ISBN:
9780415813860
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (423 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge International Handbooks
Parallel Title:
Print version Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In recent years the concept of 'diversity' has gained a leading place in academic thought, business practice and public policy worldwide. Although variously used, 'diversity' tends to refer to patterns of social difference in terms of certain key categories. Today the foremost categories shaping discourses and policies of diversity include race, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability, sexuality and age; further important notions include class, language, locality, lifestyle and legal status. The Routledge Handbook of Diversity Studies will examine a range of such concepts along with historical
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Introduction: formulating diversity studies; PART I Dimensions of diversity; 1 Gender - a central dimension of diversity; 2 Age, ageism and social identity in later years; 3 Disability and diversity; 4 Thinking about race in an age of diversity; 5 Racing diversity: ethnicity, euphemisms, and 'others'; 6 Analysing status diversity: immigration, asylum, and stratified rights; 7 Sexual diversity; 8 Language: the great diversifier
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Religious differentiation and diversity in discourse and practice10 The diversity of milieu in diversity studies; 11 Caste in India: constructs and currents; PART II Historical geographies of diversity; 12 Diversity and the Roman Empire; 13 Diversity and the nature of the Ottoman Empire: from the construction of the imperial old regime to the challenges of modernity; 14 Race and labour, forced and free, in the formation and evolution of Caribbean social structures; 15 Silent minority: celebrated difference, caste difference, and the Hinduization of independent India
Description / Table of Contents:
16 Re-imagining Balkan diversity beyond and 'straight through' the ethno-national17 European Fascism and its aftermath; 18 Diversity, xenophobia and the limits to the post-apartheid state; 19 Situating diversity in the global city: emerging challenges and possibilities in Singapore; 20 Racial boundaries and persistent inequality: the case of African Americans; 21 The question of sectarianism in Middle East politics; PART III Policies and politics of diversity; 22 Governing diversity; 23 Equality for whom?; 24 Fundamental rights and minorities
Description / Table of Contents:
25 When law meets diversity: implications for women's equal citizenship26 Diversity and social welfare: to restrict or include; 27 Diversity management; PART IV Encounters and diversity; 28 Diversity unpacked: from heterogeneities to inequalities; 29 Discrimination, diversity, and work; 30 Contact and prejudice; 31 Diversity and social cohesion; 32 Diversity in United States and British higher education in a national context; 33 Xenophobia: the role of political articulation; 34 Conviviality: (re)negotiating minimal consensus
Description / Table of Contents:
35 Locality and diversity: the city as arena of ethnic expression and accommodation36 Segregation, mixing and encounter; PART V Fusions of diversity; 37 Assimilation, diversity, and change; 38 From creolization to syncretism: climbing the ritual ladder; 39 Intersectionality: assembling and disassembling the roads; 40 Cultural complexity; 41 Critical diversity literacy: essentials for the twenty-first century; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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