Cette thèse explore la complexité de la notion de patrimoine depuis un contexte caribéen, à la fois spécifique et intimement lié aux mouvements du monde depuis le XVIe siècle. Elle s’intéresse à l’entre-deux qui caractérise le patrimoine, entre la dimension héritée -perçue comme un donné inaliénable, malgré soi-, et la dimension construite au présent pour un devenir, manifestée par ce que l’on souhaite transmettre aux générations futures. Le patrimoine se déploie dans la relation singulier-collectif dont il convoque les imaginaires du monde, les connexions entre des espaces et des temporalités diverses. Il peut être perçu comme un baromètre de la capacité des sociétés à s’inscrire dans un ordre communicationnel envisagé comme un acte de partage. La perspective multidirectionnelle proposée confronte des mobilisations historicisées d’un patrimoine outil des pouvoirs, pris dans des convergences politiques, économiques et techniques dans lequel se forge également l’ordre de la connaissance, aux fonctions sociales du patrimoine qui renvoient à une quête de sens, de lien social, de ressources et s’inscrit dans des territorialités complexes. La Caraïbe, territoire polythétique, présente un point de vue inédit pour remettre en question ce couple patrimoine/territoire et les paradigmes problématiques que son institutionnalisation a naturalisé pendant la période de formation des identités nationales européennes, période corrélée à l’émergence de la Modernité. La Traite négrière transatlantique, le système esclavagiste fondé sur la race puis la colonisation constituent une histoire associée à la souffrance, un passé transnational complexe dont la mise en partage est encore problématique, un héritage que personne ne souhaite accepter et qui marque pourtant encore à divers égards les rapports sociaux contemporains. La capacité à performer, à composer avec l’apport de chacun, à transmettre des savoirs-faire s’est déployée dans les sociétés caribéennes avec et contre les systèmes d’oppression, comme une forme de résistance et de survie, une ressource vitale essentielle du point de vue pratique et symbolique. Longtemps rejetés de l’espace normatif du patrimoine, ces héritages incorporent des perceptions peu compatibles avec les définitions et les modalités de traitement figées du patrimoine institutionnel articulées autour des productions matérielles. Le discours poétique et intellectuel caribéen à partir des années 1960-1970 s’est forgé dans une double dynamique, associant la déconstruction critique de l’ordre institué initiée par la première génération, à un imaginaire de l’espace commun inspiré de la volonté de revaloriser les héritages, leur créativité et la capacité d’action des Hommes à réinventer des imaginaires du monde fondés sur la Relation. Ce projet caribéen est ici lu comme la proposition d’une rupture patrimoniale créatrice liée à un territoire en rupture avec la superposition-fusion de l’espace politique, physique et culturel imposé par le prisme de l’imaginaire national. Cette thèse part sur les traces de ces dimensions relationnelles dans lesquelles interviennent des constructions historiques, des trajectoires et territorialités multiples, puis tente de mettre au jour les paradigmes naturalisés, les héritages et les contraintes contemporaines qui participent de cet empêchement patrimonial qui n’est pas sans relation avec des conflits que suscite le traitement du passé dans l’espace public. Le dernier mouvement met ces recherches en perspective de l’observation de dispositifs effectifs : les bibliothèques numériques de la Caraïbe. Il en analyse les modalités de construction, interroge les contextes individuels et collectifs qui les animent et les territorialités multiples qui interviennent dans ces hétérotopies ultimes de la Caraïbe, manifestations effectives de l’utopie caribéenne. / This thesis explores the complexity of the notion of heritage from a Caribbean context, both specific and intimately linked to world movements since the sixteenth century. It examines the in-between that characterizes heritage, between the inherited dimension-perceived as an inalienable given, and the dimension constructed in the present for a becoming, manifested by what one wishes to transmit to the future generations. The heritage unfolds in the singular-collective relationship of which it invokes the imaginary world, the connections between spaces and different temporalities. It can be perceived as a barometer of the capacity of societies to fit into a communication order envisaged as an act of sharing. The proposed multidirectional perspective confronts historicized mobilizations of a patrimony that is a tool of the powers taken up in political, economic and technical convergences, in which the order of knowledge is also forged, to the social functions of heritage which refer to a quest for meaning, social bonding, resources and is part of complex territorialities. The Caribbean, a polythetic territory, presents an unprecedented point of view to question this heritage / territory couple and the problematic paradigms that its institutionalization naturalized during the period of formation of European national identities, a period correlated with the emergence of Modernity. The Transatlantic Slave Trade, the slave system based on race and then colonization, is a history associated with suffering, a complex transnational past, the sharing of which is still problematic, a legacy that no one wishes to accept, but which still impact social relations. The capacity to perform, to cope with the contribution of each one, to transmit know-how has been deployed in the Caribbean societies with and against the systems of oppression, as a form of resistance and survival, an essential vital resource from a practical and symbolic point of view. Long ago rejected from the normative space of the heritage, these legagy incorporate perceptions that are incompatible with the definitions and the fixed treatment methods of the institutional heritage articulated around the material productions. The Caribbean poetic and intellectual discourse from the years 1960-1970 was forged in a double dynamic, associating the critical deconstruction of the instituted order initiated by the first generation with an imaginary of the common space inspired by the will to revalorize the heritages, their creativity and the ability of Men to reinvent the imaginations of the world based on the Relation. This Caribbean project is here read as the proposal of a creative heritage break linked to the maling of a territory in breach with the superposition-fusion of the political, physical and cultural space imposed by the prism of the national imagination. This thesis takes as its starting point the traces of these relational dimensions in which historical constructions, multiple trajectories and territorialities intervene, and then tries to bring to light the naturalized paradigms, the inheritances and the contemporary constraints which participate in this heritage impediment which is not unrelated to conflicts arising from the treatment of the past in public space. The last movement puts this research in perspective of the observation of effective projects: the digital libraries of the Caribbean. The author analyzes the methods of construction, questions the individual and collective contexts and the multiple territorialities that intervene in these ultimate heterotopies of the Caribbean, manifestations of the Caribbean utopia. This observation makes it possible to measure the obstacles of all kinds facing actors engaged in projects that aim to shape or reveal relations between territories that are both distinct and connected and to treat the heritage both as traces of the past and as a living, dynamic phenomenon, constantly enriched by contemporary experiences.

Depuis la fin de la deuxième guerre, l'idéologie du développement a progressivement imposé sa lecture essentialiste et évolutionniste du monde. Malgré les échecs et les déceptions qui ont mis en exergue le caractère non heuristique de la conception unilinéaire des sociétés, la notion n'a pas complètement perdu de sa force mobilisatrice. À travers des inventions et des branchements divers et constants, elle a survécu à la critique par le ré-enchantement de la notion et ses variations thématiques. En effet, au détour des années 80, pour asseoir davantage sa légitimité, le débat autour du développement, non seulement a embrassé les questions environnementales mais s'est fragmenté, en se déclinant autour de plusieurs thèmes et sous-thèmes tels que la lutte contre la pauvreté, l'alphabétisation, le désendettement, la lutte contre le sida… Dans les pays africains, notamment au Cameroun, cette recomposition féconde de la notion a trouvé, dans les enjeux de l'agriculture, un cadre idéal d'articulation et d'expression. Dans la même logique évolutive, la communication, indissociablement liée au développement, a connu des modélisations successives, recadrant progressivement ses dispositifs et ses stratégies, pour susciter et accompagner les changements sociaux. C'est ce qui explique l'avènement d'une communication participative, motivée par une prise en compte de l'altérité et l'assomption des identités culturelles.À partir d'une expérience de la vulgarisation agricole, tributaire de l'inventivité thématique du développement, cette recherche examine la complexité de la dynamique participative avec ses enjeux identitaires. En se fondant sur la stratégie des acteurs, ce travail met en lumière la dimension structurante des identités culturelles consécutive à une démarche praxéologique où la communication s'inscrit dans une aventure herméneutique sous-tendue par une logique d'archéologie existentielle. Par le fait même, la communication adopte une nouvelle posture épistémologique en devenant « lieu » stratégique d'interprétation du vécu et de transgression de la doxa du développement. / Since the end of the Second World War, the ideology of development has progressively imposed an essentialist and evolutionalist interpretation of the world. In spite of breakdowns and disappointments which have brought out a non-heuristic nature of the unilinear conception of societies, this notion has not totally lost some of its stirring strength. Through decades of inventions and various and continuous connections, it has survived criticism by the re-enchantment of the notion of its thematic variations. Indeed, in the early 1980's, in order to better establish its legitimacy, debate around development / growth has not only embraced environmental questions but has also fragmented, coming into a variety of themes and sub-themes such as the fight against poverty and AIDS, elimination of illiteracy, debt reducing, and so on. In African countries, in Cameroun precisely, this fruitful recomposition of the notion has found a perfect frame for structure and expression in the agricultural stakes. In the same evolutionary dynamic, communication, inextricably linked to development, has known successive modeling, progressively refocusing its devices and strategies to arouse and support social changes. That explains the advent of participative communication, helped by the notion of otherness and the assumption of cultural identities.From an agricultural popular experiment dependent on thematic inventiveness of development, this research considers the complexity of participative dynamics with its issues about identity. Based on the strategy used by active protagonists, this work highlights the structuring dimension of cultural identities resulting of a praxeological approach, in which communication is part of a logic of an underlying hermeneutic adventure, being part of a logics of existential archaeology. For this very reason, communication adopts a new epistemological point of view, becoming the strategic “place” of interpretation of actual experience and of transgression of the doxa of development

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Depuis les années 1990, l’expansion du tourisme culturel, en Chine, est exponentielle : activité autrefois marginale, le tourisme occupe désormais une place importante dans la société chinoise contemporaine. Ce développement du tourisme s’est accompagné de la protection et de la réinterprétation du patrimoine historique et culturel. L’objet de cette thèse est de chercher à comprendre les interactions complexes existant entre tourisme, patrimoine et identités culturelles à travers l’exemple de Lijiang, chef-lieu de la région autonome Naxi dans la province du Yunnan et village classé sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco, devenu, en quelques années, l’une des principales destinations du tourisme intérieur chinois. Et de répondre à cette question : l’instrumentalisation du patrimoine par l’industrie touristique contribue-t-elle à la disneylandisation de la Chine ou à l’émergence d’une modernité chinoise alternative ? / Since the 1970s, the expansion of tourism in China has been exponential. While previously a marginal activity, tourism now has an important role in today’s Chinese society. The purpose of this thesis is to try to understand the complex interactions between tourism, national heritage, and cultural identities through the example of the Lijiang village, county town of the Naxi autonomous region, in the Yunnan Province. Lijiang is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and has become, in a matter of a few years, one of the main destinations of inner Chinese tourism. In this thesis, we will also try to address the following question: does the use of national heritage by the touristic industry contribute to the « Disneylandisation » of China or to the emergence of an alternative Chinese modernity?

Estudamos como as representações televisivas construídas em narrativas brasileiras e consumidas por brasileiros, paraguaios, argentinos e uruguaios , participam da articulação das identidades culturais nas fronteiras entre o Brasil e os países vizinhos Paraguai (Foz do Iguaçu-Ciudad del Este), Argentina (Uruguaiana-Paso de los Libres) e Uruguai (Santana do Livramento-Rivera). Concretizamos esta pesquisa sob a orientação teórico-metodológica de uma abordagem contemporânea no campo da Comunicação, representada pelos Estudos Culturais Britânicos e Latino-Americanos, explorando suas aproximações, no que diz respeito à interculturalidade, com a Antropologia Cultural. Realizamos três estudos de caso dentro de uma perspectiva qualitativa, desenvolvendo dois tipos de entrevistas com quarenta fronteiriços, montando e utilizando um banco de dados com as narrativas televisivas que se tornaram relevantes ao longo deste trabalho, e recorrendo, ainda, à observação participante e às anotações efetuadas em diário de campo. / We studied how television representations built on brazilian narratives and consumed by brazilians, paraguayan, argentines and uruguayan , participate in the articulation of cultural identities on the boarders between Brazil and neighbor countries Paraguay (Foz do Iguaçu-Ciudad del Este), Argentina (Uruguaiana-Paso de los Libres) and Uruguay (Santana do Livramento-Rivera). We completed this research under theoretical and methodological guidance of a contemporary approach in the field of Communication, represented by British and Latin American Cultural Studies, exploring their similarities, concerning intercultural, to Cultural Anthropology. Three case studies were conducted within a qualitative perspective, developing two types of interviews with forty boarders, assembling and using a database with the television narratives which became relevant throughout this study, and yet, calling upon participant observation and notes taken in the field diary.

Thesis (MA VA (Visual Arts))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / Please refer to full text for abstract.

Le XXe siècle est un moment de profonde mutation culturelle pour le Brésil. En réaction à la Première Guerre mondiale, qui avait été vue comme le suicide de l’Europe, et avec en plus l’impulsion du centenaire de l’indépendance, en 1922, émerge dans les élites nationales la conscience qu’il est urgent de doter le pays d’une identité culturelle nationale, quand bien même les modalités d’établissement de celle-ci seraient sans doute variables. Dans ce contexte, l’observation de la circulation, de la diffusion, puis de la traduction d’une œuvre comme celle de Marcel Proust au Brésil permet d’appréhender le morcellement culturel du Brésil au XXe siècle, d’observer de quelle manière une œuvre comme celle de Proust sera lue en rapport avec les différents contextes culturels qui la reçoivent, et de comprendre de quelle manière À la Recherche du Temps Perdu est peu à peu intégré à l’horizon d’attente brésilien et acquiert dans le pays, au gré du temps, un statut classique.Cette étude sera aussi et surtout une occasion d’observer une partie des élites nationale d’un pays en cours de mutation culturelle comme peut l’être le Brésil : le but est ici, en partant du particulier que constitue une circulation culturelle, de monter en généralité et d’observer le rapport des élites culturelles et intellectuelles, mais aussi d’une bonne partie des élites sociales brésiliennes avec « les interlocuteurs fantômes » que demeurent, tout au long de la période, la France et sa culture. Dès lors s’agit-il ici de se servir de la diffusion, de la réception et de la traduction de l’œuvre de Proust comme de révélateur permettant d’obtenir une radiographie des milieux intellectuels brésiliens sur la période, sans oublier que cet outil nous donnera un angle de vue particulier sur ces élites qui apparaitront dès lors comme lues à travers un prisme particulier. / The twentieth century was an era of profound cultural change for Brazil. Reacting to the First World War, perceived as Europe’s suicide, and anticipating the centenary of the country’s independence, in 1922, the national elite sensed it was urgent to provide Brazil with a national cultural identity, even if the definition of this identity might be variable. In this context, the observation of the circulation, reception and translation of Marcel Proust’s work in Brazil helps to understand the cultural fragmentation of Brazil during the twentieth century. This thesis shows that Proust’s work could be read in many different ways according to the cultural context which received it. In Search of Lost Time was in this way gradually integrated into the Brazilian cultural horizon and, with time, gained the status of a classic in the country. This study is also and above all an opportunity to analyse the national elite of a country, during an era of deep change. Starting from a particular cultural process – the circulation of a literary work – this study aims to observe the general relation between the Brazilian cultural and social elite and France and its culture, which remained a “ghost interlocutor” throughout the period . We will thus attempt to examine the circulation, reception and translation of Proust’s work to obtain an X-ray of the Brazilian intellectual circles in that period, aware however that such a approach can only show this elite as seen through one particular lens.

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By examining the constitution of identity/ies related to women s diaspora in contemporary times, the present thesis focuses on its representation in two novels written by the Indian born U.S. writer, Bharati Mukherjee Desirable Daughters (2002), and The Tree Bride (2004). I argue that these two novels offer excellent cultural manifestations for the examination of the representation of the identitary process resulting from transnational displacements. Centred on the field of Cultural Studies, the first part of this study presents readings of the women protagonists´ identitary quest portrayed in the novels informed by the major concepts of diasporic identities, hybrid identities and transnationalisms, as they have been theorized by Stuart Hall, Inderpal Grewal, and Homi K. Bhabha. The analyses contained in the second and the third parts of this thesis draw from studies in the area of Gender Studies, and present reflections on the main characters´ trajectories which are illuminated by the central notions of agency, performativity, and empowerment, theorized by Judith Butler and Luce Irigaray. Studies on mythology both from non-feminist and feminist perspectives also provide a backdrop for the readings proposed. The thesis is structured in three chapters: the first one discusses the constitution of diasporic identities, particularly the main character s; the second chapter concentrates on the gender-marked appropriation of mythical discourse by the author in the composition of her narratives by means of the literary strategy of feminist revisionist mythmaking, as pointed out by Alicia Ostriker; and the third section analyzes the protagonist s actions, viewing her process of empowerment as a transformative strategy in terms of subjective development which is strongly marked by gender issues. The main results of the analysis carried out is the perception that, by combining the shaping of diasporic identities, the rewriting of myth, and the deployment of empowerment strategies in the composition of the main characters in her novels, Bharati Mukherjee problematizes the diasporic woman subject s identity formation in relation to the India/U.S. movement, revisiting and reweaving Indian traditions from multifaceted and gender-marked perspectives. This, in turn, may act in terms of raising readers´ understanding and critical awareness of the women subjects´ diasporic process in the contemporary world. / By examining the constitution of identity/ies related to women s diaspora in contemporary times, the present thesis focuses on its representation in two novels written by the Indian born U.S. writer, Bharati Mukherjee Desirable Daughters (2002), and The Tree Bride (2004). I argue that these two novels offer excellent cultural manifestations for the examination of the representation of the identitary process resulting from transnational displacements. Centred on the field of Cultural Studies, the first part of this study presents readings of the women protagonists´ identitary quest portrayed in the novels informed by the major concepts of diasporic identities, hybrid identities and transnationalisms, as they have been theorized by Stuart Hall, Inderpal Grewal, and Homi K. Bhabha. The analyses contained in the second and the third parts of this thesis draw from studies in the area of Gender Studies, and present reflections on the main characters´ trajectories which are illuminated by the central notions of agency, performativity, and empowerment, theorized by Judith Butler and Luce Irigaray. Studies on mythology both from non-feminist and feminist perspectives also provide a backdrop for the readings proposed. The thesis is structured in three chapters: the first one discusses the constitution of diasporic identities, particularly the main character s; the second chapter concentrates on the gender-marked appropriation of mythical discourse by the author in the composition of her narratives by means of the literary strategy of feminist revisionist mythmaking, as pointed out by Alicia Ostriker; and the third section analyzes the protagonist s actions, viewing her process of empowerment as a transformative strategy in terms of subjective development which is strongly marked by gender issues. The main results of the analysis carried out is the perception that, by combining the shaping of diasporic identities, the rewriting of myth, and the deployment of empowerment strategies in the composition of the main characters in her novels, Bharati Mukherjee problematizes the diasporic woman subject s identity formation in relation to the India/U.S. movement, revisiting and reweaving Indian traditions from multifaceted and gender-marked perspectives. This, in turn, may act in terms of raising readers´ understanding and critical awareness of the women subjects´ diasporic process in the contemporary world.

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