Intercultural City : Case Studies

Intercultural Innovators

This study, by Jude Bloomfield, is based on a study of 33 individuals in 7 British towns and cities who were identified as innovators in different fields. The study started out from the premise that these people had crossed cultural boundaries drawing on elements from different cultures. The consequence was that they were adept at seeing their own culture as either relative or composite, and valuing the different ways of seeing and doing things in the other cultures. This openness to different cultures gives them a heightened propensity to select and absorb elements into their own cultural make-up and produce new ways of thinking, seeing, imagining and creating. The intercultural actors were defined as people who, for whatever reason, cross over boundaries between ethnic minority and mainstream cultural, social, economic and civic/political networks. The reasons for this were not defined a priori and could, and did, vary from mixed parentage, bilingualism, postcolonial migration, having travelled or lived abroad and been exposed to other cultures for a prolonged period of time, or through the nature of their work.

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		Intercultural Innovators This study, by Jude Bloomfield, is based on a study of 33 individuals in 7 British towns and cities who were identified as innovators in different fields. The study started out from the premise that these people had crossed cultural boundaries drawing on elements from different cultures. The consequence was that they were adept at seeing their own culture as either relative or composite, and valuing the different ways of seeing and doing things in the other cultures. This openness to different cultures gives them a heightened propensity to select and absorb elements into their own cultural make-up and produce new ways of thinking, seeing, imagining and creating. The intercultural actors were defined as people who, for whatever reason, cross over boundaries between ethnic minority and mainstream cultural, social, economic and civic/political networks. The reasons for this were not defined a priori and could, and did, vary from mixed parentage, bilingualism, postcolonial migration, having travelled or lived abroad and been exposed to other cultures for a prolonged period of time, or through the nature of their work. Download an Interim Report - Profile of Intercultural Innovators