Author : Imtiaz Hussain
Publisher : Universidad Iberoamericana
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Multiculturalism
ISBN : 9789688595381
Author : Marinela Burada
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1443863122
This book consists of a collection of papers on specific issues centred around three broad areas of scholarly interest: native language analysis, foreign language acquisition and training, and cultural and literary studies. It provides a concise snapshot of the multiplicity of vantage points from which language, literature and culture-related phenomena can be studied and accounted for. The unifying principle behind the variety of issues and approaches illustrated here is the overarching notion of Englishness treated as an object of intellectual inquiry (with a focus on the English-speaking communities, their cultures, English-based creole languages) and as a repository of methodological blueprints applicable in explorations of other languages and cultures. The authors of the articles included in this volume are academics and junior researchers who, on the occasion of the 10th Conference on British and American Studies, convened to share their ideas and pave the way for further work in intersecting research areas subsumed under linguistics, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Cheryl Nakata
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230240836
Hofstede introduced a culture paradigm that has been widely influential in international business. However, its relevance in light of culture's increasing complexity due to globalization has been questioned. Alternative culture frameworks and perspectives are offered by leading scholars in global marketing and management.
Author : Unesco
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9231040774
This report analyses all aspects of cultural diversity, which has emerged as a key concern of the international community in recent decades, and maps out new approaches to monitoring and shaping the changes that are taking place. It highlights, in particular, the interrelated challenges of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue and the way in which strong homogenizing forces are matched by persistent diversifying trends. The report proposes a series of ten policy-oriented recommendations, to the attention of States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, international and regional bodies, national institutions and the private sector on how to invest in cultural diversity. Emphasizing the importance of cultural diversity in different areas (languages, education, communication and new media development, and creativity and the marketplace) based on data and examples collected from around the world, the report is also intended for the general public. It proposes a coherent vision of cultural diversity and clarifies how, far from being a threat, it can become beneficial to the action of the international community.
Author : César Villanueva Rivas
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 22,88 MB
Release : 2007
Category : National characteristics, Mexican
ISBN : 9789176365601
Author : A. Fleras
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230100120
This book develops an account of 'inclusive multicultural governance' which is contrasted with assimilationist and separatist/differentialist approaches to the political management of and accommodation of multicultural diversity in liberal democracies.
Author : James Farrer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137514086
This book provides a framework for understanding the global flows of cuisine both into and out of Asia and describes the development of transnational culinary fields connecting Asia to the broader world. Individual chapters provide historical and ethnographic accounts of the people, places, and activities involved in Asia's culinary globalization.
Author : Raymond Taras
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 2012-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0748664599
Tackles the challenge of dismantling the multicultural model without destroying diversity in European society* Have Europeans become hostile to multiculturalism? * When people vote for anti-immigration parties, do they also support their anti-multiculturalism policies? * And are right-wing extremists becoming the storm troopers of the struggle against diversity?In recent years, European political leaders from Angela Merkel to David Cameron have discarded the term 'multiculturalism' and now express scepticism, criticism and even hostility towards multicultural ways of organising their societies. Yet they are unprepared to reverse the diversity existing in their states. These contradictory choices have different political consequences in the countries examined in this book. The future of European liberalism is being played out as multicultural notions of belonging, inclusion, tolerance and the national home are brought into question.
Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745659578
Many families leave their children for years to be looked after by young people about whom they know next to nothing, from places they have barely heard of. Who are these au pairs, why do they come and what is their experience of this arrangement? Do they, for their part, find that they are treated as one of the family, and would they even want to be? After a year of careful research, this book shows how most of our assumptions and expectations about au pairs are wrong. This is the first book devoted to the lives of au pairs, their leisure as well as their work time. We see this world from the eyes of the visitors, and their unique perspective on what lies at the heart of our family life. The book does not flinch from documenting the realities of the situation Ð the racism and the problematic behaviour of the au pairs themselves, as much as the ignorance and exploitation they can be subject to. The book is a case study in how to come to feel modern life empathetically from the viewpoint of one of those many migrant groups we take for granted and rely on but rarely try to understand.
