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by Dougald Hine | by Dougald Hine | ||
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- | * The Dark Mountain Project blog: http:// | + | |
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- | * More about this journey can be found on Dougald' | + | |
- | * [[dougald_hine_interview|Shelbatra Jashari in conversation with Dougald]] towards the end of his journey, in Rab, Croatia | + | |
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- | === Journeyers and Guilds === | + | * [[Words Which Matter to People]], Dougald' |
+ | * [[dougald_hine_interview|Dougald Hine in conversation with Shelbatra Jashari]] towards the end of his journey, in Rab, Croatia | ||
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+ | ===Journeyers and Guilds=== | ||
In the guilds of the middle ages, a journeyman was someone who had completed his apprenticeship and was competent in his craft, but had not yet risen to the level of master. The word could be misleading – “journey” is actually “journée”, | In the guilds of the middle ages, a journeyman was someone who had completed his apprenticeship and was competent in his craft, but had not yet risen to the level of master. The word could be misleading – “journey” is actually “journée”, | ||
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This invitation led to more questions than answers: what do we mean when we use the word “resilience”? | This invitation led to more questions than answers: what do we mean when we use the word “resilience”? | ||
- | === Culture and Resilience === | + | ===Culture and Resilience=== |
Within the range of possibilities these questions offered, I chose to focus on what I have tended to call deep cultural resilience. As a starting point, I wrote, perhaps resilience is best understood as the capacity to endure. | Within the range of possibilities these questions offered, I chose to focus on what I have tended to call deep cultural resilience. As a starting point, I wrote, perhaps resilience is best understood as the capacity to endure. | ||
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I am particularly interested in the role that culture plays in this: culture in the narrow sense of the arts – because I suspect that those who have dedicated their lives to their creative work have useful lessons for how we make a good job of living through difficult times – but also culture in the broader anthropological sense, the ways of being and doing and seeing which give shape to life in a particular place and time. | I am particularly interested in the role that culture plays in this: culture in the narrow sense of the arts – because I suspect that those who have dedicated their lives to their creative work have useful lessons for how we make a good job of living through difficult times – but also culture in the broader anthropological sense, the ways of being and doing and seeing which give shape to life in a particular place and time. | ||
- | === The Journey === | + | ===The Journey=== |
I set off from Stockholm on the evening of 8 July, 2012. | I set off from Stockholm on the evening of 8 July, 2012. | ||
For the first two weeks, I travelled fast: visiting people and projects that had been on my mind, recording the traces of the journey and the chance encounters to which it led. After that, I slowed down, spending time with groups of friends and collaborators, | For the first two weeks, I travelled fast: visiting people and projects that had been on my mind, recording the traces of the journey and the chance encounters to which it led. After that, I slowed down, spending time with groups of friends and collaborators, | ||
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+ | More about this journey can be found on Dougald' |