Organised Cultural Encounters

Practices of Transformation
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-42888-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 311 g

Reihe: Global Diversities

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.  

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hvenegård-Lassen, Kirsten

Galal, Lise Paulsen

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Organised Cultural Encounters. - 2. Tracing the Ideas of Organised Cultural Encounters. - 3. Guided Interactions: Scripting at Work. - 4. Orchestrated Turnarounds: Between Class and Order. - 5. Walking, Dancing, and Listening: Affect and Encounters. - 6. A Risky Business.

Über Autor(innen)

Lise Paulsen Galal is Associate Professor of Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University, Denmark. 

Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen is Associate Professor of Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University, Denmark.