Academic and Scholarly Writing by John Grech
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This project charts the progress of humanity in the era of the Nation-State, modernity, and globa... more This project charts the progress of humanity in the era of the Nation-State, modernity, and globalisation. Set on a map of the emergence of artificial intelligence from the 19 th to the 21 st centuries, it seeks to understand the apparent re-emergence of popular white nationalism during the first two decades of 21 st century in the context of a collapsing biosphere alongside the promises and threats made by new technology. Ending on a dystopian speculation of an imaginary near future in which carbon-based existence is abandoned in preference of silicon-based consciousness, this multidisciplinary paper seeks, however inadequately, to arrive at a synthesis in which a world oversaturated with information is yet again retrieved and placed in an epistemic field where knowledge may again give rise to wisdom.
Transformation, 2007
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International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 2007
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This Thesis looks at two films by Wim Wenders with a view of
examining how they represent the '... more This Thesis looks at two films by Wim Wenders with a view of
examining how they represent the 'global city.' This thesis is not an
examination of the films representation of 'the city' per se, but a
consideration of the process of engagement between the films and the
individual. The objective is to examine how viewers of the films engage with
the cinematic process so as to enhance their awareness of and participation
in the formation of the global city. By considering the role the films play in
this process. I speculate on the continuing role of the work of art in the age
of global culture.
Scope
The scope of this Thesis is provided by two films about Berlin by
Wenders. The Thesis explicates how these films aid their viewer to participate
in the global city. The Thesis extrapolates three different levels of
abstraction in its analysis:
1) at an empirical level by analysing the films;
2) at an historical and social level by analysing the city and citizenship; and
3) at a cultural level by analysing the role art ·Can play in society today.
Two films by Wim Wenders are considered with a view of examining how they represent the 'global c... more Two films by Wim Wenders are considered with a view of examining how they represent the 'global city.' This is not an examination of the films representation of 'the city' per se, but a consideration of the process of engagement between the films and the individual. The objective is to examine how viewers of the films engage with the cinematic process so as to enhance their awareness of and participation in the formation of the global city. By considering the role the films play in this process. I speculate on the continuing role of the work of art in the age of global culture. Scope is provided by the films about Berlin by Wenders with layers of complimentary references elsewhere. The work explicates how these films aid their viewer to participate in the global city. It thus extrapolates three different levels of abstraction in its analysis: 1) at an empirical level by analysing the films; 2) at an historical and social level by analysing the city and citizenship; and 3) at a cultural level by analysing the role art can play in society today.
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Malta Review of Education Research, vol 8, no 2 , Dec 2014
Following an outline of what cultural studies could be, this paper makes a case for its introduct... more Following an outline of what cultural studies could be, this paper makes a case for its introduction at the University of Malta as part of a concerted effort towards the foundation of a specialised creative cultural pedagogical programme aimed at producing a rigorous range of taught and research objectives including a sharp focus on practice-led critical cultural research. The argument is based on a dual impulse embedded in cultural studies which produces intellectual work that is both a research practice in itself as well as an imperative to situate that work in practical everyday culture. Alongside creative and artistic practice, cultural studies, it is shown, has legitimate dealings in both the academy where it participates in scholarly discourses concerning the production of culture as well as dealing in the world beyond the University where, in everyday life, cultural studies researchers participate directly in the production and transformation of culture. Thus as a practice, cultural studies participates in both the spheres of everyday life through the production of culture as well as in the academy through the production of knowledge. It is this dual imperative which gives cultural studies its peculiarly critical edge, for this demands that knowledge engages directly with daily cultural practice to reveal the interconnection between politics, culture and knowledge production. Thus cultural studies may be regarded as both a form of production in the formation of daily life, albeit with a heightened sense of intellectual rigour, as much as it is a discursive scholarly activity conducted in the academy. It is this combinative and yet practical approach to research and teaching outputs and outcomes that gives cultural studies a crucial and potentially pivotal role in the formation of a creative contemporary practice-led research curriculum at the University.
Media International Australia, Feb 2006
Radical History Review, 2002
... The Social Democrats finally beat Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats after more than a de... more ... The Social Democrats finally beat Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats after more than a decade in opposition. ... the people were to be guided by experts.' 26 Like the tourist and the migrant, the newly freed citizens of the capital were left ... 07-Grech.btw 4/23/02 4:38 PM Page 130 ...
Space and Culture, Aug 2002
Transformations : Journal : Artspace : Conferences, Nov 2007
Walter Benjamin and Pierre Clastres provide the main analytical levers for a reconsideration of c... more Walter Benjamin and Pierre Clastres provide the main analytical levers for a reconsideration of community and participatory democracy in a context of 21st Century mediated culture.
Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture, Oct 2, 2006
Semiotic readings of films in multilingual settings, the essay details some of the features of "s... more Semiotic readings of films in multilingual settings, the essay details some of the features of "screens" and "screening" and the work they do in determining meaning and communication.
Transformations: Walter Benjamin and the Virtual, Nov 2007
General introduction to the themed issue dealing with the continuing legacy of Walter Benjamin's ... more General introduction to the themed issue dealing with the continuing legacy of Walter Benjamin's writing and thought.
AGORA Magazine
Er kan niet zomaar worden gesproken over 'de' effecten van evenementen. Een analytische en kritis... more Er kan niet zomaar worden gesproken over 'de' effecten van evenementen. Een analytische en kritische blik is altijd noodzakelijk. De impact kan aanzienlijk zijn, zeker bij grote evenementen. De bestedingen van het toegenomen aantal bezoekers en de investeringen van bedrijfsleven en overheid betekenen in veel gevallen een injectie in de lokale economie. Ook het imago, de beeldvorming, de fysieke omgeving en zelfs de sociaal-culturele identiteit van de regio kunnen veranderen door een evenement. Toch legt de kip ook minder gouden eieren. De economische baten kunnen, indien de alternatieven in rekening worden gebracht, lager zijn dan oorspronkelijk gedacht, het regionale imago kan schade ondervinden door het evenement en de leefbaarheid kan onder druk komen te staan. Precies daarom is een goede procesplanning, inclusief anticipatie en 'follow-up', waarbij rekening wordt gehouden met alle mogelijke gewenste en ongewenste effecten, een absolute prioriteit. Jeroen Bryon is assistent aan het Instituut voor Sociale en Economische Geografie aan de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven en promoveert op het onderwerp 'Management van toeristische effecten in historische steden: instrumenten voor toeristische impactmeting'. Literatuurselectie Andersson, T.D. (1999) Impact analysis of events from an economie point of view. In: Andersson, T.D. et al. (eds.) The impacts of mega events. 6stersund: ETOUR, PP•37-46. Dwyer, L. et al. (2ooo) A framewerk for assessing 'tangible' and 'intangible' impacts of events and conventions, in: Event Management, pp. 175-189. Getz, D. (1997) Event management 6[ event tourism. New York: Cognizant Communication Corporation. Getz, D. (1999) The impacts of mega events on tourism: strategies for destinations. In: Andersson, T.D. et al. (eds.) The impacts of mega events. 6stersund: ETOUR, pp.5-32. Jókövi, E.M. (1996) Inkomen en uitgaan: over economische effecten van vrijetijd voor stedelijke ontwikkeling. Tilburg: Tilburg University Press. Toerisme Vlaanderen (1998) Een evenementenfonds voor Vlaanderen? Brussel: Toerisme Vlaanderen.
Eigene und andere Fremde. 'Postkoloniale' Konflikte im europäischen Kontext, 2005
Teaching Documents by John Grech
Study unit exploring critical and literary approaches to walking and the flaneur as a creative pr... more Study unit exploring critical and literary approaches to walking and the flaneur as a creative process.
The release of the United Nations Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Clim... more The release of the United Nations Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in November 2007 indicates that human activity is having a dramatic impact on the sustainability of the global ecosystem. The IPCC's report is the first of its kind for it brings together a wide range of scientific and environmental data to give a comprehensive picture of the impact of human activity on the global environment for the first time.
What is a museum?" and "What is the purpose of the museum?" These are two of the questions this u... more What is a museum?" and "What is the purpose of the museum?" These are two of the questions this unit raises and explores. Examining the end-effect on users of museums is another key line of enquiry that students will pursue in this course of studies. So too, will they look at a range of museums with a view to examining through practical and direct study the nature of the museum experience that different approaches to museology give the museum visitor.
Advanced unit developing critical approaches to the use of heritage within the Tourism sector.
Heritage refers to any object or artifact of cultural value, both tangible and intangible. The ov... more Heritage refers to any object or artifact of cultural value, both tangible and intangible. The overall objective of the Heritage stream of courses in Tourism Studies is to enable students of Tourism to understand the notion of heritage in its broadest sense. It is particularly concerned with building a foundational appreciation and understanding of things that grasps the potential and importance of tangible and intangible objects and artifacts. For one of the basic skills that students following a Heritage stream through Tourism Studies must fully appreciate and constantly be aware of is that all things are, or can be, or may one day become regarded as important heritage objects. Both tangible and intangible artifacts and objects, therefore, need to be regarded as valuable and important things that assist humans in their pursuit of recreational and leisure oriented activities such as tourism.
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Academic and Scholarly Writing by John Grech
examining how they represent the 'global city.' This thesis is not an
examination of the films representation of 'the city' per se, but a
consideration of the process of engagement between the films and the
individual. The objective is to examine how viewers of the films engage with
the cinematic process so as to enhance their awareness of and participation
in the formation of the global city. By considering the role the films play in
this process. I speculate on the continuing role of the work of art in the age
of global culture.
Scope
The scope of this Thesis is provided by two films about Berlin by
Wenders. The Thesis explicates how these films aid their viewer to participate
in the global city. The Thesis extrapolates three different levels of
abstraction in its analysis:
1) at an empirical level by analysing the films;
2) at an historical and social level by analysing the city and citizenship; and
3) at a cultural level by analysing the role art ·Can play in society today.
The work is available at
https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/77056
Teaching Documents by John Grech
examining how they represent the 'global city.' This thesis is not an
examination of the films representation of 'the city' per se, but a
consideration of the process of engagement between the films and the
individual. The objective is to examine how viewers of the films engage with
the cinematic process so as to enhance their awareness of and participation
in the formation of the global city. By considering the role the films play in
this process. I speculate on the continuing role of the work of art in the age
of global culture.
Scope
The scope of this Thesis is provided by two films about Berlin by
Wenders. The Thesis explicates how these films aid their viewer to participate
in the global city. The Thesis extrapolates three different levels of
abstraction in its analysis:
1) at an empirical level by analysing the films;
2) at an historical and social level by analysing the city and citizenship; and
3) at a cultural level by analysing the role art ·Can play in society today.
The work is available at
https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/77056
and were presented as a poster at the Cities and Media conference in Vadstena, Sweden in October 2006. In the context of a scientific conference, this ‘corpus’ might appear to represent a concerted effort over two decades to build a significant body of research. The thematic that body addresses could then be described as an interest in exploring and understanding a set of problematics concerning life in the contemporary city. Although such a presupposition might be true in hindsight, in fact and in practice, the work this paper represents had more humble origins. This was a desire to produce aesthetic objects – works of art. For a reader expecting a more conventional, scientifically oriented, and empirically objective project, this paper will beg a question about the nature of research. It also raises an age-old problem or question about what art really is. I hope the following paper will shed some light on these issues. I also hope to show how the projects I have undertaken over the last 20 years through a range of media might, and correctly should, have been considered as legitimate forms of research representing a concerted investigation into life in the contemporary city.