The Politics of Multiculturalism in the New Europe: Racism, Identity and Community (Postcolonial Encounters Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856494225 ISBN 13: 9781856494229

Verlag: Zed Books Ltd, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Europe has become a novel experiment in multiple, tiered and mediated multiculturalisms. It is now a supranational community of cultures, sub-cultures and trans-cultures inserted differentially into radically different political cultural traditions. The consequences of this re-imagining and re-making of a new Europe are variously seen to be threatening or utopian. In a post-Communist, post-national era, multiculturalism has been theorized as a paternalistic, top-down solution to the ‘problem’ of minorities, a dangerous reification of ‘culture’, or a new way forward to a politics of ‘recognition’ and ‘authenticity’. 

But is multiculturalism simply a novel project of social engineering, devised for the twenty-first century by well-meaning liberals or communitarians? The authors of this book reject this view by demonstrating that multiculturalism is the political outcome of ongoing power struggles and collective negotiations of cultural, ethnic and racial differences.

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Tariq Modood is professor of sociology, politics and public policy, and founding director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol, UK.
Tariq Modood is professor of sociology, politics and public policy, and founding director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol, UK.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Zed Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1856494225
• ISBN 13: 9781856494229
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Modood Tariq, Werbner Pnina
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar