Cartographies of differences : : interdisciplinary perspectives / / edited by Ulrike M. Vieten and Gill Valentine.

This volume investigates the process of learning how to live with individual and group differences in the twenty-first century and examines the ambivalences of contemporary cosmopolitanism. Engaging with the concept of ‘critical cartography’, it emphasizes the structural impact of localities on the...

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Superior document:New Visions of the Cosmopolitan, Volume 5
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Place / Publishing House:Bern, Switzerland : : Peter Lang,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:New visions of the cosmopolitan ; Volume 5.
Physical Description:1 online resource (242 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Table of Contents; Counter-Mappings: Cartography and Difference (Ulrike M. Vieten and Gill Valentine); Part 1 Cartographies of Normality and Normativity; Unpacking Prejudice: Narratives of Homophobia in Cross-National Context (Aneta Piekut and Gill Valentine); When Beliefs Become Property: Liberal Legal Discourse, Employee Resistance and Anti-Gay Christian Politics (Davina Cooper and Didi Herman); Facial Difference, Consumer Culture and Being 'Normal' (Rosemary Peacock, Anita Sargeant and Neil Small); Part 2 Cartographies of Citizenship and (Non-)Belonging
  • National Belonging in Cosmopolitan Times (Nichola Wood)Notions of Conflict and 'New' Citizens' Inclusion: Post-Cosmopolitan Contestations in Germany (Ulrike M. Vieten); Everyday Active Citizenship the Balkan Way: Local Civil Society and the Practice of 'Bridge Building' in Two Post-Yugoslav Cities (Piotr Goldstein); Part 3 Cartographies of Languages and Cross-Cultural Communication; The Territorial Principle: Language Rights and Linguistic Minorities in Spain and Italy, 1992-2010 (Naomi Wells)
  • Conducting Qualitative Research in English and Spanish: Recognising the Active Roles of Participants in Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Projects (Rosa Mas Giralt)Visible Difference, Stigmatising Language(s) and the Discursive Construction of Prejudices Against Others in Leeds and Warsaw (Ulrike M. Vieten and Anna Gawlewicz); Notes on Contributors; Index