Social Cohesion: What holds us together? What keeps us apart?
Over the course of a year, academics, journalists, philosophers, and artists from around the world came together to explore the question of social cohesion: what it means, how we can achieve it, and whether it is possible or even desirable. In a four-part podcast series, members of the Humboldt Residency Programme discuss how aspects of diversity, nationalism and populism, technology, and the power of arts and culture contribute to the (un)making of communities.
This podcast series was produced and hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s 2022 Residency Programme.
The Humboldt Residency Programme:
Headed by annually changing hosts, the Humboldt Residency Programme seeks to bring together Humboldtians and other researchers with actors in civil society, journalists, entrepreneurs and artists to work on a common topic. In virtual meetings and a residency period in Berlin, members of the programme explore novel ways of communicating pressing issues of our time.
The 2022 Residency cohort focused on the topic of social cohesion, which included current trends in social division but also new forms of (digital) communality from the perspective of research, journalism and art.
All content for Humboldt Residency Podcast is the property of Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and is served directly from their servers
with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.
Social Cohesion: What holds us together? What keeps us apart?
Over the course of a year, academics, journalists, philosophers, and artists from around the world came together to explore the question of social cohesion: what it means, how we can achieve it, and whether it is possible or even desirable. In a four-part podcast series, members of the Humboldt Residency Programme discuss how aspects of diversity, nationalism and populism, technology, and the power of arts and culture contribute to the (un)making of communities.
This podcast series was produced and hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s 2022 Residency Programme.
The Humboldt Residency Programme:
Headed by annually changing hosts, the Humboldt Residency Programme seeks to bring together Humboldtians and other researchers with actors in civil society, journalists, entrepreneurs and artists to work on a common topic. In virtual meetings and a residency period in Berlin, members of the programme explore novel ways of communicating pressing issues of our time.
The 2022 Residency cohort focused on the topic of social cohesion, which included current trends in social division but also new forms of (digital) communality from the perspective of research, journalism and art.
Episode 2: Is multiculturalism the friend or foe of social cohesion?
Humboldt Residency Podcast
19 minutes 35 seconds
2 years ago
Episode 2: Is multiculturalism the friend or foe of social cohesion?
In the second episode of the Humboldt Residency Podcast, researchers from South Africa, Israel, Chile, and Sweden ask whether liberal or leftist political perspectives can achieve social cohesion in diverse and multicultural societies. Coming together to discuss mechanisms of group identity and polarisation are:
Alexander Stagnell, Postdoctoral Researcher in Rhetoric at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Södertörn University, Sweden
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Professor of Political Science at Diego Portales University, Chile
Christa Rautenbach, Professor of Law at North-West University, South Africa
Julia Elad-Strenger, Professor of Psychology at Bar Ilan University, Israel
Moderator: Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Professor of Political Science, Diego Portales University (Santiago de Chile)
The podcast episode is part of a four-part series produced and hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s 2022 Residency Programme.
Humboldt Residency Podcast
Social Cohesion: What holds us together? What keeps us apart?
Over the course of a year, academics, journalists, philosophers, and artists from around the world came together to explore the question of social cohesion: what it means, how we can achieve it, and whether it is possible or even desirable. In a four-part podcast series, members of the Humboldt Residency Programme discuss how aspects of diversity, nationalism and populism, technology, and the power of arts and culture contribute to the (un)making of communities.
This podcast series was produced and hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s 2022 Residency Programme.
The Humboldt Residency Programme:
Headed by annually changing hosts, the Humboldt Residency Programme seeks to bring together Humboldtians and other researchers with actors in civil society, journalists, entrepreneurs and artists to work on a common topic. In virtual meetings and a residency period in Berlin, members of the programme explore novel ways of communicating pressing issues of our time.
The 2022 Residency cohort focused on the topic of social cohesion, which included current trends in social division but also new forms of (digital) communality from the perspective of research, journalism and art.
