polityk kulturalnych a zaangażowanie lokalnych społeczności
Get PDFStrategies of protection and identification of intangible cultural heritage: actions taken within national cultural policies and the involvement of local communitiesThe UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage of 2003 has established a new, holistic approach to cultural heritage and a new set of administrative and legal instruments and strategies of identifying, preserving, managing and promoting intangible cultural heritage. The policy of intangible culture entails the conceptualisation of the elements of intangible heritage in the national cultural policy framework. Administration strategies and methods are often confronted with scientific contextualisation and various policies of representation and identification. Thus, while articulating the idea of the growing importance of intangible cultural heritage, national authorities increasingly construct national inventories through processes of worldwide networking and positioning through symbolic meanings such as “national issues” and “national culture”. The paper presents a brief review of administrative and legal measures and policies concerning the intangible cultural heritage of selected countries with a special emphasis on the community-based approach in the identification and safeguarding processes
Ochrona dziedzictwa kulturowego mniejszości narodowych i etnicznych w Konstytucji RP z 1997 roku
Get PDFProtection of the cultural heritage of national and ethnic minorities in the Polish Constitution of 1997The paper focuses on the protection of the material cultural heritage of national minorities and ethnic minorities in the Constitution of the Republic of Poland. Heritage protection is a responsibility imposed on public authorities. It should be noted that it is an obligation of general application and refers to the whole inheritance. The Constitution regulates the issues of protection of national minorities and ethnic minorities in very general terms, so general rules are applied
Trends in cultural policy and culture management in Poland (1989−2014)
Get PDFSetting aside the fact that lack of policy is also a policy, while analyzing the events of the last 25 years in cultural policy, from the perspective of the year 2014, I wonder whether we can really say that there is no cultural policy in Poland? The author describes and analysis the changes in the sphere of culture management and the cultural policy in Poland during the last quarter of the century. The responsibility for cultural policy rests not only with the central authorities, Ministry of Culture but also local governments, which are more including into the decision-making process the citizens. Citizens are becoming more aware of their rights. Apart from cultural institutions, nongovernmental organizations are more and more often the contractors of public tasks. They co-create and enrich the cultural offer of cities and regions signifi cantly. Not only the number of non-governmental organizations is increasing but also their creativity and the level of the professionalization of their actions. The cultural activity is more and more often undertaken by private economic operators (not only art galleries, but also artistic agencies and impresarios). They cannot count on subsidies from local governments’ budget any more, but they can become contractors of the services at their request under the Public Procurement Law, what, thanks to the last amendment (raising the threshold for public procurement to more than 30 000 Euro) will become a bit easier from the procedural point of view. The role of public cultural institutions is changing. Many of them redefi ned their mission and have been successively building new relations with the audience, taking into consideration the changing needs of the consumers, new economic conditions. Despite the underdeveloped sponsoring in Poland, many of them use the conceptions of CSR and CCR, others diversify their offer, both in terms of the merits and the price, often introducing commercial offer as a complementary one. The new infrastructure in Poland, in case of many cultural institutions, contributed to a substantial change and to the improvement of their conditions. After many years of total investment stagnation in this sphere, together with Poland’s accession into the EU, the Polish state and local governments started to undertake the tasks in this area more bravely. New infrastructure naturally generates the need of innovation. Cultural institutions more willingly and effectively make use of new media today (communication with the audience, mailing, FB, promotion, marketing, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing). They more often see the importance of spending money on marketing activities, which they used to economize on, in case of a shortfall of funds for substantive activities
Museum boom continues: on the phenomenon of museums of contemporary art from a Central European perspective
Get PDFSince the 1990s Central Europe has been making up for the time lost in different spheres of life. The new century marked the beginning of the development process of museum infrastructure – a process that despite the economic crisis of the end of 2010s has been going on. Every year new museums openin in both the historical and art sector, and especially those dealing with contemporary art. Nonexistent before 1989, museums of contemporary art constitute a new type of institution in the region. Their role is not only to collect the latest art and performance, but also to make connections between art and life. Considering the low regard of contemporary art in public life, the museum boom in the field of contemporary art is indeed a phenomenon. In every larger city in Poland, as well as in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, attempts are being made towards the creation of a museum or centre of contemporary art.The aim of this article is to present and discuss the phenomenon of building new art museums in Central Europe, with emphasis on the mechanisms of their creation and local specificities. This museum-building frenzy that started in Central Europe at the beginning of the 21st century should be considered as part of the worldwide museum building boom. Various aspects of the museum boom are discussed in several points: 1) the grand vision for Warsaw – the desire to become an icon, 2) the political vision for museums, 3) contemporary art in the regions, 4) new spaces for old museums, 5) private patronage and non-governmental organisations. Central European institutions that were established during this period meet the expectations of cultural circles, politicians and patrons. In most cases, the stories of building the museums echo the Western fashion for icons and the tendency to adapt post-industrial architecture for the purposes of art
Dziedzictwo bez dziedziców? Religijne i materialne dziedzictwo kulturowe mniejszości pochodzenia wołoskiego w Europie w kontekście projektu interdyscyplinarnych badań (przyczynek do tematu)
Get PDFHeritage without Heirs? Tangible and religious cultural heritage of the Vlach minority in Europe in the context of an interdisciplinary research project (a contribution to the subject) The revival of topics concerning the UNESCO cultural heritage, which emerged at the end of the 20th century, poses many questions with reference to the need, essence, and discourse on the subject as well as areas beyond it. One of these questions seems to concern the cultural heritage of the nationless communities in Europe, which were doomed to assimilation, persecution or even oblivion in the second part of the 20th century. In recent times, the critical research trend on cultural heritage has pointed out that the essence of heritage is a choice which transforms cultural achievements into “our heritage” – the areas of culture that we choose and often protect and pass on to next generations. However, beyond “our protection,” there is a realm of “oblivion” which may include “alien” tangible and intangible objects about which we do not care, which do not matter to us and which we do not want to pass on to our heirs. It is a space of all forms of “our” degradation and marginalization of “alien legacy,” a space where we often let this legacy to become forgotten. It can be stated that the example of Vlachs perfectly illustrates the complex processes related to cultures which were overwhelmingly subjugated by their neighbors and lost the fight. A neighbor, usually representing the culture of the majority, was stronger culturally, economically, politically and often militarily, too. The following article focuses on the phenomena which classical anthropology used to inspect, claiming that its role is to protect what is fading into oblivion. Thus, the analysis of the Vlach culture presented herein refers to a much wider reflection, which is a synergy of ethnography, ethnology and cultural anthropology, and to the critical studies on heritage which are emerging in Poland. This presentation will analyze the principal problems concerning the research on the cultural heritage of displaced communities in Europe from the perspective of the Vlach minority. Based on the field research conducted in several countries of Europe (e.g. Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland), I will present the main classification of the Vlach tangible heritage with special attention paid to the most important cultural monuments, including religious building developments (churches, icons, small religious architecture). I will portray difficulties found in protecting this heritage and the role of cultural institutions in its preservation and exposition.
The Systematic Design of CO2 Capture Rocesses Applied to the Oxidative Coupling of Methane
Get PDFThe oxidative coupling of methane is the catalytic conversion of methane into ethene. Carbon dioxide is generated as a reaction by-product and must be removed from the gaseous stream. In this paper, the application of a hybrid carbon dioxide removal process including absorption with amines and gas separation membranes is investigated through simulations and cost estimations