Encyclopedia of Diversity

This encyclopedia brings together voluminous knowledge on one of the key characteristic features of the human condition: diversity. The overall goal of this reference work is not only to serve as a repository of knowledge on this particular topic but to provide readers with a conceptual cartography enabling them to navigate between the many complex issues that diversity scholarship is replete with.

As interdisciplinary researchers testify, diversity is one of the most pressing issues that contemporary and plural societies face. To this day, it remains the single most important source of ethnocultural and religious conflict, racial discrimination and violence in general. Diversity and its gravitational orbit of concepts remain poorly examined. Nevertheless, it has also been associated with many emancipatory projects and progress in general.

Such challenges and success stories are covered in this academic encyclopedia. This reference work appeals to students, researchers and professionals working in the many interdisciplinary fields of diversity scholarship.

Mitja Sardoč (PhD) is senior research associate at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana (Slovenia) where he is member of the ’Educational Research’ program. His research interests and expertise include philosophy of education, political philosophy and education policy. He is author of scholarly articles and editor of a number of journal special issues on citizenship education, multiculturalism, toleration, equality of opportunity, radicalization and violent extremism, patriotism, the American Dream, neoliberalism and education, talents and distributive justice etc. He is Managing Editor of Theory and Research in Education [tre.sagepub.com/] and member of the editorial board of the CEPS Journal and Postdigital Science and Education. Between September and December 2019, he was a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). He is Editor-in-Chief of The Handbook of Patriotism, Editor-in-Chief of The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration and editor of The Impacts of Neoliberal Discourse and Language in Education published by Routledge (2021).