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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... debate. Thoughthis book isnot about Blair government policies per se, itcovers thecirculation andcontested definition of 'multicultural Britain' during the Blairera. In thecourseof writing this book, I benefited from numerous ...
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... debates, consultations,analyses, editorials, and images circulating around multiculturalism in the British public sphere ... debate. My purpose is to trytounderstand what itwas thatthese and other events in contemporaryBritain triggered ...
... 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 theroot ...
... debate isalways a feature ofarguments aboutimmigration). A few months before he becamePrime Minister, when he wasChancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown stated: 'the 21stcentury world will be characterisedbypeoples of different ...
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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 | |