Good Practices of Interdisciplinary  International Cooperation between  Universities and Local Development on Social Suffering in Urban Spaces

It is somewhat surprising that music has only recently become a serious subject for urban historians. Musicologists and music historians, urban geographers, planners and all others who deal with diverse aspects of local development, cultural industry and the built environment have fared much better in tackling the fundamental social implications of music in a particular locality. It is not an accident that, for example, the recent volume ofBuilt Environment, ‘Music and the city’, edited by an economic geographer, Robert C. Kloosterman, deals with urban spaces of creativity and the role of black music today, some of which have by now an ascribed ‘urban’ adjective in North America.1It is also only natural, however, that Kloosterman's enquiry should concentrate on music in the city of the present and rarely venture into the time periods before World War II.

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International cooperation to the aid of local development

Atlas of Lebanon ◽

10.4000/books.ifpo.13316 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 116-117

Author(s):

Jihad Farah ◽

Wassim Abdelsater

Keyword(s):

International Cooperation ◽

Local Development

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Developing Individual Multilingualism in Higher Education: Prospects and Dilemmas

Verbum ◽

10.15388/verb.2011.2.4957 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 73-83

Author(s):

Katarzyna Cybulska

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Language Policy ◽

International Cooperation ◽

Communicative Competence ◽

Higher Education Institutions ◽

Tertiary Level ◽

European Language ◽

Good Practices ◽

Design And Implementation

In the light of the European language policy, higher education institutions are assigned an enormous role and expectations when it comes to promoting individual multilingualism (i.e. plurilingualism). Drawing upon the language policy developments and research in this area, this paper aims to show the pathways to developing learners’ plurilingual/multilingual repertoires at the tertiary level. Accordingly, the author will outline the psycholinguistic tenets of individual multilingualism as well as current priorities and recent tendencies in what has been referred to as plurilingual education. Such concepts as partial and transversal competences, intercomprehension, learning L3 through L2, CLIL, interdisciplinary communicative competence and international cooperation will be highlighted. The emphasis will be placed on the design and implementation of a coherent language policy by higher education institutions; in addition, a number of good practices institutions may take pride in and the obstacles they ultimately face will be described.

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From Wangba Back to Wangka: Ruination and Renewal of the Chinese Internet Café

Asiascape Digital Asia ◽

10.1163/22142312-12340047 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (1-2) ◽

pp. 38-59

Author(s):

Ge Zhang

Keyword(s):

Local Development ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

Ethnographic Research ◽

Present Moment ◽

Chinese Modernity ◽

The Past ◽

History Of ◽

The One ◽

Internet Cafes

This paper takes a particular angle that begins with the drastic decline of internet cafés in China and their receding yet still evolving presence. This project aims at delineating the history of internet cafés as urban spaces in relation to the different roles they played in various stages of Chinese modernity. The particularities of local development, as directed by trajectories of Chinese modernization, has led to a contempt for the ‘low quality’ of internet cafés, on the one hand, and a nostalgic sentimentalization of its ruination, on the other. Internet cafés are situated in the present moment of transition as a reflection of larger transformations of urban renewals and ideals of modernity. Drawn from both ethnographic research and existing literature on internet cafés, this paper theorizes the space that Chinese internet cafés have produced in the past 25 years.

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Decentralization of Development and Nation-Building Today: Reconstructing Colombia from the Margins of Bogotá

The Law and Development Review ◽

10.2202/1943-3867.1034 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Luis Eslava

Keyword(s):

Financial Stability ◽

Local Development ◽

Nation Building ◽

Public Utility ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

Building Projects ◽

Systemic Violence ◽

Development Objectives ◽

Building Project ◽

The Relationship

Responding to an international trend that regards the state as an oversized, unsustainable and uneven jurisdiction that cannot effectively intervene in the economy to promote development objectives, nor impose a proper presence over its territory and population, the reform of the Colombian Constitution in 1991 installed local development as one of the primary strategies to recuperate the nation-building project in Colombia. Bogotá has greatly benefited from the introduction of this normative framework: within the spatial limits of its jurisdiction, Bogotá has been able to achieve a remarkable level of community engagement, measured urban growth and financial stability, as well as high per capita levels of education, health and public utility provision. However, the successful decentralization of state activity in Bogotá has implied an intensification of the systemic violence that traditionally accompanies nation-building projects. Through practices of classification, demarcation and disciplining of space and subjects, Bogotá has used a cartography of legal and illegal urban spaces in order to circumscribe its developmental target. Reflecting upon the contradictions that arise from the encounter between the weaknesses of Colombia's sovereignty and Bogotá's successful development, this paper examines the relationship between development and sovereign consolidation through the multiplication of levels of governance and the creation of increasingly smaller, more accountable sub-national jurisdictions in Third World states.

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Promocja turystyczna w działalności Lokalnych Grup Działania w Polsce

Prace Geograficzne ◽

10.4467/20833113pg.21.004.13429 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 47-74

Author(s):

Gerard Kosmala ◽

Dagmara Chylińska

Keyword(s):

Common Good ◽

Local Development ◽

Local Action ◽

Good Practices ◽

Tourism Promotion ◽

Tourism Potential ◽

Promotional Message ◽

Range Of Influence ◽

Action Groups

Tourist promotion in the activities of Local Action Groups in Poland The presence of the so-called „Lokalne Grupy Działania” (Local Action Groups, LAGs) has been clearly recognizable in the Polish rural and small-town landscapes for at least a dozen years. By under taking activities on various grounds they obviously support local development, being – at the same time – a source and an effect of local entrepreneurship. According to the principle ”think globally, act locally”, LAGs realize tasks in the field of local tourism development, in terms of tourism facilities, formation of human capital, and tourism promotion. The latter is the goal of the research in this paper. The research resulted in a determination of the broad range of promotional activities and tools used by LAGs. Simultaneously, their effectiveness and the range of influence were evaluated and common good practices in the field of tourism promotion were described. Apart from the generally positive evaluation of tourism promotion provided by LAGs and based on their knowledge on the local tourism potential, specific conditions negatively affecting the durability of results and the period of influence of the promotional message were indicated.

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