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Provides a brief discussion on cultural diversity and globalization.

This paper seeks to engage political theorists & sociolinguists on Global English. It explores how liberal theories of state accommodation of linguistic diversity can be extrapolated to the global level & compares this extrapolation to sociolinguists' concerns about Global English. The paper concludes by arguing for an alternative, a Gramscian theoretical approach. Adapted from the source document.

In this article, we try to deconstruct essentialist & racialist presuppositions underlying the metaphor of cultural roots, often invoked in the contemporary debates dealing with cultural identity whose genuineness is seen as threatened by globalization. Deconstructing this topos of postmodernity helps us in the task of reassessing the value of the concept of culture, by the yardstick of an anthropology of globalization. Far from rejecting 20th century's classical theories of cultural anthropology, we show that the obsession with cultural genuineness is nothing new & that the praise of hybridity is nothing but its reverse. To think cultural exchanges in terms of the circulation of cultural forms allows us to get rid of the metaphor of roots, which turns out to be more deceptive than fruitful. We can then outline a more dynamic approach to cultural phenomena in the era of globalization. Adapted from the source document.

Fassin introduces a special dossier that he edited with Martina Avanza, "Representants et representes: Elus de la diversite et minorites visibles" (Representatives & Represented: Elected from the Diversity & Visible Minorities), noting that it is in the wake of gender parity that the question of diversity truly emerged in the heart of French public debate, particularly with regard to political representation. Since 1992, the initiators of the parity movement have sought to explain that the logic of putting women on a par with men should apply as well to all social classes as well as ethnic or religious communities. As has been explained by Francoise Gaspard, Claude Servan-Schreiber, & Anne Le Gall, women belong to categories of class, race, ethnicity, & religion as well as gender. The contributions that follow look at the parity of representation of all the different groups that constitute a society. S. Stanton