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Within the framework of the INTERACT project, this paper aims to shed light onto a specific facet of the role of sending countries in migrants' integration processes: culture. Culture is analysed as one of the tools that both migrants and countries of origin resort to in order to maintain reciprocal ties after migration. Following a brief presentation of the anthropological and sociological definitions of culture and the consequent notion of 'cultural identity' on which the analysis builds, we study the concrete implementation of these dynamics. In particular, our attention is deployed at three levels: the level of migrants' everyday practices (including the use of the origin language); the policy level (pertaining to both diaspora and integration); and the association level (cultural centres in particular). Through the study of several transversal examples, we consider the broader issue at stake in this paper: the possible connection between migrants' performance in the culture of their country of origin and integration processes. We take into account the European legal framework within which both migrants and national governments function, and the influence it has on discourses and national and international policies addressing integration issues. We reach the conclusion that no causal or univocal link can be established between cultural practices and integration, for several reasons: a variety of factors are at play in integration processes within multi-cultural urban spaces, including socio-economic issues and power relations, which are crucial; culture itself is a changing and combined set of behaviours which determine dynamic and multiple belongings and which need a comprehensive approach; and identities shape the interaction among cultures - which is why we finally state the usefulness of the notion of 'ethnicity'.

This course examines popular culture and the emergence of mass culture in the United States. Itstarts from the premise that popular culture, far from being a frivolous or debased alternative to"high culture", is in fact an important site of popular expression, social instruction, and culturalconflict, and thus deserves critical attention. We examine theoretical texts that help us to "read"popular culture, even as we study specific forms and artifacts of popular culture: from televisionshows to Hollywood movies, graphic novels to advertisements, and popular music to fiction.Throughout the course, we ground what we call "culture" in political, economic, and socialcontexts. We pay special attention to the ways popular culture mediates and produces pleasure,disgust, satisfaction, and fear and to how popular culture influences and is influenced by politicaland social structures.

"Filled with case studies from firms such as GT Automotive, GE Healthcare China, Vale, Dominos, Swiss Re Americas Division, and Polar Bank, among others, this book (written by Dan Denison and his co-authors) combines twenty years of research and survey results to illustrate a critical set of cultural dynamics that firms need to manage in order to remain competitive. Each chapter uses a case as a means to illustrate an important aspect of culture change focusing on seven common culture-change dilemmas including creating a strategic alignment, keeping strategy simple, and more"--Provided by publisher

Jacques Sapir, Culture économique, culture technologique, culture organisationnelle. Éléments pour une interprétation de l'histoire économique russe et soviétique. La question de la culture économique constitue un des points de passage obligé de toute réflexion sur le devenir économique de la Russie post-soviétique. Quand les comportements ne correspondent pas à ce que l'on en attend, il est courant d'imputer à la culture économique, et spécifiquement aux différences passant alors pour des archaïsmes, la source de ces regrettables dysfonctionnements. La notion de culture économique fonctionne dans ce cas simultanément comme hypothèse saturante, mais aussi comme modèle normatif : les cultures qui ne valorisent pas le marché sont considérées d'emblée archaïques. Or, la notion de culture économique peut être extraordinairement utile pour comprendre les différences et les spécificités de chaque trajectoire économique. Cette notion se situe bien à l'interface entre Histoire et Économie, et constitue, si elle est correctement définie, un instrument d'analyse d'une grande pertinence.

GERALD M. SIDER, Culture and Class in Anthropology and History: A Newfound‐land Illustration.

Bibliographical footnotes. ; Militarisme et culture -- Papisme et kultur -- Sozialdemokratie et kultur -- L'inégalité des races et la culture -- Les Germano-Américains et la kultur -- Trafic et kultur -- Propagande et kultur -- Deutschtum et kultur -- Culture et kultur -- Neutralité et culture. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This conference aims to study the cultures and society of surveillance. The goal is to bring together literary, cultural and surveillance studies to provide a transdisciplinary framework and generate new approaches to fundamental questions: How has surveillance changed historically and how have these changes been discussed both in the American and in the transnational context? How have these changes been represented in literary and visual culture? What is the ideological significance of surveillance-related genres like the detective or spy novel? Is there an "ethics" of surveillance and how are ethical questions negotiated in literature and culture? How is "meaning"produced textually and semiotically in a surveillance situation? How can cultural artifacts like novels or films operate as actors in the multiple networks of surveillance? How can the processes of subject formation that constitute the observers as well as the observed be described? How do the arts reflect the challenges to the individual posed by technological development? How does the omnipresence of various gazes affect cultural narratives of the "self"? ; https://surveillanceconference2016.wordpress.com/