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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... discourses of'multicultural Britain' available in the British public domain. She investigates: • the significance of gender,sex, generationsand kinship, aswellas race and ethnicity, in debatesabout cultural difference; • the ...
... discourses, multiculturalism remains widelyconceived as a response tocultural anddemographic diversification in particular geographical contexts,whether the termisused in a descriptive manner—equated withthe'fact' of diversity—or ina ...
... discourses andpublic debatesand representations of multiculture. Multiculturalism isnot only predicated on suppressing or managing immigrants' and ethnic minorities'feelings(such astheir attachmenttotheirhomeland), but the language of ...
... discourses simultaneously produce and occludefor those who arepositioned variously as models, threats or(un/willing) hostswithin multicultural Britain. This is where national cohesion might be conceived interms thatarenot necessarily ...
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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 | |