The Predicament of Intercultural Dialogue

Reconsidering the Politics of Culture and Identity in the EU

Bibliographic Data

ID2412237
AuthorsKsenija Vidmar-Horvat (University of Ljubljana, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume6
Issue1
Pages27-44
Publication date2012-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-9755 • E-ISSN: 1749-9763
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1749975511401280
OpenAlexW2058910429
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited18

This paper examines the 'intercultural dialogue' paradigm to ask whether, as conveyed through EU discourses, its conceptualization is flexible enough to encompass the challenges of an increasingly multicultural EU environment. It is argued that, in the past two decades, the notion of a 'European culture' has become instrumental to envisioning the EU and has been pushed forward by two main occurrences: the 1989 collapse of cold-war Europe and the subsequent incorporation into the body of Europe of the new central and eastern Europeans, and the processes of globalization, which have rendered Europe's presence on the global map increasingly vulnerable. Therefore, critical encounters with the employment of 'culture' and its support concepts of identity and difference are crucial to the framing of 'intercultural dialogue' beyond the cold-war cultural and mental geography, as well as to managing the predicaments which its use may generate in global contexts

Aesthetics · Cold war · Conceptualization · Cultural identity · Globalization · Identity politics · Interculturalism · Multiculturalism · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Cyprus History, Politics, Society · European Union Policy and Governance · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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