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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... integration' to the forefrontof passionate publicandpolitical debate. My purpose is to trytounderstand what itwas thatthese and other events in contemporaryBritain triggered inthenational imaginary, and how 'the multicultural' was ...
... integration with diversity' (Home Office 200 1c; 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 ...
... integration, anddiversity in which mechanisms of regulation,administration, control, and discipliningof the population work to conjureup classificatory schemesof inclusion and exclusion onthe basisof values rather than ondisplays of ...
... integration. Thus, for example, thetaxonomic shift in Britain, from'ethnic minorities' in the 1970s to'minority faith communities' today,is fundamentally entangled withthe new moralpolitics thatproduce a new inflection of ...
... integration, assimilation, or hyphenation. Multiculturalism is alsoabout the conceptionof nonphysical relationshipsinterms ofa spatial social imaginarythat requiresthe management of physical, cultural, emotive (namely identificatory) ...
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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 | |