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Multicultural Politics of Recognition and Postcolonial Citizenship Rethinking the Nation
By Rachel Busbridge
Copyright 2018
204 Pages
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Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines claims for recognition of cultural difference from immigrant and Indigenous minorities, highlighting the ways in which they intersect with ideas of national community. Busbridge argues that there is an important, albeit under-explored, relationship between nation and multicultural politics of recognition. Drawing on the Australian context, the book explores how nation... Read more
1 Rethinking the nation: Between recognition and postcolonial politics
2 Conceptualising nation: Discourse, democracy and postcolonial debate
3 Postcolonial politics of recognition?
4 Contingent universals and shifting particulars: Reorienting recognition struggles
5 Beyond clashing civilisations: Muslim revisions of recognition in popular culture
6 Aboriginal Australians and recognition politics: Reconciliation, apology, sovereignty
7 Thinking postcolonial citizenship
Biography
Rachel Busbridge is a Research Associate of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.
