Overview
- Provides an in-depth analysis of what happens during the specific time and space of organised cultural encounters
- Connects lessons from different practice fields, which can be applied by practitioners of organised cultural encounters
- Marks an important contribution to the emerging field of the geography of encounter
- Brings together important areas of cross-cultural practices and culture-management practices such as diversity management and interfaith work
Part of the book series: Global Diversities (GLODIV)
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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.Similar content being viewed by others
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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.
Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen is Associate Professor of Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University, Denmark.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Organised Cultural Encounters
Book Subtitle: Practices of Transformation
Authors: Lise Paulsen Galal, Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen
Series Title: Global Diversities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42886-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42885-3Published: 29 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42888-4Published: 29 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42886-0Published: 28 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-2580
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2599
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 219
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Cultural Geography, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Religion, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Public Policy