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Managing Cultural Diversity through Multiculturalism in NGOs for Social Change: An Israeli Case Study

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Re-thinking Diversity

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The concept of multiculturalism has become the focus of an extensive and influential body of knowledge since the 1990s. The works of prominent political philosophers, such as Kymlicka (1995) and Taylor (1992), have had a remarkable influence on public debates worldwide and have generally advocated for multicultural state policies. Those views were followed by more critical, skeptical, and incisive social science scholarship (Ahmed 2000, Benhabib 2002, Hage 2000, Hale 2002, Povinelli 2002), which has emphasized the potentially problematic consequences of multicultural public policies on the power relations between majority and minority groups.

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Orr, Z. (2016). Managing Cultural Diversity through Multiculturalism in NGOs for Social Change: An Israeli Case Study. In: Re-thinking Diversity. Management – Culture – Interpretation. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11502-9_12

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