Majority cultures and the everyday practices of ethnic difference : whose house is this? / edited by Bo Petersson and Katharine Tyler.

Other author Petersson, Bo.
Other author Tyler, Katharine, 1973-
Format Book
Publication InfoBasingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Descriptionxii, 245 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Majority cultures and the everyday politics of ethnic difference -- Mobility, migration control and geopolitical imaginations -- Europe in peril -- City marketing in a dual city : discourses of progress and problems in post-industrial Malmö? -- Debating the rural and the urban : majority white racialized discourses on the countryside and the city -- Local responses to immigrants in the Midwestern United States -- Belonging and entitlement : shifting discourses of difference in multiethnic neighbourhoods in the UK -- Marginal majority and dishevelled otherness : debating Gypsyness on the Greek-Albanian border -- The power of stereotypes and enemy images : the case of the Chechen wars -- European declarations on minorities : the Kurdish quest for Turkey's membership of the European Union -- Local media representations of Islam before 9/11 -- Whose house is this? : the Palestinian 'other' and the construction of Jewish Israeli identity -- The making and breaking of difference : concluding thoughts.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008014542
ISBN0230507484 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780230507487 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks GN 496 .P48 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold