Discourse, Identity and Politics in Europe (Conference in April, 2005, in London)
Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, University of Southampton, UK ( homepage )
Discourses of cultural diversity and cohesion in Europe and its nation-states
My paper will offer a brief comparison of policy documents about cultural diversity and/or multicul-turalism at European level. How are these terms evoked, represented or appropriated in public dis-courses in Germany, the UK and in France, and how do they feature in the context of counter-concepts such as for example, the ‘cohesive British nation’, or the ‘German Leitkultur’. I will argue and demon-strate that seemingly identical terms have often very different connotations in different public do-mains, and are activated for strategically quite different and contradictory purposes.
Discourses of cultural diversity and cohesion in Europe and its nation-states
My paper will offer a brief comparison of policy documents about cultural diversity and/or multicul-turalism at European level. How are these terms evoked, represented or appropriated in public dis-courses in Germany, the UK and in France, and how do they feature in the context of counter-concepts such as for example, the ‘cohesive British nation’, or the ‘German Leitkultur’. I will argue and demon-strate that seemingly identical terms have often very different connotations in different public do-mains, and are activated for strategically quite different and contradictory purposes.
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