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• Cultural action and/or social action ?

  I am a bit of an ancestor in the task of taking cultural actions as part of the Town Policy. Indeed, when I started my career in 1979 as director of a community centre in a so-called rough area, I closely followed the implementation of the Town Policy and in particular of its cultural component. I actively participated in it by developing certain experiences. Subsequently, many times I was lead to reflect on these subjects, in particular when I was responsible for the « Rencontres de La (...)

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• European Education Programmes

  Évelyne Bévort works as associate director of the CLEMI-France (Centre for liaison between teaching and information media). The case of the Polish education system, which we have just mentioned is totally similar to what happens nowadays in many European countries. In Europe, the emphasis, in this prevailing model, is always put on knowledge, even though more and more managers attempt to develop another model in which we can have, as we say in France, a “common denominator for knowledge and (...)

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• Memory and identity, the role of artistic actions

  Denis Cerclet is a research professor at the university Louis Lumière of Lyon 2. I’ve been working for many years already on questions regarding memory. Interested in the way memory is defined in social sciences as well as in neurophysiology and neuropsychology, I try to make a link between the several uses that are made of this concept within society. Nowadays, within these disciplines, memory is the subject of research works that completely renew the idea that one could have of it, since (...)

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• Pictures at school : a pitfall of good intentions

  Gianni Haver is a Teacher of the sociology of film at the university of Lausanne (Switzerland). These few thoughts arise from a statement that is almost common sense : in view of the thousands and thousands of pictures that they have to face daily, children, young people and those less young, are left alone, completely unfit for approaching them. I would have liked to use a word that corresponds to “illiterate” or “untutored” for pictures, but since no tutorial system has ever showed any (...)

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• Popular culture and suburbs

  As a starting point, I would like to specify that suburbs constitute complex, plural and variable territories, where realities differ from one site to another, from one time to another and where cultural diversity among its inhabitants is greater than in the rest of the social space. Suburbs are places where identity bundles that can be expressed through several and at times contradictory memories make the most sense. In addition, when approaching suburban popular cultures, prudence (...)

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• Urban Development Policy and Collective Practices

  Senior lecturer teaching sociology at the European University of Bretagne (Rennes 2), Sophie Le Coq also works as a researcher at LAS-LARES (Research Laboratory in Social Studies at the university of Rennes 2) Favoured territories To start, I would like to mention the overall political context present behind each debate since the beginning of the day. I think that in a context of cultural interventions connected to the leanings of urban development policy, it is important to recall the (...)

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