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Majority cultures and the everyday practices of ethnic difference : whose house is this?

Title
Majority cultures and the everyday practices of ethnic difference : whose house is this? / edited by Bo Petersson and Katharine Tyler.
Publication
Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Additional Authors
  • Petersson, Bo.
  • Tyler, Katharine, 1973-
Description
xii, 245 pages; 23 cm
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Bibliography (note)
  • 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
  • 40015679926
OCLC
  • ocn225531933
  • 225531933
  • SCSB-5421267
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Columbia University Libraries