Full Description
This book concerns the challenges and tensions rising from mass migration flows, unbalanced north-south and east-west relations and the increasing multicultural nature of society. The scope of the book's theme is global, addressing diversity and identity, intercultural encounters and conflict, and the interrogations of a new socio-political order or paradigm. Thus, it highlights some of the most poignant and challenging outcomes of cultural diversity faced more or less palpably by everyone everywhere in today's societies.
The book's theme of multi- and pluriculturality is of particular current interest in the academic, socio-political, economic and entrepreneurial spheres. It covers Western and non-Western perspectives, representing a valuable resource in terms of international dialogue and experimentation. The chapters are complimentary, completing a rigorous theoretical framework offering detailed presentation and analysis of the phenomenon of diversity as encountered in society and the educational setting and at large viewed in a multidisciplinary multiperspective fashion. Among the theories and concepts represented are those intrinsic to sociology, psychology, political science, economics, history, literature, pedagogy, communication and linguistics.
Contents
Part I: Challenges of Diversity and Intercultural Encounters 1. Seen at a Distance: How Images, Spaces and Memories Shape Cultural Encounters Susana Gonçalves 2. Multicultural Society in Europe: Beyond Multiculturalism Maria Laura Lanzillo 3. The UK's Ad Hoc Multiculturalism and the Rise of Britishness Chris Gifford, Jamie Halsall and Santokh Singh Gill 4. Media and Interculturality: Mapping Theories, Projects and Gaps Sofia José Santos Part II: Identities Confronted and Renewed 5. Foundations of Culture of Conflict Daniel Bar-Tal and Eman Nahhas 6. Intercultural Education: Learning from the Integrated Catholic and Protestant Schools in Northern Ireland Claire McGlynn 7. On Being Invisible and Passing Through Walls: Toward a Pedagogy of Seeing and Being Scene Christine Ballengee Morris and B. Stephen Carpenter, II 8. Identities and Diversities Among Young Europeans: Some Examples from the Eastern Borders Alistair Ross 9. Separate by Choice, or Degrees of Separation Markus A. Carpenter 10. The Mirrors' Maze: On Emotional Aspects of Dealing with Differences in a Multicultural Society Nilly Venezia Part III: Post-Colonial, Post-Historical, Post-Modern Scenarios and Interrogations 11. "The Syndrome of Ernesto" and Multiculturalism: On Being a Teacher in Mozambique António Cabrita 12. Memory, Hope and Post-Historical Politics in Multicultural Horizons Francisco Naishtat 13. The Extinction of the Negative: Megamind, Mouffe and the Anti-Politics of Liberalism Chan Nin and Chan Kwok-bun
