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

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Description
xii, 245 pages ; 23 cm

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    "This book examines the ways in which 'majority' Western cultures govern, imagine and represent established minorities and recent immigrants. It offers an international perspective drawing upon in-depth case studies from the EU, North America and Middle East. It reviews rapidly developing theories of identity, nationalism and racism. It addresses a very topical issue - how do ordinary people view immigration and its impact? Examining the ways in which majority Western cultures govern, represent and exclude those that are considered to be ethically 'other', this book asks what is the impact of globalization, governance and Western immigration controls on the construction of the majority 'self' and the minority 'other'?"--Jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    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.
    ISBN
    • 0230507484 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780230507487 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2008014542
    OCLC
    225531933
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