“Multiculturalism“ has become one of most contested concepts in the social sciences and the related public debates alike: Is it adequate to describe conflicts in the super-diverse societies of the present as being conflicts of culture? Are immigrants representatives of different cultures? How same must one be to be granted the right to be different in the political arena of contemporary liberal democracies? – A vast literature deals with these questions, and with many more surrounding the conception of cultural diversity.
The four-volume collection “Multiculturalism“ in Routledge's Major Works series binds together most influential contributions from this area of work in one condensed ‘mini-library‘. Edited by two of the most outstanding scholars in the field, the collected essays are presented by them in their historical and intellectual context and made accessible with a systematic index. PRIF’s senior researcher Sabine Mannitz is proud to be included in this canonical resource with one of her essays on the civil enculturation processes of immigrant youths in Berlin:
Sabine Mannitz, Pupils' Negotiations of Cultural Differences: Identity Management and Discursive Assimilation, in: Baumann, Gerd/Steven Vertovec (Hrsg.), Multiculturalism. Critical Concepts in Sociology, Vol. III: Multiculturalism in the Public Sphere: City and School, Markets and Media, London (Routledge) 2010 – publication on 29 November 2010.