ISBN:
1283890445
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9781283890441
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9780812203509
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 295 p)
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ill., map
Parallel Title:
Print version Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies : Contestation and Symbolic Landscapes
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Symbolism
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Culture conflict
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Culture conflict
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Cultural pluralism
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Multiculturalism
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Cultural pluralism
;
Multiculturalism
;
Symbolism
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Why do people invest so much emotional energy and resources in conflicts over images, symbols, rituals, and other cultural expressions? The answers explored in Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies view such expressions as barriers to or opportunities for inclusion in a divided society's symbolic landscape and political life.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Cultural Contestation and the Symbolic Landscape: Politics by Other Means? -- 2 The Rise and Fall of a Sacred Place: Ayodhya over Three Decades -- 3 Social Lives of the Dead: Contestation and Continuities in the Hawaiian Repatriation Context -- 4 Flagging Peace: Struggles over Symbolic Landscape in the New Northern Ireland -- 5 Conflict Transformation, Cultural Innovation, and Loyalist Identity in Northern Ireland -- 6 Islamic Headscarves in Public Schools: Explaining France's Legal Restrictions -- 7 Minority Language Policy in France: Jacobinism, Cultural Pluralism, and Ethnoregional Identities -- 8 Symbols of Reconciliation or Instruments of Division? A Critical Look at New Monuments in South Africa -- 9 Emerging Multiculturalisms in South African Museum Practice: Some Examples from the Western Cape -- 10 Strategies for Transforming and Enlarging South Africa's Post-Apartheid Symbolic Landscape -- 11 Invisible House, Invisible Slavery: Struggles of Public History at Independence National Historical Park -- 12 Politicizing Chinese New Year Festivals: Cold War Politics, Transnational Conflicts, and Chinese America -- 13 Paddy, Shylock, and Sambo: Irish, Jewish, and African American Efforts to Ban Racial Ridicule on Stage and Screen -- Epilogue -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Cultural Contestation and the Symbolic Landscape: Politics by Other Means?""; ""2 The Rise and Fall of a Sacred Place: Ayodhya over Three Decades""; ""3 Social Lives of the Dead: Contestation and Continuities in the Hawaiian Repatriation Context""; ""4 Flagging Peace: Struggles over Symbolic Landscape in the New Northern Ireland""; ""5 Conflict Transformation, Cultural Innovation, and Loyalist Identity in Northern Ireland""; ""6 Islamic Headscarves in Public Schools: Explaining France's Legal Restrictions""
Description / Table of Contents:
""7 Minority Language Policy in France: Jacobinism, Cultural Pluralism, and Ethnoregional Identities""""8 Symbols of Reconciliation or Instruments of Division? A Critical Look at New Monuments in South Africa""; ""9 Emerging Multiculturalisms in South African Museum Practice: Some Examples from the Western Cape""; ""10 Strategies for Transforming and Enlarging South Africa's Post-Apartheid Symbolic Landscape""; ""11 Invisible House, Invisible Slavery: Struggles of Public History at Independence National Historical Park""
Description / Table of Contents:
""12 Politicizing Chinese New Year Festivals: Cold War Politics, Transnational Conflicts, and Chinese America""""13 Paddy, Shylock, and Sambo: Irish, Jewish, and African American Efforts to Ban Racial Ridicule on Stage and Screen""; ""Epilogue""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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