Knowledge Centre : Society and Culture : Culture
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- The *Next - an impression of hip hop expression pop
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The*Next - an impression of hip hop expression - is all about representing. Breaking down those negative stereotypes. Sharing the value of hip hop within our communities. The*Next is about bringing together different sectors of our society - hip hop community members and non members alike - to combine talents, beliefs, thought processes, and our diverse knowledge and skills to truly reflect the value of hip hop within our communities. Our goal is to facilitate the development of a resource that will provide insight into hip hop culture both in Aotearoa NZ and globally - how it is, and can be used to promote positive youth development. How the resource will look and what it will contain is being driven by the hip hop community, young people/rangatahi, and youth workers. The project is a living process, relying on the passions and inspirations of those involved.
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- Negotiating sexual and reproductive health: Culture matters
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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and other organisations working to achieve the goal of universal access to reproductive health have to negotiate highly sensitive and embedded beliefs and practices. In certain contexts challenging female genital cutting, child marriage and instituting gender equity, access to contraception, sexual and reproductive health and information are highly contentious issues. Rather than perceiving cultural perspectives to constrain positive social change, UNFPA's Culture Matters approach illustrates how development actors might work sensitively with the dynamics of culture to enhance the achievement of development objectives and human rights within a variety of social, cultural and spiritual settings. (Kate Molesworth, Bulletin of Medicus Mundi Switzerland No. 100, April 2006)
http://www.medicusmundi.ch/mms/services/bulletin/bulletin200602/kap1/01Molesworth.html
(Added: Wed Jun 14 2006 Hits: 212)
- African Australian Online Resource
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Links & information related to African events, culture, news, music, communities, food and more in Australia & beyond
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- Civil Society Lost in Media Sound Bites
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In these trying times of wars, famines and all sort of manmade disasters, I strongly believe that we ought to confront our popular apathy and the abundant arrogance of our business, political, religious and military leaders. It is time for some serious introspection; without it we 'the common people', will continue to be duped into the simplistic media view of the world, that of the good and the bad. (Pablo Ouziel, Arabic Media Internet Network, 20 July 2007).
(Added: Thu Jul 26 2007 Hits: 124)
- Creative Exchange
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Creative Exchange is a UK registered charity educating people about arts and culture for the relief of need. It is: A network: Creative Exchange connects people and organisations all over the world - from the grassroots to the UN - who are working with arts and culture to achieve social development. Creative Exchange 'members' are known as partners. An information centre: Creative Exchange collects, stores and distributes information about its field. A professional resource: Creative Exchange sends out information about training, jobs and funding opportunities, promotes best practice and runs networking events. An advocate: Creative Exchange lobbies for appropriate and effective use of arts and culture to achieve social change and promotes better awareness and respect for cultural rights.
http://creativeexchange.gn.apc.org/
(Added: Mon Apr 14 2003 Modified: Fri Nov 11 2005 Hits: 236)
- Cultural Survival
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Cultural Survival is developing new strategies for responding directly to the critical needs of the world's indigenous populations. It is analyzing and publicizing examples of how indigenous peoples have successfully responded to the serious crisis, as have, for example, the Secoya of Ecuador, the James Bay Cree of Quebec, the Maori of New Zealand or the Bininy of Australia. These case studies are now the central issues of Cultural Survival's research, education and advocacy program. They are discussed in Cultural Survival's conferences, in its publications and on its web site. Above all, they are analyzed by indigenous leaders and specialists as well as by others who have made a special study of the situations of indigenous groups. In this way Cultural Survival seeks to use the resources of the new information age to benefit the indigenous peoples who might otherwise be its victims.
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/
(Added: Thu Aug 01 2002 Modified: Fri Nov 11 2005 Hits: 341)
- Culture and African contexts of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support [pdf]
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Culture plays a vital role in determining the level of health of the individual, the family and the community and is especially relevant in the context of Africa. The behaviour of the individual in relation to family and community is one major cultural factor that has implications for sexual behaviour and HIV/AIDS prevention and control efforts. (by C O Airhihenbuwa and J DeWitt Webster, Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance, May 2004)
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- Culture Matters - Working with Communities and Faith-based Organizations : Case Studies from Country Programmes (pdf 536 KB)
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United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). 2004 This new report-on working within cultures to foster stronger progress towards achieving international development goals and advancing human rights-provides insight into integrating cultural analysis in development programmes, especially in the critical areas of gender equity and equality and reproductive health and rights. The culmination of two years' work with UNFPA field offices, headquarters staff and technical advisers, the report examines culturally sensitive programming during the past decade in a number of countries where UNFPA operates- Brazil, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Islamic Republic of Iran, Uganda and Yemen. It concludes that mainstreaming cultural analysis in programmes and strengthening key alliances and partnerships to mobilize communities results in increased ownership of the ICPD Programme of Action.
http://www.unfpa.org/upload/lib_pub_file/426_filename_CultureMatters_2004.pdf
(Added: Tue Jun 29 2004 Modified: Wed Jan 10 2007 Hits: 246)
- Fast forward into trouble
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The Guardian, Saturday June 14, 2003. Four years ago, Bhutan, the fabled Himalayan Shangri-la, became the last nation on earth to introduce television. Suddenly a culture, barely changed in centuries, was bombarded by 46 cable channels. And all too soon came Bhutan's first crime wave - murder, fraud, drug offences. Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy report from a country crash-landing in the 21st century.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,975769,00.html
(Added: Mon Jun 16 2003 Modified: Wed Dec 14 2005 Hits: 363)
- Foundation for Culture and Tradition of Boka Kotorska "Project Rastko-Boka"
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Foundation for Culture and Tradition of Boka Kotorska "Project Rastko-Boka", Herceg-Novi, Serbia and Montenegro. NGO. The first electronic library of culture and tradition of Boka Kotorska.
http://www.rastko.org.yu/rastko-bo
(Added: Mon Oct 18 2004 Modified: Fri Nov 11 2005 Hits: 216)
- Hollywood Vs. Bollywood
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By Richard Byrne | Saturday, July 13, 2002 Lately, the spicy curry of Indian film - most notably, its colorful Bollywood musicals - seems to tempt the U.S. film industry. So what does the success of a film such as Monsoon Wedding say about the shrinking of the musical and cinematic globe? Richard Byrne, The Globalist's global music critic explains.
http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=2565
(Added: Mon Oct 14 2002 Modified: Fri Nov 11 2005 Hits: 333)
- Horizontal Inequalities: A Neglected Dimension of Development (PDF)
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By Frances Stewart,QEH Working paper no. 81, University of Oxford. 2002. Current thinking about development places individuals firmly at the centre of concern, the basic building block for analysis and policy. This is as true of the innovations led by Amartya Sen, which move us away from a focus purely on incomes to incorporate wider perspectives on well-being, as of the more traditional neo-classical welfare analysis which underpins most development policy. The present overriding concerns with reduced poverty and inequality, which stem from both types of analysis, are equally individual-focussed. The Millennium Development goals, for example, are concerned with the numbers of individuals in poverty in the world as a whole, not with who they are, or where they live. Measures of inequality relate to the ranking of individuals (or households) within a country (or sometimes the globe). The issues of poverty and inequality are, of course, extremely important, but they neglect a vital dimension of human well-being and of social stability: that is the group dimension.
http://www.crise.ox.ac.uk/pubs/workingpaper1.pdf
(Added: Tue Nov 16 2004 Modified: Thu Feb 15 2007 Hits: 231)
- Human Development Report 2004: Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World (pdf)
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UNDP, 2004. Accommodating people's growing demands for their inclusion in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language, takes more than democracy and equitable growth. Also needed are multicultural policies that recognize differences, champion diversity and promote cultural freedoms, so that all people can choose to speak their language, practice their religion, and participate in shaping their culture-so that all people can choose to be who they are.
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2004/
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- Importance of Social Threefolding in the Age of the Empire Matrix
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There are two great long-term tendencies for the development of human beings and the world. The first is the growing global interconnection of humans and their societies. This is the process of "globalization" broadly understood. Economics primarily drives this process but it affects all aspects of life. The second is the growing emancipation of the individual from racial, tribal, ethnic, linguistic, gender, national and other forms of group conditioning and constraints. This is the process of individualization or individuation, also broadly understood. The presence of both these trends simultaneously is unique in history. They characterize our time. They affect every detail of life. While these two trends have a tendency to conflict with each other, understood more deeply, they can be harmonious, a living polarity that is characteristic of all living beings. The two trends conflict only when individualism is practiced as egotism and not as individual social responsibility. We can see this in the struggle between "community" and "individualism", between "rights" and "duties", between the individualistic West and the group-oriented East, again broadly speaking. Understood more profoundly as a polarity, these two trends can be harmonized to create a better world. It can unleash the free, creative powers of the "individual" and place it in the service of the "community", of the world. The diversity inherent in the individuation process can be encouraged to come together in ways that vitalize social life, leading it away from chaos.
http://www.globenet3.org/Features/Feature_Empire_Matrix.shtml
(Added: Wed Dec 10 2003 Modified: Wed Jun 21 2006 Hits: 402)
- Info & tips on Garba Raas & Dandiya during the most popular Indian dance festival of NAVARATRI
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Everything about the navratri festival and the most happening 'Dandia' events worldwide. Also dandiya tips, latest fashions, songs and lyrics.
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- Magnet Theatre: Involving Audiences and Encouraging Change
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This document describes the methodology used by the Magnet Theatre Intervention developed by PATH to bring about behaviour change in communities. PATH has used Magnet Theatre in Kenya to encourage community dialogue around HIV and AIDS, consequences of early marriage, and TB prevention and treatment. (14/11/07)
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/223576
(Added: Thu Nov 15 2007 Hits: 67)
- Online Readings in Psychology and Culture
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Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Western Washington University, USA. A complete table of contents for a free textbook and website! Consisting of short chapters relating to many aspects of the interface between psychology and culture, Online Readings in Psychology and Culture is designed to be used by professors to supplement lectures and textbooks in any psychology course, or as the primary readings for courses in psychology and culture. The project is based on the following assumptions that are combined with much collegial good faith and a generous supply of optimism: Students, professors, and researchers throughout the world will benefit from free and easily accessible readings dealing with the interaction between psychology and culture. If one has access to the internet, then s/he will have free use of the readings. Professors will welcome a free resource for their students, and supplement their psychology courses or psychology and culture courses with the readings. Many psychologists have a strong interest in, as well as much experience in, cross-cultural or cultural psychology. In the spirit of sharing their ideas and collective wisdom, they will unselfishly contribute one or more short chapter(s). We, the editors, would have the time, resources, and open-ended interest to do a respectable organizational and editorial job on this project, with no financial remuneration of any kind for anyone involved. Once Online Readings in Psychology and Culture became known, many others would be excited about using the readings in their courses, profession work, and writing a chapter for it.
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~culture/contents_complete.htm
(Added: Thu Aug 28 2003 Modified: Fri Nov 11 2005 Hits: 256)
- Seraiki.org Online Seraiki Network
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Website on Seraiki language and culture. This site offers interactive chat rooms, discussion forums, Seraiki news and articles on Seraiki culture.
(Added: Tue Apr 13 2004 Modified: Thu Dec 15 2005 Hits: 282)
- The Internet Archive
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"The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public." All content whether films, audio or text are able to be freely distributed or publically shown.
(Added: Tue Nov 04 2003 Modified: Wed Jun 07 2006 Hits: 308)
- The Language of Success
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One of the poorest-and poorest performing-schools in Alabama has become the top school in the state and is now a model for schools all over the country, all because it introduced students to their own identity (Cultural Survival Magazine, Mark Cherrington, 3 July 2007).
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/csq-article.cfm?id=1968
(Added: Tue Jul 31 2007 Hits: 177)
- The Nation's "The Beat" Weblog
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Every day in every city and town across America, progressives get up in the morning and go about the work of fighting racism and homophobia, defending the environment, organizing trade unions and tackling corporate hegemony. Sometimes they win--on the picket line, at the ballot box, in the streets and outside the WTO meetings in Seattle. The purpose of The Online Beat is to report regularly and with immediacy on the political, social, economic and cultural activism that too often goes unremarked in so much of the mainstream media. The ultimate goal? To reveal the hidden reality that there is a left in America, and that it's active, growing and winning more consistently than the pundits or the politicians want you to know.
http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/
(Added: Mon Nov 19 2001 Modified: Fri Nov 11 2005 Hits: 260)
- The Power of Culture
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This website has been created by the Netherlands' Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to explore the link between culture and various forms of development. The website acknowledges that "Culture is not a peripheral matter." It examines themes including policy, cultural diversity, cultural heritage, and global ethics, along with several other themes. Included within each theme are latest news releases covering each topic as well as a selection of links to related sites. One example of a related site is a link to UNESCO. Another example of the news story is "Culture as the ninth Millennium Goal?" and it examinies how culture is an essential part of development cooperation, and should be equated with food certainty, for example, health and education. A well-developed "Specials" section features in-depth discussion of emerging cultural trends such as the relationship between art and migration.
http://www.powerofculture.nl/uk/index.html
(Added: Mon Jun 27 2005 Modified: Fri Nov 11 2005 Hits: 204)
- Tikanga index at www.maori.org.nz
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A Maori website with a glossary and explanation of key terms and customs around Marae Protocol, Tangihanga - Funerals, Hura Kohatu - Unveilings, Pepeha - Introducing Yourself in Maori, Poroporoaki - Farewell Ceremony, Putting Together a Mihi for a Hui, The Marae Complex, and Rules on a Marae, Parts of the Whare, Terms used in Marae Protocol, and Marae Database Listings.
http://www.maori.org.nz/tikanga/
(Added: Mon Mar 08 2004 Modified: Fri Nov 11 2005 Hits: 374)
- Turning Points in Development Thinking and Practice
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Why and when do turning points occur? How are they prepared? What are the choices before us when it comes to economic and social development policies? What is the role of culture in development? Do ideas play a role? What are the interests behind the ideas? The present paper tries to answer these and other questions and compares the advantages and disadvantages of global development theories with regional and local development policies that put more emphasis on the role of culture in economic development. (Louis Emmerij, UNU Wider, February 2006)
http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/rps/rps2006/rp2006-08.pdf
(Added: Mon Jan 15 2007 Hits: 201)
- What Al Gore Missed: The Ecological Importance of the Cultural Commons
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The recommendations for reducing consumerism that appear at the end of Al Gore's book, An Inconvenient Truth, represent how language may contribute to enclosing the cultural commons. No one can deny that Gore's list of behaviors for reducing consumerism is good common sense. But a list of what thoughtful people are already doing is no substitute for suggesting a more radical approach to reducing our dependence upon the consumerism that is contributing to global warming-which his book documents so well.
http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/article.php?story=20070124060458368
(Added: Wed Feb 14 2007 Hits: 240)
