A New Publication on Diversity in Europe
(2008 04 11 15:13)
The book consists of essays by Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin which were developed from a research seminar “Diversity, Human Rights and Participation” organised by the Partnership on Youth between the Council of Europe and the European Commission. The texts concentrate on cases from 10 different countries and they search for different dimensions of ‘diversity’ in fields such as social services, employment initiatives, parliamentary proceedings, jurisprudence and education.
The authors aim to examine the acceptance of diversity as a fact and value. ‘Diversity’ is a term commonly used in contemporary social politics. It often describes complex social realities and prescribes how to value those realities. The essays offer an assessment of ‘diversity’ perceived less as a unifying social imaginary and more as a cost-free form of politics attuned to the needs of consumer societies. The introduction describes the difference between ‘diversity polities’ and the ‘politics of diversity’. The book is divided in three parts: ‘The world made to mean’, ‘Discourse at work, working through discourse’ and ‘Implementations, ambiguities, possibilities’
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