Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies

ISBN-13: 9780415813860 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 404 str.

Steven Vertovec

Opis

In recent years the concept of 'diversity' has gained a leading place in academic thought, business practice and public policy worldwide. Although variously used, 'diversity' tends to refer to patterns of social difference in terms of certain key categories. Today the foremost categories shaping discourses and policies of diversity include race, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability, sexuality and age; further important notions include class, language, locality, lifestyle and legal status. The Routledge Handbook of Diversity Studies will examine a range of such concepts along with historical and contemporary cases concerning social and political dynamics surrounding them. With contributions by experts spanning Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, History and Geography, the Handbook will be a key resource for students, social scientists and professionals. It will represent a landmark volume within a field that has become, and will continue to be, one of the most significant global topics of concern throughout the twenty-first century.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).