Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective: A New Politics of Diversity for the 21st Century?

This book explores the past, present, and future of multiculturalism, considering the rise of right-wing populism and the COVID-19 pandemic, and assessing its positive and negative impacts. It incorporates critical perspectives from indigenous and decolonial thought, critical race theory, and black studies and offers a comparative analysis across regions.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 332 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

At the fiftieth anniversary of 'multiculturalism as a concept, this is the first book to provide a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary issues facing multiculturalism globally, incorporating the rise of right-wing populism and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Traverses the past, present, and future of multiculturalism, assessing the positive impacts while also recognizing limitations, and how these may impact the future of multiculturalism in the 21st Century.

• Provides an in-depth study of critical perspectives on multiculturalism that stem from indigenous and decolonial thought, critical race theory, and black studies.

Presents a near-global comparative analysis that moves the discussion beyond Western liberal democracies to the impact of multiculturalism in the Americas, Europe, Oceania, Africa, and Asia.

Features a strong mixture of established names, including influential and renowned scholars such as Will Kymlicka, Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Alain G. Gagnon, and Avigail Eisenberg (to name a few), while also introducing new names and perspectives to the field.

Weight: 644g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032054193