Culture and Development - CyD

Reference of the Group:

GIUV2013-088

 
Description of research activity:
Culture as a resource for development. Practices, discourses and representations in contemporary modernising processes. The relationship between culture and the processes and imaginaries of development is a crucial element for the design of new policies, particularly those referring to the cultural and educational spheres, both in the countries of the North and the South. Traditionally, the concept of "development" has been associated with a predominantly economic and growth-related dimension. But the decision of the United Nations to adopt the Human Development Approach proposed by Amartya Sen has designed a new political landscape in which the income component is displaced as the main indicator of development, in favour of a reading of well-being that goes beyond economic growth. In this context, it is pertinent to ask ourselves about the value of culture in times of globalisation, in its two dimensions: as an articulating axis of resistance to the hegemonic discourses on the development model promulgated by some of the main international organisations, and as a product traversed by the market in the process of economic globalisation. Is it possible to think about "development"...Culture as a resource for development. Practices, discourses and representations in contemporary modernising processes. The relationship between culture and the processes and imaginaries of development is a crucial element for the design of new policies, particularly those referring to the cultural and educational spheres, both in the countries of the North and the South. Traditionally, the concept of "development" has been associated with a predominantly economic and growth-related dimension. But the decision of the United Nations to adopt the Human Development Approach proposed by Amartya Sen has designed a new political landscape in which the income component is displaced as the main indicator of development, in favour of a reading of well-being that goes beyond economic growth. In this context, it is pertinent to ask ourselves about the value of culture in times of globalisation, in its two dimensions: as an articulating axis of resistance to the hegemonic discourses on the development model promulgated by some of the main international organisations, and as a product traversed by the market in the process of economic globalisation. Is it possible to think about "development" on the basis of a field (culture) which is problematic in its scientific status, its particular productivity and its dubious innovation? In this context, what deserves consideration, what has always constituted the object of study of the field of the Humanities? How to analyse, from this field, the artistic productions that promote certain representations of "development"? Undoubtedly, the cultural sphere has become a privileged place for representing development processes, giving them intelligibility and projecting social meanings onto them. It is therefore necessary to review the nature of these representations, as well as to analyse and historicise the place given to culture in the institutional design of development strategies and plans, in order to redefine the way in which artistic productions contribute to these processes and the most appropriate way to approach them.
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Scientific-technical goals:
  • Analisis de las diferentes expresiones culturales que han abordado el problema del desarrollo desde el fin de la II Guerra Mundial
 
Research lines:
  • History of contemporary culture.Critical analysis of contemporary cultural productions in relation to contemporary politics and society.
  • Latin American Literature.Critical and social history of Latin American literary works in the 19th and 20th centuries.
 
Group members:
Name Nature of participation Entity Description
NURIA GIRONA FIBLADirectorUniversitat de València
Research team
BEGOÑA POZO SANCHEZMemberUniversitat de València
ANTONIO MENDEZ RUBIOCollaboratorUniversitat de València
JESUS PERIS LLORCACollaboratorUniversitat de València
JAUME PERIS BLANESCollaboratorUniversitat de València
ANA MARIA BRIGIDO CORACHANCollaboratorUniversitat de València
 
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Associated structure:
  • Spanish
 
Keywords:
  • Cultura, Desarrollo, Literatura, Modernidad
  • Literatura, América Latina