S. Sharma

Multicultural Encounters

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Produktbeschreibung

This book confronts the challenge of difference for rethinking everyday multiculture. It proposes both a theory and practice of a critical pedagogy of popular culture through an analysis of contemporary media and film. For students and scholars committed to a critical practice for transforming the politics of representation and otherness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-51796-1
• 1st ed. 2006
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9781349517961
• ISBN-10: 1349517968
• Artikelnr.: 45582349

Autorenporträt

SANJAY SHARMA teaches at the School of Social Sciences and Law, Brunel University, UK. He has published in the areas of multiculturalism, anti-racism, diaspora youth cultures and is the co-editor of Dis-Orienting Rhythms: Politics of Asian Dance Music.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements PART 1: EDUCATING IDENTITY Introduction: What's Wrong with Multiculturalism? Borders, Agency and Otherness Teaching Difference: Representation and Rhizomes PART 2: MULTICULTURAL PRAXIS Reading Racial Crisis Critical Practice: 'Minor-Popular' Film Diaspora Pedagogy: Working with British-Asian film Epilogue: the Problem with Pedagogy Notes Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

' Multicultural Encounters provides a unique insight into the complexities of teaching a multicultural curriculum in today's university. Sanjay Sharma's book is a crucial resource for all those who aspire to a theoretically informed but practically achievable anti-racist pedagogy.' - Professor Les Back, Goldsmiths College University, UK