Organised Cultural Encounters: Practices of Transformation

ISBN-13: 9783030428884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 219 str.

Lise Paulsen Galal; Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Organised Cultural Encounters.

2. Tracing the Ideas of Organised Cultural Encounters.

3. Guided Interactions: Scripting at Work.

4. Orchestrated Turnarounds: Between Class and Order.

5. Walking, Dancing, and Listening: Affect and Encounters.

6. A Risky Business.  

O autorze

Lise Paulsen Galal is Associate Professor of Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University, Denmark. 

Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen is Associate Professor of Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University, Denmark.  

Blurb

This book explores a particular genre of intervention into cultural difference, used across the globe. Organised cultural encounters is an umbrella concept referring to face-to-face encounters that are organised across a wide variety of social arenas in order to manage and/or transform problems  perceived to stem from cultural difference. 

The authors base their focus on empirical contexts either located in Denmark or related to a Danish organisation, investigating interfaith work, training sessions in diversity management, volunteer tourism, a youth diversity project called the Cultural Encounters Ambassadors, and a community dance project. Through different theoretical approaches, and careful analyses of the micro-level practices occurring within the time-space of specific encounters, Galal and Hvenegård-Lassen demonstrate how both the interactions and their outcomes are considerably more complex – and contradictory – than evaluative and instrumental accounts of success or failure may capture. 

This book will provide a valuable resource for practitioners and scholars of intercultural relations working in the fields of cultural geography, anthropology, cultural studies, and migration studies.