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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213859203321

Titolo

Managing diversity : practices of citizenship / / edited by Nicholas Brown and Linda Cardinal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa, : University of Ottawa Press, c2007

ISBN

1-280-69075-5

9786613667694

0-7766-1772-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Governance series (Ottawa, Ont.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CardinalLinda <1959->

BrownNicholas <1961->

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Multiculturalism - Canada

Multiculturalism - Australia

Multiculturalism - Ireland

Citizenship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at a symposium held at University College Dublin, Apr. 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: National Identity and Global Migration: Listening to the "Pariahs"; Chapter 2: Citizenship, Statehood, and Allegiance; Chapter 3: Bounded Citizenship and the Meaning of Citizenship Laws: Ireland's Citizenship Referendum; Chapter 4: Federalism and the Politics of Diversity: The Canadian Experience; Chapter 5: City States and Cityscapes in Canada: The Politics and Culture of Canadian Urban Diversity; Chapter 6: Mediating Diversity: Identity, Language, and Protest in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales

Chapter 7: Howard's Way or Deane's Way: Culture Wars in Contemporary AustraliaChapter 8: Conclusion: Managing Diversity in a Post-Nationalist World; List of Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Australia, Canada, and Ireland are all engaged in questions of multiculturalism and in the politics of recognition and reconciliation, the opportunities and pressures of geographic regionalism, shifts in political agendas associated with the impact of neo-liberalism, and moves to frame political agendas less at the macro-level of state



intervention and more at the level of community partnership and empowerment. In related but distinct ways, each state is being challenged to devise policies and offer outcomes that address an unfolding and unsteady synthesis of issues relating to citizen