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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... tolerance, andthe national fantasy. AnneMarie FortierisSenior Lecturerin Sociology at Lancaster University. Her research interests revolve around critical racestudies, critical migration studies, feminist, queer and postcolonial theory ...
... tolerance, 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 ...
... tolerance, because thatiswhat 'makesBritain, Britain' (Blair 2006). The 'desacralizationofstate membership' (Ong 2006:145),for its part, resultsfrom the perceived destructive effectson the sacred national bond,of diversity causedby ...
... tolerance is a symptom that 'we[theUK] don'tcare enough about each other to resent the arrival of the other' (2004:25). Likewise in 2005, Leo Benedictus suggested inthe Guardianthat 'Londoners resent immigrantslessthan they might ...
... tolerance, 'embracing the other' (Blunkett2001), and lovingthy neighbour. Moreover, these injunctions are imagined inthe ambivalent spatial termsof obligations to anddangers ofproximity. 'Intimacy' thus extends beyond kinshipor ...
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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 | |