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- Title: Popular Cultural Materials and Public Spheres: Perspectives from Africa, India and Europe.
- Author : Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 217 KB
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The papers collected here were presented at a seminar entitled "Popular Cultural Materials and Public Spheres: Perspectives from Africa, India and Europe" held in Denmark in September 2004. The seminar formed part of an ongoing ENRECA-funded project on the theme of "Political and Cultural Institutions in Development". (1) The project has three partners: the International Development Studies programme at Roskilde University, Denmark (IDS); the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India (CSSS); and the Centre for Basic Research, Kampala, Uganda (CBR). The broad objective of the ENRECA project is to develop South-South collaboration between the African and the Indian institution and their local networks, with IDS, Roskilde functioning as a catalyst, and with the enhancement of capacity in Uganda as the primary goal. Researcher training courses and joint research seminars in India and Uganda have been central activities, and four Ugandan PhD projects have received fellowships from the project, of which three have so far been completed. In Calcutta, a number of young researchers have been attached as postdoctoral fellows and research interns. An important strand in the project has been the establishment of archives as resources to support the work of researchers and postgraduate students working within the field of "Urban Culture and Democracy". In Calcutta, at the CSSS, an extensive collection on the modern urban history of Calcutta has been established, bringing together materials from the fields of both 'high' and 'popular' culture and giving priority to written texts and images. In Kampala, at the CBR, a smaller archive of popular cultural documents has been set up, which has been focused in particular on recordings of songs and other popular music.