Cultural Development – Tafter Journal

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

Enabling Culture in enabling development

This number of Tafter Journal reflects on “music”, and “music industry” as two distinct but, after all, clearly connected phenomena, by highlighting the mutual relationship between "contemporary cultural content" and "contemporary cultural industry". Since human beings became citizens of a…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Local Conflicts and the NO-TAP Protest

This paper is about the local conflict which emerged in Apulia, and more exactly in the province of Lecce, as a form of opposition to the major project known as TAP (Trans-Adriatic Pipeline), aimed at transporting Azeri natural gas to…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

The Ministry Organization after the introduction of the recent reform

The law number 5 of 29 January 1975 instituted the Ministero per I Beni e le Attività Culturali e Ambientali[2]. Its original tasks were related to the conservation and valorization of artistic heritage and natural beauties. In 1998, the denomination…

Culture and Tourism

Big-Data to understand touristic and cultural dynamics: a fractal framework.

The Big-Data revolution has been immediately accepted in several industries, in particular the military and defense industries, by various economic and social actors, usually linked to multinational corporations, as a fresh source of innovation. In the cultural sector, these new…

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

The Right to the city by Henry Lefebvre and tendencies to the anti-coercion of its exchange value. Reading hypothesis and analysis.

I believe that it is possible to carry on Lefebvre’s thought trying to fix the coordinates of a possible political economy of the metropolitan space, where there are some contrasting subjective regularities that restore the difference between isotopy and heteropia…