The politics of multiculturalism: multicultural governance in comparative perspective

✍ Scribed by Augie Fleras

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The politics of multiculturalism in the post 9/11-7/7 era have made it abundantly clear: Increasing diversity and its politicization as difference have sharpened the need for models of multiculturalism that make society safe from difference, yet safe for difference. In acknowledging the centrality of living together without drifting apart, this book utilizes a comparative approach to demonstrate how and why behind the politics of multiculturalism in North America, Europe, and the Antipodes.  The Politics of Multiculturalism  also demonstrates how the multiculturalism in a multicultural governance is shifting toward principles of inclusiveness as grounds for living together. In that multicultural politics and politicization of difference are unlikely to subside in the foreseeable future, this groundbreaking book provides a timely and relevant coda for analyzing  the quintessential challenge of the 21st century – living together differently without the differences getting in the way of living together equitably. 

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1 Multiculturalisms as Governance: Principles and Paradoxes, Policies and Perspectives......Page 14
2 Theorizing Multicultural Governances: Making Society Safe from Difference, Safe for Difference......Page 36
3 Managing Difference, Making a Difference: Multiculturalism as Inclusive Governance in Canada......Page 68
4 Multiculturalisms in the United States: Multicultural Governances, American Style......Page 102
5 Multiculturalisms “Down Under”: Multicultural Governances across Australia......Page 126
6 Contesting Governances in Aotearoa New Zealand: Monoculturalism, Biculturalism, Multiculturalism, and Binationalism......Page 142
7 Dutch Multiculturalism: Unsettling Multicultural Governance in the Netherlands......Page 160
8 Multiculturalism in Britain: Contesting Multiculturalisms, Evolving Governances......Page 178
9 The Politics of Multicultural Politics: Transatlantic Divides, Intercontinental Discourses......Page 200
10 Reconstitutionalizing Multiculturalism: Governance Pathways for the Twenty-first Century......Page 216
Bibliography......Page 238
B......Page 280
D......Page 281
H......Page 282
K......Page 283
M......Page 284
R......Page 285
T......Page 286
Z......Page 287