Negotiating Diversity

Author : Matthew Festenstein
Publisher : Polity
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745624057

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Negotiating Diversity by Matthew Festenstein Pdf

Debates about cultural diversity have become an important, controversial and inescapable features of the politics of modern democracies. Negotiating Diversity offers a lucid and accessible analysis of the political theory of multiculturalism. It is an ideal text for students looking for an overview of the state of play in this area. The book explores the ways the concept of culture has been used in political theory, and critically evaluates contemporary liberal responses to multiculturalism, including the work of key political philosophers such as Will Kymlicka, Brian Barry and Chandran Kukathas, drawing on a range of real-world examples to illustrate its arguments. It provides critique of the tendency to reify cultural identity in political thinking, particularly through an examination of contemporary liberalism. In its place, the author develops a deliberative alternative, which views the politics of cultural diversity as a fallible process of negotiation, argument and compromise. He confronts objections that this alternative itself offers an unrealistic or oppressive vision of politics, and explores the fragility of trust in the politics of multicultural societies.

Author : Omar Sadr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000760903

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Negotiating Cultural Diversity in Afghanistan by Omar Sadr Pdf

This book analyses the problematique of governance and administration of cultural diversity within the modern state of Afghanistan and traces patterns of national integration. It explores state construction in twentieth-century Afghanistan and Afghan nationalism, and explains the shifts in the state’s policies and societal responses to different forms of governance of cultural diversity. The book problematizes liberalism, communitarianism, and multiculturalism as approaches to governance of diversity within the nation-state. It suggests that while the western models of multiculturalism have recognized the need to accommodate different cultures, they failed to engage with them through intercultural dialogue. It also elaborates the challenge of intra-group diversity and the problem of accommodating individual choice and freedom while recognising group rights and adoption of multiculturalism. The book develops an alternative approach through synthesising critical multiculturalism and interculturalism as a framework on a democratic and inclusive approach to governance of diversity. A major intervention in understanding a war-torn country through an insider account, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations, especially those concerned with multiculturalism, state-building, nationalism, and liberalism, as well as those in cultural studies, history, Afghanistan studies, South Asian studies, Middle East studies, minority studies, and to policymakers.

Author : Howard Louthan,Gary B. Cohen,Franz A. J. Szabo
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857451095

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Diversity and Dissent by Howard Louthan,Gary B. Cohen,Franz A. J. Szabo Pdf

Early modern Central Europe was the continent’s most decentralized region politically and its most diverse ethnically and culturally. With the onset of the Reformation, it also became Europe’s most religiously divided territory and potentially its most explosive in terms of confessional conflict and war. Focusing on the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, this volume examines the tremendous challenge of managing confessional diversity in Central Europe between 1500 and 1800. Addressing issues of tolerance, intolerance, and ecumenism, each chapter explores a facet of the complex dynamic between the state and the region’s Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Utraquist, and Jewish communities. The development of religious toleration—one of the most debated questions of the early modern period—is examined here afresh, with careful consideration of the factors and conditions that led to both confessional concord and religious violence.

Author : Florian Bieber,Roland Bieber
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030550165

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Negotiating Unity and Diversity in the European Union by Florian Bieber,Roland Bieber Pdf

This book explores how the European Union has been responding to the challenge of diversity. In doing so, it considers the EU as a complex polity that has found novel ways for accommodating diversity. Much of the literature on the EU seeks to identify it as a unique case of cooperation between states that moves past classic international cooperation. This volume argues that in order to understand the EU’s effort in managing the diversity among its members and citizens it is more effective to look at the EU as a state. While acknowledging that the EU lacks key aspects of statehood, the authors show that looking at the EU efforts to balance diversity and unity through the lens of state policy is a fruitful way to understand the Union. Instead of conceptualising the EU as being incomparable and unique which is neither an international organisation nor a state, the book argues that EU can be understood as a polity that shares many approaches and strategies with complex and diverse states. As such, its effort to build political structures to accommodate diversity offers lessons to other such polities. The experience of the EU contributes to the understanding of how states and other polities can respond to challenges of diversity, including both the diversity of constituent units or of sub-national groups and identities.

Author : Alain-G. Gagnon,José-Maria Sauca
Publisher : P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 3035264422

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Negotiating Diversity by Alain-G. Gagnon,José-Maria Sauca Pdf

This book provides new insights into the negotiation and management of diversity in complex democratic settings. Much debate has been generated recently over questions of human rights and dignity with the aim of empowering and improving the recognition of smaller nations. The book's central idea is that respect for democracy and protection of human rights represent the most potent ways for the advancement and enrichment of cultural, ideological and legal pluralism. The pursuit and accomplishment of such objectives can only be achieved through negotiation that leads to the accommodation and empowerment of minority groups and nations. Negotiating Diversity brings into dialogue political scientists, philosophers and jurists, and enriches a major discussion launched some years back by Yael Tamir's Liberal Nationalism, Alain-G. Gagnon and James Tully's Multinational Democracies, as well as Wayne Norman's Negotiating Nationalism, and Will Kymlicka's Multicultural Citizenship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Democracy
ISBN : LCCN:2020718455

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Negotiating Diversity by Anonim Pdf

Author : Helen Mu Hung Ting,Luigi Cajani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031125355

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Negotiating Ethnic Diversity and National Identity in History Education by Helen Mu Hung Ting,Luigi Cajani Pdf

This edited book explores the problems and challenges of negotiating the representation of ethnic minorities within history education. It investigates how states balance the (non-)acknowledgement of the reality of cultural or religious diversity, and the promotion of a point of convergence in history education to foster national identity. Shifting our attention away from the intractable challenges posed by post-conflict countries for reconciliation, the contributors draw attention to the need to explore ways to prevent or pre-empt conflicts and exclusion through history education, which could contribute to developing a more sustainable culture of peace. Drawing on a wide range of contexts and sources, this book asks how history education could contribute to forming critical, historically informed, and committed young citizens. The book will be of interest to students and academics working on themes such as nationalism, citizenship, ethnicity, history education, multicultural education, peace studies and area studies, as well as practitioners in the fields of history, social studies, civic or citizenship.

Author : Nirukshi Perera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000603101

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Negotiating Linguistic and Religious Diversity by Nirukshi Perera Pdf

Diversity is a buzzword of our times and yet the extent of religious diversity in Western societies is generally misconceived. This ground-breaking research draws attention to the journey of one migrant religious institution in an era of religious superdiversity. Based on a sociolinguistic ethnography in a Tamil Saivite temple in Australia, the book explores the challenges for the institution in maintaining its linguistic and cultural identity in a new context. The temple is faced with catering for devotees of diverse ethnicities, languages, and religious interpretations; not to mention divergent views between different generations of migrants who share ethnicity and language. At the same time, core members of the temple seek to continue religious and cultural practices according to the traditions of their homelands in Sri Lanka, a country where their identity and language has been under threat. The study offers a rich picture of changing language practices in a diasporic religious institution. Perera inspects language ideology considerations in the design of institutional language policy and how such policy manifests in language use in the temple spaces. This includes the temple’s Sunday school where heritage language and religion interplay in second-generation migrant adolescents’ identifications and discourse.

Author : B. Siim,M. Mokre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137291295

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Negotiating Gender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere by B. Siim,M. Mokre Pdf

The book analyses intersections between gender and diversity through cross-national studies of European public spheres. The approach confronts research on European democracy and the public sphere with gender and diversity research and reflections about European equality and diversity issues are based on new research from a large-scale EU project.

Author : John Erik Fossum,Riva Kastoryano,Birte Siim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Cultural pluralism
ISBN : 1349997862

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Diversity and Contestations Over Nationalism in Europe and Canada by John Erik Fossum,Riva Kastoryano,Birte Siim Pdf

This edited collection considers how transformations in contemporary societies have raised questions surrounding our sense of community and belonging, alongside our management of increased diversity. Diversity and Contestations over Nationalism in Europe and Canada includes contributions that consider the rise in regional nationalism and a greater willingness to recognise that many states are multinational. It critically explores the effects of altered patterns of immigration and emigration, including whether they give rise to (or re-invigorate) transnational or border-crossing forms of nationalism. The book also identifies the patterns of national transformation, especially in Europe, which we see coupled with significant nationalist reactions by populists as well as extreme right-wing movements and parties. This multidisciplinary collection of works will be a useful resource forresearchers and students of political sociology in Europe and Canada, particularly within the contexts of immigration, multiculturalism and globalization.--

Author : Sheila Quaid,Catriona Hugman,Angela Wilcock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 100303943X

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Negotiating Families and Personal Lives in the 21st Century by Sheila Quaid,Catriona Hugman,Angela Wilcock Pdf

"This ground-breaking book is a vital new resource in the sociological study of family life in the 21st century. The chapters in this volume explore a diverse range of family and intimate life experiences, such as personal choices about reproduction and how life choices and family forms are mediated by factors including geographical location, race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, income, and government policy. Through a series of evidence-based chapters, leading sociologists explore a diverse range of family and intimate life experiences and the contexts within which they are lived and experienced. Each chapter delves into the lives and experiences of people whose choices in some way seem to disrupt normative and traditional ideas of family, parenting and childhood. Family patterns and experiences of living apart together, troubled families, children in care, culture, coupledom, same sex families and digital technology are covered and examined innovatively through theoretical engagement. Chapters also incorporate innovative technologies and its use within family spaces that shape the nature of human relationships and interactions. These negotiations within the family are globally contextualised within the political and ideological frameworks of societies at any given moment in time. The work recognises the sensitivity of family and personal lives and incorporates the increasing need of the impact of emotionality that forms part of knowledge production. Additionally, innovative methods are showcased in chapters on researching the family through socially-just methods, researcher emotionality and visual data. By bringing together thought-provoking research findings and innovative methodological and theoretical approaches, this collection of essays raises and articulates relevant, timely and future thinking for its readers. This book will therefore be indispensable for students and researchers as well as professionals and policy makers interested in understanding family life in the 21st century"--

Author : François Guesnet,Cécile Laborde,Lois Lee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317089322

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Negotiating Religion by François Guesnet,Cécile Laborde,Lois Lee Pdf

Negotiating religious diversity, as well as negotiating different forms and degrees of commitment to religious belief and identity, constitutes a major challenge for all societies. Recent developments such as the ‘de-secularisation’ of the world, the transformation and globalisation of religion and the attacks of September 11 have made religious claims and religious actors much more visible in the public sphere. This volume provides multiple perspectives on the processes through which religious communities create or defend their place in a given society, both in history and in our world today. Offering a critical, cross-disciplinary investigation into processes of negotiating religion and religious diversity, the contributors present new insights on the meaning and substance of negotiation itself. This volume draws on diverse historical, sociological, geographic, legal and political theoretical approaches to take a close look at the religious and political agents involved in such processes as well as the political, social and cultural context in which they take place. Its focus on the European experiences that have shaped not only the history of ‘negotiating religion’ in this region but also around the world, provides new perspectives for critical inquiries into the way in which contemporary societies engage with religion. This study will be of interest to academics, lawyers and scholars in law and religion, sociology, politics and religious history.

Author : Rogers Brubaker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674425316

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Grounds for Difference by Rogers Brubaker Pdf

Offering fresh perspectives on perennial questions of ethnicity, race, nationalism, and religion, Rogers Brubaker analyzes three forces that shape the politics of diversity and multiculturalism today: inequality as a public concern, biology as an asserted basis of racial and ethnic difference, and religion as a key terrain of public contestation.

Author : Alistair Edgar,Rupinder Mangat,Bessma Momani
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487518226

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Strengthening the Canadian Armed Forces through Diversity and Inclusion by Alistair Edgar,Rupinder Mangat,Bessma Momani Pdf

The Canadian Armed Forces has not always embraced diversity and inclusion, but its future depends on it. As the country’s demographic makeup changes, its military must adapt to a new multicultural reality and diminishing pools of people from which it can recruit. Canada’s population is increasingly urbanized, immigrant, and not necessarily Christian, white, or bilingual. To attract and retain CAF personnel, the military will have to embrace and champion diversity while demonstrating that it is inclusive. Using a number of cases to highlight both challenges and opportunities, Strengthening the Canadian Armed Forces through Diversity and Inclusion provides a timely look at an established Canadian institution in a rapidly changing world. The editors explore how Canadian Muslim youth, LGBTQ+ individuals, women, racialized minorities, Indigenous communities, and people of non-Christian faiths see their experiences in the CAF. While diversity is a reality, inclusion is still a work in progress for the Canadian Armed Forces, as it is for society at large.

Author : Didem Ikizoglu,Jeremy Wegner,Anna De Fina
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781626164222

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Diversity and Super-diversity by Didem Ikizoglu,Jeremy Wegner,Anna De Fina Pdf

Chronotopic identities : on the timespace organization of who we are / Jan Blommaert and Anna De Fina -- "Whose story?" : narratives of persecution, flight and survival told by the children of Austrian holocaust survivors / Ruth Wodak and Markus Rheindorf -- Linguistic landscape : interpreting and expanding language diversities / Elana Shohamy -- A competence for negotiating diversity and unpredictability in global contact zones / Suresh Canagarajah -- The strategic use of address terms in multilingual interactions during family mealtimes / Fatma Said and Zhu Hua -- Everyday encounters in the market place : translanguaging in the superdiverse city / Adrian Blackledge, Angela Creese, and Rachel Hu -- (In)convenient fictions : ideologies of multi-lingual competence as resource for recognizability / Elizabeth R. Miller -- Constructed dialogue, stance, and ideological diversity in metalinguistic discourse / Anastasia Nylund -- Citizen sociolinguistics : a new media methodology for understanding language and social life / Betsy Rymes, Geeta Aneja, Andrea Leone-Pizzighella, Mark Lewis, Robert Moore -- Recasting diversity in language education in postcolonial, late-capitalist societies / Luisa Martøn Rojo, Christine Anthonissen, Inmaculada Garcia-Sánchez and Virginia Unamuno -- Diversity in school : monolingual ideologies versus multilingual practices / Anna de Fina