Travelling Concepts Negotiating Diversity in Canada and Europe /

<U+0018>Diversity<U+0019>, understood in terms of culture, ethnicity, and of social stratification, is obviously a topic central to both the social sciences and cultural studies. In this context, Canada increasingly serves as a model to be critically assessed for an understanding of mult...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Lammert, Christian. (Editor), Sarkowsky, Katja. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag f<U+00fc>r Sozialwissenschaften, 2010.
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92139-6
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Summary:<U+0018>Diversity<U+0019>, understood in terms of culture, ethnicity, and of social stratification, is obviously a topic central to both the social sciences and cultural studies. In this context, Canada increasingly serves as a model to be critically assessed for an understanding of multinational and multicultural Europe. Taking the different debates in Canada and Europe and disciplinary discussions as a starting point, this volume brings together European and Canadian scholars from sociology, cultural studies, political sciences, philosophy, and literary studies to implement a productive dialogue about concepts of diversity and the way in which they <U+0018>travel<U+0019> across the Atlantic and across the disciplines.
Physical Description:313p. 2 illus. online resource.
ISBN:9783531921396