Pluralist Traditions, Craft Communities and Development Dialogues in Kachchh (Gujarat, western India)

This paper attempts to look at craft as a common link between communities and the basis for cultural mobility and cultural exchange. The significant point that one can draw from the paper is the ways that craft communities respond to external stress. The

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e book series of the Karlshochschule International University explores new ideas and approaches to management, organizations and economy from a cultural and interpretive point of view. The series intends to integrate different perspectives towards economy, culture and society. Therefore, management and organizational activities are not seen as being isolated from their context, but rather as contextbound and dependent on their surrounding cultures, societies and economies. Within these contexts, activities make sense through the allocation, the interpretation and the negotiation of meanings. Sense-making can be found in performative processes as well as the way social meaning is constructed through interactions. The series seeks innovative approaches, both in formulating new research questions and in developing adequate methodological research designs. We welcome contributions from different interdisciplinary and collective ways of thinking and seeking knowledge which focus on the integration of “Management – Culture – Interpretation“.

Edited by Prof. Dr. Andreas P. Müller Prof. Dr. Stephan Sonnenburg Karlsruhe, Germany

Cordula Braedel-Kühner Andreas P. Müller

Re-thinking Diversity Multiple Approaches in Theory, Media, Communities, and Managerial Practice

Cordula Braedel-Kühner Offenburg, Germany

Andreas P. Müller Karlsruhe, Germany

Management – Culture – Interpretation ISBN 978-3-658-11501-2 ISBN 978-3-658-11502-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-658-11502-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015952640 Springer VS © Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer VS is a brand of Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Contents Cordula Braedel-Kühner and Andreas P. Müller Introduction: Re-thinking Diversity from a Cultural Science Perspective .......... 7 Approaching Diversity Claire Bynner Towards an Intercultural Appro