ISBN:
9780415121583
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (321 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Multicultural States : Rethinking Difference and Identity
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Combines general theoretical discussions of the principles of cultural pluralism, nationalism, and minority identities with informative studies of specific local histories and political conflicts
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Culture's in between; 3 Liberalism and minority culture: Reflections on Culture's in between'; 4 Five types of identity and difference; 5 Economies of value; 6 Multiculturalism or multinationalism?; 7 Modernity and ethnicity in India; 8 Between ethnicity and nationhood: Shaka Day and the struggle over Zuluness in post-apartheid South Africa; 9 Postcolonialism: The case of Ireland; 10 Multicultural imagined communities: Cultural difference and national identity in the USA and Australia
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Globalisation and the myth of ethnic community: Salvadoran refugees in multicultural states12 The politics of national identity and the pedagogy of multiculturalism in the USA; 13 Ethnicity and education: Biculturalism in New Zealand; 14 The technology of ethnicity: Canadian multiculturalism and the language of law; 15 Lunching for the republic: Feminism, the media and identity politics in the Australian republicanism debate; 16 Riding multiculturalism; 17 Re:locations … Rethinking Britain from Accra, New York, and the Map Room of the British Museum
Description / Table of Contents:
18 Counterpoints: Nationalism, colonialism, multiculturalism, etc. in personal perspectiveIndex;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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