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Due to growing negative perceptions about relations between historically entrenched, dominant populations and various minority groups, issues relating to the need to better manage cultural and religious diversity have been intensifying in many countries. These negative perceptions have recently led to a significant increase in popular support for right and extreme right nationalist discourses, and have created so much public tension that national governments have had no choice but to respond. In the last two decades, in several Western contexts in particular, the issues raised by such combined challenges have culminated in the creation of government-initiated or private national commissions.
This book presents the results of a multidisciplinary analysis, from a broader framework that includes the national public commissions which have addressed the challenges of managing cultural and religious diversity in Belgium, Britain, Canada (Quebec), France, Morocco and Norway (including also other cases of public management in Australia and Singapore). It includes in-depth studies of the issues and controversies examined by each of the commissions, such as the ways they perceived the issues, their results and impact, the key political players involved, the media debates and reception surrounding each commission, the communication strategies and difficulties their leaders encountered, as well as the legal aspects each commission has raised. The reports represent a rich body of work charting the fundamental questions nations face about their nature, history and future while the impact on peoples' lives tells us much about different approaches to the issues of cultural identity between countries.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface: The Benefit of Analysing National Public Commissions on Diversity for Research and Policy-Making
Acknowledgements
Introduction: National Commissions on Diversity: When Reflective Processes Happen in Parallel within Several Nation-States
Part I: Britain, France, Quebec and Belgium
Chapter 1—National Commissions on Collective Identity and Diversity: Britain, France, Quebec and Belgium
Chapter 2—'Stories are the secret reservoirs of values': Personal Recollections of Two Commissions in the United Kingdom
Chapter 3—Assumptions of Power Subverted: Media and Emotions in the Wake of the Parekh Report
Chapter 4—From the Stasi (2003) to the Machelon Commission (2006): The Use of Commissions in Religious Regulation in France
Chapter 5—The Outcome of the Stasi Report in France: Much Ado About Nothing?
Chapter 6—The Bouchard-Taylor Commission in Quebec and Reasonable Accommodations: Collective Creation and Multilevel Reception
Chapter 7—Debating Intercultural Integration in Belgium: From the Commission for Intercultural Dialogue to the Round Tables on Interculturalism
Part II: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 8—The Commissions: Caught between Media Simplifications and Political Interests
Chapter 9—Control, Instrumentalization and Co-operation: The Relationship between Law and Religion in Four National Contexts
Chapter 10—Glocalizations of a Common Discourse: The United Kingdom and Quebec Compared in the Context of Four National Commissions on Diversity
Chapter 11—The Altar of Victory and the Crucifix: A Tale of Two Controversial Symbols
Chapter 12—A Coherent Public Policy on Religion in Norway? An Analysis of the 2013 Report 'A Society Open to Religious and Worldview Diversity'
Chapter 13—A National Enquiry into Freedom of Religion and Belief in Australia
Chapter 14—Public-Policy Discourses on Selected Significant Issues of Cultural and Religious Diversity in Singapore
Chapter 15—The Religious Diversity Conundrum in Morocco: The Case of the National Commission for Dialogue on Civil Society and New Constitutional Prerogatives (2012)
Conclusion: On 'National Diversity Commissions'
