The Politics of Multiculturalism in the New Europe
Racism, Identity and Community
Published on 1. August 1997
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-85649-421-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85649-421-2 (9781856494212)
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Persons
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.
Content
Introduction - The Politics of Multiculturalism in the New Europe
1. Globalisation and the Discourse of Otherness in the "New" Eastern and Central Europe
2. The 'Invaders', 'Traitors' and the 'Resistance Movement' - The Extreme Right's Conceptualisation of Opponents and Self in Scandinavia
3. International Migration in Europe - Social Projects and Political Cultures
4. The Perils of Ethnic Associational Life in Europe - Turkish Migrants in Germany and France
5. Negotiating Religious Difference - The Opinions and Attitudes of Islamic Associations in France
6. Arenas of Ethnic Negotiation - Cooperation and Conflict in Bradford
7. Islam as a Civil Religion - Political Culture, Education and the Organisation of Diversity in Germany
8. Hyphenated Identities and the Limits of Culture
9. Defining Ethnicity - Another Way of Being British
10. Why 'Positive Action' is 'Politically correct
11. Society as a Kind of Community - Communitarian Voting with Equal Rights for Individuals in the European Union
12. Reflections on Multiculturalism in Britain
13. Afterword - Writing Multiculturalism and Politics in the New Europe.
1. Globalisation and the Discourse of Otherness in the "New" Eastern and Central Europe
2. The 'Invaders', 'Traitors' and the 'Resistance Movement' - The Extreme Right's Conceptualisation of Opponents and Self in Scandinavia
3. International Migration in Europe - Social Projects and Political Cultures
4. The Perils of Ethnic Associational Life in Europe - Turkish Migrants in Germany and France
5. Negotiating Religious Difference - The Opinions and Attitudes of Islamic Associations in France
6. Arenas of Ethnic Negotiation - Cooperation and Conflict in Bradford
7. Islam as a Civil Religion - Political Culture, Education and the Organisation of Diversity in Germany
8. Hyphenated Identities and the Limits of Culture
9. Defining Ethnicity - Another Way of Being British
10. Why 'Positive Action' is 'Politically correct
11. Society as a Kind of Community - Communitarian Voting with Equal Rights for Individuals in the European Union
12. Reflections on Multiculturalism in Britain
13. Afterword - Writing Multiculturalism and Politics in the New Europe.