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The International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies addresses the key problematic of the construction of difference within intersecting, asymmetrical power relations. It brings together an integrated critique of hierarchical relations of privilege, domination and oppression on all axes of difference, with a particular focus on the normative orders of coloniality/modernity. A closely-knit, interdependent world struggling with the realities of heterogeneity calls for critical approaches to difference that can identify enduring and emerging processes of Othering, and articulate forms and means by which exclusion and hierarchical arrangements can be resisted and reframed. The journal therefore provides a decolonial anti-disciplinary intellectual forum in which plural, just, and ethical sociological imaginations can be cultivated and expanded.

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Publikácia, ktorú predkladáme verejnosti, je zameraná na procesy adaptácie jednotlivcov a skupín obyvateľov miest v období spoločenskej zmeny, ktorá nastala po roku 1989. Pád komunizmu v Československu bol navonok jednoduchým aktom formálneho vzdania sa moci, ktorým KSČ uznala svoju neschopnosť ďalej viesť túto krajinu. Zmeny, ktoré nasledovali, sa ale dotkli takmer každej stránky každodenného života. Vývoj v nestabilnej a rôznorodej politickej situácii sa premietal do spoločenských vzťahov, reštrukturalizácia vlastníctva mala pre niektorých pozitívne a pre iných negatívne dôsledky, zmeny na pracovnom trhu a v zamestnaneckých vzťahoch oslabili životné istoty a menili pracovné návyky, zdedené zo socializmu. Na Slovensko prišli zahraničné firmy a ich manažéri, globálne overené reklamné spôsoby, tovar z celého sveta, ktorý menil kultúru odievania, bývania, stravovania... Médiá prekročili hranice „socialistického tábora“ a prinášali nové idey, ideály, kultúrne vzory i spôsoby správania. „Svet“ k nám prenikol rôznymi cestami, žijú medzi nami imigranti, ale aj my sme slobodne prekročili hranice, spoznávali jeho mnohoraké podoby a kopírovali skúsenosti. Prestali sme byť izolovanou krajinou. Zakonzervované kultúrne modely rozbila „všemocná ruka trhu“, ktorý sa stal pre mnohých určujúcim kritériom hodnôt. Norma, ktorú naša spoločnosť stavia pred svojich členov, je norma schopnosti a ochoty hrať rolu konzumenta (Bauman 1999: 98). Komercionalizácia a globalizácia sú sprievodnými javmi týchto procesov.

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Malgré les acquis indéniables des trente dernières années, l'intégration des immigrants et l'adaptation à la diversité ethnoculturelle représentent toujours des enjeux majeurs pour l'école québécoise. À travers un bilan de la problématique, des interventions et de la recherche dans ce domaine et en tenant compte de diverses expériences canadiennes ou internationales, cet ouvrage s'intéresse, entre autres, aux aspects suivants : l'avenir des programmes d'apprentissage du français par les nouveaux arrivants et le maintien des langues d'origine ; les liens entre les interventions en milieu défavorisé et la lutte à l'échec scolaire chez les minorités ; la place de la diversité culturelle et religieuse en milieu scolaire et le rôle de l'éducation à la citoyenneté ; le débat sur le partage d'institutions scolaires communes comme condition nécessaire à l'intégration. Cet ouvrage saura intéresser non seulement les intervenants œuvrant dans ce domaine mais également tout citoyen désireux de mieux comprendre les enjeux complexes de la diversité ethnoculturelle en milieu scolaire.

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Der Vielfalt der Gesellschaft gerecht zu werden, stellt öffentliche Bibliotheken vor Herausforderungen. Der Band gibt einen Überblick zur strategischen und diskriminierungskritischen Organisationsentwicklung sowie zur Veranstaltungs- und Bestandsarbeit für diversitätssensible Öffnung. Eine Vielzahl von Praxisbeispielen aus dem Programm "360° - Fonds für Kulturen der neuen Stadtgesellschaft" werden vorgestellt. Trying to do justice to society's diversity is a challenge for public libraries. This volume provides an overview of the development of strategic and anti-discrimination organizations and of the work being done in the fields of events and inventory to disseminate information in a way that is sensitive to diversity. It also presents a range of practical examples form the program "360° - Fund for Cultures in the New Urban Society.".

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Argument In 1989, Romania, as the entire Eastern Europe, broke with communism, choosing instead the West European model of democracy. On the level of external politics, the demise of the Soviet Union encouraged Romania to realign its efforts toward the admission of the country in the Euro-Atlantic political-military structures. Hesitant at the beginning, as a consequence of the conservatory views of the main political leaders in power at the beginning of the 90's, Romania signed the European Union Association Agreement in February 1993. For the Romanians it meant the long way of "coming back home" to Europe and assuming the values of democracy through the protection of fundamental human rights and the reconsideration of the policies concerning the national and confessional minorities. In 2004, Romania became a member of NATO together with Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia, and since the beginning of 2007, a member of the European Union. Romania's integration in the Euro-Atlantic structures also meant for the Romanians a profound examination of their historical consciousness and the recovery of their European past. Certainly, history does not mean par excellence a unifying undertaking, but it can offer legitimacy, justification, and models for some of the present dilemmas. Nevertheless, we cannot ignore the educational potential of history. Thus, through national and international scientific studies and conferences, the historians can recompose the common past of the Romanians and other European peoples, the Europeanization process of the Romanian culture and society in the modern epoch and the birth of the Romanians'consciousness of Europeanness. Such an undertaking is also taken by the volume Culture, Elites and European Integration (Culture, Elites et Intégration européenne), which gathers the scientific papers of the Conference European Integration-Between Tradition and Modernity, organized on 27-28 October 2011. Undoubtedly, the Romanians have a common European historical past. Romania's present space belonged to the Roman Empire for a long period of time during the antiquity. This way, the one Latin people in Eastern Europe was born, an important historical argument in their European option. Undergoing the major experiences that marked European history, from the separation of the Roman Empire into the Eastern and Western empires to the Great Schism in 1056 and later the birth of the national states at the beginning of the modern epoch, the Romanians formulated concrete options for the reintegration in the West European system of values. Subsequently, for the Romanians the entire process of the birth of modern society was under the sign of European values and models of society. Its turn under Soviet influence at the end of the Second World War changed Romania's way from the European course, which it had followed since the 19th century. On a historiographical level, Romania's European integration implies both a historical and a cultural process of re-evaluating its past. In this context, the studies in the present volume bring into light events, moments and projects that are relevant for the way the Romanians relate themselves to the common history of Europe.Cornel Sigmirean.

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