The Challenge of Cultural Heritage and Identity for Inclusive and Open Societies : Young People's Perspectives From European and Asian Countries

"Issues of cultural identity and cultural heritage are at the heart of contemporary discourses in many parts of the world. They are used to identify and address the inequalities by marginalized groups; however, they also feed the re-nationalization and ethno-purist fantasies. But what exactly is culture? In this volume, the authors explore how culture is conceptualized and practised by young people in eight countries in numerous and very diverse contexts - schools, interest clubs, organizations, and informal youth groups. The chapters show that concepts of culture vary widely within and across sites, regions, and countries, highlighting the common, as well as particular, challenges that notions of identity and heritage pose for young people who often aspire to an inclusive and open society"-- Provided by publisher Cover 1 Series Information 4 Copyright Information 6 Table of Contents 7 Introduction (Louis Henri Seukwa) 9 Part I Cultural literacy in formal education 31 Chapter 1 Schools as a package of cultural participation for youth raised with digital technology in Turkey (Yıldırım Şentürk, Ayşe Berna Uçarol) 33 Chapter 2 Questioning cultural homogeneity: Negotiating cultural plurality by young people in formal educational settings in India (Chandrani Chatterjee, Swati Dyahadroy, Neha Ghatpande) 59 Chapter 3 Threatened? The understanding of culture, identity and diversity in the Slovak educational system (Monika Bagalová, Ľubomír Lehocký) 81 Chapter 4 Normative multiculturalism and the limits of inclusion in school lives: Qualitative insights from three secondary schools in England (Eleni Stamou, Anton Popov, Ebru Soytemel) 107 Chapter 5 “Who is a German?” Young people’s cultural identification and the issues of belonging, memory and participation in Hamburg schools (Elina Marmer) 131 Part II Cultural literacy in non- formal education 159 Chapter 6 The past as a dream and a nightmare: Cultural heritage and identity in a Slovak non-formal educational environment (Matej Karásek) 163 Chapter 7 Attempts of simultaneous preservation and modernization of traditional Georgian culture: Observation of martial arts and folk-dance groups in Tbilisi (Rati Shubladze, Anano Kipiani) 191 Chapter 8 From distinction to resonance – outline of a spectrum of youth culture in Germany (Cornelia Sylla) 217 Chapter 9 Post-coloniality, social capital and difference trumps hierarchy: Non- formal cultural education of youth in India (Shailendra Kharat, Anagha Tambe, Priya Gohad) 243 Part III Cultural literacy in informal education 269 Chapter 10 The significance of discrimination and stigmatisation in cultural practices and identities of young people in Germany (Awista Gardi) 271 Chapter 11 ‘Undocumented culture’: Ethnography on BEK social centre in Zagreb (Dino Vukušić, Rašeljka Krnić, Vanja Dergić) 301 Chapter 12 The Nightingales: Tactical positioning of young middle-class pious Muslim women in Turkey (Ayça Oral, Ece Esmer) 323 Chapter 13 Creating youth-determined contact zones in the public space and through local and global communities: Street dance in Barcelona (Nele Hansen) 349 About the Authors 373 Series index 383 The volume presents case studies from eight countries in Europe and Asia in diverse sites of formal, non-formal and informal education, based on interviews and observations with young people, their teachers and practitioners. The plurality of perspectives on culture, identity and heritage is analysed in terms of their inclusivity and exclusiveness.