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‘And People's Concerns Were Genuine: Why Didn't We Listen More?’: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Recognition in Europe

In English

Författare

  • Umut Ozkirimli

Summary, in English

The aim of this article is to draw attention to the dangerous, indeed poisonous, nature of the current debates on immigration and multiculturalism in today’s ‘omniphobic’ Europe, plagued not only by a severe economic crisis, but also a more general normative crisis, a ‘crisis of values’ so to speak, which has been consistently overlooked or manipulated by politicians and academics alike, or reduced to an epiphenomenon bound to disappear when financial balances are restored. I will argue in this context that nationalism (in some cases even outright racism) is key to understanding this crisis, a catalyst acting either as a cause or a symptom, and almost always as a profound source of legitimacy. Following a brief critique of the literature on the purported ‘death’ of multiculturalism—the academic side of the same coin—the article concludes by sketching the normative contours of an alternative model of multiculturalism, one that stresses the importance of the ideas of recognition, redistribution and participation.

Publiceringsår

2012

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

307-321

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

Volym

20

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Routledge

Ämne

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
  • Other Social Sciences

Nyckelord

  • multiculturalism
  • nationalism
  • pluralism
  • recognition
  • Europe

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1478-2804