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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... tobe enabling and encouraging,andallowed me to sharpen and refinemy thoughts. This bookwascompleted thankstoasabbatical leave provided by the Sociology Departmentat Lancaster University. Ihad the great fortune to spendthat timeat ...
... tobe differentialist and separatist rather thanunifying. Thiscritique reduces multiculturalism to being nothing butanendorsement of whatiswidely conceived as the separatist 'politics of difference' of thelast 30years. What interests ...
... tobe threatened' (2005:2). Thus Goodhart and Benedictus turn tolerance into asign ofthenation's weakness and an affront tothe nation's narcissistic love:weshould resentthe other andthediversity he/shebrings for he/shepullsus away from ...
... tobe English orBritish. In contemporary Britain, theempire occupies an ambivalent placewithin Britain's relationshipnot only withpostwar migrantswho constitute today's 'settled' communities,but alsowith newmigrants hailing from ...
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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 | |