Constitutive Contradictions and 'Belonging' in Montreal: Cultural Mediaries and Anthropological Theory
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Constitutive Contradictions and 'Belonging' in Montreal: Cultural Mediaries and Anthropological Theory
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| Abstract |
The author notes that front-line social service providers in Montreal act as cultural mediaries facilitating immigrant and refugee integration into the host society. Cultural mediation requires practitioners to field many demanding, contradictory and overdetermined representations of person, place and culture. The author argues that mediaries are uniquely positioned to construct temporal and dynamic borderzones where hypostatizations and their interstices generate conflicted cultural meanings. She contends that far from postmodern celebrations of nomadic creativity, borderzones are agonistic, ephemeral spaces of powerful overdeterminations all about position and context.
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PhD dissertation
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University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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Amherst, Mass.
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2000
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xvii-315p.
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en
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| Citation |
Steele, Janis K. “Constitutive Contradictions and ‘Belonging’ in Montreal: Cultural Mediaries and Anthropological Theory.” PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2000.
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