The Ashgate Research Companion to Multiculturalism

by Duncan Ivison (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815386063
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/11/2017
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Duncan Ivison is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has published widely and is the author of 'The Self at Liberty' (1997), 'Postcolonial Liberalism' (2002) and co-editor of 'Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples' (2000).

Table of 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