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Are there any cultural universals left? Does multiculturalism inevitably involve a slide into moral relativism? This timely and insightful book examines questions of politics and identity in the age of multicultures. It draws together the contribution of outstanding contributors such as Fraser, Honneth, O'Neill, Bauman, Lister, Gilroy and De Swann to explore how difference and multiculturalism take on the arguments of universalist humanism. The approach taken derives from the traditions of cultural sociology and cultural studies rather than political science and philosophy. The book takes seriously the argument that the social bond and recognition are in danger through globalization and deterritorialization. It is a major contribution to the emerging debate on the form of post-national forms of civil society.
Joined-up Politics and Postcolonial Melancholia
Joined-up Politics and Postcolonial Melancholia
WRITING AT the dawn of the Cold War, George Orwell likened the predicament of socialists to the position of a doctor struggling against the odds to keep a ‘hopeless case’ alive. More than 20 years beyond the finest flowering of this country's anti-racist youth movements, its residual anti-racists have grown accustomed to similar feelings of obligation, determination, constraint and misplaced hope. This consideration of the diversification and transformation of our country must begin by honouring those who, like the Lawrence family1 and their core support, have struggled for so long to make Britain a freer, more just and more humane place. I would like to communicate respect and appreciation for those brave and diligent people who ...
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