Culture and belonging in divided societies
Subtitle: contestation and symbolic landscapes
By: edited by Marc Howard Ross.
Contributors: Ross, Marc Howard.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780812241457
Subjects: Cultural pluralism; Multiculturalism; Symbolism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cultural contestation and the symbolic landscape : politics by other means? / Marc Howard Ross; title: The rise and fall of a sacred place : Ayodhya over three decades / Richard H. Davis; title: Social lives of the dead : contestation and continuities in the Hawaiian repatriation context / Greg Johnson; title: Flagging peace : symbolic space in a new Northern Ireland / Dominic Bryan and Clifford Stevenson; title: Conflict transformation, cultural innovation, and loyalist identity in Northern Ireland / Lee A. Smithey; title: Islamic headscarves in public schools : explaining France's legal restrictions / Elaine R. Thomas; title: Minority language policy in France : Jacobinism, cultural pluralism, and ethnoregional identities / Britt Cartrite; title: Symbols of reconciliation or instruments of division? : a critical look at new monuments in South Africa / Sabine Marschall; title: Emerging multiculturalisms in South African museum practice : some examples from the Western Cape / Crain Soudien; title: Strategies for transforming and enlarging South Africa's post-apartheid symbolic landscape / Marc Howard Ross; title: Invisible house, invisible slavery : struggles of public history at Independence National Historical Park / Charlene Mires; title: Politicizing Chinese new year festivals : cold war politics, transitional conflicts, and Chinese America / Chiou-Ling Yeh; title: Paddy, shylock, and sambo : Irish, Jewish, and African American efforts to ban racial ridicule on stage and screen / M. Alison Kibler.