Overview
- Mobilizes knowledge about the contextual factors and strategies in the design of intercultural policy frameworks for cities
- Develops a comparative analytical framework intended to implement intercultural policies and programs in cities
- Compares the experience of intercultural cities in Europe and North America
Part of the book series: Global Diversities (GLODIV)
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This book sets out to explore the political and social potential of intercultural policy for cities by bringing together advances in the areas of urban planning and intercultural theory. In recent years, demographic changes in cities in many parts of the world have led to increasing concerns about inter-ethnic tensions, social inequality, and racial discrimination. By virtue of their intermediate status, cities are in a particularly good position to design policy and programs that contribute to the well-being of all citizens, regardless of their origins. Certain cities have made significant advances in this domain, but until now very little work has been done to understand the specificity of work in the area of intercultural policy frameworks. The overall goal of this volume is to facilitate conversations between researchers and practitioners in their efforts to make cities more inclusive. This volume is the result of a series of on-going collaborations between academics and practitioners and it includes a number of original case studies that explain the evolution of intercultural policy from the point of view local actors. This collection will be of interest especially to policymakers and urban planners, but also to scholars and students in the areas of urban studies, public policy, anthropology, sociology, globalization and social sciences more generally. By leveraging recent advances in the field of intercultural policy and practice, this volume sheds light on the conditions and strategies that make intercultural cities a part of a common future.
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Keywords
- Urban studies
- Quebec’s experience with interculturalism
- State-based multiculturalism
- Intercultural policy and practice
- Multiculturalism
- Social psychology
- Intercultural communication
- Montreal
- Public Administration
- Diversity Management
- Globalization Studies
- Intercultural philosophy
- Intercultural communication
- Intercultural practice
- urban geography and urbanism
Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Intercultural Policy and Cities
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A Tale of Seven Cities
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Bob W. White is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory for Research on Intercultural Relations (LABRRI) at the University of Montreal, Canada. He has won several awards for his research on popular culture and globalization. His current research is focused on the dynamics of intercultural communication in cities and he is the coordinator of a multi-sectorial research partnership on intercultural policy and practice in Montreal.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Intercultural Cities
Book Subtitle: Policy and Practice for a New Era
Editors: Bob W. White
Series Title: Global Diversities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62603-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62602-4Published: 23 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87351-0Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62603-1Published: 09 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-2580
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2599
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 393
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Cities, Countries, Regions, Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Anthropology, Migration, Public Policy