The organised cultural encounter: rethinking the conceptual and contextual framework of interculturality through the study of practice

The project examines how cultural differences are practiced and thus produced and reproduced within settings that are organised around the attention to cultural diversity considered an obstacle or challenge. Five different cases of organised cultural encounters (OCE) (interfaith dialogue meetings, volunteer programmes, dance culture, management training courses, arts-based method) are examined. Taking a point of departure in social practices, the theoretical perspective is cross-disciplinary and aims at understanding how processes of cultural subjectification, performance, performativity, and reflexivity are constitutive of OCEs.