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Department: Communication
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Ottawa, ON
Dates at University of Ottawa: December 2004 - October 2018
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Biography

University of Ottawa - Communication

Experience

The University of Ottawa
Research Director and Professor
Boulou worked at The University of Ottawa as a Research Director and Professor

Education

Concordia University
Ph.D.
Communications-Cultural Studies

Publications

Global Perspectives on the Politics of Multiculturalism in the 21st Century
Taylor& Francis (Routledge Research in Comparative Politics)
Multiculturalism is now seen by many of its critics as the source of intercultural and social tensions, fostering communal segregation and social conflicts. While the cultural diversity of contemporary societies has to be acknowledged as an empirical and demographic fact, whether multiculturalism as a policy offers an optimal conduit for intercultural understanding and social harmony has become increasingly a matter of polarised public debate. This book examines the contested philosophical foundations of multiculturalism and its, often controversial, applications in the context of migrant societies. It also explores the current theoretical debates about the extent to which multiculturalism, and related conceptual constructs, can account for the various ethical challenges and policy dilemmas surrounding the management of cultural diversity in our contemporary societies. The authors consider common conceptual and empirical features from a transnational perspective through analysis of the case studies of Australia, Canada, Columbia, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Uruguay.
Global Perspectives on the Politics of Multiculturalism in the 21st Century
Taylor& Francis (Routledge Research in Comparative Politics)
Multiculturalism is now seen by many of its critics as the source of intercultural and social tensions, fostering communal segregation and social conflicts. While the cultural diversity of contemporary societies has to be acknowledged as an empirical and demographic fact, whether multiculturalism as a policy offers an optimal conduit for intercultural understanding and social harmony has become increasingly a matter of polarised public debate. This book examines the contested philosophical foundations of multiculturalism and its, often controversial, applications in the context of migrant societies. It also explores the current theoretical debates about the extent to which multiculturalism, and related conceptual constructs, can account for the various ethical challenges and policy dilemmas surrounding the management of cultural diversity in our contemporary societies. The authors consider common conceptual and empirical features from a transnational perspective through analysis of the case studies of Australia, Canada, Columbia, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Uruguay.
Global Perspectives on the Politics of Multiculturalism in the 21st Century
Taylor& Francis (Routledge Research in Comparative Politics)
Multiculturalism is now seen by many of its critics as the source of intercultural and social tensions, fostering communal segregation and social conflicts. While the cultural diversity of contemporary societies has to be acknowledged as an empirical and demographic fact, whether multiculturalism as a policy offers an optimal conduit for intercultural understanding and social harmony has become increasingly a matter of polarised public debate. This book examines the contested philosophical foundations of multiculturalism and its, often controversial, applications in the context of migrant societies. It also explores the current theoretical debates about the extent to which multiculturalism, and related conceptual constructs, can account for the various ethical challenges and policy dilemmas surrounding the management of cultural diversity in our contemporary societies. The authors consider common conceptual and empirical features from a transnational perspective through analysis of the case studies of Australia, Canada, Columbia, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Uruguay.
Le 'Verbe' au Cinema
AfricAvenir-Lamacs
Un essai, politique, sur l'oralité dans un corpus de films d'Afrique noire francophone de 1950 à 2000. Dans un langage clair, l'auteur illustre comment dans les sociétés de l'écriture, le texte engagerait l'Homme et que cette écriture aurait imposé un genre, un style et des modes de production de sens qui sont propres à ces sociétés de l'écriture d'où, par exemple, la naissance du langage cinématographique formalisé. Ainsi il se demande ce qui arriverait à une analyse de film calquée sur ce langage dont les articulations discursives ne sont pas nécessairement en adéquation avec la mysticité de la parole qui, elle, engagerait véritablement l'Homme en Afrique noire? Qu'arrive-t-il à l'analyse quand l'image d'une parole détourne le sens prescrit dans les modes opératoires du langage cinématographique des sociétés de l'écrit ? Comment le cinéma, à travers la technique audiovisuelle, devient-il une technologie par excellence capable de nous faire voir la nature mystique et culturelle de cette parole ?
Global Perspectives on the Politics of Multiculturalism in the 21st Century
Taylor& Francis (Routledge Research in Comparative Politics)
Multiculturalism is now seen by many of its critics as the source of intercultural and social tensions, fostering communal segregation and social conflicts. While the cultural diversity of contemporary societies has to be acknowledged as an empirical and demographic fact, whether multiculturalism as a policy offers an optimal conduit for intercultural understanding and social harmony has become increasingly a matter of polarised public debate. This book examines the contested philosophical foundations of multiculturalism and its, often controversial, applications in the context of migrant societies. It also explores the current theoretical debates about the extent to which multiculturalism, and related conceptual constructs, can account for the various ethical challenges and policy dilemmas surrounding the management of cultural diversity in our contemporary societies. The authors consider common conceptual and empirical features from a transnational perspective through analysis of the case studies of Australia, Canada, Columbia, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Uruguay.
Le 'Verbe' au Cinema
AfricAvenir-Lamacs
Un essai, politique, sur l'oralité dans un corpus de films d'Afrique noire francophone de 1950 à 2000. Dans un langage clair, l'auteur illustre comment dans les sociétés de l'écriture, le texte engagerait l'Homme et que cette écriture aurait imposé un genre, un style et des modes de production de sens qui sont propres à ces sociétés de l'écriture d'où, par exemple, la naissance du langage cinématographique formalisé. Ainsi il se demande ce qui arriverait à une analyse de film calquée sur ce langage dont les articulations discursives ne sont pas nécessairement en adéquation avec la mysticité de la parole qui, elle, engagerait véritablement l'Homme en Afrique noire? Qu'arrive-t-il à l'analyse quand l'image d'une parole détourne le sens prescrit dans les modes opératoires du langage cinématographique des sociétés de l'écrit ? Comment le cinéma, à travers la technique audiovisuelle, devient-il une technologie par excellence capable de nous faire voir la nature mystique et culturelle de cette parole ?
The Promised Land Project
University of Toronto Press
Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays Southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals that Chatham-Kent was a crucial area of settlement for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors present the everyday lives and professional activities of individuals and families in these communities and highlight early cross-border activism to end slavery in the United States and to promote civil rights of Blacks in the US and Canada. Essays also reflect on the frequent intermingling of local Black, White, and First Nations people. Using a cultural studies framework to their collective investigations, the authors trace physical and intellectual trajectories of Blackness, which have radiated from Southern Ontario to other parts of Canada, the United States, the Caribbean and Africa. The result is a collection that inventively extends and challenges the grand narrative of Canadian history without romanticizing Black lives. Coming Soon in 2014
Global Perspectives on the Politics of Multiculturalism in the 21st Century
Taylor& Francis (Routledge Research in Comparative Politics)
Multiculturalism is now seen by many of its critics as the source of intercultural and social tensions, fostering communal segregation and social conflicts. While the cultural diversity of contemporary societies has to be acknowledged as an empirical and demographic fact, whether multiculturalism as a policy offers an optimal conduit for intercultural understanding and social harmony has become increasingly a matter of polarised public debate. This book examines the contested philosophical foundations of multiculturalism and its, often controversial, applications in the context of migrant societies. It also explores the current theoretical debates about the extent to which multiculturalism, and related conceptual constructs, can account for the various ethical challenges and policy dilemmas surrounding the management of cultural diversity in our contemporary societies. The authors consider common conceptual and empirical features from a transnational perspective through analysis of the case studies of Australia, Canada, Columbia, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Uruguay.
Le 'Verbe' au Cinema
AfricAvenir-Lamacs
Un essai, politique, sur l'oralité dans un corpus de films d'Afrique noire francophone de 1950 à 2000. Dans un langage clair, l'auteur illustre comment dans les sociétés de l'écriture, le texte engagerait l'Homme et que cette écriture aurait imposé un genre, un style et des modes de production de sens qui sont propres à ces sociétés de l'écriture d'où, par exemple, la naissance du langage cinématographique formalisé. Ainsi il se demande ce qui arriverait à une analyse de film calquée sur ce langage dont les articulations discursives ne sont pas nécessairement en adéquation avec la mysticité de la parole qui, elle, engagerait véritablement l'Homme en Afrique noire? Qu'arrive-t-il à l'analyse quand l'image d'une parole détourne le sens prescrit dans les modes opératoires du langage cinématographique des sociétés de l'écrit ? Comment le cinéma, à travers la technique audiovisuelle, devient-il une technologie par excellence capable de nous faire voir la nature mystique et culturelle de cette parole ?
The Promised Land Project
University of Toronto Press
Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays Southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals that Chatham-Kent was a crucial area of settlement for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors present the everyday lives and professional activities of individuals and families in these communities and highlight early cross-border activism to end slavery in the United States and to promote civil rights of Blacks in the US and Canada. Essays also reflect on the frequent intermingling of local Black, White, and First Nations people. Using a cultural studies framework to their collective investigations, the authors trace physical and intellectual trajectories of Blackness, which have radiated from Southern Ontario to other parts of Canada, the United States, the Caribbean and Africa. The result is a collection that inventively extends and challenges the grand narrative of Canadian history without romanticizing Black lives. Coming Soon in 2014
Decentering Canadian History
TVO
For many Canadians, the history of African-Canadians is limited to the Underground Railroad. It's a history that some historians are working to expand upon. Boulou Ebanda de B'Béri, professor of Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of Ottawa, and co-editor of "The Promised Land: History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond," joins The Agenda in the Summer to discuss his efforts to move African-Canadian history out of the margins.