'Diversity', understood in terms of culture, ethnicity, and of social stratification, is obviously a topic central to both the social sciences and cultural studies. In this context, Canada increasingly serves as a model to be critically assessed for an understanding of multinational and multicultural Europe. Taking the different debates in Canada and Europe and disciplinary discussions as a starting point, this volume brings together European and Canadian scholars from sociology, cultural studies, political sciences, philosophy, and literary studies to implement a productive dialogue about concepts of diversity and the way in which they 'travel' across the Atlantic and across the disciplines.

Negotiating Diversity in Canada and Europe

Vorwort
Negotiating Diversity in Canada and Europe

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
Travelling Concepts: Negotiating Diversity in Canada and Europe.- Travelling Concepts: Negotiating Diversity in Canada and Europe.- Negotiating Diversity in the Canadian Context.- L'accommodement raisonnable dans le contexte légal canadien: mécanisme de gestion de la diversité ou source de tensions.- Reasoning about Reasonable Accommodation: Charles Taylor on Negotiating Diversity in Canada and Quebec.- At the Mercy of a Putative Majority: Difference as a 'Problem' in Canadian Political Theory.- Multiculturalism and Colonial Continuity: The Function of Disgust in the Politics of Recognition.- Defining the Quebec Nation: Ten Years of Debates and an Emerging Consensus.- Negotiating Diversity and Diaspora: Planting Chava Rosenfarb's Tree of Life in a Canadian Context.- Labour Asian Can: Grammar, Movement and the Institution.- Travelling Concepts: Back and forth across the Atlantic.- Multiculturalism and Integration: Lessons to Be Learnt from Cases of Canada and Europe.- Multinational Pluralism Rethinking Multiculturalism as an Approach to Diversity and Cultural Difference.- New Lessons for (and from) the Old World: A study of the politicisation of regional identity in Nova Scotia & North East England.- Rediscovering Migration and Cultural Interaction in the 'Old World': Canadian Research Approaches Reach Europe.- Towards diversity within ethnic majorities: Deconstructing the 'Anglo-Celt'.- The Worried Global Public and New Citizenship Practices in an Unheroic Age.