André Malraux () DSO ( 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976 ) was a French novelist, art theorist and Minister for Cultural Affairs.

Cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah criticised DuBois for this definition of racialism in ' My Father's House ' ( 1992 ) where he defines racialism as "... the view … that there are heritable characteristics, possessed by members of our species, which allow us to divide them into a small set of races, in such a way that all the members of these races share certain traits and tendencies with each other that they do not share with members of any other race.

In Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism ( 1991 ), the Marxist theorist Fredric Jameson linked the reification of information and knowledge to the post-modern distinction between authentic knowledge ( experience ) and counterfeit knowledge ( vicarious experience ), which usually is acquired through the mass communications media.

Cultural theorist Stuart Hall is one of the main proponents of reception theory, having developed it for media and communication studies from the literary-and history-oriented approaches mentioned above.

Noted graduates and associates of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and the Department of Cultural Studies include: Paul Gilroy ( LSE ) theorist of culture and race, Angela McRobbie ( Goldsmiths ) theorist of consumption, femininity and popular culture, Celia Lurie ( Goldsmiths ) feminist theory and consumption, Jackie Stacey ( University of Manchester, film, cancer culture and science in culture ', Sarah Franklin ( LSE ) science as culture, Debbie Epstein ( University of Cardiff education, childhood and youth studies, sexuality and popular culture, Peter Redman ( The Open University ) masculinities, psychoanalytic theor, Mary Jane Kehily ( The Open University ) childhood and youth studies, Joyce Canaan ( City University, Birmingham ) cultures of higher education, Anoop Nayak ( Newcastle University ) geographies of race, Deborah Lynn Steinberg ( Warwick University ) science cultures, sexuality and popular culture, Hilary Pilkington ( Warwick University ) Russia and youth subcultures, Sue Wright ( Danish Pedagogic University ) cultures of higher education, Hazel Carby ( Yale ) race and literature, David Parker ( Nottingham University ), Mica Nava ( University of East London ) media studies, Chris Griffin ( Bath University ) girls and youth cultures, and Adrian Kear ( Aberystwith University ) performance studies and psychoanalysis, Kevin J. Brehony ( Roehampton University ) historical studies of educational ideologies ..

Cultural and racial theorist, George Lipsitz, outlined this concept of cultural appropriation in his seminal term " strategic anti-essentialism.

Abraham Moritz Warburg, known as Aby Warburg ( June 13, 1866 – October 26, 1929 ), was a German art historian and cultural theorist who founded a private Library for Cultural Studies, the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, later Warburg Institute.

Sociologist Scott Lash has recently put forth the idea that Cultural Studies is entering a new phase.

The Media and Communications Department, as well as the Centre for Cultural Studies, is home to some of the leading scholars in this field including James Curran, Scott Lash, Angela McRobbie, Sara Ahmed, Nick Couldry, Aeron Davis, John Hutnyk, Sanjay Seth, and David Morley.

Ben Scott & Robert W. McChesney, “ A Century of Radical Media Criticism in the USA .” In David Berry and John Theobold, editors, Radical Mass Media Criticism: A Cultural Genealogy.

An example cited by the Communication, Cultural and Media Studies infobase regards a February 1996 Scott Report on arms sales to Iraq.

* Cultural Imperialism or Hyper-Americanization – Swedish raggare and Chicano Lowriders – article by Scott Holmquist

* Scott Rothkopf, " Krauss and the Art of Cultural Controversy ," The Harvard Crimson, May 16, 1997.

:* Boston has a celebration annually, hosted by the French Cultural Center for over 35 years.

Cultural ( or social ) anthropology has traditionally looked at community through the lens of ethnographic fieldwork and ethnography continues to be an important methodology for study of modern communities.

Since the radical movement of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese government has become much more tolerant with the practice of traditional beliefs.

This is material from Alan Lomax ’ s independent archive, begun in 1946, which has been digitized and offered by the Association for Cultural Equity.

According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: " a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.

The Man ' yōshū has been accepted in the Japanese Translation Series of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ).

It has helped to sponsor popular traveling exhibits, such as an early 2010s " King Tut " exhibit featuring magnificent artifacts from the tomb of the young Egyptian Pharaoh ; " The Cultural Treasures of Afghanistan " which opened in May 2008 and traveled to other cities for 18 months ; and an exhibition of China's Terracotta Warriors in its Washington headquarters in 2009 – 10.

There are criticisms that the development does not sit easily with or connect with its surroundings, and as a result Berliners have had difficulty accepting it as theirs ( despite the fact that the choice of Hilmer & Sattler's masterplan was partly because it was the only one to address the way the development juxtaposed with the Cultural Forum immediately to the west, although the Cultural Forum has itself faced similar criticisms of its own ).

Cultural and religious pluralism has a long history and development that reaches from antiquity to contemporary trends in post-modernity.

Switzerland has fully participated within many of the UN's specialised institutions, including the Economic Commission for Europe, United Nations Environment Programme, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Industrial Development Organization, and the Universal Postal Union.

The declaration has served as the foundation for two binding UN human rights covenants, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the principles of the Declaration are elaborated in international treaties such as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations Convention Against Torture and many more.

Cultural relativism as a widespread approach or ethic has largely replaced notions of " primitive ", better / worse, or " progress " in relation to cultures ( including their material culture / technology and social organization ).

Cultural and delegated administrative centre of the Gallura sub-region, Tempio has an ancient history and is the centre of one of the two main areas that remained safe from Phoenician colonisation.

The Cultural Revolution has been treated officially as a negative phenomenon ever since.

One of China's most important playwrights and directors of the late twentieth century, Zhang Guangtian, has argued that during the Cultural Revolution, the innovations that were encouraged in the Peking Opera — which primarily involved “ the formalism and style of simplification and concision ”— led it into one of its greatest periods.

Sinologist Gang Yue has questioned how “ systematic ” the cannibalism could have been, given the inherent factionalism of the Cultural Revolution.

The central section of this wall shows the faint remnant marks of a propaganda slogan that was added during the Cultural Revolution, but has since been removed.

One of the student leaders of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Shen Tong, author of Almost a Revolution, has a positive view of some aspects of the Cultural Revolution.

The move to have Mao's image publicly protected is correlated with the recent political career of Bo Xilai, whose term as party chief in Chongqing has been characterized by the use of Maoist propaganda not popular in China since the end of the Cultural Revolution.

It is one of Japan's along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku ; it is a Special Place of Scenic Beauty, a Historic Site, and has been submitted for future inscription on the World Heritage List as a Cultural ( rather than Natural ) Site.

It is here that the modern canal stops and that a Grand Canal Cultural Park has been built.

Derrida's subsequent distance from the Tel Quel group, after 1971, has been attributed to his reservations about their embrace of Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

An exhibition of Saarinen's work, Eero Saarinen: Realizing American Utopia, has been organized by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York in collaboration with Yale School of Architecture and the Museum of Finnish Architecture.

Because we are increasing communication worldwide, globalization has a major effect on how we look at Cultural Studies because we are constantly being exposed to the ideologies of mass media.

Ruggles and Saunders proposed Cultural Astronomy as a unifying term for the various methods of studying folk astronomies.

In 2003, at a gathering for the Agency of Cultural Affairs, twelve policies were proposed in a written report to allow public-made films to be promoted and shown at the Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art.

Carroll also mentions a theory under the name of " Gender Schema Theory: Our Cultural Maps " which was first proposed by Sandra Bem.

The concept of “ Cultural exception ” proposed by France in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) negotiations in 1993 was an example of a measure aimed at protecting local cultures.

Cultural genocide is a term that lawyer Raphael Lemkin proposed in 1933 as a component to genocide.

" Cultural Vigor " is a concept proposed by philosopher Nayef Al-Rodhan.

Chen proposed that a balance should be found between " setting the bird free " and choking the bird with a central plan that was too restrictive ; this theory would later become a focal point of criticism against Chen during the Cultural Revolution.

Cultural and spiritual values were proposed as an alternative to political parties focusing on material values.

Fourteen months after the project was publicly announced, the National Capital Planning Commission ( NCPC ) voiced its concern in December 1961 that the project's 16-story buildings would overshadow both the Lincoln Memorial and the proposed " National Cultural Center " ( later to be called the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts ).

The legality of the proposed heliport relocation has been questioned as being a violation of International Law, including the World Heritage Convention the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The East – West Center originated as a University of Hawaii at Manoa faculty initiative with a February 16, 1959, memo from professor Murray Turnbull, then acting Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, to political science professor Norman Meller, then chairperson of the faculty senate, that proposed the creation of an International College of Cultural Affairs.

" The proposed museum was given space in a 9. 5 acre ( 3. 8 hectare ) site in Fort Worth's Cultural District, which was already home to three other museums, including the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Amon Carter Museum, specializing in art of the American West.

She then won the new seat of Epsom in the 1996 election, and held the Ministerial roles of Local Government, Women's, Cultural and Youth Affairs before resigning as a Minister on 11 September 1997, because she objected to the sale of the assets of the Auckland Regional Services Trust proposed by National.

Presently, Chicago Lakeside Development proposed plans call for the completion of this southern portion of lakefront with the development of new parklands, beaches, and a continuous waterfront bicycle and jogging path that will link Calumet Park and Beach in the East Side neighborhood to the South Shore Cultural Center in South Shore.

The West Kowloon Cultural District ( WKCD, is a proposed and developing project to boost cultural and entertainment establishments at Hong Kong, SAR.

In the Chief Executive's Policy Address of 1998, Tung Chee Hwa proposed the establishment of the West Kowloon Cultural District, hoping to develop Hong Kong as the hub for Culture and Art of Asia.

His tenure was marked by the settling of a controversy over a proposed Black Cultural Center.

It has not been proposed as a World Heritage Site since the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), which oversees that program, limits nations to submitting sites within their own borders.

This proposed future expansion of Chicago's southern lakefront parklands will result in the connection of Calumet Park to Rainbow Beach, the South Shore Cultural Center, and Jackson Park.

The latter was proposed as a UNESCO World Heritage site on November 1, 1994 in the Cultural category.

Yet a third theory was proposed by the National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research of Pakistan that " the name is most probably derived from the title Patola, the Buddhist royal dynasty which was powerful in the region from to 8th centuries AD.

The plan also envisioned that the proposed National Cultural Center ( created by law in 1958 ) would be situated on the north side of the avenue ( on the site of Chase's Theater and Riggs Building ), but the location was later changed to the Foggy Bottom neighborhood and it was renamed the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.