Negotiating Boundaries in Multicultural Societies

✍ Scribed by Dina Mansour and Andrew Milne

• Publisher: Inter-Disciplinary Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume, entitled Negotiating Boundaries in Multicultural Societies , is divided into two main sections: The Politics of Belonging and The Politics of Exclusion . Both sections serve to explore the concepts of belonging and exclusion from an empirical political perspective. Based on practical case-studies, each chapter sheds light on empirical aspects of the challenges of integration, identity and citizenship within multicultural societies. In addition to the challenges faced by particular social groups regarding their cultural and social integration that very much affects their sense of belonging and their overall perception of their own identity, institutionalized political exclusion is still condoned, if not practiced, by states worldwide. When found in a society of multiple identities , failed integration often results in divided culturalism and hence nations. This volume explores this predicament while referring to a number of country case-studies

✦ Table of Contents

Negotiating Boundaries in Multicultural Societies
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Politics of Belonging
Negotiating the Economic Duties of Citizenship: White South Africans in the UK and Belonging through ‘Hard Work’
Re-Thinking Home: Emancipatory Travelling Practices
Settler Colonialism and White Fantasies of a Multicultural Future in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Separating Illiberal from Liberal People: The Fall of Multiculturalism and the Rise of Liberal Identity
Multiculturalism versus Division: Socio-Spatial Transformations and the City
Nationalism and Spiritualism: Tibetan Nationalism in Exilein India
Part II: The Politics of Exclusion
‘Frenchness’: Reducing the Mosaic of Multi-Facetted Integration to a Civil Test
The Mutual Enemy: Protestant Bias in the American Media Construction of Islam by the Conservative Christian and New Atheist Movements
Discourse of Belonging in Russian Multiculturalism: Colonial/Postcolonial Dimensions
Women’s Rights and Cultural Claims: Female Genital Mutilation in Germany and France