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ISBN: 9780776605968-11

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The Elusiveness of Full Citizenship

Accounting for Cultural Capital, Cultural Competencies, and Cultural Pluralism

From: Accounting for Culture

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Most discussions about cultural capital seem to revolve around the consumption or use of cultural goods and services. This chapter attempts to address some aspects of a more fundamental role that cultural capital plays in society.

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Karim H. Karim

Karim H. Karim is an associate professor at Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication. He is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard University (2004-05), and is leading an international project on intellectual debates among Muslims. He has published internationally on issues of culture and citizenship. He is editor of The Media of Diaspora (2003) and author of the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Islamic Peril: Media and Global Violence (2000). Prior to July of 1998 he was a senior researcher at the Department of Canadian Heritage and chaired the Federal Digitization Task Force's Access Policy Group. He attended Columbia and McGill universities.