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Practices of Difference: Analysing Multiculturalism in Everyday Life

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Everyday Multiculturalism

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The considerations we wish to make here arise from a profound dissatisfaction with the current debate on multiculturalism. We perceive that there is a growing gap between the main ways of reading and interpreting the presence of difference in contemporary society and what we see, hear and at times experience in our fieldwork. We are comforted by the fact that in recent times various authors, representing a range of different intellectual perspectives and academic environments, have taken a similar stance, lamenting the lack of reciprocal intertwining between theories and studies (Baumann 1999; Beck 2004; Sarat 2002; Wise 2006).

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  1. University of Milan, Italy

    Giovanni Semi (Assistant Professor of Sociology of Culture) & Enzo Colombo (Professor of Sociology of Culture and Sociology of Intercultural Relations)

  2. Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy

    Ilenya Camozzi (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

  3. Department of Sociology, University of Padua, Italy

    Annalisa Frisina (Postdoctoral Fellowship)

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  1. Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, Australia

    Amanda Wise (Senior Research Fellow) (Senior Research Fellow)

  2. Department of Sociology, Macquarie University, Australia

    Selvaraj Velayutham (Lecturer in Sociology) (Lecturer in Sociology)

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© 2009 Giovanni Semi, Enzo Colombo, Ilenya Camozzi and Annalisa Frisina

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Semi, G., Colombo, E., Camozzi, I., Frisina, A. (2009). Practices of Difference: Analysing Multiculturalism in Everyday Life. In: Wise, A., Velayutham, S. (eds) Everyday Multiculturalism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244474_4

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