Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World Volume 37 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520284128)

Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference. This book explores the challenges and necessities of accommodating difference, however difficult and uncomfortable such accommodation may be. Drawing on fourteen years of theoretical insights and unique pedagogy, CEDAR--Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion--has worked internationally with community leaders, activists, and other partners to take the insights of anthropology out of the classroom and into the world. Rather than addressing conflict by emphasizing what is shared, Living with Difference argues for the centrality of difference in creating community, seeking ways not to overcome or deny differences but to live with and within them in a self-reflective space and practice. This volume also includes a manual for organizers to implement CEDAR's strategies in their own communities.

Author: Adam B. Seligman, Rahel R. Wasserfall, David W. Montgomery
ISBN-10: 0520284127
ISBN-13: 9780520284128
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 01/12/2016
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d