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Culture and belonging in divided societies

contestation and symbolic landscapes

ed. by Marc Howard Ross

Buch

englisch

Ross, Marc Howard (Ed.) DNB

Univ. of Pennsylvania Press

Philadelphia

2009

XI, 295 p.

978-0-8122-4145-7

Includes bibliographical references and index

south africa
symbol
ethnic conflict
northern ireland
pluralism

Contents:
Cultural contestation and the symbolic landscape : politics by other means? / Marc Howard Ross -- The rise and fall of a sacred place : Ayodhya over three decades / Richard H. Davis -- Social lives of the dead : contestation and continuities in the Hawaiian repatriation context / Greg Johnson -- Flagging peace : struggles over symbolic landscape in the new Northern Ireland / Dominic Bryan and Clifford Stevenson -- Conflict transformation, cultural innovation, and Loyalist identity in Northern Ireland / Lee A. Smithey -- Islamic headscarves in public schools : explaining France’s legal restrictions / Elaine R. Thomas -- Minority language policy in France : Jacobinism, cultural pluralism, and ethnoregional identities / Britt Cartrite -- Symbols of reconciliation or instruments of division? A critical look at new monuments in South Africa / Sabine Marschall -- Emerging multiculturalisms in South African museum practice : some examples from the Western Cape / Crain Soudien -- Strategies for transforming and enlarging South Africa’s post-apartheid symbolic landscape / Marc Howard Ross -- Invisible house, invisible slavery : struggles of public history at Independence National Historical Park / Charlene Mires -- Politicizing Chinese New Year festivals : Cold War politics, transnational conflicts, and Chinese America / Chiou-Ling Yeh -- Paddy, Shylock, and Sambo : Irish, Jewish, and African American efforts to ban racial ridicule on stage and screen / M. Alison Kibler.

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