Mediating Multiculturalism

Mediating Multiculturalism
Author: Daniella Trimboli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1785273914

Using digital storytelling--a new media genre that began in California in the late 1990s and that proliferated across 'the West' in the 2000s--as a site of analysis, this book asks, 'What is done in the name of the everyday?' Like everyday multiculturalism, digital storytelling is promoted as an accessible, enabling, and ordinary phenomenon that represents cultural experience more accurately than official sites. As such, the genre frequently houses stories of migration, community, and ethnic and racial differences. In turn, digital story collections often act as digital monuments or repositories of multiculturalism, giving a digital life to narratives of migration, cultural difference, and national belonging. This is evidenced in one of the world's largest public collections of digital stories, found in the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and referenced throughout this book. Using examples from this collection and pointing to comparable ones in the UK and North America, this book investigates how notions of the everyday become a channel through which certain long-standing discourses of race get redeployed in multicultural nations. What can digital storytelling teach us about the status and future of multiculturalism in these societies? Can digital storytelling re-mediate multiculturalism in new, progressive ways?

Mediating Cultural Diversity in a Globalised Public Space

Mediating Cultural Diversity in a Globalised Public Space
Author: I. Rigoni
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137283408

Through enhancing reflection on the treatment of cultural diversity in contemporary Western societies, this collection aims to move the debate beyond the opposition between ethnicity and citizenship and demonstrate ways to achieve equality in multicultural and globalised societies.

Cultural Diversity and Global Media

Cultural Diversity and Global Media
Author: Eugenia Siapera
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2010-01-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1444319140

Cultural Diversity and Global Media explores therelationship between the media and multiculturalism. Summarises and critically discusses current approaches tomulticulturalism and the media from a global perspecive Explores both the theoretical debates and empirical findings onmulticulturalism and the media Assumes the new perspective of mediation of cultural diversity,which critically combines elements of previous theories in order togain a better understanding of the relationship between the mediaand cultural diversity Explores media ‘moments’ of production,representation and consumption, while incorporating arguments ontheir shifting roles and boundaries Examines separately the role of the internet, which is linkedto many changes in patterns of media production, representation andto increased possibilities for diasporic and transnationalcommunication Contains pedagogical features that enable readers to understandand critically engage with the material, and draws upon and reviewsan extensive bibliography, providing a useful reference tool.

Mediating Cultures

Mediating Cultures
Author: Alberto González
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2013
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0739179543

This book explores how parents make sense of, and respond to, differing cultural influences within their family. Chapters identify the communication strategies employed by the parents as they strive to create affirming relationships between children and their heritages.

Mediating Chicana/o Culture

Mediating Chicana/o Culture
Author: Scott L. Baugh
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2008-12-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443803111

Mediating Chicana/o Culture: Multicultural American Vernacular covers an unconventional array of topics—from handkerchiefs, votives, and graffiti to food, fútbol, and the Internet—as well as cutting edge literature, cinema, photography, and more. In its cross-disciplinary approach, this collection makes an invaluable contribution to the scholarship on Chicana and Chicano culture and provides engaging readings for courses in race/ethnic studies, media studies, and American studies. Collected chapters critically interrogate the underlying tensions between personal expressions and public demonstrations in their on-going negotiation of Chicana and Chicano identity. Drawing on the revolutionary work of Gloria Anzaldúa, Tómas Ybarra-Frausto, Emma Pérez, Alfred Arteaga, Chela Sandoval, Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith, the Latina Feminist Group, among others, chapters in this collection closely read the processes that seem built into the actions and behaviors, the products, the art, the literature, and the discourse surrounding the search for identity in the rush of our diverse 21st-century existence. Mediating Chicana/o Culture lays bare the methods by which we define ourselves as individuals and as members of communities, examining not only the message, but also the medium and the methods of mediating identity and culture.

Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators

Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators
Author: Sneja Gunew
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2017-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1783086653

‘Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators’ is the first book to bring together global debates in neo-cosmopolitanism over the last decade and Australian minority writers, linking them to globalisation and transnationalism in cultural studies.

Multiculturalism as a fourth force

Multiculturalism as a fourth force
Author: Paul Pedersen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2013-10-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135825351

Until recently the field of psychology has been a monocultural science in a Euro-American envelope. Profound global changes in social, economic, political, and academic development have resulted in a more multicultural perspective for psychology. The field of psychology is now growing more rapidly outside than inside the U.S. As a result of these changes, multiculturalism adds a dimension to psychodynamic, humanistic, and behavioral psychology as much as the fourth dimension of time adds meaning to three dimensional spaces. The contributors to Multiculturalism as a Fourth Force seek to separate what we know from what we do not yet know about the importance of multiculturalism to these changes in the field of psychology. Topics include cultural diversity within and between societies, multiculturalism and psychotherapy, and culture centered interventions. Each contributor describes the need for multiculturalism in psychology, the difficulties in establishing a multicultural perspective and what has to happen before multiculturalism can claim to be a Fourth Force to supplement the other forces for psychology. In addition, the contributors examine the role of culture to the changing field of psychology and provide case examples of this phenomenon. It is the author's hope that by making culture central rather than marginal in the area of psychology, the psychodynamic, behavioral and humanistic theories can become more effective and less culturally biased.

Cultural Intelligence in the World of Work

Cultural Intelligence in the World of Work
Author: Yuan Liao
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2020-01-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3030181715

This book provides a comprehensive review of both the theoretical development and empirical study of the concept of cultural intelligence. A review of previous work on cross-cultural competence provides an historical backdrop against which the two main theories of cultural intelligence are presented. These two approaches, as well as the assessments derived from them, are compared and evaluated. Issues associated with the measurement of cultural intelligence are examined in detail. An important feature of the review of the empirical work on cultural intelligence is that results are discussed in terms of the relationship of the four sub dimensions of the Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS) and also that results using the Short Form Cultural Intelligence Scale (SFCQ) and other measures of the concept are included. The review of empirical work includes studies that cast cultural intelligence as an antecedent, as a dependent variable, and as a moderator and a mediator. Cultural intelligence at the group and organizational levels are also discussed. Finally, this review sets the stage for a discussion of appropriate future directions in the study of cultural intelligence. Scholars in organizational psychology interested in the concept of cultural intelligence will find this an essential guide.

Reading Practices, Postcolonial Literature, and Cultural Mediation in the Classroom

Reading Practices, Postcolonial Literature, and Cultural Mediation in the Classroom
Author: Ingrid Johnston
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2012-03-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9460917054

In this book, Johnston and Mangat consider ways in which particular postcolonial and multicultural literary texts are able to provide a space of cultural mediation for readers from various backgrounds. The studies described in the five chapters of the book explore the spaces of convergence of identity, culture and literature with students and teachers in high school contexts and undergraduates in university settings. In each study, readers are responding to texts that are culturally distant from their own literary and experiential histories. An objective of each study was to consider the nature of the cultural locations of the reader and the text, and the interstitial spaces between these locations. The book interrogates readers’ attempts to negotiate cultural difference in literary contexts and questions how this negotiation requires reading practices traditionally ignored in North American classrooms. The book will offer educators at the secondary and post-secondary levels rich material to draw upon for a rethinking of the school curriculum and will be of interest to scholars of postcolonial and literary studies.

From Cultural Justice to Inter-Ethnic Mediation

From Cultural Justice to Inter-Ethnic Mediation
Author: Basil Ugorji
Publisher: Basil Ugorji
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2012-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1432788353

Inspired by ethno-religious conflicts which occur in a frequent, incessant and violent manner in the contemporary Nigerian society, Basil Ugorji examines the very real struggle for cultural justice that often leads to tribal violence and clashes, ethnic and religious wars, and genocides. The author thoroughly investigates the relevance of certain measures, judicial and coercive, used to manage ethno-religious conflicts in Africa. Based on the historical and political contexts (pre-colonialism, colonialism, post-independence), the author explores the premise that a shift is required in the research of peaceful resolution: first, from retributive justice to restorative justice, and second, from coercive methods of reconciliation to ethno-religious mediation, with a focus on the ethnic, tribal and religious groups involved in conflicts; the origins, causes, consequences, and actors involved; and the forms and places of occurrence of ethno-religious conflicts. With scholarship and compassion, the author sees the people within the conflict and exposes their humanity. Beyond the posturing and politics, he returns sanity to the discussion by revealing the often counterintuitive behavior of social systems under stress. More than just empirical observation, From Cultural Justice to Inter-Ethnic Mediation: A Reflection on the Possibility of Ethno-Religious Mediation in Africa provides welcome insights into convoluted dynamics and offers practical strategies through peace education. There is something here for everybody seeking a way forward out of chaos in Africa, from grassroots advocates to senior policymakers.