The first reflections that emerge around the social enterprise is to try to know and investigate the specificities that make it unique compared to the "company"; therefore, the present document seeks to delimit the nature of this type of organization based on its configuration and sense by which they have been created; for this, it is considered im...
This essay aims to compare the different winescapes in Brazil based on the “cultural systems” concept by Bonnemaison (2005) and the “ethnogeographic” approach by Elias (2008). It analyzes the ways wine tourism has been developed in four destinations: Vale dos Vinhedos, Campanha Gaucha, Vale do São Francisco and São Joaquim. The qualitative research...
Published in Human Affairs
The author notes that European spiritual culture has provided the world with two great myths: the myth of Jesus Christ and the Promethean myth. These two myths were an early indication of the rise of the hidden predatory spiritual paradigm. As a result of this paradigm (setting), later culture hypertrophically strengthened the human genetic predisp...
The subject of education of cultural managers or, more broadly, professionals dedicated to the organization of culture, as willbe further examined, today is fundamentally important not only to the development of culture in Brazil and in the world but alsoto the creation of cultural policies effectively imaginative and contemporary. A deeper analysi...
Les défis démographiques liés à la croissance et à l’évolution des structures par âge sont tels que peu de pays africains pourront atteindre les objectifs du millénaire pour le développement en 2015. Les variables démographiques jouent, à côté des variables sociales, économiques, politiques et culturelles, un rôle central pour expliquer les dynamiq...
The diversity of knowledge practices that correspond, in different cultural systems, to what we call «science» in our own (or owns), asks the question not only of knowing whether these sciences or knowledges may be compared and how, but also, more deeply, that of the type of rationality which underlines them. We intend to situate some aspects of th...
