Multicultural Horizons: Diversity and the Limits of the Civil NationRoutledge, 07/03/2008 - 152 من الصفحات The intensity of feeling that multiculturalism invariably ignites is considered in this timely analysis of how the ‘New Britain’ of the twenty-first century is variously re-imagined as multicultural. Introducing the concept of ‘multicultural intimacies’, Anne-Marie Fortier offers a new form of critical engagement with the cultural politics of multiculturalism, one that attends to ideals of mixing, loving thy neighbour and feelings for the nation. In the first study of its kind, Fortier considers the anxieties, desires, and issues that form representations of ‘multicultural Britain’ available in the British public domain. She investigates:
This book presents a unique analysis of multiculturalism that draws on insights from critical race studies, feminist and queer studies, postcolonialism and psychoanalysis. |
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... Blair, was trumpeting diversity and the 'multicultural' as a defining feature ofitsvision for the'new Britain' ofthe 21st century. Iwas hooked. What isthe role ofthe 'new' asaway of rewritinghistoryand of redefining Britishness? As a ...
... (Blair 2006). Debates around the benefits and failuresofmulticulturalism were reanimated by7/7, and the weeks that followed saw several critiques, namelyfrom Conservative quarters, blaming it for fostering national disunity and for being ...
... Blair 2006), and imagining the future of the multicultural nation.These deliberations may cast thenation/al in different temporalities—the past, present, andfuture—but they all meet intheirquestto understand whothe national'we'is, what ...
... Blair statedinDecember 2006, of 'them'makingit their dutytoembrace thenation's values such as tolerance, because thatiswhat 'makesBritain, Britain' (Blair 2006). The 'desacralizationofstate membership' (Ong 2006:145),for its part ...
... (Blair 2006); she/hehas'developed' like us (Chapter 3).Inthis context, otherdisavowals of empire areat work in the articulations of modes of intimacy which are also deeply anchoredin European imperialism (Povinelli 2006;Stoler 1995, 2002) ...
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Pride shame and the skin of citizenship 21 | |
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Loving thy neighbour and the politics of interethnic | |
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Notes 106 | |
Bibliography119 Index 132 | |