Posts Tagged ‘intercultural’
Entering cosmopolis: Crossingover, hybridity, conciliation and the Intercultural City Ecosystem
Before I answer the question: “How is nature critical to a twenty-first century urban ethic?” I first need to ask the more fundamental question: “What is nature and how is…
Read MoreCultural competency: Towards culturally inclusive practice.
In my April 2012 blog post Cities of (in)Difference, I quoted Bloomfield and Bianchini (2002) and Sandercock (2003) on their visionary and transformative thoughts about the shift towards interculturalism. Like…
Read MoreCities of (in)Difference?
Cities of difference (Fincher and Jacobs 1998) are places where we are “in the presence of otherness” (Sennett 1990 p123) — namely, our increasingly different, diverse, and culturally heterogeneous urban areas. Yet…
Read MoreNew agricultures, cultural diversity and foodways.
Two agriculture related stories caught my attention recently. One, on National Public Radio’s ‘All Things Considered’ entitled ‘Some US Farms Trade Tobacco for a Taste of Africa’ reported on George Bowling’s 60…
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