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Public commissions on cultural and religious diversity : analysis, reception and challenges
Title
Public commissions on cultural and religious diversity : analysis, reception and challenges / edited by Solange Lefebvre and Patrice Brodeur.
ISBN
1315602849
1317073797
1317073800
1317073819
1472472888
9781315602844
9781317073796
9781317073802
9781317073819
9781472472885
Publication
London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxvi, 310 pages) : illustrations
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Summary
Due to growing negative perceptions about relations between historically entrenched, dominant populations and various minority groups, issues relating to the need to better manage cultural and religious diversity have been intensifying in many countries. These negative perceptions have recently led to a significant increase in popular support for right and extreme right nationalist discourses, and have created so much public tension that national governments have had no choice but to respond. In the last two decades, in several Western contexts in particular, the issues raised by such combined challenges have culminated in the creation of government-initiated or private national commissions. This book presents the results of a multidisciplinary analysis, from a broader framework that includes the national public commissions which have addressed the challenges of managing cultural and religious diversity in Belgium, Britain, Canada (Quebec), France, Morocco and Norway (including also other cases of public management in Australia and Singapore). It includes in-depth studies of the issues and controversies examined by each of the commissions, such as the ways they perceived the issues, their results and impact, the key political players involved, the media debates and reception surrounding each commission, the communication strategies and difficulties their leaders encountered, as well as the legal aspects each commission has raised. The reports represent a rich body of work charting the fundamental questions nations face about their nature, history and future while the impact on peoples' lives tells us much about different approaches to the issues of cultural identity between countries.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Print version: Brodeur, Patrice. Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity. Volume I : Analysis, Reception and Challenges. Florence : Taylor and Francis, ©2017
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Foreword; Preface: the benefit of analysing national public commissions on diversity for research and policy making ; Acknowledgements; Introduction: national commissions on diversity: when reflective processes happen in parallel within several nation-states; Purpose and nature of the various diversity commissions discussed; What is a commission?; A hazardous exercise; Britain, France, Quebec and Belgium: other comparative conclusions; Layout of the book; PART I Britain, France, Quebec and Belgium.
1 National commissions on collective identity and diversity: Britain, France, Quebec and BelgiumComparable societies?; National models: between unity and diversity; Various approaches to issues of religion; Conclusion: similarities and differences; 2 'Stories are the secret reservoirs of values': personal recollections of two commissions in the United Kingdom; The Future of Multi-ethnic Britain, 2000; Report on religion and belief, 2015; Learning points; Concluding note; 3 Assumptions of power subverted: media and emotions in the wake of the Parekh Report; On becoming intellectual.
Complex, multiple receptionsReceptions of the recommendations: partial?; Omissions and silences; Conclusion; 7 Debating intercultural integration in Belgium: from the Commission for Intercultural Dialogue to the Round Tables on Interculturalism; Introduction; The Commission for Intercultural Dialogue (CID); The Round Tables on Interculturalism (RTI); Conclusion; PART II Comparative and theoretical perspectives; 8 The commissions: caught between media simplifications and political interests; Booby traps: the media, minorities and religions; The commissions in the media cyclone.
Media reactions to the Parekh ReportThe ambivalent identity of the report; Elites and vulnerability; Conclusion; 4 From Stasi (2003) to the Machelon Commission (2006): the use of commissions in religious regulation in France; The three main roles of a commission; The decision to create commissions; The working methodologies of the commissions; The Stasi versus the Machelon Commission: laïcité versus freedom of religion; The posterity of the reports; Conclusion; 5 The outcome of the Stasi Report in France: much ado about nothing?; Introduction: the neglected recommendations.
The Stasi Commission's hallmark: a strong laïcitéTwo implemented recommendations; Implementing the legal principle of laïcité; After the Stasi Report; The actors of laïcité; Conclusion; 6 The Bouchard-Taylor Commission in Quebec and reasonable accommodations: collective creation and multilevel reception; Moving the legal debate over reasonable accommodation to political and identity issues; Tensions between the commission, media and political arena; Contents of the report: open secularism and interculturalism; Genesis of the report in the previous work of the co-chairs and experts.
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