Download or read book Multiculturalism and Nation Building in a Plural and divided Society written by Shad Saleem Faruqui and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of Multiculturalism written by Robert W. Hefner and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-08-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few challenges to the modern dream of democratic citizenship appear greater than the presence of severe ethnic, religious, and linguistic divisions in society. With their diverse religions and ethnic communities, the Southeast Asian countries of Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia have grappled with this problem since achieving independence after World War II. Each country has on occasion been torn by violence over the proper terms for accommodating pluralism. Until the Asian economic crisis of 1997, however, these nations also enjoyed one of the most sustained economic expansions the non-Western world has ever seen. This timely volume brings together fifteen leading specialists of the region to consider the impact of two generations of nation-building and market-making on pluralism and citizenship in these deeply divided Asian societies. Examining the new face of pluralism from the perspective of markets, politics, gender, and religion, the studies show that each country has developed a strikingly different response to the challenges of citizenship and diversity. The contributors, most of whom come Southeast Asia, pay particular attention to the tension between state and societal approaches to citizenship. They suggest that the achievement of an effectively participatory public sphere in these countries will depend not only on the presence of an independent "civil society," but on a synergy of state and society that nurtures a public culture capable of mediating ethnic, religious, and gender divides. The Politics of Multiculturalism will be of special interest to students of Southeast Asian history and society, anthropologists grappling with questions of citizenship and culture, political scientists studying democracy across cultures, and all readers concerned with the prospects for civility and tolerance in a multicultural world.
Download or read book The Constitutional Basis for National Unity written by Shad Saleem Faruqi and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democracy Nationalism and Multiculturalism written by Ramón Máiz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism provides an up-to-date review of subnational and multicultural issues in Western multinational states. The book includes normative, institutional and comparative accounts of key issues such as: * politics and policies of accommodation * multiculturalism * recognition of group rights * federalist reforms and debates in Canada and European states * the political construction of the European Union.
Download or read book The Virtuous Citizen written by Tim Soutphommasane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be a citizen in a multicultural society? And what role must patriotism play in defining our relationship with our country and fellow citizens? In The Virtuous Citizen Tim Soutphommasane answers these questions with a critical defence of liberal nationalism. Considering a range of contemporary political debates from Europe, North America and Australia, over issues including multiculturalism, national history, civic education and immigration, Soutphommasane argues that a love of country should be valued alongside tolerance, mutual respect and public reasonableness as a civic virtue. A liberal form of patriotism, grounded in national identity, is, if anything, essential for political stability in a diverse society. This book is required reading not only for political theorists and philosophers but also for researchers and professionals in political science, sociology, history and public policy.
Download or read book Rethinking Multiculturalism written by Bhikhu C. Parekh and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bhikhu Parekh argues for a pluralist perspective on cultural diversity. Writing from both within the liberal tradition and outside of it as a critic, he challenges what he calls the "moral monism" of much of traditional moral philosophy, including contemporary liberalism--its tendency to assert that only one way of life or set of values is worthwhile and to dismiss the rest as misguided or false. He defends his pluralist perspective both at the level of theory and in subtle nuanced analyses of recent controversies. Thus, he offers careful and clear accounts of why cultural differences should be respected and publicly affirmed, why the separation of church and state cannot be used to justify the separation of religion and politics, and why the initial critique of Salman Rushdie (before a Fatwa threatened his life) deserved more serious attention than it received. Rejecting naturalism, which posits that humans have a relatively fixed nature and that culture is an incidental, and "culturalism," which posits that they are socially and culturally constructed with only a minimal set of features in common, he argues for a dialogic interplay between human commonalities and cultural differences. This will allow, Parekh argues, genuinely balanced and thoughtful compromises on even the most controversial cultural issues in the new multicultural world in which we live.
Download or read book Diversity and Citizenship written by Gary J. Jacobsohn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lectures presented as part of the celebration of the bicentennial of the founding of Williams College.
Download or read book National Unity and Nation Building in a Plural Society written by Ghazali Shafie (Tan Sri.) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multicultural Odysseys written by Will Kymlicka and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are currently witnessing the global diffusion of multiculturalism, both as a political discourse and as a set of international legal norms. States today are under increasing international scrutiny regarding their treatment of ethnocultural groups, and are expected to meet evolving international standards regarding the rights of indigenous peoples, national minorities, and immigrants. This phenomenon represents a veritable revolution in international relations, yet has received little public or scholarly attention. In this book, Kymlicka examines the factors underlying this change, and the challenges it raises. Against those critics who argue that multiculturalism is a threat to universal human rights, Kymlicka shows that the sort of multiculturalism that is being globalized is inspired and constrained by the human rights revolution, and embedded in a framework of liberal-democratic values. However, the formulation and implementation of these international norms has generated a number of dilemmas. The policies adopted by international organizations to deal with ethnic diversity are driven by conflicting impulses. Pessimism about the destabilizing consequences of ethnic politics alternates with optimism about the prospects for a peaceful and democratic form of multicultural politics. The result is often an unstable mix of paralyzing fear and naïve hope, rooted in conflicting imperatives of security and justice. Moreover, given the enormous differences in the characteristics of minorities (eg., their size, territorial concentration, cultural markers, historic relationship to the state), it is difficult to formulate standards that apply to all groups. Yet attempts to formulate more targeted norms that apply only to specific categories of minorities (eg., "indigenous peoples" or "national minorities") have proven controversial and unstable. Kymlicka examines these dilemmas as they have played out in both the theory and practice of international minority rights protection, including recent developments regarding the rights of national minorities in Europe, the rights of indigenous peoples in the Americas, as well as emerging debates on multiculturalism in Asia and Africa.
Download or read book Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies written by Marc Howard Ross and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people invest so much emotional energy and resources in conflicts over images, symbols, rituals, and other cultural expressions? The answers explored in Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies view such expressions as barriers to or opportunities for inclusion in a divided society's symbolic landscape and political life.
Download or read book Multiculturalism written by Charles Taylor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism. Charles Taylor's initial inquiry, which considers whether the institutions of liberal democratic government make room--or should make room--for recognizing the worth of distinctive cultural traditions, remains the centerpiece of this discussion. It is now joined by Jürgen Habermas's extensive essay on the issues of recognition and the democratic constitutional state and by K. Anthony Appiah's commentary on the tensions between personal and collective identities, such as those shaped by religion, gender, ethnicity, race, and sexuality, and on the dangerous tendency of multicultural politics to gloss over such tensions. These contributions are joined by those of other well-known thinkers, who further relate the demand for recognition to issues of multicultural education, feminism, and cultural separatism. Praise for the previous edition:
Download or read book The Politics of Multiculturalism written by A. Fleras and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops an account of 'inclusive multicultural governance' which is contrasted with assimilationist and separatist/differentialist approaches to the political management of and accommodation of multicultural diversity in liberal democracies.
Download or read book Global Multiculturalism written by Grant Hermans Cornwell and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface p. ix Introduction: National Boundaries/Transnational Identities Grant H. Cornwell and Eve Walsh Stoddard p. 1 Part I. Multiculturalism and Ethnicity: Contested Ownership of National Culture 1 Miscegenation as a Metaphor for Nation-Building: The "Douglarization" Controversy in Trinidad and Tobago Eve Walsh Stoodard and Grant H. Cornwell p. 29 2 The Chinese in Thailand: Ethnicity, Power, and Cultural Opportunity Structures Ansil Ramsay p. 51 3 "To Be French": Franco-Maghrebians and the Commission de la Nationalite Judith DeGroat p. 73 4 Spectacular Imaginings: Performing Community in Guatemala Kirk W. Fuoss and Randall T.G. Hill p. 93 Part II. Multiculturalism and Race: Alternative Constructions of Black and White 5 Brazil: Interactions and Conflicts in a Multicultural Society Edimilson de Almeida Pereira and Steven F. White p. 123 6 Songs in a Strange Land: Dual Consciousness and the Narrative of African American Identity in the United States Joseph Kling p. 143 7 Letting the Side Down: Personal Reflections on Colonial and Independent Kenya Celia Nyamweru p. 169 8 Race and the Formation of Cuban National and Cultural Identity Henley C. Adams p. 193 Part III. Multiculturalism and Politics: Constitutional Approaches to Inequality 9 The Zimbabwe Constitution: Race, Land Reform, and Social Justice Patricia Alden and John Mw. Makumbe p. 215 10 Bosnia: Two Days in November William Hunt p. 239 11 The Crisis of the Mexican State and the Nation: Chiapas as Metaphor Laura Nuzzi O'Shaughnessy p. 263 12 China's Ethnicities: State Ideology and Policy in Historical Perspective Anne Csete p. 287 13 Official Multiculturalism in Canada: Between Virtue and Politics Louis Dupont and Nathalie Lemarchand p. 309 Index p. 337 About the Contributors.
Download or read book Nation building throught multiculturalism written by Varun Uberoi and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liberal Multiculturalism and the Fair Terms of Integration written by P. Balint and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiculturalism has come under considerable attack in political practice, yet the fact of diversity remains, and with it the need to establish fair terms of integration. This book defends multiculturalism as the most coherent and practicable approach to liberal integration, but one that is not without the need for crucial reformulation.
Download or read book Politics in the Vernacular written by Will Kymlicka and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-01-19 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together eighteen of Will Kymlicka's recent essays on nationalism, multiculturalism and citizenship. These essays expand on the well-known theory of minority rights first developed in his Multicultural Citizenship. In these new essays, Kymlicka applies his theory to several pressing controversies regarding ethnic relations today, responds to some of his critics, and situates the debate over minority rights within the larger context of issues of nationalism, democratic citizenship and globalization. The essays are divided into four sections. The first section summarizes 'the state of the debate' over minority rights, and explains how the debate has evolved over the past 15 years. The second section explores the requirements of ethnocultural justice in a liberal democracy. Kymlicka argues that the protection of individual human rights is insufficient to ensure justice between ethnocultural groups, and that minority rights must supplement human rights. In particular, Kymlicka explores why some form of power-sharing (such as federalism) is often required to ensure justice for national minorities; why indigenous peoples have distinctive rights relating to economic development and environmental protection; and why we need to define fairer terms of integration for immigrants. The third section focuses on nationalism. Kymlicka discusses some of the familiar misinterpretations and preconceptions which liberals have about nationalism, and defends the need to recognize that there are genuinely liberal forms of nationalism. He discusses the familiar (but misleading) contrast between 'cosmopolitanism' and 'nationalism', and discusses why liberals have gradually moved towards a position that combines elements of both. The final section explores how these increasing demands by ethnic and national groups for minority rights affect the practice of democratic citizenship. Kymlicka surveys recent theories of citizenship, and raises questions about how they are challenged by ethnocultural diversity. He emphasizes the importance of education as a site of conflict between demands for accommodating ethnocultural diversity and demands for promoting the common virtues and loyalties required by democratic citizenship. And, finally, he explores the extent to which 'globalization' requires us to think about citizenship in more global terms, or whether citizenship will remain tied to national institutions and political processes. Taken together, these essays make a major contribution to enriching our understanding of the theory and practice of ethnocultural relations in Western democracies.
Download or read book The Multicultural Riddle written by Gerd Baumann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multicultural Riddle is a comprehensive exploration of all the issues that shape our search for a multicultural society. The book examines how we can establish a state of justice and equality between and among three groups: those who believe in a unified national culture, those who trace their culture to their ethnic identity, and those who view their religion as their culture. To solve the multicultural riddle, one must rethink national identity, ethnicity and the role of religion in the modern world.
