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Cette communication invite à penser la Méditerranée des deux rives en décentrant nos regards et en interrogeant nos certitudes. Une incitation à découvrir ou à redécouvrir la Méditerranée telle qu'elle est. La Méditerranée englobe un héritage commun mais fracturé par de nombreux conflits à travers les siècles. Les rencontres soudent mais elles séparent également ! Assimiler cette complexité dans les études des relations entre les deux rives permet de mieux discerner leurs évolutions et leurs mutations. Par-delà les peurs, les angoisses, les rejets et les inquiétudes, n'existe-t-il pas un nouvel horizon culturel en Méditerranée ? Quelle forme d'organisation managériale est possible en regard des références culturelles et du substrat de valeurs de la Méditerranée ? Notre réflexion s'appuie sur les dimensions culturelles, intellectuelles, économiques et managériales dans le monde méditerranéen en l'insérant dans un cadre historique, géo-stratégique et socio-politique.

ABSTRACT In this "In Focus," authors address how culture is figured in institutional contexts that are putatively arenas of no culture. Participants in these institutions pay ever more attention to questions of "culture" but often deploy the term in ways that presume that only select outsiders are culture bearers. Contributors to this volume seek to highlight the intricate ways in which the "cultural" and "acultural" are mutually constituted in such institutional settings and the consequences that flow from this. To address this issue ethnographically, the authors explore how culture—framed as traditional and locatable—is presumed and performed in institutional contexts constructed as modern, universal, and acultural. By comparing how different institutions account for the cultural and the acultural, this special issue questions what is the price of having culture as a classificatory category?

The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has written that contemporary sport is 'born of truly popular games' and returns to them 'in the form of spectacles produced for the people'. Another well-known French intellectual, the former Manchester United football star Eric Cantona, has suggested that sport is important because it is one of the few areas of life that is capable of eliciting passion, that people actually care about. Understanding the Field of Sport traces the development of that process from play and folk games to media spectacle, and explains why sport constitutes one of the most im

Twisted Roots. Intellectuals, Mass Culture and Political Culture in Italy The article examines the rise of mass culture in Italy from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. It particularly analyses the literary production, politically organised cultural offering as well as the role of the intellectuals. Despite the high illiteracy rate (until the beginning of the twentieth century higher than in other countries), different mass-cultural spheres developed throughout Western Europe. The socialist and Catholic communities decisively contributed to this development. With the help of their own publications and distribution channels as well as libraries, they encouraged the population to read. Simultaneously, intellectuals and writers with precarious social situations hoped for new fields of activity in the emerging cultural industries. The gap between these expectations and modern reality led many of these observers to criticise massculture. In some cases, it even led to political radicalisation and rapprochement with the fascist movement.

This book provides an insightful overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and a chapter on the role of the federal government in the development of the arts. The intellectual context of 1930s American culture is a strong feature, whilst case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade - from War of the Worlds to The Grapes of Wrath and from Edward Hopper to the Rockefeller Centre - help to explain the cultural impulses of radicalism, nationalism and escapism that characterize the United States in the 1930s. Key Features 3 case studies per chapter featuring key texts, genres, writers and artists Chronology of 1930s American Culture Bibliographies for each chapter 22 black and white illustrations