The Elgar companion to the arts and global multiculturalism / edited by the late Sneja Gunew (Formerly, Emeritus Professor of English and Women''s Studies, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia, Canada), Nikos Papastergiadis (formerly Director, Research Unit for Public Cultures, University of Melbourne), Fazal Rizvi (Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne) and Paula Muraca (Associate Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University Melbourne, Australia).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gunew, Sneja, editor.

Papastergiadis, Nikos, editor.

Rizvi, Fazal, editor.

Muraca, Paul, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (422 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northhampton : Edward Elgar, 2025.

Summary:

"This Companion examines the evolution of multiculturalism as a political philosophy, public policy and cultural practice. Demonstrating the key role of artists, activists and migrants in the inception of multiculturalism, it explores how to renew the concept for the modern world, extending the possibilities of social belonging and communal relations. Expert contributing authors survey the development of multicultural ideals through art across different geo-political contexts, highlighting how these ideas have challenged founding myths of the nation state. They analyse the subsequent adoption of multiculturalism by state agencies, leading to the emergence of new forms of welfare, education and culture services. Responding to populist scepticism surrounding the concept, the Companion underscores the dynamic contribution multicultural art and activism has made to the pursuit of social justice, highlighting in particular its links to Indigenous communities, cosmopolitanism and transnational spaces. The Elgar Companion to the Arts and Global Multiculturalism is an essential resource for students and scholars of cultural studies, sociology, art history, migration, globalization and political theory. It is also a key resource for policymakers seeking to incorporate multicultural ideals into their work"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction

1. Introduction: The multiple origins and open futures for global multiculturalism / Nikos Papastergiadis, Sneja Gunew, Paula Muraca and Fazal Rizvi

Part I: Multicultural formations and state interventions

2. Meeting half-way, the poetics of no man's land / Paul Carter

3. Impact and legacy: Cultural diversity in the uk's visual arts sector - a critical history, 1976-2006 / Richard Hylton

4. Australian multiculturalism as a social movement: A biography of the first generation, 1968-1996 / Andrew Jakubowicz

5. European Americans: Making ethnicity in multiculturalism, moving toward post-ethnicity / Yiorgos Anagnostou

6. Mapping social inclusion in the arts: Global cultural policy and concentric multiculturalism in decolonial singapore / Audrey Yue

7. The art of prefiguration: Building a future collectivity at documenta fifteen / Anne Ring Petersen

Part II: Spaces of cultural activism and transformation

8. What a (non-) difference a half-century makes: Juxtaposing the Africancanadian verse anthologies of 1973 and 2022 / George Elliott Clarke

9. Migrant rights activism and the community origins of australian multiculturalism, 1970s / Alexandra Dellios

10. 'I had imagined the world differently': Anil ramdas and the convolution of a postcolonising Europe / Ien Ang

11. Making place-based multicultural art ecologies: Reflections from community arts in australia / Bo Svoronos, John Svoronos, Paula Muraca and Carmen Grostal

12. Around the world in words: Giramondo publishing company / Cecelia Cmielewski

13. Artistic practice as transformation, learning, awakening, and agency: Twenty years as a post-sino-indonesian diaspora artist / Tiong Ang

Part III: Criticality and pedagogic possibilities

14. Interpreting violence: Pedagogies of ethical criticism for the support of critical multiculturalism / Suzanne S. Choo and Angela Chew

15. Representing themselves: International students in the creative space / Catherine Gomes

16. Postcolonial reading: Multiculturalism beyond nations / Aparna Mishra Tarc

17. Reimagining multiculturalism: A transcultural perspective on music education / Niranjan Casinader

18. Aroundness, awareness: To rework art out of asia / Patrick Flores

Part IV: Making aesthetic futures

19. Writing nearby, alanis obomsawin / Monika Kin Gagnon

20. Performance and makarrata: Indigenising interculturalism / Jacqueline Lo, Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain

21. Re-imagining a multicultural Europe: The experience of the r.e.d. (reframing the european dream) carpet / Pierluigi Musarò, Valentina Cappi, Lorenza Villani and Paola Parmiggiani

22. Kichwapi rap: Hip-hop and rap as intercultural and multicultural strategies for the revitalisation and resistance of the kichwa language in ecuador / Cristian Angel Quezada Vera

23. On distance and adjacency - or, some conditions of art criticism in southeast asia / Lee Weng-Choy

24. From the decolonial and the postmigrant and back to aliens and multiculturalism / Nikos Papastergiadis Conclusion

25. Conclusion: A future anterior to multicultural criticality / Fazal Rizvi, Paula Muraca and Nikos Papastergiadis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035310036 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.