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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... it is not that we need to dispense with multicultural Britain.Onthe contrary we should continue celebrating it. (BritishPrime Minister TonyBlair 2006) How can we conceiveof 'multiculture' in waysthat address the complexities and ...
... itis notsimply amatterof saying that 'they' have cultures, 'we' have values, asIsuggest elsewhere (2006; alsoSandercock 2003).As Wendy Brown pointedly argues, thedistinctionis drawnbetween'us' having culture and enjoying it,and 'them ...
... it is about identification withand withinasingleand unitary nation.This is a politics that 'turns the nation intoaprivatized state of feeling' (Berlant 1997:11).AsI argue inChapter5,a great deal of political attention,concern ...
... it is about multicultural intimacies. In other words, multicultural politics are invested in cultivating feelings within and for the nation, often at the expense of examiningthelegacies and inequalities ofracialized, gendered ...
... Itis this process ofracialisation that inaugurates the discrepant formationof multiculturalism. (Hesse 1999:207) Discrepant multiculturalism excavates the repressed and disavowed 'points of entanglement' that multiculturalism signifies ...
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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 | |