What was multiculturalism? : a critical retrospect / Vijay Mishra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mishra, Vijay, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2012.

Summary:

What Was Multiculturalism? is a timely account of a socio-political theory that has featured in public debate in the West for the past forty years. The book is both a compendium as well as a critique of multicultural theory in its diverse forms—from the politics of recognition, consensus, tolerance and the need for an inclusive community, to questions about the moral order, the invasive force of religious absolutism and the spectres of racism, injustice and scapegoating. Through a series of critical reflections, Mishra offers a detached, honest, bold and uncompromised reading of some of the most influential texts on multiculturalism, with a view to establishing the historical moments in the field.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 What Was Multiculturalism?

Chapter 2 The Politics of Recognition

Chapter 3 The Morally Required Versus the Morally Permissible: Joseph Carens

Chapter 4 Absolute Tolerance: Chandran Kukathas and Jacques Derrida

Chapter 5 The Politics of Compromise and the Inclusive Community

Chapter 6 The Spectres of Class and the Figure of Woman

Chapter 7 The Postcolonial Condition

Chapter 8 The Radical Imaginary: Canada

Chapter 9 Biculture or Multiculture: New Zealand

Chapter 10 Multiculture: the Settler Ethos in Australia

Chapter 11 Multicultural Testimonio

Chapter 12 The Failure of Hybridity: the Rushdie Affair

Chapter 13 After 9/11 and 7/7

Chapter 14 Conclusion: a Radical Humanism

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780522861297

0522861296

OCLC:

1089008327