AMIS seminar with Tariq Modood: "Multiculturalism: what about the majority?" (NEW LOCATION)

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AMIS presents a talk by Tariq Modood, Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, Director, University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol, Founding Co-editor of Ethnicities (Sage) and member of AMIS’ International Advisory Board.

Abstract

Multiculturalism, Interculturalisms and the Majority.
Two forms of interculturalism have emerged as explicit critiques of multiculturalism. A European version emphasises cultural encounter and novelty and is relatively apolitical except for its disavowal of the national in preference for the local and the trans-national. In contrast, its Quebecan counterpart gives significance to the idea of the right of a historic national community to use state power to reproduce itself. Whilst the former is a recognisably cosmopolitan vision I ask if the latter represents a distinctive mode of integration in relation to post-immigration ethno-religious communities. I argue that Quebecan interculturalism challenges multiculturalists to offer a positive view of ‘the majority’, which to date they have largely neglected to do but which is possible within the conceptual and normative resources of multiculturalism.

To learn more about Tariq Modood's intellectual background and his take on political theory, check out this newly published interview from the Journal of Intercultural Studies. 

Registration is not required and everyone is welcome.

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