1. Communication of Ethnic Groups in the Public Space: the Case of Daugavpils
- Author:
- Vladislav Volkov and Oksana Ruzha
- Publication Date:
- 11-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Centre for East European Studies, University of Warsaw
- Abstract:
- Interethnic communication is viewed as a form of social communication that happens “between people of different cultures”. Researchers associate the importance of studying such communication with the need to analyse the possibilities for mutual understanding of effective interaction between people of different cultures (Rogers, Hart, Miike 2002, p. 5, 7). Communication between people of different cultures can encompass a wide range of characteristics and goals – from the desire to put forward legitimate claims of ethnic identity to bias against other groups, from the establishment of associative relationships between groups prior to their dissociation (Kim 2006, p. 284, 291), from imposing the dominant culture’s standards and exclusion of non-dominant cultures from public life to the positive recognition of ethno-cultural minorities in the common cultural space (Young 1996, p. 29), etc.
- Topic:
- Ethnic Conflict and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Eastern Europe