Multicultural Dialogue

Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts

Автор: Randi Gressgard

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Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Berghahn Books

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As cross-cultural migration increases democratic states face a particular challenge: how to grant eq...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Randi Gressgard

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2010

страници

190

EAN

9781845456665

ISBN

1845456661

Enbook ID

05097979

Издател

Berghahn Books

Теглоt

449

Размери

152 x 229 x 15

Пълно описание

As cross-cultural migration increases democratic states face a particular challenge: how to grant equal rights and dignity to individuals while recognizing cultural distinctiveness. In response to the greater number of ethnic and religious minority groups, state policies seem to focus on managing cultural differences through planned pluralism. This book explores the dilemmas, paradoxes, and conflicts that emerge when differences are managed within this conceptual framework. After a critical investigation of the perceived logic of identity, indicative of Western nation-states and at the root of their pluralistic intentions, the author takes issue with both universalist notions of equality and cultural relativist notions of distinctiveness. However, without identity is it possible to participate in dialogue and form communities? Is there a way out of this impasse? The book argues in favor of communities based on nonidentitarian difference, developed and maintained through open and critical dialogue. Randi Gressgard is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK) at the University of Bergen. She is also affiliated with the research unit International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) in Bergen. Her research interests focus on minority research, gender studies, and philosophy of science. Her publications include Fra identitet til forskjell [From Identity to Difference] (Spartacus/Scandinavian Academic Press, 2005) and Kjonnsteori[Gender Theory] (co-ed., Gyldendal Akademisk, 2008).

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