Screen LibraryCulture and belonging in divided societies : contestation and symbolic landscapes /
Why do people invest so much emotional energy and resources in conflicts over images, symbols, rituals, and other cultural expressions? The answers explored in Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies view such expressions as barriers to or opportunities for inclusion in a divided society's s...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2009] ©2009 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Why do people invest so much emotional energy and resources in conflicts over images, symbols, rituals, and other cultural expressions? The answers explored in Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies view such expressions as barriers to or opportunities for inclusion in a divided society's symbolic landscape and political life. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | 11 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812203509 |
| Index Number: | HM1271 |
| CLC: | D562 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Cultural Contestation and the Symbolic Landscape / Chapter 2. The Rise and Fall of a Sacred Place / Chapter 3. Social Lives of the Dead / Chapter 4. Flagging Peace / Chapter 5. Conflict Transformation, Cultural Innovation, and Loyalist Identity in Northern Ireland / Chapter 6. Islamic Headscarves in Public Schools / Chapter 7. Minority Language Policy in France / Chapter 8. Symbols of Reconciliation or Instruments of Division? / Chapter 9. Emerging Multiculturalisms in South African Museum Practice / Chapter 10. Strategies for Transforming and Enlarging South Africa s Post-Apartheid Symbolic Landscape / Chapter 11. Invisible House, Invisible Slavery / Chapter 12. Politicizing Chinese New Year Festivals / Chapter 13. Paddy, Shylock, and Sambo / Epilogue / Contributors -- Index. |