The Resilience of Multiculturalism: Ideas, Politics, Practice

by Thomas Sealy (Editor), Varun Uberoi (Editor), Nasar Meer (Editor)

Overview

Bringing together world-leading scholars from the Global North and Global South, this book interrogates ideas of multiculturalism and their resilience in politics, policy and culture. To do so, each chapter critically engages with one of the foremost thinkers and proponents in the field, Tariq Modood. As a whole, the book contributes to debates on citizenship and diversity, identity and belonging, and nationalism and migration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781399537254
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	09/30/2024
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Thomas Sealy is Lecturer in Ethnicity and Race at the University of Bristol

Varun Uberoi is Reader in Political Theory and Public Policy at University of Loughborough

Nasar Meer is Professor in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Modoodian Multiculturalism

Thomas Sealy, Varun Uberoi, Nasar Meer

Part I Orientations and underpinnings

1. Invoking the Idealist World of Ideas

David Boucher

2. Intimating or Iterating? Modood on Contextualism and the Danish Cartoons of Muhammad

Sune Lægaard

3. Tariq Modood and the Politics of Recognition

Simon Thompson

Part II The inclusion of diversity

4. What’s To Be Done? Re-Uniting the People

Charles Taylor

5. Thinking of Multiculturalism, and Thinking with Tariq Modood

Gurpreet Mahajan

6. Multiculturalism and Law: The British experience - From the Race Relations Act 1968 to Brexit/The European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2018.

Maleiha Malik

Part III Multiculturalism, nationalism and transnationalism

7. Multicultural Nationalism as an Ethics of Social Membership

Will Kymlicka

8. Integrating Modood and Kymlicka on National Inclusion

Geoff Brahm Levey

9. Transnational Experiences: Redefining solidarity and nationalisms

Riva Kastoryano

10. Transnational Diasporas and Digital Nomads: What does National Identity look like in the mid-21st century

Anna Triandafyllidou

Part IV Multiculturalism and secularism

11. Multiculturalism, Religion and Race

Cécile Laborde

12. Is the Indian Model a Distant Cousin of Modood's Moderate Secularism?

Rajeev Bhargava

13. Secular State: Its Importance and Limits

Bhikhu Parekh

14. From Then to Now: Some Friendly Responses

Tariq Modood

Editorial Reviews

Tariq Modood has been an enormously important intellectual, institutional, and public leader in advancing understandings of multiple and shifting ethnicities. This edited collection reflects his wisdom and extends what has become a rich tradition of analyses to a range of today’s pressing challenges to advance scholarship and improve society.

Craig Calhoun