The Multivoiced Body: Society and Communication in the Age of Diversity

by Fred Evans

Book Overview

Ethnic cleansing and other methods of political and social exclusion continue to thrive in our globalized world, complicating the idea that unity and diversity can exist in the same society. When we emphasize unity, we sacrifice heterogeneity, yet when we stress diversity, we create a plurality of individuals connected only by tenuous circumstance. As long as we remain tethered to these binaries, as long as we are unable to imagine the sort of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231145012
• ISBN13: 9780231145015
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.8"