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Cultures

‘The ability to live with difference, wrote Zygmunt Bauman in Liquid Modernity (2000), let alone enjoy such living and to benefit from it, does not come easily and certainly not under its own impetus. This ability is an art which, like all arts, requires study and exercise’. Like much of our work, the Counterpoint projects under the Cultures category all share one thing in common: they ask how we can develop and perfect the art to which Bauman refers. Here, in one form or another are the studies and the exercises, we hope, that will help us ask the questions and provide the answers that will lead us to feeling more at ease with diversity and difference.

Articles

Culture and Class, by John Holden

Coming soon! New Counterpoint publication: Culture and Class

by: Counterpoint

 / 1 September 2010

Using the UK as a case study, Counterpoint is turning the spotlight on the interplay of culture and class today. In advance of the publication of Culture and Class (forthcoming September 7), Catherine Fieschi outlines why it is crucial that we forge a new relationship between the two. Read the pamphlet's preface and have your say.

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Hotel Uzbekistan with Lada on the wide empty avenues of Tashkent, by Nir Nussbaum, via Flickr 06-07-2010, some rights reserved under a creative commons license: by-nc-nd-sa

What do you know about ‘Uzbekness’? Insights from an emigré writer

by: Jonathan Mundey

 / 6 July 2010

The travails of ethnic Uzbeks in Southern Kyrgyzstan may have (briefly) brought Uzbekistan into the media spotlight recently, but Uzbekistan, from the outside, is not a place we know all that well. Uzbekness: from otherness to ideology, a paper by Hamid Ismailov - emigre poet, novelist and Writer in Residence at the BBC World Service - provides an insider's view.

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Tzvetan Todorov, by Nick Wadham-Smith, some rights reserved

Tzvetan Todorov keynote at the Inner Lives of Cultures Conference

by: Counterpoint

 / 4 May 2010

Tzvetan Todorov gave the keynote address at Counterpoint's The Inner Lives of Cultures conference in Brussels, 25 February 2010. This is a complete recording of the address, entitled Unity of civilization, plurality of cultures.

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Projects

Opera and Chips by Counterpoint, some rights reserved, by-nc-sa.

Culture and Class

Class is the strongest determinant of participation in culture and in turn, culture is a crucial marker of social difference. So does culture increase social mobility or reinforce class division? Answering this question could hold the key to understanding the widening income gap between different ...

two men playing chinese chess, by Ahhhhmen, some rights reserved, sourced 01/03/2010

The Inner Lives of Cultures

The Inner Lives of Cultures project begins from the premise that in our interconnected, and simultaneously de-centered world, cultural exchange cannot consist simply of exporting or promoting “our culture” abroad. Rather, cross-cultural relationships have to be thought of as a reciprocal process, ...

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