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The Politics of Multiculturalism

Multicultural Governance in Comparative Perspective

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  • © 2009

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  1. Augie Fleras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Multiculturalisms as Governance: Principles and Paradoxes, Policies and Perspectives

    • Augie Fleras
    Pages 1-21

  3. Theorizing Multicultural Governances: Making Society Safe from Difference, Safe for Difference

    • Augie Fleras
    Pages 23-53

  4. Managing Difference, Making a Difference: Multiculturalism as Inclusive Governance in Canada

    • Augie Fleras
    Pages 55-88

  5. Multiculturalisms in the United States: Multicultural Governances, American Style

    • Augie Fleras
    Pages 89-111

  6. Multiculturalisms “Down Under”: Multicultural Governances across Australia

    • Augie Fleras
    Pages 113-128

  7. Contesting Governances in Aotearoa New Zealand: Monoculturalism, Biculturalism, Multiculturalism, and Binationalism

    • Augie Fleras
    Pages 129-145

  8. Dutch Multiculturalism: Unsettling Multicultural Governance in the Netherlands

    • Augie Fleras
    Pages 147-163

  9. Multiculturalism in Britain: Contesting Multiculturalisms, Evolving Governances

    • Augie Fleras
    Pages 165-186

  10. The Politics of Multicultural Politics: Transatlantic Divides, Intercontinental Discourses

    • Augie Fleras
    Pages 187-202

  11. Reconstitutionalizing Multiculturalism: Governance Pathways for the Twenty-first Century

    • Augie Fleras
    Pages 203-224

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 225-274
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This book develops an account of 'inclusive multicultural governance' which is contrasted with assimilationist and separatist/differentialist approaches to the political management of and accommodation of multicultural diversity in liberal democracies.

About the author

AUGIE J. FLERAS is Associate Professor in the department of Sociology at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

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