animateur

plural animateurs

1. One who promotes particular activity, especially one of a cultural or artistic nature.

   As an animateur you seek out a social circle to which to belong, whether or not it is entirely of your own making.

   1989, Ronnie Lessem, Global Management Principles, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 612

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   If an animateur is seeking to change their psychological point of view, this will mean re-organizing their defence system as part of the process of transformation.

   1999, Steve Mitchell, “Reflections on Dramatherapy as Initiation through Ritual Theatre”, in Ann Cattanach, editor, Process in the Arts Therapies, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 30

   Animateurs are indeed shifting subjects, resisting classification or belonging. Being an animateur is frequently a temporary status, a transitional experience that may or may not lead to acquiring financial or cultural capital. Often equipped with technical skills, animateurs are frequently students or self-taught animators, who may or may not be on their way to becoming professionals.

   2020, Paola Voci, “Alternative ways of seeing: Post-digital detours in Chinese cinema”, in Song Hwee Lim, Julian Ward, editors, The Chinese Cinema Book, 2nd edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 264, column 1