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Organised Cultural Encounters

Practices of Transformation

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Provides an in-depth analysis of what happens during the specific time and space of organised cultural encounters
  • Connects lessons from different practice fields, which can be applied by practitioners of organised cultural encounters
  • Marks an important contribution to the emerging field of the geography of encounter
  • Brings together important areas of cross-cultural practices and culture-management practices such as diversity management and interfaith work

Part of the book series: Global Diversities (GLODIV)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction: Organised Cultural Encounters

    • Lise Paulsen Galal, Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen
    Pages 1-25
  3. Tracing the Ideas of Organised Cultural Encounters

    • Lise Paulsen Galal, Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen
    Pages 27-57
  4. Guided Interactions: Scripting at Work

    • Lise Paulsen Galal, Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen
    Pages 59-104
  5. Orchestrated Turnarounds: Between Chaos and Order

    • Lise Paulsen Galal, Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen
    Pages 105-147
  6. Walking, Dancing, and Listening: Affect and Encounters

    • Lise Paulsen Galal, Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen
    Pages 149-188
  7. A Risky Business

    • Lise Paulsen Galal, Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen
    Pages 189-215
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 217-219

About this book

This book explores a particular genre of intervention into cultural difference, used across the globe. Organised cultural encounters is an umbrella concept referring to face-to-face encounters that are organised across a wide variety of social arenas in order to manage and/or transform problems  perceived to stem from cultural difference.  

The authors base their focus on empirical contexts either located in Denmark or related to a Danish organisation, investigating interfaith work, training sessions in diversity management, volunteer tourism, a youth diversity project called the Cultural Encounters Ambassadors, and a community dance project. Through different theoretical approaches, and careful analyses of the micro-level practices occurring within the time-space of specific encounters, Galal and Hvenegård-Lassen demonstrate how both the interactions and their outcomes are considerably more complex – and contradictory – than evaluative and instrumental accounts of success or failure may capture.  

This book will provide a valuable resource for practitioners and scholars of intercultural relations working in the fields of cultural geography, anthropology, cultural studies, and migration studies.  


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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

    Lise Paulsen Galal, Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen

About the authors

Lise Paulsen Galal is Associate Professor of Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University, Denmark. 



Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen is Associate Professor of Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University, Denmark.  


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Softcover Book USD 139.99
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