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Theme : cohesion
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The Cultural Age - Integration and Cohesion
Earlier this week, we held the second of our two seminars on The Cultural Age.It focused on integration and cohesion. One of the most interesting things to emerge was that much is going on in the cultural sector, policy-making and academic research but, often, each is unaware of what is going on in the other. At the very least, some of those ends could be tied up in conversations between participants of Monday's session. Another area of debate was long-term change. ...
from : samjones
27th June 2008
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The Cultural Age
Last week, we hosted the first of our Cultural Age Seminars. It addressed education for the cultural age. We've put a transcript of the opening speech on the website - it's available for download here.The next seminar will be held on 23rd June and will address Integration and Cohesion in the Cultural Age. Speakers include Rushanara Ali Associate Director of the Young Foundation, Kim Knott - Head of the AHRC Diaspras, Migration and Identites Programme and Moira Sinclair -...
from : samjones
9th June 2008
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A new race Cold War?
You would be forgiven for thinking that I'm talking about the fallout from the Beijing Olympics torch relay, but in fact I am referring to a speech being delivered today by Trevor Philips to mark the 40th anniversary of Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech. Philips argues that Powell was wrong to predict a 'hot war' between races, but that the UK instead now faces the emergence of a 'cold war', with relations between different races and ethnic groups at a low.Two points come to mind:First,...
from : rachelbriggs
20th April 2008
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Who's afraid of the Respect Party?
I've got an article in this month's Renewal arguing that the government's approach to Britishness (broadly characterised as an attempt to agree upon what we agree upon) needs to focus more on the areas where we disagree. Attempts to 'construct' Britishness in a top down, stage-managed way is producing a vision so content-lite that it is emotionally unengaging. We need to acknowledge the problems and conflicts created by diversity and then work through them together. It's only by embracing the...
from : rachelbriggs
21st September 2007
