About Nira Yuval-Davis
Nira Yuval-Davis the Director of the Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at the University of East London, is an Israeli dissident and a founder member of Women Against Fundamentalism and Women In Black, in London. Her latest book is The Politics of Belonging:Intersectional Contestations, published by Sage in 2011.
Articles by Nira Yuval-Davis
The binary war
The meaning of the war is often presented in terms of a “clash of civilisations”. But this radical polarisation of the world is an example of the “binary” view that only increases conflict. Even the alternative UN formulation of a “dialogue among civilisations” reinforces the view that civilisations are separate and internally homogenous. What we need is a “dialogical civilisation” which seeks also the shared elements in our value systems.
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