Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Vertovec, Steven

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

'Diversity' refers to patterns of social difference in terms of key categories such as ethnicity, gender, disability, sexuality and age. The Routledge Handbook of Diversity Studies will examine, through historical and contemporary cases, a range of such concepts with contributions by experts spanning Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, History and Geography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317600695
• Artikelnr.: 41850623

Autorenporträt

Steven Vertovec is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. He is Co-Editor of the journal Global Networks, author of four books including Transnationalism (Routledge, 2008) and Super-Diversity (Routledge, forthcoming), and editor or co-editor of over thirty volumes including Conceiving Cosmopolitanism (Oxford University Press, 2003), Migration (five volumes, Routledge 2010), and The Multicultural Backlash (Routledge 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Dimensions of Diversity 1. Gender - a Central
Dimension of Diversity 2. Age, Ageism and Social Identity in Later Years 3.
Disability and Diversity 4. Thinking about Race in an Age of Diversity 5.
Racing Diversity: Ethnicity, euphemisms and 'others' 6. Analysing Status
Diversity: Immigration, asylum, and stratified rights 7. Sexual Diversity
8. Language: The great diversifier 9. Religious Differentiation and
Diversity in Discourse and Practice 10. The Diversity of Milieu in
Diversity Studies 11. Caste in India: Constructs and currents Part II:
Historical Geographies of Diversity 12. Diversity and the Roman Empire 13.
Diversity and the Nature of the Ottoman Empire: From the construction of
the imperial old regime to the challenges of modernity 14. Race and Labour,
Forced and Free, in the Formation and Evolution of Caribbean Social
Structures 15. Silent Minority: Celebrated difference, caste difference,
and the Hinduization of independent India 16. 'Reimagining' the Balkans
Diversity beyond and 'Straight through' the Ethno-national 17. European
Fascism and its Aftermath 18. Diversity, Xenophobia and the Limits to the
Post-Apartheid State 19. Situating Diversity in the Global City: Emerging
challenges and possibilities in Singapore 20. Racial Boundaries and
Persistent Inequality: The case of African Americans 21. The Question of
Sectarianism in Middle East Politics Part III: Policies and Politics of
Diversity 22. Governing Diversity 23. Equality for Whom? 24. Fundamental
Rights and Minorities 25. When Law Meets Diversity: Implications for
women's equal citizenship 26. Diversity and Social Welfare: To restrict or
include? 27. Diversity Management Part IV: Encounters and Diversity 28.
Diversity Unpacked: From heterogeneities to inequalities 29.
Discrimination, Diversity and Work 30. Contact and Prejudice 31. Diversity
and Social Cohesion 32. Diversity in US and British Higher Education 33.
Xenophobia: The role of political articulation 34. Conviviality:
(Re)negotiating minimal consensus 35. Locality and Diversity: The city as
arena of ethnic expression and accommodation 36. Segregation, Mixing and
Encounter Part V: Fusions of Diversity 37. Assimilation, Diversity, and
Change 38. From Creolization to Syncretism: Climbing the ritual ladder 38.
Intersectionality: Assembling and disassembling the roads 40. Cultural
Complexity 41. Critical Diversity Literacy: Essentials for the 21st Century