Multicultutralism Flashcards
What are the three understandings of multiculturalism? (Pres)
- rights based structure- liberal theories of multiculturalism
- political idea: obstructionist ( cultural sensitivities prevent national identity), assimilation
-Synonym for diversity/cosmopolitan
What does Will Kymlicka suggest about group-differentiated rights? (Pres)
-they can be implemented without jeopardizing the basic civil and political rights of individuals
What does the development of durable and habitable multi culture depend upon for Britain? and how is it frustrated? (Gilroy)
- working through the legacy of departed empire
- frustrated by a social, cultural and psychological blockage i call ‘poscolonial melancholia
How do racial discourses work on and with the senses? (Gilroy)
-they generate particular relationships between words, icons and other visual cues, pressing the body into service with mimetic reptitions that actively produce infra-humanity rather than merely classify it
What intercut dimensions of difference and complicates the desire to possess or manage the cultural habits of others as a function of one’s own relationship with identity? (Gilroy)
-institutional, demographic, generational, educational, legal and political commonalities
What must diversity mean more than? (Gilroy)
-just feeding and reproducing the particularity of groups imagined by their community-leaders in the hope that their ritual and formal inclusion will generate reciprocal gestures
What does commonplace diversity refer to? (Wessendorf)
cultural diversity being experienced as a normal part of social life
What are expectations of mixing in public and associational space paralleled by? (Wessendorf)
-acceptance of more separate lives when it comes to private relations
What are attitudes to diversity shaped by? (Wessendorf)
- by public discourse that celebrates diversity
- way in which groups participate and are visible in public space
Example of social separation in orthodox Jewish community and hipster community of hackney (Wessendorf)
- Jewish community rules of not mixing with other. Own schools, shops, estates. Pub instamford hill turned into a syagogue by jewish community, triggering outrage. Space that previously mixed claimed for a specific purpose
- Formed own subculture own bars etc
What do the examples of hipsters and Jews in hackney show? (Wessendorf)
- in superdiverse context difference can be contested but necessarily when it comes to new immigrants, but when it is about social relations
- Difference plays a role when it is coupled with social segregation
Why is it okay for Turkish and Vietnamese speakers not to mix? (Wessendorf)
-Both dont mix much, but are clearly visible, there are various public spaces where interaction happens eg schools
What is the problem with majority rule in conditions of cultural diversity? (Phillips)
-does not guarantee citizen quality; thus necessary to supplement majority decision by a regime of minority rights
What does David Miller argue about radical multiculturalism? (Phillips)
-emphasises group difference at the expense of what people have in common
What has the failure to problematise culture contributed to? (Phillips)
- a radical otherness that represents people as profoundly different in their practises, values and beliefs
- This has enabled critics of multicuutralism to represent it as more intrinsically sepratsist than most of its proponents
