Dissolving the diaspora: Dialogical practice in the development of deep multiculturalism

Nesbitt‐Larking, Paul

doi:10.1002/casp.956

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“…The foulard affair, starting in France in 1989 with the expulsion of Muslim school children for wearing headscarves and later spreading to other countries including the UK, provides a clear example of the difficulties involved in legitimising social practices (Benhabib, 2002). It also shows why dialogue alone is no panacea for the problems of intercultural encounters, and why dialogue may not be as straightforward as commonly suggested (see Nesbitt‐Larking, 2008a, 2008b; Canefe, 2008; Chryssides, 2008; Condor, 2008; Hopkins, 2008). The reason for this is that individual perspectives are often held as normative according to one's culture, whereas other perspectives may be alien to the extent that they appear odd, illegitimate, or immoral.…”

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Points of View, Social Positioning and Intercultural Relations

Sammut

Gaskell

2010

J Theory Soc Behav

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The challenge of intercultural relations has become an important issue in many societies. In spite of the claimed value of intercultural diversity, successful outcomes as predicted by the contact hypothesis are but one possibility; on occasions intercultural contact leads to intolerance and hostility. Research has documented that one key mediator of contact is perspective taking. Differences in perspective are significant in shaping perceptions of contact and reactions to it. The ability to take the perspective of the other and to understand it in its own terms is a necessary condition for successful intergroup outcomes. This paper sheds light on the processes involved in intercultural perspective taking by elaborating the notion of the point of view based on social representations theory. The point of view provides a theory of social positioning that can analyse cultural encounters between social actors, and identify the conditions for positive relations. Insights are drawn from a study of public views on the relative merits of science and religion, following a documentary by Richard Dawkins in which it was suggested that religion is a source of evil. The findings demonstrate that the point of view may be categorised according to a three‐way taxonomy according to the extent to which it is open to another perspective. A point of view may be monological—closed to another's perspective entirely, dialogical—open to the possibility of another perspective while maintaining some percepts as unchallengeable, or metalogical—open to another's perspective based on the other's frame of reference.

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confidence: 84%

Points of View, Social Positioning and Intercultural Relations

Sammut

Gaskell

2010

J Theory Soc Behav

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“…First, although dialogue was seen as important (see too the interview materials cited in Nesbitt-Larking, 2008), the reality behind this commonality was more complex. Different conceptualizations of the dynamics to Islamophobia implied different analyses of the ways in which the British Muslim community could achieve 'voice' (see Hirschman, 1970cited in Nesbitt-Larking, 2008 and we need detailed analyses of minority group members' diverse theorizations of what constitutes dialogue and their strategic options (see Tajfel & Turner, 1979, for a social psychological reworking of Hirschman's approach).…”

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Identity, practice and dialogue

Hopkins

2008

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Identities are constructed and contested. This means they may be re-worked to support more inclusive visions of who belongs and on what basis. However, identity construction does not take place in a vacuum, and social psychological analyses of change need to address the contextual dynamics that shape the processes and outcomes of dialogue. This requires attention to processes of power. Furthermore, we need to consider minority group members' understandings of these processes. From the perspective of the disadvantaged, dialogue may be experienced as disempowering because it is viewed as compromising group members' capacities to organize themselves to pursue strategies of social change.

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“…The article consists of three sections: First, the normative message of those lyrics: “We Got to Live Together”; second, the empirical question regarding what we might be able to say about the possibilities of living together—of encounter and engagement; and, finally, some analytical reflections derived from some of my recent work on how certain challenges surrounding the politics of engagement might be addressed (Bradford & Nesbitt‐Larking, ; Bullock & Nesbitt‐Larking, ; Kinnvall & Nesbitt‐Larking, ; Nesbitt‐Larking, )…”

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“We Got To Live Together”: The Psychology of Encounter and the Politics of Engagement

Nesbitt‐Larking

2015

Political Psychology

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The article is set in the normative claim that our work as political psychologists emerges from concerns with our contemporary worlds and that political psychologists should not hesitate to draw out the policy implications of their own work. Following a brief explanation of the Allport tradition of the contact hypothesis and its critics, the article proposes four analytical considerations that contribute to the further understanding of the psychology of encounter and the politics of engagement: First, the insight that the individual is already constituted as a social being, through contact; second, an exploration of the opportunities and challenges of dialogue; third, the changing nature of selfhood, agency, and identity in the contemporary world; and, finally, through deep multiculturalism, the cosmopolitical perspective, and the politics of care, the case for a viable and sustainable politics of engagement.

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Dissolving the diaspora: Dialogical practice in the development of deep multiculturalism

Cited by 21 publications

References 8 publications

Points of View, Social Positioning and Intercultural Relations

Points of View, Social Positioning and Intercultural Relations

Identity, practice and dialogue

“We Got To Live Together”: The Psychology of Encounter and the Politics of Engagement

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