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The Struggle of Becoming Established in a Deprived Inner-City Neighbourhood

May, David - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

The theory of established-outsider figurations developed by Norbert Elias is a use-ful tool for examining deprived neighbourhoods. The case of this paper is Dort-mund Nordstadt in Germany, an old inner-city neighbourhood which from its early days has housed the newly arrived immigrants. Elias...

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A Biologist’s View of Individual Cultural Identity for the Study of Cities

Pearce, Richard - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

The behaviour of urban populations is compared with the systems directing behaviour in individuals. This is both a metaphor and a mechanistic parallel. The biological model draws upon recent developments in brain research and psychological and cultural anthropology. The development and operation...

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Cultural Rights and Civic Virtue

Ford, Richard Thompson - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

, shared norms and social trust are indispensable elements of effective democratic government and are necessary to the altruism …. This conflict is especially severe in larger culturally diverse cities, where social trust and civic virtue are most needed …, social trust and common social norms will inevitably conflict with the cultural traditions and sub group identification of …

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Bio-Ecological Diversity vs. Socio-Economic Diversity: A Comparison of Existing Measures

Maignan, Carole; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Pinelli, Dino; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the indicators of diversity used by economists with those used by biologists and ecologists. Ecologists and biologists are concerned about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that...

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Glocal Dialogue Transformation through Transcultural Communication

Matoba, Kazuma - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This paper addresses the role of dialogical communication in acculturation efforts within organizations and regions, especially during periods of transition, mergers, technological innovations, and globalization. This optimal communication mode can be achieved through a “dialogue process”...

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The Role of the City in Fostering Intergroup Communication in a Multicultural Environment: Saint-Petersburg’s Case

Taranova, Natalya V. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

In this paper two aspects of the issue will be discussed. First, there is the role of authorities, NGOs in forming the multicultural environment in the city with cultural diversity. Second, the city as social context, the images and myths of the city determine discourse on multiculturalism and...

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Communication Across Cultures: From Cultural Awareness to Reconciliation of the Dilemmas

Merck, Vincent - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

In this globalising world there is a growing need for understanding different types and forms of interaction between people in intercultural environments, i.e. working places, cities, etc. This implies that people refer more and more to various communication models and practices to fully master...

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Municipal Reform on the Island of Montreal: Tensions Between Two Majority Groups in a Multicultural City

Arcand, Sébastien; Juteau, Danielle; Bilge, Sirma; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

For several years now, many cities across the world have undergone, for administrative and political reasons, mergers that have considerably reduced the number of municipalities on a given territory. This tendency affects various urban contexts, as evidenced by recent mergers in Toronto, Ottawa...

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Immigrants’ Entrepreneurial Opportunities: The Case of the Chinese in Portugal

Oliveira, Catarina Reis - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

Why do some foreign nationalities seem to have entrepreneurial initiatives and others don’t? Why do certain foreign communities tend to build an ethnic economy, and others melt in the economy of the reception country? The analysis made so far of the modes of incorporation of the different...

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The City as an Arena for the Expression of Multiple Identities in the Age of Globalisation and Migration

Crane, Kristine - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This paper discusses the concept of toleration as it has been manifested in modern society through two contrasting processes—the prevalence of group identity, and the prevalence of identity defined according to citizenship and individual rights. Referring primarily to the work of political...

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