Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity : National Narratives, Multiple Identities and Minorities

著者名：Alidadi, Katayoun (EDT)/Foblets, Marie-Claire (EDT)

Routledge（2018/06/13発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781032095370
• eISBN：9781317073772

Description

In several Western countries, expert commissions composed of academics, public figures, politicians and community organisers have been established by governments or civil society to reflect on the changes and challenges of an increasingly plural society. Commission recommendations on how to ‘manage’ diversities successfully have shaped national narratives and affected law and public policies, yet research on the workings of such commissions remains rare.

This book focuses on the experiences of expert commissions in the UK, France, Quebec and Belgium. Furthering the debate on commissions’ potential and limitations it draws on the first-hand experiences and introspection of former commission members and close observers, along with outside perspectives and critique from independent scholars.

Building on its companion volume (Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity: Analysis, Reception and Challenges), this book engages with core concepts of identity, nationality, citizenship, freedom, equality and accommodation. It will appeal to researchers and students of public policy, sociology, anthropology, law, religion, politics, history and migration studies, as well as policymakers and anyone with a general interest in current debates on ethnic, cultural and religious diversity.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Bhikhu Parekh

1. Introduction. A Retrospective on Diversity Commissions: From Set-Up and Working Methods to Impacting Policy

Katayoun Alidadi and Marie-Claire Foblets

Part I

The Importance of Britishness: The Parekh Commission Report and beyond

2. Pointing to a Multicultural Future: Rethinking Race, Ethnicity, Religion and Britishness

Tariq Modood

3. National Identities and the ‘Parekh Report’

Varun Uberoi

4. British Multiculturalism: From ‘Parekh’ to ‘PREVENT’, and Beyond

Ralph Grillo

5. ‘Religion, Belief and Diversity in Transition: The Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life’

Maleiha Malik

Part II

Laïcité Facing Religious Diversity: France’s Stasi Commission and its Legacy

6. Laicité is a most liberal legal frame: reflections on the work on of the Stasi Commission

Patrick Weil

7. Retrospective on the French Stasi Commission

Jean Baubérot and John R. Bowen

8. Theoretical Perspectives of Cultural and Religious Diversity in Two National Reports

Karel J. Leyva

Part III

Reasonable Accommodations Revisited: Quebec’s Bouchard-Taylor Commission

9. The Bouchard-Taylor Commission and Beyond. Cultural and Religious Diversity in Quebec

Jocelyn Maclure and Sébastien Lacroix

10. Cohesive Fear: A Comment on Maclure and Lacroix

Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens

Part IV

Belgium’s Experiment with Interculturalism: The Round Tables Experience

11. The Round Tables on Interculturalism: A Successful or Unsuccessful Experiment in

Deliberative Democracy?

Marie-Claire Foblets

12. Religious and Cultural Diversity in Belgium: Finding the Common Denominator

Patrick Charlier and Nathalie Denies

13. ‘Making a difference’: Dialogue and compromise in the Belgian Federal Round Tables of Interculturalism

Nadia Fadil

Part V

Engaging Retrospective Insights, Forging Ways Forward

14. Religion in the Retreat of Multiculturalism

Christian Joppke

15. Religion, Culture and Liberal Democracy: The Issue of Majority Cultural Precedence

Geoffrey Brahm Levey

16. The European Court of Human Rights: Fundamental Assumptions that have a Chilling

Effect on the Protection of Religious Diversity

Eugenia Relaño Pastor

17. Charting Perspectives, Positions and Recommendations in Four Commission Reports: Reasonable Accommodation for Religion or Belief as Barometer

Katayoun Alidadi