Multicultural Politics of Recognition and Postcolonial Citizenship

Name: Multicultural Politics of Recognition and Postcolonial Citizenship
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Multicultural Politics of Recognition and Postcolonial CitizenshipRethinking the Nation\nAuthor(s): Rachel Busbridge\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138659728, 978-1138659728\nSynopsis\nThis book examines claims for recognition of cultural difference from immigrant and Indigenous minorities, highlighting the ways in which they intersect with ideas of national community. Busbridge argues that there is an important, albeit under-explored, relationship between nation and multicultural politics of recognition.\n\nDrawing on the Australian context, the book explores how nation features as a productive, if somewhat ambivalent, discursive resource in contemporary Muslim and Aboriginal struggles to be recognised. In demanding recognition, minorities enter into the business of making the nation by positing alternative conceptions of national identity, culture and belonging that are more attentive to their differences and.