TY - JOUR
T1 - Governing superdiversity
T2 - a critical commentary on intercultural understanding
AU - Greene, Ronald Walter
AU - Keremidchieva, Zornitsa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The proliferation of models of diversity governance signals not just persistent unease with diversity itself, but also a trend toward increasingly intensive investments in governance and governmentality across political, social, and media platforms. And, following Sara Ahmed (2012), we are cognizant that the institutionalization of diversity may reinforce as much as it may disrupt whiteness. In our response, therefore, we first consider Elias and Mansouri’s proposals in the context of diversity governance as a political project. In a second step, we explore how cultural difference is expressed in Elias and Mansouri’s idea of intercultural engagement. Third, we bring into better focus how communication is envisioned and deployed, activated and delimited in the interculturalism model that the authors promote. Ultimately, we argue that at the heart of intercultural understanding is a peculiar bundling of culture and communication that targets the interactional order of human relationality in ways consistent with a liberal social order reproducing its social inequities more than challenging them.
AB - The proliferation of models of diversity governance signals not just persistent unease with diversity itself, but also a trend toward increasingly intensive investments in governance and governmentality across political, social, and media platforms. And, following Sara Ahmed (2012), we are cognizant that the institutionalization of diversity may reinforce as much as it may disrupt whiteness. In our response, therefore, we first consider Elias and Mansouri’s proposals in the context of diversity governance as a political project. In a second step, we explore how cultural difference is expressed in Elias and Mansouri’s idea of intercultural engagement. Third, we bring into better focus how communication is envisioned and deployed, activated and delimited in the interculturalism model that the authors promote. Ultimately, we argue that at the heart of intercultural understanding is a peculiar bundling of culture and communication that targets the interactional order of human relationality in ways consistent with a liberal social order reproducing its social inequities more than challenging them.
KW - Intercultural communication
KW - Liberalism
KW - cultural diversity
KW - governmentality
KW - migration
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U2 - 10.1080/17447143.2023.2234888
DO - 10.1080/17447143.2023.2234888
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:85165418851
SN - 1744-7143
VL - 18
SP - 22
EP - 32
JO - Journal of Multicultural Discourses
JF - Journal of Multicultural Discourses
IS - 1
ER -