Travelling Concepts

1. Front Matter

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2. Travelling Concepts: Negotiating Diversity in Canada and Europe

   1. Travelling Concepts: Negotiating Diversity in Canada and Europe

      • Christian Lammert, Katja Sarkowsky

      Pages 13-23

3. Negotiating Diversity in the Canadian Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Theoretical Concepts of Inclusion and Exclusion

      1. L’accommodement raisonnable dans le contexte légal canadien: mécanisme de gestion de la diversité ou source de tensions

         • Pierre Anctil

         Pages 27-46

      2. Reasoning about “Reasonable Accommodation”: Charles Taylor on Negotiating Diversity in Canada and Quebec

         • Ingrid Makus

         Pages 47-62

      3. “At the Mercy of a Putative Majority:” Difference as a ‘Problem’ in Canadian Political Theory

         • Suzanne Gallant

         Pages 63-82

      4. Multiculturalism and Colonial Continuity: The Function of Disgust in the Politics of Recognition

         • Andreas Krebs

         Pages 83-106

   3. Diversity in Canadian Society and Literature

      1. Defining the Quebec Nation: Ten Years of Debates and an Emerging Consensus

         • Simon Langlois

         Pages 109-128

      2. Negotiating Diversity and Diaspora: Planting Chava Rosenfarb’s Tree of Life in a Canadian Context

         • Julie Spergel

         Pages 129-151

      3. Labour Asian Can: Grammar, Movement and the Institution

         • Larissa Lai

         Pages 153-166

4. Travelling Concepts: Back and forth across the Atlantic

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Comparing Canada and Europe

      1. Multiculturalism and Integration: Lessons to Be Learnt from Cases of Canada and Europe

         • Jiri S. Melich

         Pages 169-191

      2. Multinational Pluralism – Rethinking Multiculturalism as an Approach to Diversity and Cultural Difference

         • Robert Sata

         Pages 193-210

      3. New Lessons for (and from) the Old World: A study of the politicisation of regional identity in Nova Scotia & North East England

         • Allan Craigie

         Pages 211-230

   3. Circulating Ideas in a Globalized and Transnational Context

      1. Rediscovering Migration and Cultural Interaction in the ‘Old World’: Canadian Research Approaches Reach Europe

         • Dirk Hoerder

         Pages 233-249

      2. Towards diversity within ethnic majorities: Deconstructing the ‘Anglo-Celt’

         • Katrin Urschel

         Pages 251-270

      3. The Worried Global Public and New Citizenship Practices in an Unheroic Age

         • Daniel Drache

         Pages 271-292

5. Back Matter

   Pages 293-313

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Bhikhu Parekh As creative and reflective agents, human beings seek meaning in their lives, and develop more or less coherent views of the world or cultures in terms of which to organize their personal and collective lives. When different groups of individuals within the same society subscribe to different ways of thought, they face the crucial question of how to deal with their cultural diversity and sustain a shared common life. Premodern societies took a relatively relaxed view of diversity and generally opted for a looser union. Modernity brought with it a very different approach to the subject. This is reflected in, among other things, the institution of the modern state, especially the liberal democracy which represents one way of constituting it. Liberal democracy has exercised a decisive influence on our political and moral imagination for the past three centuries. Unlike premodern societies which took the community as their starting point and defined the individual in terms of it, it takes the individual as the ultimate and irreducible unit of, and thus conc- tually and ontologically prior to society. The latter is taken to consist of in- viduals, and refers to the totality of its members and their formal and informal relationships. Individual are the sole and equal sources of moral claims, and social and political institutions are judged in terms of their ability to safeguard and promote individual interests.

• Anerkennung
• Diversität
• Europa
• Kanada
• Multikulturalismus
• Political Science

Christian Lammert is research associate at the Centre for North American Studies and teaches Political Science at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main.
Katja Sarkowsky is Assistant (Junior) Professor for the New English Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Augsburg.