Travelling Concepts Negotiating Diversity in Canada and Europe
‘Diversity’, understood in terms of culture, ethnicity, and of social stratification, is obviously a topic central to both the social sciences and cultural studies. In this context, Canada increasingly serves as a model to be critically assessed for an understanding of multinational and multicultura...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Wiesbaden
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
2010, 2010
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2010 |
| Series: | Politikwissenschaftliche Paperbacks, Studien und Texte zu den politischen Problemfeldern und Wandlungstendenzen westlicher Industriegesellschaften
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | ‘Diversity’, understood in terms of culture, ethnicity, and of social stratification, is obviously a topic central to both the social sciences and cultural studies. In this context, Canada increasingly serves as a model to be critically assessed for an understanding of multinational and multicultural Europe. Taking the different debates in Canada and Europe and disciplinary discussions as a starting point, this volume brings together European and Canadian scholars from sociology, cultural studies, political sciences, philosophy, and literary studies to implement a productive dialogue about concepts of diversity and the way in which they ‘travel’ across the Atlantic and across the disciplines |
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| Physical Description: | 313 p. 2 illus online resource |
| ISBN: | 9783531921396 |