“Overlapping Memberships”: Interactive Multicultural Theory Meets Chalcedonian Christology

Dialog ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-202
Author(s):  
Kayko Driedger Hesslein
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Theory

scholarly journals Amartya Sen’s Identity Pluralism Applied to Will Kymlicka’s Liberal Multiculturalism

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-546
Author(s):  
Betto van Waarden
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Recent Effort ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
Liberal Multiculturalism ◽  
Abstract Ideas ◽  
Multicultural Theory

Multicultural theory pays surprisingly little attention to the plurality of identity. In addition, there is still dissatisfaction with Will Kymlicka’s distinction between polyethnic groups and national minorities and the rights they deserve, as well as continued criticism of liberal multiculturalism more broadly. I revisit this distinction based on Amartya Sen’s recent effort to introduce the notion of identity pluralism into liberal debates. In Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 2006), Sen stresses the importance of maintaining political stability through individuals’ plural identities mainly in relation to religious divides and global conflict. Sen’s theory is criticised for being too abstract, but I interpret these abstract ideas to criticise Kymlicka’s distinction between polyethnic groups and national minorities and strengthen liberal multiculturalism. I argue that the notion of identity pluralism implies that a state must promote multicultural ‘participation rights’ for all minority identities, rather than ‘accommodation rights’ for polyethnic groups and ‘self-government rights’ for national minorities as Kymlicka contends. Consequently, regions like Quebec, Flanders and Catalonia would not merit the level of autonomy they currently enjoy, and Scotland should not be granted independence from the United Kingdom.

Maîtres Chez Nous: Some Questions about Culture and Continuity

2013 ◽  
Vol 107 (4) ◽  
pp. 866-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. JAMES BOOTH
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Recent Effort ◽  
The Core ◽  
Liberal Multiculturalism ◽  
Multicultural Theory

Alan Patten's social lineage account of cultural continuity is the most recent effort to provide multicultural theory with a non-essentialist concept of culture, its continuity and loss that meets broadly liberal normative desiderata. In this essay, I argue that it too fails to offer an alternative to essentialism, to meet standard liberal normative stipulations, and to construct a theory of continuity sufficient to underpin the present claims of involuntarily incorporated communities. That result is theoretically interesting for it shows the deep intractability of the problems at the core of liberal multiculturalism.

Helpful and Hindering Multicultural Events in Group Supervision

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 786-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anju Kaduvettoor ◽  
Tiffany O'Shaughnessy ◽  
Yoko Mori ◽  
Clyde Beverly ◽  
Ryan D. Weatherford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Competence ◽  
Group Supervision ◽  
Vicarious Learning ◽  
Group Climate ◽  
Multicultural Issues ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
Group Engagement ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Multicultural Events ◽  
Multicultural Theory

This study examines the relationship between multicultural events in group supervision, group climate, and supervisee multicultural competence using a mixed qualitative/quantitative design. The discovery-oriented approach yielded 196 helpful and hindering multicultural events among 136 participants. The most common events included multicultural learning and peer vicarious learning. Supervisees suggested improving their group supervision through better integration of multicultural issues and more supervisor involvement. Regarding group climate, supervisees reporting peer vicarious learning or multicultural learning experienced higher group engagement, whereas misapplications of multicultural theory related to higher reports of group conflict. Increased multicultural learning and extra-group multicultural events positively related to supervisees' multicultural competence whereas multicultural conflicts with supervisors, misapplication of multicultural theory, and the absence of multicultural events negatively related to supervisee multicultural competence. The findings of this study generated several suggestions for managing multicultural events as well as improving theory, research, and practice for group supervision.

Contextualizing Multiculturalism: A Three Dimensional Examination of Multicultural Claims

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 309-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gila Stopler
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Orthodox Jews ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Cultural Minorities ◽  
Third Dimension ◽  
The Right ◽  
Nancy Fraser ◽  
Multicultural Theory

The emergence of multicultural theory and of claims of recognition by cultural, ethnic, and national minorities has brought to the forefront previously neglected aspects of the right to equality. However, when judged on their own, claims for recognition stand the risk of failing to fully capture, and even distorting, the meaning of equality. I suggest that in order to avoid this risk, multicultural claims need to be contextualized. Employing Nancy Fraser’s framework of two dimensions of justice—recognition and redistribution—and adding a third dimension—political participation, I suggest a framework for a contextualized assessment of multicultural claims that allows us to properly and fully assess their validity. I then go on to employ this framework on the claims of Israel’s two most significant cultural minorities—the Palestinian Arabs and the Ultra Orthodox Jews. I show how the use of the suggested framework helps to expose the considerable differences between these two cultural minorities, and consequently the notable difference in the merits of their claims, a difference that would have otherwise gone undetected.

Dilemmas of a Multicultural Theory of Citizenship

1997 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhikhu Parekh
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Theory
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