Culture and belonging in divided societies : contestation and symbolic landscapes / edited by Marc Howard Ross.

Other author Ross, Marc Howard.
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxi, 295 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Subjects
Cultural pluralism.
Multiculturalism.
Symbolism.

Contents Cultural contestation and the symbolic landscape : politics by other means? / Marc Howard Ross -- The rise and fall of a sacred place : Ayodhya over three decades / Richard H. Davis -- Social lives of the dead : contestation and continuities in the Hawaiian repatriation context / Greg Johnson -- Flagging peace : struggles over symbolic landscape in the new Northern Ireland / Dominic Bryan and Clifford Stevenson -- Conflict transformation, cultural innovation, and Loyalist identity in Northern Ireland / Lee A. Smithey -- Islamic headscarves in public schools : explaining France's legal restrictions / Elaine R. Thomas -- Minority language policy in France : Jacobinism, cultural pluralism, and ethnoregional identities / Britt Cartrite -- Symbols of reconciliation or instruments of division? A critical look at new monuments in South Africa / Sabine Marschall -- Emerging multiculturalisms in South African museum practice : some examples from the Western Cape / Crain Soudien -- Strategies for transforming and enlarging South Africa's post-apartheid symbolic landscape / Marc Howard Ross -- Invisible house, invisible slavery : struggles of public history at Independence National Historical Park / Charlene Mires -- Politicizing Chinese New Year festivals : Cold War politics, transnational conflicts, and Chinese America / Chiou-Ling Yeh -- Paddy, Shylock, and Sambo : Irish, Jewish, and African American efforts to ban racial ridicule on stage and screen / M. Alison Kibler.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008047627
ISBN9780812241457 (alk. paper)
ISBN0812241452 (alk. paper)