Identity/Difference Politics: How Difference Is Produced, and Why It Matters - Softcover

Dhamoon, Rita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774815914 ISBN 13: 9780774815918

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Theories of liberal multiculturalism have come to dominate debates about identity and difference politics in contemporary western political theory. Identity/Difference Politics offers a nuanced critique of these debates by switching the focus from culture to power. Issues of power are examined through accounts of meaning-making - those processes through which meanings of difference are produced, organized, and regulated. Other forms of identity/difference such as whiteness, ableism, gender, and heteronormativity establish the analytic and normative value of Dhamoon's alternative theoretical framework, and reveal that an exclusive preoccupation with culture can dissolve into essentialism - which too often provides a rationale for state regulation of groups deemed to be too different.

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Rita Dhamoon teaches in the Department of Philosophy & Political Science at the University of the Fraser Valley, British Columbia. She is co-editor of Sexual Justice/Cultural Justice: Critical Perspectives in Political Theory and Practice.

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Dhamoon forces us to rethink the concept of culture ... in liberal multiculturalism through a subtle, thorough engagement with its dominant thinkers. She clarifies and expands the scope of radical critiques of this field ... outlining the contours of other ways of understanding identity and difference that point towards new, more progressive understandings of democracy, subjectivity, and citizenship. - Richard Day, author of Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774815914
• ISBN 13: 9780774815918
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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