Interculturality in Institutions : Symbols, Practices and Identities (Culture in Policy Making: the Symbolic Universes of Social Action)

Fatigante, Marilena (EDT)/ Zucchermaglio, Cristina (EDT)/ Alby, Francesca (EDT)

Springer International Publishing AG（2023/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 311 p.
• 商品コード 9783031126284

Full Description

This book provides qualitative analyses of intercultural sense making in a variety of institutional contexts. It relies on the assumption that in an increasingly culturally diverse world, individuals often enter contexts that have communal, historically determined and stable sets of values, norms and expected identities, with little cultural compass to find their bearings in them. The book goes beyond interpreting differences in people's ethnic or linguistic roots and discusses instead people's interpretive efforts to navigate different sociocultural situations. The contributors examine such situations in educational, organizational, medical and community settings and look at how participants with different levels of sociocultural competences (such as, migrant patients, migrant adult learners, children) try to cope with institutional constraints and expectations, how they understand symbols, practices and identities in institutional contexts,and how their creative adjustments come to light. 

This book provides insights from the fields of psychology, education, anthropology and linguistics, and is for a wide readership interested in cultural meaning-making.

Contents

Education and community based learning: the development of (inter) cultural competence.- The Provincial Centers for Adult Education (CPIA) as resources for inclusion of migrant adults.- Intercultural dynamics in education.- Interculturality and the penitentiary context: challenges and resources from a community peers' mediation.- Between folk and medical understanding of dying and cure: an  ethnography in a  community based hospice in Thailand.- Negotiating culture in the medical context.- Is there anyone in there? Caregivers and professionals' mutual positioning to take care of vegetative state patients.- Socialization and cultural apprenticeship to medical culture: migrant patients interacting in a first oncological visits. A conversation analytic study.- Social networks and their role as a support in the  oncological  cure: A cultural comparison between italian and foreign patients.- Practices of inclusion in primary care visits ofunaccompanied foreign minors: Allocating agency as an interprofessionally distributed intercultural competence.- Children negotiating culture.- Intercountry adoption migration process: cultural challenges and resources to promote the psychosocial well-being.- Interculturality in the making: Out-of-home children familiarizing with ethnographic research in Italian residential care.