The Political Uses of Cultural Diversity

The Diversity Dividend
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-71951-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 430 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

This book examines how states deploy cultural recognition and inclusion policies to build modernized national identities in diverse societies but reveals they also pay other useful dividends for governments.

It focuses on three pluralist postcolonial settler states in the cases of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, all of which are characterized by cultural pluralism stemming from colonial history and the presence of Indigenous peoples, and diverse migration. Analysing policy and political discourse, it reveals that official cultural recognition plays a key role in building and reinforcing national identity but that the social cohesion and community it brings domestically is matched by signalling a nation-state’s modernized status as postcolonial and post-racist to the global economy. The book also explores the ways in which religious diversity poses particular challenges to these strategies of ethno-cultural recognition and appropriation.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political science, comparative politics, public policy, political theory, political sociology and political anthropology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smits, Katherine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturpolitik, Kulturmanagement
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction  2. Interpreting Cultural Diversity and Recognition  3. Multiculturalism, Indigeneity and National Identity in Australia  4. The Cultural Mosaic and the 'Canadian Model'  5. The Politics of Cultural Community in New Zealand  6. Ethnocultural Recognition, Religion and Modernity  7. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Katherine Smits is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand.