I shall be the guest of the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights a the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada between October 31 and November 3. Please join me if you can at a debate on multiculturalism, during which I will be talking about The Crises of Multiculturalism:…
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I will be speaking on Good and Bad Diversity: The Crises of Multiculturalism as a Crisis of Politics at the Institute for Cultural and Society, University of Western Sydney, Room EB.2.21, Building EB, UWS Parramatta campus, corner James Ruse Drive and Victoria Road, Rydalmere (RSVP: ics@uws.edu.au) I am also delighted…
Comments closedI’ll be speaking about our book, The Crises of Multiculturalism: racism in a neoliberal age at two separate events at the University of Sussex over the next few weeks. I will be speaking at the Social and Political Thought seminar series on Wednesday January 25 at 17h00 and at the…
Comments closedTwo book launches to celebrate the publication by Zed books of my latest book, co-written with gavan Titley, The Crises of Multiculturalism: racism in a Neoliberal Age, will be held in october. The first will be held in Dublin on October 12, the second in London on October 26 which…
Comments closedI will be appearing at this event tonight. If you are in Brighton, please come along although, annoyingly, it clashes with Judith Butler’s lecture at the University of Sussex at 17h00. I have a feeling this will be an event heavily skewed towards the liberal standpoint of the type advocated…
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It’s been such a long time since I last blogged. Over the last few months I have been a visiting fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin during which time I co-wrote a book, The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a neoliberal age with Gavan Titley. Pending readers’ reviews which we are waiting for at the end of November, the book will be out on June 9 2011.
During my time in Berlin, we organised a workshop at the ICI on the book’s theme and were delighted to have Guardian journalist Gary Younge join us. The whole workshop is available to watch online.
Comments closedYou can now listen and watch ‘Post-race, post-politics: the paradoxical rise of culture after multiculturalism’, a paper I recently gave at the University of Toronto in Berlin Conference on “Post-Secular Society as a Transatlantic Model? Migration, Religion and Class in Comparative Perspective” by visiting the Media page.
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The Crises of Multiculture? (Zed Boks 2011) which I am co-writing with Gavan Titley will be prresented at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin on July 15 with a response by award-winning journalist, Gary Younge.
Comments closedAcross the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis. Regarded as the failed experiment of liberal elites, commentators and politicians compete to denounce its corrosive legacies; parallel communities threatening social cohesion, enemies within cultivated by irresponsible cultural relativism, mediaeval practices subverting national ‘ways of life’ and universal values. Muslims have been the chief beneficiary of this discredited epoch; licensed by its delusions, they have been left unsupervised, and the proliferation of ghettos, extremism and illiberal excesses is the troubling result.
The following is the transcript of a presentation on the Questioning the European ‘Crisis of Multiculturalism’ project given at the Edge Hill University Centre for Local Policy Studies Summer School on July 1 2009.
What exemplifies the ‘crisis’?
The last few days have provided us several neatly packaged examples of the type of thing that passes as emblematic of the by-now almost undisputed ‘fact’ that multiculturalism in Europe is in crisis.
In the UK, Gordon Brown has announced what was quickly dubbed as a ‘British homes for British workers’ scheme. Under this, what have been described as ‘local’ British people waiting for local social housing will be given preference over ‘outsiders’ .The terms of this proposal pit the ‘deserving’ over the ‘undeserving’ in the barely veiled implication that the divide between the two is culturally defined.
I am speaking today on ‘Race, Gender, and Sexuality’ at 16h00 in Bebelplatz, Berlin, the site where Nazis burned ‘un-German’ books in the 1930s. ALL WELCOME!
Comments closedI am engaged in an Erasmus Teaching Visit to the Institute for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Humboldt University from June 15-19. Due to a national education strike being called in Germany this week, the seminars will be held in public spaces on the Humboldt University site. The first seminar…
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