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ABSTRACTThe intermedial sphere is a symbolic space in which narratives are open to appropriation through a media transfer which results in the transformation of their deixis, as well as their reterritorialization. This was a significant phenomenon in Quebec where several forms of adaptation of American cinema narratives appeared in vaudeville, theater and local radio in the beginning of the twentieth century.

The urban system in the Indonesian province of East Java is extremely dense. Two factors underlie the urbanization process. The development of industrial enterprises along the principal communications arteries beyond city limits not only draws in economic activity, but results in modification of behaviour and mentality of residents. Agriculture is also a powerful agent for change. The marketing of agricultural products provides a powerful example of how the city intervenes in the marketing process in addition to governing and servicing the agricultural sector.

Keywords: Java-Est, semis urbain, processus d'urbanisation, urbanisation diffuse, agriculture, industrie, East Java, urban System, urbanization process, diffuse urbanization, agriculture, industry

ABSTRACTThis paper studies the Vietnamese family by exploring family structures. A brief analysis of histoncal data from the colonial period is followed by a more detailed examination of data from the World Bank Living Standards Study 1992-93 including data on 4800 households. In addition to presenting the first nationwide findings on the makeup of Vietnamese households, the paper analyzes the data from an individual viewpoint. This approach allows the author to provide an overview of family life at the various stages of life. Overall, the findings show the complexity of the family environment, the importance of intergenerational relations and the lack of a significant increase in the nuclear family in Vietnam.

The integration of elements that refer to the peculiarities of Japanese gastronomy and culinary practices is a fairly common phenomenon in novels, essays, guides, comic books, digital productions, and films. These inserts have a direct informative role on this country (or on its globalized outgrowths) but also a role of consolidation of an imaginary of the Japanese culture. This presence will be questioned here both from the point of view of an aesthetic and sensory production (the kitchen elevated to the rank of fine arts), and from the point of view of a hermeneutic construction.

Keywords: Japon, cuisine, gastronomie, littérature, Japan, cooking, gastronomy, literature

A convention center was recently built in Philadelphia, in the hope that it would bring about urban and economic rejuvenation. This paper focuses on the real impact of this type of equipment within the context of a unified metropolitan System of government.

Keywords: palais des congrès, minorités ethniques, métropole, politique urbaine, industrie du tourisme et de l'hôtellerie, convention center, ethnic minorities, metropolis, urban policy, tourism and hotel industry

In the context of globalization, the duality of the economies built, on the one hand, on the classic verticality of internationally-regulated exchanges and, on the other hand, the horizontality between “poors,” and outside state control, appeared globally with regards to clothing and electronics. Millions of dollars in “entry-level” merchandise produced in South-East Asia are sold tax free via Dubai, in Europe among the poorest populations by middle-eastern transmigrants. Based on recent research (Tarrius, Misaoui and Qacha, 2013), this article describes the ways in which transmigrant groups offer larger, global companies a wide market of poor and transient groups, by passing through in Europe products tax free and outside of the quota system. This description allows the author to discuss the key notions at play in these diverse phenomenons: economic initiatives, invisibilization, mobility, migratory conscience.

Lear Dreaming (2012) is an offspring of, and sequel to, the (in)famous multi-cultural pan-Asian collage Lear (1997), in which director and creator Ong Keng Sen employed a diversity of Asian performance traditions to reimagine and reconceive Shakespeare's tragedy. The soundscape of Lear Dreaming reverberates with the (dis)harmonies and dissonance of electronic synth sounds, gamelan music, pipa songs and Korean jeongak; it places modernity, tradition, contemporaneity and custom in auditory confrontation. With only one actor surrounded by eight musicians, this acoustic interplay is further interjected with the oral patterns of Noh speech, the musicality of Mandarin Chinese and sonorities of Bahasa Indonesia. As a piece of postdramatic “music theatre”, I demonstrate how Lear Dreaming advances intercultural theatrical practice as a sonic performative. In its interplay of Asian performance cultures in/as sonic space, the production posits an alternative performative mode where the intercultural is the acoustic. This paper critically examines the acoustic strategy employed by Ong and analyses the soundscape of Lear Dreaming – the harmonies, harmonics, distortions and discordance – to consider issues of signification, representation, signifiance and the sublime in the performance of Asian inter-culturalisms.

Keywords: Signifiance, Interculturalism, Asian Shakespeare, Mondialisation, Ong Keng Sen, Signifiance, interculturalisme, Shakespeare asiatique, mondialisation, Ong Keng Sen