Search results for "Multicultural"

Europa y el Nacional-populismo

2000

The phenomenon of multiculturalism. The case of Poland

2017

One of the most important global processes nowadays is migration. Its result is, interalia, the deepening multiculturalism. It can take the form of a social phenomenon, political project or society. In this article we have focused on multiculturalism as a social phenomenon. It means the presence of different cultures with an ethnic background of their diversity in a specific social space and historical moment. They exist together and accept the mutually distinct ethnic (cultural) difference. The origins of the phenomenon of multiculturalism go back to ancient times, although then the phenomenon did not have a scientific framework of analysis. Such ones appeared in the 70s and 80s of the twe…

Paradise Lost? The Collapse of Dutch Multiculturalism and the Birth of Islamophobic Post-Liberalism

2013

The aim of this chapter is to shed light on the integration debate in the Netherlands, and especially on the prominent role of Islam and cultural issues in this debate (Boomkens 2010: 307). Arguably more than in any other European country, anti-Islamic sentiment has produced political consequences, including the formation of three political parties on a principally anti-Islamic platform (Leefbar Nederland (Liveable Netherlands), List Pim Fortuyn and Partij voor de Vrijheid (Freedom Party)) since 2000 and the dismantling of key aspects of state-supported multiculturalism, including a cessation of ethnic monitoring of labour market participation, the withdrawal of national-level funding for m…

Introduction: What Is Intercultural Dialogue and Why It Is Needed in Europe Today?

2020

The authors introduce the concept of intercultural dialogue and how it has been utilized as a policy by the Council of Europe and the European Union since the early 2000s. First, we explore intercultural dialogue’s relation to and differences from other concepts commonly used to describe different stances in the governance of diversity, ranging from assimilation to integration and from multiculturalism to interculturalism. These different conceptual stances are contextualized by exploring the recent transformations in Europe and their impact on the political aims, goals, and discourses of the Council of Europe and the European Union. Second, we review the previous research on the concept of…

Federalism, Cultural Policies, and Identity Pluralism: Cooperation and Conflict in the Spanish Quasi-Federal System

2014

The division of cultural policy between different levels of administration and the coordination between them in federal countries is a relatively neglected area of research, even though the cultural sphere always requires a balanced combination of autonomy and governance. A particularly interesting case of this equilibrium arises in Spain; often described as a quasi-federal system, both regarding its model of state and within the sphere of cultural policy. However, we demonstrate that, despite the broadly decentralized development of cultural administration in Spain—a plurinational and multicultural state—different recent judicial and political processes are distorting the quasi-federalism …

Jacqueline Woodson’s narrative style in The Other Side: An African American picture book for children

2012

The Other Side (2001) is a children’s story with multicultural characters and themes that can be regarded as an aesthetic exploration of the human experience in the process of the acquisition of knowledge. Following the Black Arts Movement, Jacqueline Woodson’s work portrays many of the issues that are present in the real world but seldom appear in children’s literature, such as racial division or interracial relationships. Using the metaphor of a fence, this African American author reveals issues of loneliness and friendship, inclusion and exclusion, and the overcoming of prejudice and segregation through the wisdom of Clover and Annie, an African American and a white girl, who become frie…

Understanding and working with existential information in a Norwegian adolescent psychiatry context: a need and a challenge

2014

This is one of several studies on existential information in psychotherapy in Southern Norway. The aim of this study was to explore how therapists' backgrounds and existential information influence their therapeutic practice and philosophy of care, and the use of existential information in psychotherapy. The method used was qualitative, semi-structured interviews. Through emerging themes from the interviews and clinical case illustrations, information relating to therapists' backgrounds and existential orientations strongly influenced: therapeutic practice, philosophy of care, and if as well as how existential information was used in therapy. Professional and continued education/training in…

Europa o la interculturalidad

1986

Values, cities and migrations. Real estate market and social system in a multi-cultural city

2023

The book consists of seventeen papers in two parts. The first part, “Values and Relationship Systems in Multicultural Societies”, features how social sciences––including appraisal and valuation, urban planning, philosophy, psychology, and geography––take different approaches to studying values and relationships, converging to form a unified mosaic of complementary and interconnected knowledge. The second part, “Transformations, Permeability and Permanence of Values in Contemporary Multicultural Cities”, highlights the most crucial topics on which appraisals and models focus to interpret and represent the influence of migration on the real estate market in different urban and territorial con…

Società multiculturali e diritto penale. I reati culturalmente orientati

2021

1. Reati culturalmente orientati e vulnerabilità multiculturale nei sistemi liberal-democratici; 2. I reati culturalmente orientati negli USA: il caso Kimura, l’elaborazione della categoria giuridica della “cultural defense”, il “test” di accertamento del condizionamento culturale; 3. Chi è l’altro? Lo strano “caso Pusceddu”: violenze di genere e “cultura sarda” secondo un tribunale tedesco; 4. La giurisprudenza italiana più recente sui reati culturalmente orientati; 5. Le mutilazioni genitali femminili; 6. Multiculturalismo e tolleranza: metodo della persuasione versus metodo della coazione