Cultural Encounters as Intervention Practices

ISBN-13: 9781138394391 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 128 str.

Lene Bull Christiansen; Lise Paulsen Galal; Kirsten Hvenegaard-Lassen

Opis

Setting up cultural encounters is a widespread intervention strategy employed to diffuse conflicts and manage difficulties related to diversity. This book theorises and analyses this type of intervention as instances of Organised Cultural Encounters. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction – Organised Cultural Encounters: Interculturality and Transformative Practices  1. On the Paradox of ‘Organised’ Encounter  2. ‘Cultivating Integration’? Migrant Space-making in Urban Gardens  3. Festival as Embodied Encounters: On Kulturhavn in Copenhagen  4. Social Circus as an Organised Cultural Encounter Embodied Knowledge, Trust and Creativity at Play  5. Bridge the Gap: Multidirectional Memory in Photography Projects for Refugee Youths  6. Meetings of the Art: Cultural Encounters and Contact Zones in an Art Project for Asylum-seeking Minors in Denmark  7. It Doesn’t Matter if You’re Black or White: Negotiating Identity and Danishness in Intercultural Dialogue Meetings  8. ‘Are you Married to a Maasai?’ Gendered Cultural Encounters Between Tanzanians and Danes in ‘Global Citizenship’ Training