Multicultural States : Rethinking Difference and Identity

ISBN-13: 9780415121590 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 320 str.

David Bennett

Opis

This text challenges the national frames of reference of the debates which surround questions of ethnicity, race and cultural difference by investigating contemporary theories, policies and practices of cultural pluralism across eight countries with historical links in British colonialism: the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Ireland and Britain. Written as history, theory, autobiography and political polemic, the book combines general theoretical discussions of the principles of cultural pluralism, nationalism, and minority identities with informative studies of specific local histories and political conflicts. Seeking to identify common problems and precepts in the postcolonial era, the contributors discuss such issues as political versus cultural constructions of nationhood in the USA and Australia; communalism and colonialism in India; Irish sectarianism and identity politics; ethnic nationalism in post-apartheid South Africa; British multiculturalism as a heritage industry; multicultural law and education in Canada and New Zealand; and refugees, migrancy and identity in a global cultural economy.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction, David Bennett; Part 1 The Limits of Pluralism; Chapter 2 Culture’s in Between, Homi K. Bhabha; Chapter 3 Liberalism and Minority Culture, David Bennett, Homi K. Bhabha; Chapter 4 Five Types of Identity and Difference, Terry Eagleton; Chapter 5 Economies of Value, John Frow; Chapter 6 Multiculturalism or Multinationalism?, Maria Koundoura; Part 2 Multiculturalism and the Nation; Chapter 7 Modernity and Ethnicity in India, Dipesh Chakrabarty; Chapter 8 Between Ethnicity and Nationhood, Susan Mathieson, David Attwell; Chapter 9 Postcolonialism, Terry Eagleton; Chapter 10 Multicultural Imagined Communities, Jon Stratton, Ien Ang; Chapter 11 Globalisation and The Myth Of Ethnic Community, Beryl Langer; Chapter 12 The Politics of National Identity and the Pedagogy of Multiculturalism in the USA, Henry A. Giroux; Chapter 13 Ethnicity and Education, Anne Maxwell; Chapter 14 The Technology of Ethnicity, Smaro Kamboureli; Part 3 Positionings; Chapter 15 Lunching for the Republic, Meaghan Morris; Chapter 16 Riding Multiculturalism, Gargi Bhattacharyya; Chapter 17 Re, Abena P. A. Busia; Chapter 18 Counter Points, Ihab Hassan;

O autorze

David Bennett teaches English and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne.