Governing through Diversity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Governing through Diversity

   1. Introduction: Governing through Diversity

      • Tatiana Matejskova, Marco Antonsich

      Pages 1-18

3. Ideational Field: Conceptualizing Diversity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. The Difference Diversity Makes: A Principle, a Lens, an Empirical Attribute for Majority-Minority Relations

      • Paolo Boccagni

      Pages 21-38

   3. Cultural Diversity and Social Inequalities

      • Thomas Faist

      Pages 39-60

   4. Diversity in Crisis: Reshaping Contemporary Ireland

      • Mary Gilmartin

      Pages 61-79

4. Technical Field: Managing and Practicing Diversity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Paradoxes of (E)quality and Good Will in Managing Diversity: A Dutch Case in the Philanthropic Sector

      • Halleh Ghorashi, Christine Carabain, Ewa Szepietowska

      Pages 83-103

   3. Grassroots Narratives and Practices of Diversity in Mostar and Novi Sad

      • Piotr Goldstein

      Pages 104-124

   4. Dealing with Diversity in Education: A Critical View on Goals and Outcomes

      • Cristina Allemann-Ghionda

      Pages 125-142

5. Social Field: Social Relations of Heterogeneity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. Theorizing Multiculturalism and Diversity: The Implications of Intersectionality

      • Gill Valentine

      Pages 145-160

   3. Southern Discomfort: Defensive Urban Citizenship in Tel Aviv

      • Nir Cohen

      Pages 161-180

   4. (Re)constructing Nationalisms in Schools in the Context of Diverse Globalized Societies

      • Elizabeth Mavroudi, Louise Holt

      Pages 181-200

6. Conclusion: Nation and Diversity — A False Conundrum

   1. Conclusion: Nation and Diversity — A False Conundrum

      • Marco Antonsich, Tatiana Matejskova

      Pages 201-209

7. Back Matter

   Pages 210-213

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This cross-disciplinary edited collection presents an integrated approach to critical diversity studies by gathering original scholarly research on ideational, technical and actual social dimensions of contemporary governance through diversity.

• Diversity
• immigrant
• multiculturalism
• citizenship
• integration
• transnational migration
• diversity management
• social heterogeneity
• desegregation
• governance
• Integration
• migration
• nationalism

"Governing through Diversity is an important and timely book. It makes a vital contribution to debates around multiculturalism and integration and to fields as varied as education, philanthropy and language policy. 'Diversity' has become a ubiquitous concept across several policy fields, but is rarely rigorously conceptualised. This volume, which includes contributions from some of the most important scholars now working in this field, brings fresh clarity to this murky terrain. Its contribution is in carefully unpacking the normative assumptions hidden in mundane descriptions of diversity, and showing that diversity is not a thing out there to be governed, but, rather, a specific modality through which social differences are understood and then managed. The book's theoretical sophistication is grounded in rich and varied empirical case studies from sites ranging from Ireland to Israel. Crucially, Governing through Diversity presents alternative approaches to thinking with difference to help scholars and policy-makers out of the impasses created by current framings of diversity." - Ben Gidley, University of Oxford, UK

"While the diversity turn has been widely accepted by academics, policymakers and practitioners, the analytical field of diversity has remained somewhat under-theorised. This edited volume gathers varied strands of critical diversity research to inform upon the disparate elements, which make up diversity as a dispositif. The editors and their contributors make significant progress in developing analytical capacity for researching and understanding post-multiculturalism and the diversity turn in today's migration societies." - Jenny Phillimore, University of Birmingham, UK

"Whilst retaining the use of the term 'diversity', this book denaturalises and problematises the ways it is conceptualised, invoked and practised in a range of social settings and societies, as well as paying attention to inequality and intersectionality. This contributes in an important way to understanding diversity as a set of tools, and brings to the fore its ideational and political uses, involving discourses and practices that construct and manage heterogeneity and difference today at both national and global levels." - Floya Anthias, University of East London, UK

"'Diversity' is the new orthodoxy in political and policy discourse. In this new edited collection, Matejskova and Antonsich bring together a range of leading scholars to offer a critical perspective on prevailing norms of 'governing diversity'. The concept of 'diversity' is interrogated as a slippery and unstable concept constituted through practices and institutions of governance. Through a range of case studies from the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and Israel, this collection offers a nuanced critique which repoliticises diversity and emphasises intersectionality and inequality." - Claire Dwyer, University College London, UK

• Roskilde University, Denmark

  Tatiana Matejskova

• Loughborough University, UK

  Marco Antonsich

Cristina Allemann-Ghionda, University of Cologne, Germany Marco Antonsich, University of Loughborough, UK Paolo Boccagni, University of Trento, Italy Christine Carabain, Dutch Expertise and Advisory Centre for Citizenship and International Cooperation (NCDO), the Netherlands Nir Cohen, Bar Ilan University, Israel Thomas Faist, Bielefeld University, Germany Halleh Ghorashi, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Mary Gilmartin, Maynooth University, Ireland Piotr Goldstein, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Louise Holt, Loughborough University, UK Tatiana Matejskova, Roskilde University, Denmark Elizabeth Mavroudi, Loughborough University, UK Ewa Szepietowska, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Gill Valentine, University of Sheffield, UK

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