What is diversity?
What is diversity? ‘Diversity’ is a broad term that essentially means variety, i.e., made up of differing elements or qualities. The term is meaningful in relation to specific contexts involving …
Course: Cultural Diversity and the City
Wrap up of the course
Congratulations for completing this course! It is now time to recap some of the key lessons we have learned over the past three weeks. Watch this video, which goes through …
Sum up of Week 3
Congratulations, this is the end of week 3! We are glad you reached the end! Let us briefly sum up what we have learned this week. We started off with …
“My name is Khan”: views on religious diversity in a Bollywood movie
This step explains the case of a Bollywood movie that deals with the issues of Islamophobia and Hindu-Muslim relations. Released in 2010, the movie ‘My Name is Khan’ is an …
The case of Bollywood
The term ‘Bollywood’ was coined some 25 years ago to refer loosely to the cinema production in Mumbai that probably rivals Hollywood, both in terms of quantity of production (about …
Beyond Hollywood?
This video shows the role of cities in the rise of new voices in the global movie industry. It explains the dominance of Hollywood and its limitations. It also talks …
The case of Singapore: interview with Peggy Levitt
Peggy Levitt, from Wellesley College and Harvard University, explains how Singapore’s cultural institutions reflect the city’s diverse identities. She recalls that Singapore’s cultural strategy was initially designed to make the …
Peggy Levitt on the globalization of museums
Peggy Levitt, from Wellesley College and Harvard University, discusses the effects of globalization on museums. She draws on research she has conducted on museums in Europe, the United States, and …
Museums in super-diverse societies
Jasper Chalcraft, (University of Sussex), Ulrike Meinhof, (University of Southampton), Simona Bodo (ISMU Foundation), and Perla Innocenti (University of Northumbria and University of Glasgow) explain why cultural diversity represents a …
The music hub of Antananarivo in Madagascar
Ulrike Meinhof, from the University of Southampton, explains the place of Antananarivo and of the 67 ha district in Madagascar’s music production. She tells us that it plays a role …
Cultural diversity in Rabat’s urban landscape: interview with Nick Dines
Why has Rabat decided to enhance the culture of the Amazigh people? How has their culture been made visible? Nick Dines, from the European University Institute, shares his ethnographic observations …
Identities and urban space
What impact does the appearance of urban space have on the identity of a city? This can appear as we are looking around us. We can look at the names …
The case of Doha, Qatar: interview with Peggy Levitt
In this video, Peggy Levitt, from Wellesley College and Harvard University, describes the main pillars of Qatar’s master plan to create Arab cosmopolitan nationalists, with reference to her book ‘Artifacts …
Globalizing cities
In this first step, we introduce the notion of the global city and explain the role of globalization cities as agents of diversity in the global cultural landscape. The two …
Sum up of week 2
You have reached the end of Week 2, well done! This week, our objectives were to analyse the concrete policy instruments that cities can use to promote their heritage, to …