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This area focuses on a variety of topics of combined socio-cultural and economic relevance, including, among others, the cultural sustainability of cities, economic change and cultural hybridisation, mobility and migration, the process of territorialisation of identities, and issues related to innovation, participation and governance. Research in this area is structured around the following sub-areas involving different Research Groups:
1 — Urban cultures: (i) agents, processes and impacts of the growth and modernization of cities; (ii) conditions for governance and cultural sustainability of cities; (iii) markets of goods, services and cultural equipments; (iv) the processes of patrimonialization and ethnicization of urban landscapes; (v) information and the binomial participation/exclusion in community life; (vi) the dispute over and politicization of cities’ spaces; (vii) identities, modes of representation and resources of cities in contexts of intercity competition.
2 — Local cultures: (i) territorialized identities; (ii) the persistence of pre-modern material cultures; (iii) local cultures and urban agglomeration; (iv) commodification of the cultural objects of local communities; (v) institutionalization of cultural agents; (vi) policies of capacity building and incentive to participation; (vii) cultural pluralism; (viii) the reinvention of local knowledges; (ix) innovation and cultural change.
3 — Diaspora cultures: (i) emigration and identities; (ii) "frontier" cultural situations; (iii) multiculturalism; (iv) cultural hybridization; (v) inter-ethnicities; (vi) relocalized languages: discourses and identities in the context of emigration; (vii) the cultural market of diaspora. |
