This article explores the changing perception of "diversity" and "cultural difference" in Germany and shows how they were central in the construction of "self" and "other" throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries affecting minorities such as Jews, Poles, and others. It examines different levels of legal and political action toward minorities and immigrants in this process and explores how the perception and legal framework for the Turkish minority in the past sixty years was influenced by historical patterns of such perceptions and their memory. The article tries to shed some light on how the nature of coming-to-terms with the past ( Vergangenheitsbewältigung ) and the memory of the Holocaust have long prohibited a broader discussion on inclusion and exclusion in German society. It makes some suggestions as to what forced Germans in the postunification era to reconsider legislation, as well as society's approach to "self" and "other" under the auspices of the closing of the "postwar period" and a newly emerging united Europe.
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In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 13–29 (16 total)
Barbara Thériault
How does one deal with diversity in an organization known to be hostile to it? Drawing on a Weberian perspective I present in this article one case occurring in actual historical practice: that of Inspector Bobkowski, a teacher, chief of the political education unit at the Berlin police academy and training center, and a hobby historian. With an eye to the case at hand as well as other efforts to deal with difference under the Weimar Republic encountered during my fieldwork, I attempt to uncover the motives underlying the action of officers who contributed to the promotion of diversity within the police force in Germany. Inquiring into their motives enables me to construct an ideal type of a “carrier of diversity,” which, I argue, shares affinities with a liberal agenda of civic equality.
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2009
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 72–91 (19 total)
Uzi Rebhun
foregoing observations are indicative of structural homogeneity alongside diversity in key individual characteristics by sectors. The traits of members of the various sectors can help us understand the differences among them in religious and social attitudes
In European Judaism
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 88–111 (24 total)
(Mis)arguing Diversity
The Weakness of Diversity as a Civic Argument (and How to Make It Stronger)
Jose Marichal
In this article, I use Boltanski and Thévenot's (2006) work on “logics of justification” to make the case that diversity, defined broadly as engagement with otherness, has limited worth as a “civic argument” in the United States. I argue that “diversity talk” has not been effective in civic spheres because it does not challenge the underlying pluralist architecture of the US political system. Instead, diversity in the civic sphere is regarded as producing conflict or an apolitical “improvement in manners” (Rorty 1999) rather than as a mechanism for citizenship development. This diminishes the ability for diversity to enhance democratic citizenship by fostering the development of a type of civic wisdom necessary for effective decision making in a democratic society.
In Democratic Theory
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 22–41 (20 total)
Maria-Amelia Viteri and Aaron Tobler
This article illustrates the multiple ways in which anthropology graduate students crossed the boundaries of educational discourses by encouraging themselves, other students, activists and community leaders to speak in dialogical contexts (Giroux 2005: 73). They did this through the organisation of the Interrogating Diversity Conference. The authors organised this conference in March 2007 at the American University, Washington, DC, to expand scholarship on surveillance and policing in an egalitarian forum. We discuss how students can engage their departments and faculty in building the students' knowledge of both anthropological theories and methodology through shared scholarship. We show how students can 'apply' anthropology to audiences, which will in turn influence policy decision making. In addition, the authors explore how academics can transform knowledge sharing into tools that shape broader political and social dialogue.
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2009
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 23–45 (23 total)
Liberalism's Historical Diversity
A Comparative Conceptual Exploration
José María Rosales
Rooted in late seventeenth-century theories of rights, liberal ideas have brought forth since the nineteenth century a full-edged complex of traditions in moral, political, economic, social, and legal thought. Yet in historiographical debates such complexity is often blurred by presenting it under the uniform terms of a canon. Along with other methods, conceptual history is contributing to the rediscovery of liberalism's diversity. This group of articles compiles three conceptual studies on scarcely explored aspects of the history of liberalism in Denmark, Finland, and Hungary—countries whose political past has only occasionally figured in mainstream accounts of European liberalism. This introductory article is a methodological discussion of the rationale and forms in which liberalism's historical diversity is rendered through comparative conceptual research. After reflecting on the limits of the Anglophone history of political thought to grasp the plurality of liberal traditions, the article examines how transnational conceptual histories recast the understanding of liberalism as a concept, theory, ideology, and political movement.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2013
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 67–82 (16 total)
Using differentiated teaching to address academic diversity in higher education
Empirical evidence from two cases
Matias Thuen Jørgensen and Lena Brogaard
with the necessary tools and theory to handle academic diversity in groups of students in project supervision or classroom teaching. Differentiated teaching is a pedagogical approach, where teachers provide different avenues for the students to learn
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 87–110 (24 total)
Helga A. Welsh
accepting regional diversity, while leveling inequalities. The opaque notion of equivalent living conditions should be reframed with concrete parameters, such as equal access to education and basic income. 33 All agree that regional policy should be
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 4–17 (14 total)
Memories, Readings and Diversities
For Sheila Shulman
Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
was the joy of dialogue and the discovery that we could talk philosophy and Jewish thought together that was a gift. Dignity, Love and Diversities Possibly because she has talked about the influence of feminist and queer scholarship so much in
In European Judaism
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 107–126 (20 total)
Konrad Pedziwiatr
After the terrorist attacks on the London transport network on 7 July 2005 some academics and journalists announced the ‘death of multiculturalism’ in Europe. Multiculturalism, however, cannot be dead because it is a social reality for millions of Europeans. Not only these who live in the global cities like London, Paris, Rome, and others, but also those who live in small ones like the Italian City of Peace, Rovereto. All the European societies from east to west and from north to south have become increasingly diverse, multicultural, multiracial and multi-religious. This diversity is producing not only high levels of uncertainty, but also lack of social cohesion. As Putnam notices in his latest large-scale study of social solidarity in American society, in the ethnically diverse areas there is less trust and civic engagement.2 Such areas lack, above all, meaningful social encounters.