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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... that the phrase soundedin my mind, what intrigued mewas: what istheBritish version of multiculturalism? What arethespecificities ofthecurrent British historical conjuncture that necessitates this (orthese) version(s) of multiculturalism ...
... that the perpetrators of theattacks on London's transport system in 2005 were 'childrenof multicultural Britain', throughtothe then Leader oftheHouseof Commons Jack Straw's 'discomfort' about Muslim women wearingthe faceveil,the niqab ...
... state membership' (Ong 2006:145),ontheother. The waron terror hasbrought security tothe fore ofthe neo liberal agenda, with fearsbeing exacerbated, after theattacks in London in July 2005, by the realization that 'the enemy'
... that 'the enemy' can come as much from within as from without the national borders— a point that I discuss more fully in ... thatthe citizen is'prior to cultureandfreeto choose culture'and that 'politics isabove culture andfreeof culture ...
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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 | |