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- 10:52, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+642) . . N Deforestation (Created page with "====== Deforestation ====== Deforestation is the process by which rainforests are cut, cleared or destroyed entirely to make way for less bio-diverse ecosystems such as plant...")
- 10:51, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+689) . . N De Klerk, F.W. (Created page with "====== De Klerk, F.W. (March 19, 1936 - ) ====== Frederik Willem de Klerk was the last President while apartheid was still the official guiding principle in South Africa and ...")
- 10:51, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+342) . . N Simone De Beauvoir (Created page with "====== de Beauvoir, Simone (1908 - 1986) ====== One of the founders of the French school of Existentialist philosophy along with Albert Camus and Jean- Paul Sartre and Femini...")
- 10:50, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+791) . . N DCMS Model (Created page with "====== DCMS Model ====== The DCMS Model is a model used to define the creative industry as defined by the UK government’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport. The model ...")
- 10:44, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+552) . . N David-Fox, Michael (Created page with "====== David-Fox, Michael ====== Historian of modern Russia and Soviet History, and professor at Georgetown University. His main publications focus on the interrelations betw...")
- 10:43, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+757) . . N Darfur (Dictionary) (Created page with "====== Darfur ====== Darfur is a region in western Sudan that has been in an official state of humanitarian emergency since 2003. Although tensions had already been rising in...")
- 10:28, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+592) . . N Dante Alighieri Society (Dictionary) (Created page with "====== Dante Alighieri Society ====== An institution focused on promoting Italian culture and language around the world. It was formed in Italy in July 1889, and was named af...")
- 10:25, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+587) . . N Culture Industry (Created page with "====== Culture Industry ====== A concept introduced by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno in the book Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). It refers to the process of mass pr...")
- 10:25, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+400) . . N Culture Gap (Created page with "====== Culture Gap ====== A concept used to describe the differences existing between cultural groups which hinder mutual understanding or relations. Differences exist in val...")
- 10:24, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,108) . . N Culture Cycle (Created page with "====== Culture Cycle ====== A flexible model that lays out the five possible stages for the process of producing, disseminating, and highlighting cultural expressions, as wel...")
- 10:24, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+611) . . N Culture as Social Reconstruction (Created page with "====== Culture as Social Reconstruction ====== The idea that cultures are predisposed to change as societies are constantly undergoing transformation. As new ideas enter soci...")
- 10:23, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+528) . . N Culture (Created page with "====== Culture ====== E. Adamson Hoebel, a leading anthropologist of the twentieth century, described culture as an integrated and complex system of learned behavior patterns...")
- 10:22, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+566) . . N Cultural Universalism (Created page with "====== Cultural Universalism ====== The belief that it is possible for certain values to transcend cultural and national differences. This term also claims that all cultures ...")
- 10:21, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+755) . . N Cultural Transfer (Created page with "====== Cultural Transfer (or Transmission) ====== Refers to the export and import of cultural and literary information and ideas across different cultures and societies. Lang...")
- 10:21, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+617) . . N Cultural Tourism (Created page with "====== Cultural Tourism ====== Cultural tourism has become immensely popular in recent years. It defines the movement of people to cities and regions with a range of historic...")
- 10:20, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+754) . . N Cultural Studies (Created page with "====== Cultural Studies ====== Academic field of critical theory and literary criticism initially introduced by British academics in 1964 and gradually adopted by other acade...")
- 10:20, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+837) . . N Cultural Revolution (China) (Created page with "====== Cultural Revolution (China) ====== The Cultural Revolution in China from 1965-1968 was Chairman Mao’s attempt at reasserting his power and ideologies after the weake...")
- 10:19, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,226) . . N Cultural Reproduction (Created page with "====== Cultural Reproduction ====== The transmission process of certain existing values, norms, and ideas from generation to generation. Cultural reproduction finds its meani...")
- 10:18, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,091) . . N Cultural Relativism (Created page with "====== Cultural Relativism ====== Although the theory of cultural relativism was developed by German- American anthropologist, Franz Boas early in the twentieth century, the ...")
- 10:18, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+409) . . N Cultural Policy (Created page with "====== Cultural Policy ====== Cultural policy provides guidelines for decision-making in cultural affairs to various institutions ranging from governments to local councils t...")
- 10:17, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+938) . . N Cultural Pluralism (Created page with "====== Cultural Pluralism ====== Defines a condition where minority ethnic groups continue to retain their distinctive cultural identities and values, while coexisting peacef...")
- 10:17, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+460) . . N Cultural Occupations (Created page with "====== Cultural Occupations ====== Professions which involve creative and artistic production, and heritage collection and preservation. According to the UNESCO and OECD defi...")
- 10:16, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+639) . . N Cultural Materialism (Created page with "====== Cultural Materialism ====== Anthropological theory first presented by Marvin Harris in 1968, which relates cultural aspects such as religion, beliefs, and traditions t...")
- 10:16, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+706) . . N Cultural Liberty (Created page with "====== Cultural Liberty ====== Centered on the belief that all individuals have the basic right to choose as well as express their religious and cultural identities in a plur...")
- 10:15, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+575) . . N Cultural Invention (Created page with "====== Cultural Invention ====== Refers to any development created by people that is not physical in nature. Cultural inventions include constructs such as language, belief s...")
- 10:14, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+801) . . N Cultural Imperialism (Created page with "====== Cultural Imperialism ====== The theory of cultural imperialism gained prominence in the 1970s, when it was used to define the dominance of Western nations over less de...")
- 10:14, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+577) . . N Cultural Heritage (Created page with "====== Cultural Heritage ====== Term that refers to the legacy of artifacts, monuments, and intangible cultural aspects inherited from the past and transmitted from generatio...")
- 10:13, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+523) . . N Cultural Hegemony (Created page with "====== Cultural Hegemony ====== A sociological theory formulated by prominent Marxist philosopher, Antonio Gramsci (founder of the Italian Communist Party). The theory state...")
- 10:12, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+731) . . N Cultural Expansionism (Created page with "====== Cultural Expansion ====== Cultural expansionism is the practice of exporting a country’s culture, values and norms to other parts of the world in an effort to get ot...")
- 10:12, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+429) . . N Cultural Domain (Created page with "====== Cultural Domain ====== A set of items that are of the same kind, or have something in common which makes them “go together”. Items may vary from countries to plant...")
- 10:11, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+615) . . N Cultural Diplomacy under the Ottoman Empire (Created page with "====== Cultural Diplomacy under the Ottoman Empire ====== The Ottomans shared close cultural relations with European powers from the Middle Ages up until the end of the ninet...")
- 10:09, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+333) . . N Cultural Dimensions (Created page with "====== Cultural Dimensions ====== Psychological attributes or value constructs which characterize specific cultural groups. According to Geert Hofstede, there are four main d...")
- 10:08, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+669) . . N Cultural Democratization (Created page with "====== Cultural Democratization ====== A domestic cultural policy that explains the way in which culture is developed and defined. Cultural Democratization is often considere...")
- 10:06, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+634) . . N Cultural Democracy (Created page with "====== Cultural Democracy ====== A populist bottom-up approach to providing society with access to culture. Cultural Democracy can be defined as a philosophy of practice that...")
- 10:06, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,540) . . N Cultural Clusters (Created page with "====== Cultural Clusters ====== A group of countries which share the same culture, values and beliefs. Over the years, a lot of research has been conducted to identify “clu...")
- 10:05, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,101) . . N Cultural Citizenship (Created page with "====== Cultural Citizenship ====== The notion of cultural citizenship developed in the 1980s as an approach with which to examine the socio- cultural identity, political will...")
- 10:04, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+606) . . N Cultural Assets (Created page with "====== Cultural Assets ====== Cultural assets are the factors that contribute to the vibrancy and dynamism of a particular culture. The definition of a cultural asset is quit...")
- 10:03, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+575) . . N Cultural Anthropology (Created page with "====== Cultural Anthropology ====== Cultural anthropology is a field within the discipline of anthropology which studies the various cultures of human beings. It analyzes ho...")
- 10:02, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . m Confucius Institute (Dictionary) (Horvath moved page Confucius Institute to Confucius Institute (Dictionary))
- 10:02, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+46) . . N Confucius Institute (Horvath moved page Confucius Institute to Confucius Institute (Dictionary))
- 10:01, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+48) . . Culinary Diplomacy (Dictionary)
- 10:01, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+742) . . N Culinary Diplomacy (Dictionary) (Created page with " Culinary diplomacy is defined as “the use of food as an instrument to create a cross-cultural understanding in the hopes of improving interactions and cooperation.” Culin...")
- 09:52, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+682) . . N Critical Race Theory (CRT) (Created page with "====== Critical Race Theory (CRT) ====== Developed in the late 70s/early 80s, the Critical Race Theory is the critical analysis of race and racism from a legal point of view....")
- 09:51, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+924) . . N Creative Industry Mapping (Created page with "====== Creative Industry Mapping ====== Creative Industry Mapping is a tool used to give an overview of the competitive environment in the creative industry and traditional f...")
- 09:50, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+673) . . N Creative Industries (Created page with "====== Creative Industries ====== Businesses and economic activities which base their products and production processes on the generation of knowledge, information, and creat...")
- 09:50, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+426) . . N Creative Economy (Created page with "====== Creative Economy ====== A classification focused on the dynamic processes of innovation and knowledge creation in certain areas related to business, technology, and ma...")
- 09:49, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+493) . . N Creative Ecology (Created page with "====== Creative Ecology ====== A new approach that aims at stimulating creativity by looking at the local environment, and promoting ecological literacy and greater awareness...")
- 09:48, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+689) . . N Creative Class (Created page with "====== Creative Class ====== The concept of a creative class was developed by American social scientist Richard Florida. According to Florida, the creative class is the drivi...")
- 09:47, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+781) . . N Counter Culture (Created page with "====== Counter Culture ====== A subculture whose values, principles, and behaviours contrast those of the so called “mainstream” culture. The term was coined and defined ...")
- 09:47, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+444) . . N Corrupting Sea (Created page with "====== Corrupting Sea (The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History, 2000) ====== A co-authored book by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell, analyzing the Mediterra...")
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