Search results for "Multicultural"

Afroperipheral indigeneity in Wayde Compton’s The Outer Harbour

2021

Black Canadian writer Wayde Compton’s short story collection The Outer Harbour (2015) is located in the Afroperiphery of British Columbia which stands as a ‘contact zone’ that enables the alliances between Black and Indigenous peoples and also establishes a fecund ground of possibilities to emphasize the way in which crossethnic coalitions and representations reconsider imperial encounters previously ignored. The stories participate in the recent turn in Indigenous studies towards kinship and cross-ethnicity to map out the connected and shared itineraries of Black and Indigenous peoples and re-read Indigeneity in interaction. At the same time, the stories offer a fresh way to revisit Indige…

Crisis, convivencia multicultural y "efectos de barrio". El caso de dos barrios de Valencia

2015

La inserción urbana de los inmigrantes se desestabiliza y se pone a prueba con la crisis y las políticas aplicadas. Si bien en Valencia se mantiene una convivencia tranquila, la situación de los servicios públicos aumenta la competencia por recursos escasos entre vecinos de diferentes orígenes. Este texto presenta, en el marco de la ciudad de Valencia, un análisis comparativo de dos barrios receptores de inmigrantes que presentan fuertes contrastes. Por un lado, Russafa un barrio céntrico popular y en proceso de gentrification; por otro, Els Orriols, un barrio periférico obrero. Aún con muchos rasgos comunes, la intensidad del recelo hacia el inmigrante varía de un barrio a otro en función …

Translation and Bilingualism in Monica Ali’s and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Marginalized Identities

2012

This study, drawing upon contemporary theories in the field of migration, postcolonialism, and translation, offers an analysis of literary works by Monica Ali (of Bangladeshi origins) and Jhumpa Lahiri (of Bengali Indian parents). Ali and Lahiri epitomize second-generation immigrant literature, play with the linguistic concept of translating and interpreting as forms of hybrid connections, and are significant examples of how a text may become a space where multi-faceted identities co-habit in a process of deconstructing and reconstructing their own sense of emplacement in non-native places. Each immigrant text becomes a hybrid site, where second- and third generations of immigrant subjects …

Cultural policy and cultural diversity in Finland

2008

Post‐war immigration has produced new ethnic and cultural diversity in European societies. The issues of multiculturalism and interculturalism have also gradually entered the agendas of local and national cultural policy makers. In this article, we explore the development of the relationships between cultural diversity, immigration policy, and cultural policy in Finland. Special attention is given to the capital city of Helsinki. The analysis of policy documents, institutional arrangements and interviews carried out with key actors reveal discrepancies between official intentions and practical solutions. Neither is the incorporation of the diversity into the traditional minority policy unam…

African Immigrants in Finland in Onward Translocal and Transnational Mobility and Migration, and the Political Implications

2016

This article examines the onward translocal and transnational mobility and migration of African immigrants in Finland, and finds that this is because of racism, and hence more of a search for belonging than just for greener pastures. In the process of this mobility/migration, they represent translocal and transnational identities that crisscross translocal and transterritorial spaces, experiencing transcultural practices. Along the way, they acquire transcultural, multicultural, and cosmopolitan skills with which they negotiate their identities and belonging in the places they visit or reside. This article argues that these multifaceted forms of mobility and migration say something about ne…

Definitions and Contexts of Intercultural Dialogue in European Policy Documents

2020

In this chapter, we analyse how the concept of intercultural dialogue is both explicitly and implicitly used in European education policy documents. First, we explore how the concept is explicitly dealt with in the documents and how its meanings are produced in relation to other concepts and terms, such as culture, cultural heritage, identity, inclusion, empathy, tolerance, multiculturalism, citizenship, participation, and social responsibility. We pay special attention to the values and ideals conveyed by the education policy documents in general and these concepts in particular. Second, we discuss the thematic overlap of these concepts and how different concepts, terms, and conceptual exp…

Cultural diversity as a resource or an obstacle for teaching practices in multicultural milieu: Experience of a training course for Italian teachers …

2017

This contribution, examining the increasing presence at school of East-Asian students (Chinese in particular) and the related didactical complexity rising from the contemporary presence of Western and non Western cultural heritages, discusses some historical, epistemological and linguistic aspects of Chinese culture and the related Shuxue (Mathematics) education. These were presented to Italian teachers and educators during a training course organized by the authors with the aim of answering teachers’ needs (K-12) for training about the didactical problematic of teaching in multicultural milieu (in particular with Chinese students). The laboratory activities designed and implemented in an a…

Cultures in Dialogue: Perceptions and Experiences of Finnish Teachers of Transnational Dances

2012

This article is based on a phenomenographic study that focuses on identifying the pedagogical conceptions of Finnish teachers of transnational dances. The purpose is to uncover and understand teachers' conceptions concerning the implications of the cultural contexts of their specific dance forms for their pedagogical practices. Through a process of phenomenographic data analysis, the authors have identified three different ways to understand teachers' conceptions and experiences: (1) Dance as a path towards personal expression, (2) Telling a story of being a woman through dance, and (3) Self-approval and the collective nature of dance. The study aims at facilitating discussion about the pro…

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LA DEMOCRAZIA INDIANA. UNA CREAZIONE TRANSCULTURALE

2008

Nel 2007 l’India democratica ha compiuto 60 anni e, avendo raggiunto la stimabile quota di un miliardo e centomilioni di abitanti, si dichiara con orgoglio la più grande democrazia del mondo. Ma quanto è legittimo tale orgoglio? Questa domanda potrebbe interpretarsi in due modi: 1. quanto è democratica la democrazia indiana? Oppure 2. quanto è indiana la democrazia indiana? Cercherò – nella prima parte di questo scritto – di rispondere alla prima domanda introducendo brevemente la storia e l’attualità politica dell’India. Nella parte successiva argomenterò il secondo interrogativo, volendo dimostrare che esso è mal posto e suggerendo un diverso approccio per comprendere le creazioni transcu…