Multiculturalism Rethought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Multiculturalism Rethought write by Varun Uberoi. This book was released on 2015-02-28. Multiculturalism Rethought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A selection of the leading theorists of multiculturalism revisit aspects of Parekh's work both to underline its continuing importance and the ongoing vitality of multiculturalist theory.
Multiculturalism in Contemporary Britain
Multiculturalism in Contemporary Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Multiculturalism in Contemporary Britain write by Richard T. Ashcroft. This book was released on 2020-05-21. Multiculturalism in Contemporary Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since 1945 the United Kingdom has changed from a polity that was overwhelmingly white, ethnically British, and Christian to one constituted by creeds, cultures, and communities drawn from all over the globe. The term ‘multiculturalism’ evokes these demographic changes, the policies and laws that arose as a result, and connected public debates. Political and public support for multiculturalism has been called into question in the new millennium, with British multiculturalism—and Britain itself—currently in a state of flux. This volume examines the policy, law, and political theory of multiculturalism in the British context, exploring how they inform each other. It covers topics such as national identity, immigration, integration, the welfare state, gender, freedom of religion, and human rights. It provides a deeper understanding of contemporary British multiculturalism in its various aspects, inexorably leading back to fundamental questions regarding the structure and purpose of the British polity. It also explores the connections between multiculturalism and current events, including Brexit, renewed calls for Scottish independence, and the broader rise of populism in the West. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, to which the editors have added a new concluding chapter.
Authenticity, Autonomy and Multiculturalism
Authenticity, Autonomy and Multiculturalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Authenticity, Autonomy and Multiculturalism write by Geoffrey Brahm Levey. This book was released on 2015-05-01. Authenticity, Autonomy and Multiculturalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The concept of "authenticity" enters multicultural politics in three distinct but interrelated senses: as an ideal of individual and group identity that commands recognition by others; as a condition of individuals’ autonomy that bestows legitimacy on their values, beliefs and preferences as being their own; and as a form of cultural pedigree that bestows legitimacy on particular beliefs and practices (commonly called "cultural authenticity"). In each case, the authenticity idea is called on to anchor or legitimate claims to some kind of public recognition. The considerable work asked of this concept raises a number of vital questions: Should "authenticity" be accorded the importance it holds in multicultural politics? Do its pitfalls outweigh its utility? Is the notion of "authenticity" avoidable in making sense of and evaluating cultural claims? Or does it, perhaps, need to be rethought or recalibrated? Geoffrey Brahm Levey and his distinguished group of philosophers, political theorists, and anthropologists challenge conventional assumptions about "authenticity" that inform liberal responses to minority cultural claims in Western democracies today. Discussing a wide range of cases drawn from Britain and continental Europe, North America, Australia and the Middle East, they press beyond theories to consider also the practical and policy implications at stake. A helpful resource to scholars worldwide in Political and Social Theory, Political Philosophy, Legal Anthropology, Multiculturalism, and, more generally, of cultural identity and diversity in liberal democracies today.
Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity
Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity write by Katayoun Alidadi. This book was released on 2018-06-13. Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In several Western countries, expert commissions composed of academics, public figures, politicians and community organisers have been established by governments or civil society to reflect on the changes and challenges of an increasingly plural society. Commission recommendations on how to ‘manage’ diversities successfully have shaped national narratives and affected law and public policies, yet research on the workings of such commissions remains rare. This book focuses on the experiences of expert commissions in the UK, France, Quebec and Belgium. Furthering the debate on commissions’ potential and limitations it draws on the first-hand experiences and introspection of former commission members and close observers, along with outside perspectives and critique from independent scholars. Building on its companion volume (Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity: Analysis, Reception and Challenges), this book engages with core concepts of identity, nationality, citizenship, freedom, equality and accommodation. It will appeal to researchers and students of public policy, sociology, anthropology, law, religion, politics, history and migration studies, as well as policymakers and anyone with a general interest in current debates on ethnic, cultural and religious diversity.
Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism
Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism write by Tariq Modood. This book was released on 2019-04-25. Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whether the recently settled religious minorities, Muslims, in particular, can be accommodated as religious groups in European countries has become a central political question and threatens to create long-term fault lines. In this collection of essays, Tariq Modood argues that to grasp the nature of the problem we have to see how Muslims have become a target of a cultural racism, Islamophobia. Yet, the problem is not just one of anti-racism but of an understanding of multicultural citizenship, of how minority identities, including those formed by race, ethnicity and religion, can be incorporated into national identities so all can have a sense of belonging together. This means that the tendency amongst some to exclude religious identities from public institutions and the re-making of national identities has to be challenged. Modood suggests that this can be done in a principled yet pragmatic way by drawing on Western Europe's moderate political secularism and eschewing forms of secularism that offer religious groups a second-class citizenship.
