Cultural, Religious and Political Contestations The Multicultural Challenge /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mansouri, Fethi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Religion.; Religion and culture.; Emigration and immigration.; Social Sciences.; Sociology of Culture.; Religious Studies, general.; Migration.

This book examines the foundations of multiculturalism in the context of émigré societies and from a multi-dimensional perspective. The work considers the politics of multiculturalism and focuses on how the discourse of cultural rights and intercultural relations in western societies can and should...

Table of Contents:

• Section 1: Histories and Politics of Multiculturalism
• Chapter 1: The Multicultural Experiment: Premises, Promises, and Challenges
• Chapter 2: Multicultural Inclusion Confronts Questions of National Identity
• Chapter 3: Multiculturalism, Rights and Religion: The individual’s human right to participate and belong
• Chapter 4: Multiple Multiculturalisms: Resentment, Religion and Liberalism
• Section 2:  Justice and Education as Key Dimensions of Multiculturalism
• Chapter 5: Disenchantments: Counter-terror narratives and conviviality
• Chapter 6: Between Rhetoric and Reality: Shari’a and the Shift towards Neo-Liberal Multiculturalism in Australia
• Chapter 7: Multiculturalism and Education
• Chapter 8: ‘The only blonde in the playground’ – School choice and the multicultural imaginary
• Chaptert 9: A Multicultural Italy? The Educational Challenge Faced by Gypsies and Migrants
• Section 3: Performing Multicultural Belongings
• Chapter 10: At Home/Out of Place: Young People’s Multicultural Belongings
• Chapter 11: “And Yet We Are Still Excluded”: Reclaiming Multicultural Queer Histories and Engaging with Contemporary Multicultural Queer Realities
• Chapter 12: Migrant Youth and Social Inclusion in Multicultural Australia: Exploring Cross-Cultural Networking.- Chapter 13: Looking beyond multicultural performance: multiculturalising as process of engagement and negotiation.