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Dilemmas of Belonging: Multiculturalism in Plural Societies

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After the Nation?

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Advocates of postnationalism argue that we must move past the particularist bonds of cultural and national identity in order to escape the narrow rigidity of culturalism and organize political life in a way that best captures the ideals of citizenship. These postculturalist and proceduralist alternatives are proposed as an improvement upon both traditionalist nationalism and multiculturalism. Since it appears that multiculturalism has been in retreat in recent years (Koopmans et al., 2005; Levey, 2009), it looks like the time is ripe for these developments to take hold. Yet public controversy over multiculturalism has rarely taken the form of a demand for more postnationalist policies. If anything, it has fostered a kind of neo-nationalism, based on fears that multiculturalism endangers the bonds of mutual obligation (Joppke, 2004). If multiculturalism is running into problems, why is it taking the form of a renewed concern with particularist identity, rather than a call for greater postculturalist politics and civic proceduralism?

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  1. School of Politics, International Studies, and Philosophy, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

    Keith Breen (Lecturer in Political Theory) (Lecturer in Political Theory)

  2. Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

    Shane O’Neill (Professor of Political Theory and Dean) (Professor of Political Theory and Dean)

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Frost, C. (2010). Dilemmas of Belonging: Multiculturalism in Plural Societies. In: Breen, K., O’Neill, S. (eds) After the Nation?. International Political Theory Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230293175_12

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