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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819355103321

Autore

Pathak Pathik

Titolo

The future of multicultural Britain : confronting the progressive dilemma / / Pathik Pathak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-7486-5287-6

1-281-94764-4

9786611947644

0-7486-3546-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 209 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

305.800941

Soggetti

Multiculturalism - Great Britain

Great Britain Ethnic relations

India Ethnic relations

Great Britain Race relations

India Race relations

Great Britain Ethnic relations Case studies

India Ethnic relations Case studies

Great Britain Race relations Case studies

India Race relations Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. trouble with David Goodhart's Britain : liberalism's slide towards majoritarianism -- 2. Saffron semantics : the struggle to define Hindu nationalism -- 3. Spilling the clear red water : how we got from New times to new liberalism -- 4. blame game : recriminations from the Indian left -- 5. Making a case for multiculture : from the 'politics of piety' to the politics of the secular?

Sommario/riassunto

This book identifies two key themes: (i) that contemporary global politics has rendered many of the worlds democracies susceptible to the rhetoric and policy of majoritarianism; and (ii) that majoritarianism plays on popular anxieties that invariably gravitate towards cultural identity and multiculturalism.