Political Theory and Australian Multiculturalism

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-629-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 491 g

Multiculturalism has been one of the dominant concerns in political theory over the last decade. To date, this inquiry has been mostly informed by, or applied to, the Canadian, American, and increasingly, the European contexts. This volume explores for the first time how the Australian experience both relates and contributes to political thought on multiculturalism. Focusing on whether a multicultural regime undermines political integration, social solidarity, and national identity, the authors draw on the Australian case to critically examine the challenges, possibilities, and limits of multiculturalism as a governing idea in liberal democracies. These essays by distinguished Australian scholars variously treat the relation between liberalism and diversity, democracy and diversity, culture and rights, and evaluate whether Australia’s thirty-year experiment in liberal multiculturalism should be viewed as a successful model.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levey, Geoffrey Brahm

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Multicultural Political Thought in Australian Perspective

Geoffrey Brahm Levey

PART I: LIBERALISM AND DIVERSITY

Chapter 2. Anarcho-Multiculturalism: The Pure Theory of Liberalism

Chandran Kukathas

Chapter 3. Multiculturalism: A Value-Pluralist Approach

George Crowder

Chapter 4. Liberal Nationalism and the Multicultural State

John Kane

Chapter 5. "Something That Deserves our Admiration and Respect"

Barry Hindess

PART II: DEMOCRACY AND DIVERSITY

Chapter 6. Three Images of the Citizenry

Philip Pettit

Chapter 7. "Civicity" and Multiculturalism: A Comment on Pettit

Martin Krygier

Chapter 8. Multiculturalism and Resentment

Duncan Ivison

PART III: COMMUNITY, CULTURE, AND RIGHTS

Chapter 9. Conflicting Imaginaries in Australian Multiculturalism: Women's Rights, Group Rights, and Aboriginal Customary Law

Moira Gatens

Chapter 10. Loyalty and Membership: Globalization and its Impact on Citizenship, Multiculturalism and the Australian Community

Kim Rubenstein

Chapter 11. Multiculturalism and Migration Law

Arthur Glass

PART IV: AUSTRALIAN MULTICULTURALISM: SUCCESS OR FAILURE?

Chapter 12. Multiculturalism, National Identity, and Pluralist Democracy: The Australian Variant

Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts

Chapter 13. A Pragmatic Response to a Novel Situation: Australian Multiculturalism

James Jupp

Chapter 14. Is Australian Multiculturalism in Crisis? A Commnet on Galligan and Roberts and on Jupp

Maria Markus

Chapter 15. Multiculturalism and Australian National Identity

Geoffrey Brahm Levey

Notes on Contributors

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Levey, Geoffrey Brahm
Geoffrey Brahm Levey is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in political science at the University of New South Wales, where he was founding director of the Program in Jewish Studies. He is co-editor of Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship (with Tariq Modood, 2008) and Jews and Australian Politics (with Philip Mendes, 2004).