Susana started following the work of David Boromisza-Habashi, University of Colorado, Communication.
Susana started following the work of Michele H. Jackson, University of Colorado, Communication.
Susana started following the work of Amanda Murphyao, Carleton University, School of Canadian Studies.
Graduate Student, Communication
PhD Candidate, Graduate Part Time Instructor
Thesis Title: The Dialectics of Immigration, Race and Multiculturalism: Constructing Europeanness in the EU and Spain.
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Lisa A. Flores
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About
My research and teaching focus on the interactions between cultural practices and social processes. More specifically, I am interested in exploring the ways in which particular understandings of notions such as (anti)racism, tolerance or multiculturalism both reflect and help to (re)create our material conditions.
In my dissertation I am trying to dig deeper into these dynamics as they unfold in the context of the European Union (EU). My project, The Dialectics of Immigration, Race and Multiculturalism: Constructing Europeanness in the EU and Spain, examines how contemporary beliefs and practices related to the notion of multiculturalism jointly emerge across institutional, mediated and everyday realms.
I argue that, in order to better critique contemporary EU rhetoric and actions in relation to those constructed as “Others,” we need to explain how and why particular—and partly problematic—understandings of multiculturalism are embedded in practices such as law making, public television programming, or contemporary social movements.
