Research Catalog

Title

Culture and belonging in divided societies : contestation and symbolic landscapes / edited by Marc Howard Ross.

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ross, Marc Howard.

Description

xi, 295 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

"[Book title] addresses the power of cultural expressions and enactments in highly charged settings, exploring when and how changes in a society's symbolic landscape occur and what this tells us about political life in the societies in which they take place."--Jacket.

Subject

• Cultural pluralism
• Multiculturalism
• Symbolism
• Culture conflict > Northern Ireland
• Culture conflict > South Africa
• multiculturalism
• Cultural pluralism
• Culture conflict
• Multiculturalism
• Symbolism
• Ethnische Identität
• Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
• Pluralistische Gesellschaft
• Symbol
• Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
• Symbol
• Pluralistische Gesellschaft
• Northern Ireland
• South Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9780812241457
• 0812241452
• 9780812221978
• 0812221974

LCCN

2008047627

OCLC

• ocn273819800
• 273819800
• SCSB-8807753

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library