Majority cultures and the everyday practices of ethnic difference : whose house is this? / edited by Bo Petersson and Katharine Tyler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petersson, Bo.

Tyler, Katharine, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic relations--Cross-cultural studies.

Ethnic relations.

Minorities--Cross-cultural studies.

Minorities.

Discrimination--Cross-cultural studies.

Discrimination.

Segregation.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 245 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Contents:

Majority cultures and the everyday politics of ethnic difference

Mobility, migration control and geopolitical imaginations

Europe in peril

City marketing in a dual city : discourses of progress and problems in post-industrial Malmö?

Debating the rural and the urban : majority white racialized discourses on the countryside and the city

Local responses to immigrants in the Midwestern United States

Belonging and entitlement : shifting discourses of difference in multiethnic neighbourhoods in the UK

Marginal majority and dishevelled otherness : debating Gypsyness on the Greek-Albanian border

The power of stereotypes and enemy images : the case of the Chechen wars

European declarations on minorities : the Kurdish quest for Turkey's membership of the European Union

Local media representations of Islam before 9/11

Whose house is this? : the Palestinian 'other' and the construction of Jewish Israeli identity

The making and breaking of difference : concluding thoughts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230507484

9780230507487

OCLC:

225531933

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