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Intercultural Cities

Policy and Practice for a New Era

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • 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. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Intercultural Policy and Cities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
    2. The Role of Intercultural Cities

      • Patrice Allard
      Pages 65-72
  3. A Tale of Seven Cities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
    2. Oslo: On the Road to Becoming an Intercultural City

      • Tone Skodvin, Phil Wood
      Pages 75-102
    3. Building Intercultural Policies and Practices in the City of Barcelona

      • Kira Bermúdez, Rafa Crespo, Ramon Sanahuja, Carolina Astudillo
      Pages 103-144
    4. Botkyrka: From Multiculturalism to Interculturalism

      • Helena Rojas, Daniel de Torres Barderi
      Pages 145-180
    5. Diversity Policy and Intercultural Change in the Borough of Lewisham

      • Jude Bloomfield, Paul Chapman
      Pages 215-250
    6. Cohesion on the Horizon: The Construction of Intercultural Integration Policy in Neuchâtel

      • Céline Maye, Federica Merzaghi, Sandrine Keriakos Bugada
      Pages 251-280
    7. The Case of Montréal: Intercultural City “Avant la Lettre”?

      • Marta Massana, Gilles Rioux
      Pages 281-313
  4. The Montréal Forum and Beyond

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 315-315
    2. The Future of Intercultural Cities

      • Bob W. White
      Pages 359-370
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 371-393

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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Softcover Book USD 129.99
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Hardcover Book USD 199.99
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