UCM | Proceso de Barcelona: Unión para el Mediterráneo

Learning Module

04	La Unión Europea y el Mediterráneo: IV. Dimesiones Socio-Culturales

Academic Coordinators

	Prof. Manuel Núñez Encabo \| Complutense University of Madrid
	Prof. Quintín Racionero Carmona \| National Distance Teaching University-UNED, Spain

Abstract

This course is about the identity and difference of the Mediterranean culture in the context of, and by contrast with, the European culture in general. The main issue consists in showing that the European culture has been circulating in a similar way, but with particular characteristics, in its different geographic and historic scenes. This identity/difference is its fundamental aspect, which makes it a paradigmatic ambit of the multiculturalism. In this sense, the Euro Mediterranean culture could serve as perfect testing field to our contemporary world, where the recognizing of the citizen rights has to conceive with equal respect to the different traditions.

Course Objectives

The objectives of this course will be the analysis of the relationships between the conception and material production of cultures. This will be developed in three main areas:

1. Knowledge and ideology: construction of the Euro Mediterranean subjectivity and of its social effects, with special attention to the coexistence problems between cultures and acknowledge and exclusion phenomena.
2. Ethics and customs: the practices and ways of life in the Euro Mediterranean ambit, mainly the interrelationship mechanisms between the different axiological systems.
3. Aesthetic and representation: raising and developing of the historic self–knowledge forms, as they appear in their artistic products in the Euro Mediterranean scene.

Programmatic Contents

The course consists in three teaching units. The main idea is that the Euro Mediterranean culture contains peculiar aspects that make it especially privileged to the constitution of new ways of culture in which globalism and particularism should be working together.

Teaching Units »»»

4.1.1	Knowledge and ideology in the building of the Euro Mediterranean spirit
4.1.2	Ethics and customs: Identity, tolerance, and acquiescence
4.1.3	Aesthetic and representation: Ontology of art in the Euro Mediterranean scene