1st Edition
The Political Uses of Cultural Diversity The Diversity Dividend
By Katherine Smits
Copyright 2027
184 Pages
by
Routledge
This book examines how states deploy cultural recognition and inclusion policies to build modernized national identities in diverse societies but reveals they also pay other useful dividends for governments.
It focuses on three pluralist postcolonial settler states in the cases of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, all of which are characterized by cultural pluralism stemming from colonial... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Interpreting Cultural Diversity and Recognition
3. Multiculturalism, Indigeneity and National Identity in Australia
4. The Cultural Mosaic and the 'Canadian Model'
5. The Politics of Cultural Community in New Zealand
6. Ethnocultural Recognition, Religion and Modernity
7. Conclusion
Biography
Katherine Smits is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
