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Intercultural Cities

Policy and Practice for a New Era

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  • © 2018

Overview

  • Mobilizes knowledge about the contextual factors and strategies in the design of intercultural policy frameworks for cities
  • Develops a comparative analytical framework intended to implement intercultural policies and programs in cities
  • Compares the experience of intercultural cities in Europe and North America

Part of the book series: Global Diversities (GLODIV)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Intercultural Policy and Cities

  2. A Tale of Seven Cities

  3. The Montréal Forum and Beyond

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About this book

This book sets out to explore the political and social potential of intercultural policy for cities by bringing together advances in the areas of urban planning and intercultural theory. In recent years, demographic changes in cities in many parts of the world have led to increasing concerns about inter-ethnic tensions, social inequality, and racial discrimination. By virtue of their intermediate status, cities are in a particularly good position to design policy and programs that contribute to the well-being of all citizens, regardless of their origins. Certain cities have made significant advances in this domain, but until now very little work has been done to understand the specificity of work in the area of intercultural policy frameworks. The overall goal of this volume is to facilitate conversations between researchers and practitioners in their efforts to make cities more inclusive. This volume is the result of a series of on-going collaborations between academics and practitioners and it includes a number of original case studies that explain the evolution of intercultural policy from the point of view local actors. This collection will be of interest especially to policymakers and urban planners, but also to scholars and students in the areas of urban studies, public policy, anthropology, sociology, globalization and social sciences more generally. By leveraging recent advances in the field of intercultural policy and practice, this volume sheds light on the conditions and strategies that make intercultural cities a part of a common future.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Anthropology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

    Bob W. White

About the editor

Bob W. White is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory for Research on Intercultural Relations (LABRRI) at the University of Montreal, Canada. He has won several awards for his research on popular culture and globalization. His current research is focused on the dynamics of intercultural communication in cities and he is the coordinator of a multi-sectorial research partnership on intercultural policy and practice in Montreal.

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