- Cities, cultures and commitments
In memoriam
Page 8 to 10
Editorial
Page 13 to 17
Cities, cultures and commitments
Page 21 to 28
Page 29 to 45
Page 47 to 64
Page 65 to 83
Page 85 to 99
Page 101 to 118
Page 119 to 133
Page 135 to 149
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Page 187 to 201
Research and Debate
Page 205 to 215
Anthropologies at present
Page 219 to 228
Visual Anthropology
Page 231 to 242
Echoes from here and elsewhere
Page 245 to 249
Culture, a polysemic and plastic word, is now emerging as a tool of globalized urban policies. These policies aim to promote the competitiveness of cities, even if it means excluding disadvantaged populations and legitimising this exclusion by resorting to the consensual register of art and culture. In the midst of this process, one can wonder to what extent cities are transformed by this “culturalization”, and vice versa, to what extent culture is shaped by its urban future. The papers in this issue focus on the actors and consequences of these dynamics: how do urban and cultural policies, and the projects which result from them, affect the practices and representations of not only those who design cities, but those who inhabit them on a daily basis as well? How do the different groups who make up the city, and in particular artists and cultural actors, respond to or participate in these projects? What are their degrees of commitment, opposition or compromise to projects that aspire to change the image of cities?
This journal was founded in 1980 by the French Association of Anthropologists (AFA) with the goal to promote this discipline and, specifically, all that it brings to the social, political and ideological's understanding of contemporaneous societies.
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