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The future of multicultural Britain : confronting the progressive dilemma / Pathik Pathak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pathak, Pathik.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multiculturalism--Great Britain.
- Multiculturalism.
- Multiculturalism--Great Britain--Case studies.
- Great Britain--Ethnic relations.
- Great Britain.
- India--Ethnic relations.
- India.
- Great Britain--Race relations.
- India--Race relations.
- Great Britain--Ethnic relations--Case studies.
- India--Ethnic relations--Case studies.
- Great Britain--Race relations--Case studies.
- India--Race relations--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 209 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book identifies two key themes: (i) that contemporary global politics has rendered many of the worlds democracies susceptible to the rhetoric and policy of majoritarianism; and (ii) that majoritarianism plays on popular anxieties that invariably gravitate towards cultural identity and multiculturalism.
- Contents:
- 1. trouble with David Goodhart's Britain : liberalism's slide towards majoritarianism
- 2. Saffron semantics : the struggle to define Hindu nationalism
- 3. Spilling the clear red water : how we got from New times to new liberalism
- 4. blame game : recriminations from the Indian left
- 5. Making a case for multiculture : from the 'politics of piety' to the politics of the secular?
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-5287-6
- 1-281-94764-4
- 9786611947644
- 0-7486-3546-7
- OCLC:
- 437240908
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