基本説明
It shows how multiculturalism has been debated within various disciplines as well as in different national and cultural contexts.
Full Description
The Ashgate Research Companion to Multiculturalism brings together a collection of new essays by leading and emerging scholars in the humanities and social sciences on some of the key issues facing multiculturalism today. It provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge treatment of this important and hotly contested field, offering scholars and students a clear account of the leading theories and critiques of multiculturalism that have developed over the past twenty-five years, as well as a sense of the challenges facing multiculturalism in the future. Key leading scholars, including James Bohman, Barbara Arneil, Avigail Eisenberg, Ghassan Hage, and Paul Patton, discuss multiculturalism in different cultural and national contexts and across a range of disciplinary approaches. In addition to contributions, Duncan Ivison also provides a comprehensive Introduction which surveys the field and offers an extensive guide to further reading. This is a key volume for anyone interested in multiculturalism and its political premise.
Contents
Contents: Introduction: multiculturalism as a public ideal, Duncan Ivison; Part I Foundations: Liberal multiculturalism, Geoffrey Brahm Levey; Multiculturalism and political morality, Jocelyn Maclure; Multiculturalism and political ontology, Paul Patton. Part II Challenges: Diversity and the limits of liberal toleration, Thomas M. Besch; Multiculturalism and the social sphere, Barbara Arneil and Fiona Macdonald; Multiculturalism, gender and justice, Avigail Eisenberg; Multiculturalism, pluralism and democracy, James Bohman; Multiculturalism and recognition, Nicholas H. Smith; Postcolonial multiculturalism, Monica Mookherjee; Conditional multiculturalism: Islam in liberal democratic states, Michael Humphrey; Multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism, Charles Jones. Part III Alternative Perspectives: Intercultural relations at the limits of multicultural governmentality, Ghassan Hage; Security warning: multiculturalism alert!, Rita Kaur Dhamoon; Master Kong versus Master Mo: two views of cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism in the early Chinese philosophical tradition, Jeffrey Riegel; Bibliography; Index.
