Managing Cultural Change: Reclaiming Synchronicity in a Mobile World

ISBN-13: 9781138268593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 168 str.

Melissa Butcher

Opis

Despite decades of policy interventions and awareness raising programmes, migration and mobility continue to give rise to tensions and questions of how to live together in a culturally diverse world. Presenting research from a range of settings, 'Managing Cultural Change' takes a new approach to these challenges, re-examining responses to migration and mobility as part of a process of managing wider cultural change.

Recenzje

'Moving beyond easy abstractions about super-diversity and mobility, Melissa Butcher traverses the streets of suburban Sydney, the high rise offices of Singapore and the middle class homes of Delhi to delve deep into the lived experience of global flows of peoples and cultures. This is a beautifully rendered and critically important analysis of the affective dimensions of living together and managing change.' Anita Harris, Monash University, Australia 'It is certainly true that change hides a painful process of adaptation, requiring time, energy, resources, but at the end of the tunnel each of us finds that green light which gives you the opportunity to cultivate the sense of belonging and demarcate differences - isn’t that what we all experience in this constantly shifting world?! Being a well structured, beautifully written, and enriched with familiar components, Managing Cultural Change is a recommended read for those who are eager to delve deep and understand better the affective dimensions of living together and managing change.' Variety Fair

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Synchronous Moments; Chapter 2 Managing Cultural Change in the Global Workplace; Chapter 3 Demarcating Difference and Belonging; Chapter 4 Managing Change through Re-finding Home; Chapter 5 Learning to Live with Cultural Change; Chapter 6 Teaching How to Manage Change; Chapter 101 Epilogue;

O autorze

Melissa Butcher is Lecturer of Human Geography at the Open University, UK, author of Transnational Television, Cultural Identity and Change, and co-editor of Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities