Societies and Spaces in Contact: Between Convergence and Divergence

ISBN-13: 9783631855393 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 278 str.

Milan Bufon; Tove H. Malloy; Colin Williams

Opis

This volume speaks to the inter-disciplinary issues related to divergence and convergence processes and situations in contact regions, offering fresh and innovative insights from the crucial Central-Eastern European area where conflict and coexistence potentials seem to best represent the "unity in diversity" managing dilemma on the continent.

Spis treści

Majority-minority relations, plurilingualism, and cross-border regionalism. Migrations, ethnic changes, and social integration. Narratives, constructions and perceptions of cultural landscapes. "Symbolic ethnicity" Convergence within diversity A foreign country as a homeland or a homeland as a foreign country.

O autorze

Prof. Dr. Milan Bufon was Director of the Institute and is currently Senior Research Associate at the Science and Research Centre of Koper.

Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy is professor of European Studies at the Europa-Universitat Flensburg. She was Director of the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany.

Prof. Dr. Colin H. Williams was Research Professor in Sociolinguistics, now an Honorary Professor, in the School of Welsh, Cardiff University, UK.