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15 - Multiculturalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2020

By
Christian Joppke
Edited by
Peter Kivisto
Peter Kivisto
Affiliation:
Augustana College, Illinois
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This article reviews multiculturalism theories and policies.It is argued that “interculturalism” and “diversity,” often seen as follow-up notions to an increasingly discredited multiculturalism, differ from the latter in eschewing the idea of justice for historically wronged minorities.After the retreat, only liberal and individual-centered conceptions of multiculturalism are viable.

Canada, diversity, Europe, interculturalism, liberalism, multiculturalism

Christian Joppke holds a Chair in Sociology at the University of Bern.He is also a recurrent visiting professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University in Budapest, and an honorary professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University. He is the author of Is Multiculturalism Dead? (2017).

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The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory , pp. 292 - 312
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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