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E-Artikel
Titel:
Circuits of Aversion: The Transnational Mediation of Multicultural Crisis
Beteiligte:
Titley, Gavan
Erschienen:
SAGE Publications, 2011
Erschienen in:
Irish Journal of Sociology, 19 (2011) 2, Seite 43-59
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.7227/ijs.19.2.4
ISSN:
0791-6035;
2050-5280
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Beschreibung:
Since ‘9/11’, commentators, politicians and media discourse in a range of European contexts have increasingly drawn on narratives of the ‘crisis of multiculturalism’ to make sense of a broad range of events and political developments. For all this focus, multiculturalism has rarely amounted to more than a patchwork of initiatives, rhetoric and aspirations in any context, and has been subject to a long and well-documented history of ‘backlash’. Multiculturalism, therefore, can be approached analytically as a mobilising metaphor and discursive assemblage that facilitates and orders debate on questions of race, legitimacy and belonging. This article examines the transnational mediation of ‘multicultural crisis’, and explores the cultural dynamics through which a congruent narrative of a ‘failed experiment’ has been shaped and circulated. It argues that these transnational dynamics have become politically significant in positioning and justifying a politics of integration predicated on visions of core values and ‘ways of life’, and invested in by a complex spectrum of political positions.