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Going Abroad
Going Abroad is a book not only for scholars, academics and students who are interested in different approaches to mobility, but also for non-specialists who wish to explore and understand what lies behind the various forms of travel, tourism and migration that are central to today’s—and no doubt tomorrow’s—globalized world. If you are tempted by emigration, enjoy being a tourist, or just love the adventure of travel, real or imaginary, you can embark on a journey of discovery through time and across the continents to explore and reflect on diverse visions of mobility. The practical problems and the differing states of mind experienced by past and present emigrants to France, Spain, ...
Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World
The essays in this book, written by poets, novelists, mountain-climbers and academics from all over the world, evoke the representation of mountains in the English-speaking world as artists, writers, philosophers or mountain-climbers have represented them from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the Alps to the Pyrenees, from Mount Fuji to Mount Shasta, from the Himalayas to the Scottish Highlands, from Ikere in Nigeria to Devil's Tower in the United States, from Uluru in Australia to the most northern mountain of the Arctic, the shapes of the world speak the same language and tell the world its own story. This interdisciplinary book, weaving together mountaineering, literature...
The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography
These ethnographically-based studies of diverse urban experiences across the world present cutting edge research and stimulate an empirically-grounded theoretical reconceptualization. The essays identify ethnography as a powerful tool for making sense of life in our rapidly changing, complex cities. They stress the point that while there is no need to fetishize fieldwork—or to view it as an end in itself —its unique value cannot be overstated. These active, engaged researchers have produced essays that avoid abstractions and generalities while engaging with the analytical complexities of ethnographic evidence. Together, they prove the great value of knowledge produced by long-term fieldwork to mainstream academic debates and, more broadly, to society.
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Singing the English
Late nineteenth-century France was a nation undergoing an identity crisis: the uncertain infancy of the Third Republic and shifting alliances in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War forced France to interrogate the fundamental values and characteristics at the heart of its own national identity. Music was central to this national self-scrutiny. It comes as little surprise to us that Oriental fears, desires, and anxieties should be a fundamental part of this, but what has been overlooked to date is that Britain, too, provided a thinking space in the French musical world; it was often – surprisingly and paradoxically – represented through many of the same racialist terms and musical tropes ...
Enhancing Intercultural Communication in Organizations
This book provides a qualitative analysis of the process of consultancy, to prove how intercultural communication can solve issues rising from multiculturalism in organizations and policymaking. Experts in intercultural consultancy examine 12 different cases from real situations, focusing on interviews with clients and the way advice is presented and discussed with them, and on collected data and the process by which it is gathered. The book proves how the mechanisms of intercultural communication can be used to foster respectful relationships between people of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds and contribute to the success of the project or organization in question. This book will be a key resource for scholars and students involved in intercultural communication, management, and consultancy, as well as professionals that are confronted in their work with diversity and would like to know more about intercultural consultancy. Additional questions for discussion and readings are available as e-resources on the Routledge Website.
Britain, France and the Entente Cordiale Since 1904
This collection gathers many of the best-known names in the field of Anglo-French relations and provides an authoritative survey of the field. Starting with the crucial period of the First World War and ending with the equally complex question of the second Iraq War, the study has an emphasis on British perceptions of the Entente.
L’Intelligence interculturelle
D’une culture à l’autre, quels rapports entretenons-nous avec la nature, la maladie, le statut social, le genre ou encore la hiérarchie ? Un Français et un Japonais ont-ils la même perception du « je » et du « nous » ? Aux États-Unis, en Inde ou au Sénégal, a-t-on tendance à se représenter le temps de manière plutôt cyclique ou linéaire ? Qu’est-ce qu’être riche ou pauvre en Afrique, en Europe ou en Amérique latine ? Articulé autour de 15 thèmes clés déclinés en 130 questions, cet ouvrage explore l’extraordinaire variété des représentations culturelles, et leurs conséquences sur nos comportements respectifs. Pour guider le lecteur, ...
An Early Album of the World
Featuring a broad selection of photographs from Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac and other French partner museums, the exhibition catalogue explores the circumstances in which photography was introduced in Europe since 1839 and then practiced around the world, including the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas by leading photographers like Jacques-Philippe Potteau, Isidore van Kinsbergen, Auguste Bartholdi, Désiré Charnay, Muhammad Sadiq Bey, Lala Deen Dayal, Abdullah Brothers and Timothy O’Sullivan. It also features a selection of historical texts on photography by prominent theologian and philosopher, the Emir Abd el-Kader.
La mésentente cordiale
" La compréhension est un cas particulier du malentendu. " C'est en rappelant ces quelques mots du linguiste Antoine Culioli que Christine Geoffroy invite son lecteur à prendre part à un voyage bien particulier : un voyage en pays interculturel... En exploratrice des temps modernes, Christine Geoffroy est partie à la rencontre de Français et d'Anglais travaillant au sein d'entreprises européennes ou internationales, et a mené l'enquête sur la communication linguistique et culturelle. Car une bonne maîtrise de la langue ne résout pas tous les problèmes de communication au sein d'une entreprise, ainsi que le démontre la permanence de certains stéréotypes. Afin de comprendre pourq...
