Project description
Understanding coexistence in diverse ethnic and religious contexts
The concept of multiculturalism is considered unsuccessful in several countries, including Europe, the United States, India and Israel. In response, the Praxis of Coexistence seeks to study coexistence practices through empirical, inductive and comparative means. It aims to understand how people spontaneously manage diversity and identify the resources they use to maintain civil relations between different coexisting religious and ethnic groups. The EU-funded PraxisofCoexistence project aims to adopt a comparative approach to ethno-religious coexistence in multiple sites. The research seeks to understand how coexistence is practiced by examining cases of ‘ordinary’ coexistence in situations of religious and ethnic diversity. This project expands the range of coexistence approaches to include profound differences, diverse values and existing cultures.
Objective
The world is experiencing what many have described as a crisis of multiculturalism. Over the past decade, growing and increasingly mainstream voices have declared multiculturalism to have failed, in such places as Europe, the United States, India, Israel, to name a few. In view of growing concerns over the ineffectiveness of current coexistence policies, and brewing ethno-religious conflicts, this research program will address this issue by taking a comparative approach to the question of ethno-religious coexistence in multiple sites. By examining cases of “ordinary” coexistence in situations of religious and ethnic diversity, the research seeks to understand how coexistence is actually practiced. The Praxis of Coexistence seeks to open an entirely new empirical, inductive, and comparative line of inquiry that does not seek to examine the effects of different policies on coexistence, but rather looks at coexistence practices to, among other things, achieve better policy. Understanding how people handle diversity spontaneously will enlighten us about what they “expect”, what they are looking for in coexistence. I ask: How do communities accommodate difference in spontaneous and culturally resonant ways? What resources do they actually draw on to maintain civil relations and avoid conflict and violence between the different religious and ethnic groups that cohabit the same space? This project will open theoretical and normative space for a broader range of approaches to coexistence, ones that are attuned to questions of deep difference, divergent worldviews, and diverse values. In contrast to studies on the effects of policy or structural conditions on the dynamics of coexistence, this project will demonstrate why we should also take culture and existing practice seriously when considering the dilemmas of diversity.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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69978 Tel Aviv
Israel
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