Organised Cultural Encounters: Practices of Transformation

di Lise Paulsen Galal (Autore)

Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen (Autore)

Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021

This book explores a particular genre of intervention into cultural difference, used across the globe. Organised cultural encounters is an umbrella concept referring to face-to-face encounters that are organised across a wide variety of social arenas in order to manage and/or transform problems  perceived to stem from cultural difference.   The authors base their focus on empirical contexts either located in Denmark or related to a Danish organisation, investigating interfaith work, training sessions in diversity management, volunteer tourism, a youth diversity project called the Cultural Encounters Ambassadors, and a community dance project. Through different theoretical approaches, and careful analyses of the micro-level practices occurring within the time-space of specific encounters, Galal and Hvenegård-Lassen demonstrate how both the interactions and their outcomes are considerably more complex – and contradictory – than evaluative and instrumental accounts of success or failure may capture.   This book will provide a valuable resource for practitioners and scholars of intercultural relations working in the fields of cultural geography, anthropology, cultural studies, and migration studies.  

• Autore: Lise Paulsen Galal, Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen
• Editore: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Collana: Global Diversities
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 219 p.
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm
• EAN: 9783030428884

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