Università Roma Tre

Part I: Representation of the Other

The representation of the other in history, in anthropology, in sociology. Interpretation of cultures: the hermeneutic circle and the dense description. The crisis of representation. The question of sociological authority. Relationship with the other and ethnographic description. Cultural negotiation and translation. Poetics and policies of identity. Multiculturality as a polyphony of voices. Post-modernism: methodological pluralism and experimentation. Narration and intercultural relationship. Sociology and otherness.


Part II: Policies. Migrations, conflicts and intercultural and intracultural negotiations.

Case studies:
- Mexican-American identity between integration and crystallization of conflicts; problems of representation and power in a dialogical research;
- an analysis of the Nigerian migration phenomenon in which the conceptual construction proceeds from below, deconstructing stereotypes and prejudices about an ignored or deformed culture;
- shadowing technique and literary fiction in a research on cultural crossbreeding, between new age magic and traditional shamanism;
- diary of a research on esoteric tourism in India.

1. Mandatory texts:

E. Tedeschi (2014) Il giaguaro e la tigre. Narrazioni, interazioni, culture, seconda edizione eBook Ultima Books Store
E.Tedeschi (2014) Tra una cultura e l'altra. Lo stato dell'arte della sociologia interculturale, Cleup, Padova.

2. Two texts to choose among the texts listed below:

M. Miccio (2015) Le identità affievolite, FrancoAngeli.
V. Romania & A. Zamperini (2009) La città interculturale. Politiche di comunità e strategie di convivenza a Padova, FrancoAngeli
E. Pace (2008) Raccontare Dio. La religione come comunicazione, il Mulino
R. Grillo & J. Pratt (a cura) (2006) Le politiche del riconoscimento delle differenze. Multiculturalismo all'italiana, Guaraldi
E. Pace (a cura ) (2013) Le religioni nell'Italia che cambia, Mappe e bussole, Carocci
F. Montezemolo (2004) La mia storia non la tua. La costruzione dell’identità chicana tra etero e autorappresentazioni, Guerini
K. Scannavini (2010) Abuja/Londra solo andata. Storie e percorsi migratori dalla Nigeria, Liguori
V. Pellegrino (2009) L'Occidente e il Mediterraneo agli occhi dei migranti, Unicopli