Zombie multiculturalism meets liberative difference: searching for a new discourse of diversity
This paper grapples with an unresolved tension - twenty-first century Britain is indelibly multicultural and yet diversity is increasingly depicted as a threat to social cohesion. A society characterised by superdiverse cities where some suggest that ‘multiculturalism has failed’. On the basis of an...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2016]
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Culture and religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 409-430 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Great Britain
/ Multi-cultural society
/ Cultural identity
/ Debate
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy ZB Sociology |
| Further subjects: | B
Multiculturalism
B Identity B Political Theology B Community Cohesion B liberative difference |
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| Summary: | This paper grapples with an unresolved tension - twenty-first century Britain is indelibly multicultural and yet diversity is increasingly depicted as a threat to social cohesion. A society characterised by superdiverse cities where some suggest that ‘multiculturalism has failed’. On the basis of an analysis of three dominant theoretical and ideological discourses - community cohesion, multiculturalism and interculturalism - it will be argued that there is an urgent need to forge a new understanding of diversity that can counter the zombie discourse that characterises current debates about diversity in Britain. Difference will be framed as a potential source of mutual liberation, not a problem seeking a solution. It will be argued that a critical engagement with political theology can help us to fashion a new discourse of diversity that is characterised by a hermeneutics of liberative difference, which can help to defeat the zombies sucking the life out of diverse Britain. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-5610 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Culture and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2017.1287109 |