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Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Democracy
Rajeev Bhargava, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, and R. Sudarshan
448 pages
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215x140mm
978-0-19-569298-3
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Paperback
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06 December 2007
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The last few decades have witnessed a shift towards a more balanced view in political theory and social science, one that acknowledges the cultural dimension of politics an the political dimension of culture. The essays in this volume reflect this shift by bringing together a number if interrelated themes of the multicultural perspective, such as the need for a stable identity; the link between identity, recognition and cultural community; the importance of belonging and cultural particularity. Significant questions are raised and discussed: What does it mean to recognize cultural communities? Does recognition entail subsidies from the state? Should every culture be publicly recognized? How can multiculturalism be prevented from being hierarchical and
authoritarian? Can it be made liberal and democratic? Can the presence of different cultures within one political order be trouble free or will it always be conflict ridden? Readership: Postgraduate, research, and doctoral students of politics, history, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology.
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Rajeev Bhargava, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Professor of Economics and Director, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata, and R. Sudarshan, Governance Adviser, Regional Centre, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Bangkok Contributors:
Javeed Alam is retired Professor, Centre for European Studies, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL), Hyderabad, India;; Catherine Audard is Chair and co-founder, Forum for European Philosophy, European Institute, London School of Economics; Amiya Kumar Bagchi is Professor of
Economics and Director, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata;; Tista Bagchi is with the Department of Linguistics, University of Delhi;; Rajeev Bhargava is Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi;; Akeel Bilgrami is Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University;; G.A. Cohen is Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory and Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University;; Vivek Dhareshwar is Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore;; P.K. Dutta is with the Department of English, University of Delhi;; Preben Kaarsholm is Associate Professor, International Development Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark;; Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology , Columbia
University;; Shail Mayaram is Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi; Alan Montefiore is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University;; M.S.S. Pandian is Fellow, Madras Institute of Development Studies;; Alok Rai is Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi;; R. Sudarshan is Governance Adviser, Regional Centre, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Bangkok;; Charles Taylor is Professor of Philosophy, McGill University
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List of Contributors;
1. Introducing Multiculturalism (Rajeev Bhargava)
2. Identity and Integrity (Alan Montefiore);
3. Expensive Tastes and Multiculturalism (G.A. Cohen);
4. Governance of Multicultural Polities: Limits of the Rule of Law (R. Sudarshan);
5. French Republicanism and Thick Multiculturalism (Catherine Audard);
6. Democratic Exclusion (And Its Remedies?) (Charles Taylor);
7. Secular Liberalism and the Moral Psychology of Identity (Akeel Bilgrami);
8. The Moral Psychology of Identity by Akeel Bilgrami: A Commentary (Alan Montefiore);
9. Multiculturalism, Governance and the Indian Bourgeoisie (Amiya Kumar Bagchi);
10. Making a Difference: Hindi, 1880-1930 (Alok Rai);
11. The Contest over Space and the Formation of Communal Collectivities: Burial of a Fakir, Calcutta, 1924 (P.K. Datta);
12. Nation from its Margins: Notes on E.V. Ramaswamys Impossible Nation (M.S.S. Pandian);
13. Generic Sentences, Social Kinds, and Stereotypes (Tista Bagchi);
14. Public Sphere and Democratic Governance in Contemporary India (Javeed Alam); Civil Society and Community: Reflections on the African Experience (Mahmood Mamdani);
15. Cultures, Communities and the History of Politics in Southern Africa (Preben Kaarsholm);
16. Recognizing Whom? Multiculturalism, Muslim Minority Identity and the Mers (Shail Mayaram);
17. Politics and History after Sovereignty (Vivek Dhareshwar);
Index.
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