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Project code: 5-12-102


Contemporary Civilizational Changes and Development of Croatia


Main researcher: CVJETIČANIN, BISERKA (7463)


Assistants
Type of research: basic
Duration from: 01/01/91. to 12/31/95.
Papers on project (total): 158
Papers on project quoted in Current Contents: 1
Institution name: Institut za razvoj i međunarodne odnose, Zagreb (17)
Communication
Phone: 385 (01) 45 54 522
Fax: 385 (01) 444 059
E-mail: biserka@mairmo.irmo.hr
Summary: The project "Contemporary Civilizational Changes and Croatia's Development" starts from the realization that global civilizational changes are accelerating. Concepts such as mondialization, transnationalization and planetization reflect the processes of transformation in the world today. These processes take the form of integration (in Western Europe), disintegration (in Eastern Europe), and intercultural communication, giving rise to the "civilization of networks". Cultural transformation affects both developed and developing countries and expresses itself as a crisis of cultural identity and the need to elaborate "neoculture". Individual societies seek their identity (national or ethnic), raising at the same time the issue of the European cultural identity, perceived as cultural diversity. In Central and Eastern European countries in transition to decentralization and market economy, the entire social structure has entered a period of uncertainty. Cultural policies geared mainly towards the formulation of the objectives of cultural development tend to ignore the crisis of identity. The changes taking place within the overall civilizational context are largely determined by changes in communication/information technologies. Cultural integration processes in Europe inevitably have an effect on Croatia's developmental identity and its greater participation in international communication, through which it can assert its own cultural values. The role of the mass media and an independent media system is central to the development in Croatia of a civil society and a democratic culture, media being also a key institution of parliamentary democracy.

Keywords: civilization, culture, change, world, Europe, cultural policy, Croatia, communication and mass media, international co-operation, democratic culture

Research goals: The project's aim has been to identify and interpret civilizational changes in the presentday world and their effects on processes of international integration/disintegration, particularly in the context of the integration processes in Europe and the position of Croatia. Another objective has been to establish the theoretical scientific bases of cultural policy, identify theoretical and applied models, and redefine them from the perspective of cultural development. The study of cultural policies in the world, carried out in cooperation with UNESCO and a number of international research institutions, is in the forefront of contemporary research trends in the social sciences. In modern sociological science, the study of cultural policies, an area of public planning that most directly involves the objectives of national identity of society, now occupies the place previously occupied by studies of more limited social contexts or policies. One of the objectives has been to study developmental communication among cultures in the new Europe as part of the global dialogue (i.e. the role of networks in cultural change and development) and changes taking place on all levels, especially processes of restructuring in Eastern Europe (decentralization, privatization in the field of culture) and processes of integration in Western Europe. The expected results will be applied in defining the international aspects of Croatia's cultural identity.

COOPERATION - PROJECTS


  1. Name of project: Current State and Trends in Cultural Policy and Life in Unesco Member States
    Name of institution: UNESCO, Section for Cultural Dimension of Development
    City: 75006 - Paris, France

  2. Name of project: CULTURELINK Network of Networks for Research and Cooperation in Cultural Development
    Name of institution: Council of Europe
    City: 76006 - Strasbourg, France

  3. Name of project: CULTURELINK Network of Networks for Research and Cooperation in Cultural Development
    Name of institution: UNESCO
    City: 75006 - Paris, France

  4. Name of project: Cultural Development Database
    Name of institution: European Cultural Foundation
    City: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  5. Name of project: Broadcasting Laws in Eastern Europe and the Republics of the former Soviet Union (BLER Study Group)
    Name of institution: IAMCR (International Association for Mass Communication Research)
    City: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  6. Name of project: The Cultural Impact of Media Policies in the European Region. Project no. 318 of the UNESCO World Decade for Cultural Development
    Name of institution: MEDIACULT
    City: 1040 - Vienna, Austria

  7. Name of project: Changes in the Status and Functioning of Cultural Centres, A Study of Central and Eastern European Countries in Transition
    Name of institution: Pro Helvetia/Echanges culturels Est-Ouest
    City: Bern, Switzerland

  8. Name of project: Dynamics of Communication and Cultural Transition
    Name of institution: The Japan Foundation
    City: Tokyo, Japan

COOPERATION - INSTITUTIONS


  1. Name of institution: International Research Institute for Media, Communication and Cultural Development - MEDIACULT
    Type of institution: International organization
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: 1040 - Vienna, Austria

  2. Name of institution: International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR) BLER (Broadcasting Legislature in Eastern and Central Europe) Study Group
    Type of institution: International organization
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  3. Name of institution: PRELUDE International
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Joint publishing of scientific papers
    City: 5000 - Namur, Belgium

  4. Name of institution: Association de Recherche Cooperative Internationale - ARCI
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 92120 - Montrouge, France

  5. Name of institution: EUROCREATION PRODUCTION
    Type of institution: International organization
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: 75006 - Paris, France

  6. Name of institution: European College for Cultural Cooperation
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  7. Name of institution: Centre de Sociologie du Theatre de l'Universite de Bruxelles
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 1050 - Brussels, Belgium

  8. Name of institution: Institut de Sociologie - C.S.G.
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 1050 - Brussels, Belgium

  9. Name of institution: LORETO
    Type of institution: State administration
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: 1050 - Brussels, Belgium

  10. Name of institution: Research Institute for Culture
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 1251 - Budapest, Hungary

  11. Name of institution: University College Dublin
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of experts
    City: 4 - Dublin, Ireland

  12. Name of institution: Boekmanstichting
    Type of institution: Other
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  13. Name of institution: Centre for Arts and Media Management
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of information
    City: 3500 - Utrecht, The Netherlands

  14. Name of institution: Universidad de Deusto
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 48080 - Bilbao, Spain

  15. Name of institution: Swedish National Council For Cultural Affairs
    Type of institution: State administration
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of information
    City: 10398 - Stockholm, Sweden

  16. Name of institution: Ministere de la Culture et de la Francophonie
    Type of institution: State administration
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: 75006 - Paris, France

  17. Name of institution: Canadian Commission for Unesco
    Type of institution: State administration
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: K1P5V8 - Ottawa, Canada

  18. Name of institution: Institut quebecois de recherche sur la culture
    Type of institution: State institute
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: G1R4N4 - Quebec, Canada

  19. Name of institution: Comparative Policy Group, Department of Communication, Ministry of Culture
    Type of institution: State administration
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: K1P5V8 - Ottawa, Canada

  20. Name of institution: Kennedy Center for International Studies
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: UT84602 - Provo, USA

  21. Name of institution: Universidad de Las Naciones Unidas - Universidad Palermo
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 1175 - Buenos Aires, Argentina

  22. Name of institution: Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de Politica Cultural
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 2200 - San Lorenzo, Argentina

  23. Name of institution: Instituto Colombiano de Cultura - COLCULTURA
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: Bogota, Colombia

  24. Name of institution: Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of information
    City: Nairobi, Kenya

  25. Name of institution: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of experts
    City: 110001 - New Delhi, India

  26. Name of institution: Korea Foundation
    Type of institution: Other
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 100-095 - Seoul, Korea

  27. Name of institution: International Communication Program, American University
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 20016-8071 - Washington D.C., USA

  28. Name of institution: Institute for Cultural Policy Studies, Griffith University
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 4111 - Nathan, Australia

  29. Name of institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of information
    City: MA 02139 - Cambridge, USA

  30. Name of institution: Zavod za kulturu
    Type of institution: State administration
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

  31. Name of institution: Ministarstvo kulture
    Type of institution: State administration
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

  32. Name of institution: Ministerul Culturii - Romania
    Type of institution: State administration
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 74341 - Bucuresti, Romania

  33. Name of institution: Institut fur Kulturelles Managment (IKM)
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: 1040 - Vienna, Austria

  34. Name of institution: Institute for Cultural Research
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of experts
    City: 109072 - Moscow, Russia

  35. Name of institution: Centre for Cultural Information and Research
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: 6778 - Tel Aviv, Israel

  36. Name of institution: Ministarstvo za znanost in tehnologijo, Slovenska nacionlna komisija za Unesco
    Type of institution: State administration
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of information
    City: 61000 - Ljubljana, Slovenija

  37. Name of institution: The Arts Council of Great Britain
    Type of institution: Other
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: SW1P3NQ - London, United Kingdom

  38. Name of institution: Institut Mediterraneen de la Communication
    Type of institution: State institute
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of experts
    City: 75006 - Paris, France

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS


  1. Name: Directory of Institutions and Databases in the Field of Cultural Development
    Type of achievement: Catalogues, address books,
    Authors: Aleksandra Uzelac
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