Aixelá-Cabré, Yolanda

Dr. Yolanda Aixela-Cabre is a Tenured Scientist at the Instituto Mila i Fontanals (Barcelona) of the Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC). She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Barcelona. Dr. Aixela-Cabre has also been a visiting lecturer at the SOAS in Great Britain and the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale in France.

The Management of Religious, Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Europe in the 21st Century: The Variety of National Approaches

2018 1-4955-0693-3
The objective of this study is to provide a cartography of the most relevant ways of managing cultural diversity and of the most widely extended discourses about religious, ethnic, and cultural otherness in Europe. It reviews notions such as diversity, national identities, multicultural demands, democratic systems, and European challenges and the strong colonial continuities in the construction of otherness, and in the management of present-day coexistence in Western Europe.