This topical book examines the debates around contemporary conflicts between liberal democracies and increasingly vociferous special interest groups within society. It analyses the way a new sense of difference and the growth of multi-culturalism are straining modern notions of citizenship and rights, looking in particular at how ethnic conflicts in Eastern Europe have escalated to international tragedies, while in the US and Canada, race, ethnicity and radical feminism are at the heart of a social conflict which challenges national identity and the unity of the state.
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Gewebe-Einband
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 30 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-85331-112-3 (9781853311123)
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Michael Dunne is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Sussex.
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Lecturer in American StudiesUniversity of Sussex
Multiculturalism and citizenship in the liberal state: to share or not to share? The liberal treaty revisited; the concept of the nation and the question of nationalism - the traditional "nation state" versus a multicultural "commmunity state"; political and juridical approaches to justice toward groups. Citizenship and rights in multicultural Britain: when culture becomes race - religious identities and the nation; the political sociology of a multicultural society; "a union without cohesion" - religion national identity and the "British constitution" in the 19th Century. Citizenship and rights in multicultural Europe and America: multiculturalism and constitutional values in Germany; constitutional equality and the anti-discrimination principle in France - the French system in comparative perspective; America and multiculturalism; rights in a pluralist state - the case of Spain; ;legal rights, the new minorities and multiculturalism in contemporary Italy. Constitutional rights and constitutionalism in multicultural societies: minorities and protected minorities - constitutional models compared; constitutions and rights in Central and Eastern Europe; creating citizens for a constitutional democracy; postscript - multiculturalism in Europe and America.
