(Ebook) Organised Cultural Encounters: Practices of Transformation by Lise Paulsen Galal, Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen ISBN 9783030428853, 9783030428860, 3030428850, 3030428869

(Ebook) Organised Cultural Encounters: Practices of Transformation by Lise Paulsen Galal, Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen ISBN 9783030428853, 9783030428860, 3030428850, 3030428869

This book explores a particular genre of intervention into cultural difference, used across the globe. Organised cultural encounters is an umbrella concept referring to face-to-face encounters that are organised across a wide variety of social arenas in order to manage and/or transform problems perceived to stem from cultural difference.

The authors base their focus on empirical contexts either located in Denmark or related to a Danish organisation, investigating interfaith work, training sessions in diversity management, volunteer tourism, a youth diversity project called the Cultural Encounters Ambassadors, and a community dance project. Through different theoretical approaches, and careful analyses of the micro-level practices occurring within the time-space of specific encounters, Galal and Hvenegård-Lassen demonstrate how both the interactions and their outcomes are considerably more complex – and contradictory – than evaluative and instrumental accounts of success or failure may capture.