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Elke Winter - Us, Them, and Others - 9780802096920 - V9780802096920
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Us, Them, and Others

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Description for Us, Them, and Others Hardback. Taking inspiration from the Canadian experience, Us, Them, and Others is an enticing examination of national identity and pluralist group formation in diverse societies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1Figure. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSL1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.

How do countries come to view themselves as being ‘multicultural’? Us, Them, and Others presents a dynamic new model for understanding pluralism based on the triangular relationship between three groups — the national majority, historically recognized minorities, and diverse immigrant bodies. Elke Winter's research illustrates how compromise between unequal groups is rendered meaningful through confrontation with real or imagined outsiders.

Us, Them, and Others sheds new light on the astonishing resilience of Canadian multiculturalism in the late 1990s, when multicultural policies in other countries had already come under heavy attack. Winter draws on analyses of English-language newspaper discourses and a ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802096920
SKU
V9780802096920
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Elke Winter
Elke Winter is an associate professor of Sociology at the University of Ottawa. An alumna of the German National Merit Foundation, she also won the University of Ottawa’s 2010 Young Researcher of the Year Award.

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