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Managing Cultural Change - Reclaiming Synchronicity in a Mobile World (Paperback)
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Managing Cultural Change - Reclaiming Synchronicity in a Mobile World (Paperback)
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Despite decades of policy interventions and awareness raising
programmes, migration and mobility continue to give rise to
tensions and questions of how to live together in a culturally
diverse world. Managing Cultural Change takes a new approach to
these challenges, re-examining responses to migration and mobility
as part of a process of managing wider cultural change. Presenting
research from a range of settings, from liberalising India, global
workplaces in Asia, and migrant youth culture in Sydney, this book
explores the manner in which cultural change disturbs established
frames of reference. In considering affective responses to these
liminal moments of disruption, it argues that adaptive strategies
such as 'demarcating difference' and 're-placing home', that is,
reasserting belonging, are deployed in order to reclaim a sense of
synchronicity within the self and with a transforming external
environment. With attention to the prevalence and durability of the
processes and tensions inherent in cultural change, the author also
examines the intercultural, or cosmopolitan, competencies developed
in interaction with difference, and whether it is possible to
'teach' people these skills in order to re-find 'cultural fit' and
manage change in a constantly shifting world. Contributing to
research on transnational migration and mobility studies, while
developing the use of conceptual tools such as 'cultural fit' and
'liminality', Managing Cultural Change will be of interest to
sociologists, geographers and anthropologists working in the fields
of globalisation, migration and transnational communities,
ethnicity and identity, belonging and cosmopolitanism.
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