SOSC 4370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cultural Diversity, International Trade Law, Cultural Rights
20 Mar 2016
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State of the art in law and society. Finding room to maneuver: culture, diversity, access to justice. Part 1: cultural diversity in a globalized world. Room to maneuver: old issues, new policy spaces. Part 2: indigenous rights and access to justice. Classic nation-building projects aimed to depict homogenous national publics. Cultural diversity was targeted by cultural policy for eliminating, not promotion: appropriated or depicted as the other . Example of getting rid of diversity: policies around the aboriginals assimilation. Immigration laws letting in europeans, but only certain europeans (canada didn"t like. Language policies/laws maintaining the dominant language (english) Media policies symbolic inaliation of diversity. Not a lot of diversity within society. Symbolically got rid of diversity through media by only focusing on whites. Aboriginals called their land kanada and the english turned it into canada. Appropriating different cultures and ethnicities into one melting pot. 4 main traditions of use and corresponding policy agendas.
