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145052
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The article analyzes the ways in which the term “cultural diversity” has become a hegemonic discourse for both the state and political activists in Tunisia. This process, initiated since the independence, has taken a new impetus with the end of the authoritarian regime permitted by the Tunisian revolution in 2011. The article examines the politicization of the issue of diversity in Tunisia and its inclusion in the new narratives of the nation after 2011. In order to do so, it focuses on three aspects of the neodiversity in Tunisia: the claims for the recognition of the Amazigh culture, the struggle against racial discrimination against the black population, and the renewed Africanism—or belonging to a so-called African space.
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145049
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Many concepts and notions have been used to deal with the social and political fact of difference, and diversity is the last on the list, as stated by Avana Lentin and Gavan Titley. It has been described by many as vague, ubiquitous and malleable, ambiguous, or else multifaceted. Most of the authors who have dealt critically with the topic have stressed the plasticity and ubiquity of diversity, considered at times as discourse, at others as practice or policy, and sometimes as both. But among these authors, there are numerous who have depicted the genealogy or the invention of diversity—therefore, breaking the vicious circle of the vision of a vague and ungraspable diversity.
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145051
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The safeguarding of heritage is touted as an important step in protecting cultural diversity. The emphasis heritage projects put on preservation, however, obscures the part they play in transformation. This article argues that heritagization can be viewed as a kind of Bildung that draws diverse practices tied to diverse worldviews and value systems into a space of equivalency and civil society, amenable to capitalist social relations. Drawing on research on a Hungarian folk revival movement, the article calls for comparative research on how heritagization depoliticizes the very effects of neoliberal capitalism that it addresses and offers solutions that may be tied to dispossession.
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145050
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In London and Lyon, urban cultural movements rooted in racism and segregation such as the Notting Hill carnival and hip-hop dance have been progressively converted into events designed and organized for the benefit of the city's social and economic development. In a context where neoliberal and managerial models inspired by market-driven regulation are a growing reference in matters of public action, this article show that the celebration of the artistic qualities of such cultural practices associated with ethnic minorities comes with their esthetization, a process that tends to erase the differences between populations and to attenuate the emotional and affective discrepancies. Relying on some 30 semi-open interviews conducted between 2000 and 2005 with volunteer militants, artists, and professionals in charge of the organization of the Notting Hill carnival in London and of the Défilé de la Biennale de la danse in Lyon, as well as on the participating observation of the preparation and execution of these two events, I argue that the culture professionals play a crucial role in the functional rapprochement between the urban elites and the ethnic minorities.
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145054
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This article discusses alternative frames and dissident narratives of diversity through the analysis of Paris hôtels meublés as historical places of dwelling for newcomers in the city. Diversity used as an analysis category puts into perspective both social imaginaries and processes of identification. Through a double methodology combining interviews with landlords and clients in 19 hotels and literature, it argues that they are heterodox spaces negotiating identity norms and assigned categories. Despite being forever ambiguous places, they nurture patterns of low-key diversity that allow us to examine the tensions between a politics of diversity and an ethics of diversity.
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