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From outlawing polygamy and mandating public education to protecting the rights of minorities, the framing of group life by the state has been a subject of considerable interest and controversy throughout the history of the United States. The subject continues to be important in many countries. This book deals with state responses to cultural difference through the examination of a number of encounters between individuals, groups, and the state, in the United States and elsewhere. The book opens the concepts of groups and the state, arguing for the complexity of their relations and interpenet

The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips |#8211; recently voted the favourite dish in Britain |#8211; to Thai saunas, Zen Judaism, Nigerian Kung Fu, |#8216;Bollywood|#8217; films or salsa or reggae music. Some people celebrate these phenomena, whilst others fear or condemn them. No wonder, then, that theorists such as Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, and Ien Ang, have engaged with hybridity in their work and sought to untangle these complex events and reactions; or that a variety of disciplines now devote increasing attention to the works of these theorists and to the processes of cultural encounter, contact, interaction, exchange and hybridization. In this concise book, leading historian Peter Burke considers these fascinating and contested phenomena, ranging over theories, practices, processes and events in a manner that is as wide-ranging and vibrant as the topic at hand. -- Back cover

Preliminary Material -- The Postmodern Liberal Concept of Citizenship /Sanja Ivic -- Citizenship and Agonism /Paulina Tambakaki -- Jane Addams, Pragmatism and Rhetorical Citizenship in Multicultural Democracies /Robert Danisch -- Multiculturalism in the Service of Capital: The Case of New Zealand Public Broadcasting /Donald Reid -- Exclusive Inclusion: Japan's Desire for, and Difficulty with, Diversity /Julian Chapple -- German Politicians with Turkey Origin: Diversity in the Parliaments of Germany /Devrimsel Deniz Nergiz -- Economic Migration, Disaggregated Citizenship and the Right to Vote in Post-Apartheid South Africa /Wessel le Roux -- Portuguese Civil Society and the Relation with the State /Sonia Pires -- Living between Nation-States and Nature: Anthropological Notes on National Identities /Humberto Dos Santos Martins -- Empowering Gypsies and Applied Anthropology /Elisabetta Di Giovanni -- Transnational Practices of Care: The Portuguese Migration from the Azores to Quebec (Canada) /Ana Gherghel and Josiane Le Gall.

Associationism: Joshua Cohen and Joel RogersDifference theory: Iris Marion Young; Blurring the line: Michael Walzer; Britain; Associationism: Paul Q. Hirst; Difference theory: Chantal Mouffe; Conclusion; 10 Beyond pluralism? Corporatism, globalization, and the dilemmas of democratic governance; Introduction; Pluralism in political science: assumptions and arguments of an American tradition; Challenging liberal pluralism: corporatism and its post-liberal historical visions; Schmitter and the revival of corporatism: an alternative model of interest intermediation.

Current popular and academic discussions make certain assumptions regarding Islam and its lack of compatibility with pluralism. Some notable liberal thinkers have even argued that pluralism itself is inherently antithetical to Islam. This volume addresses these assumptions by bringing clarity to some of its key suppositions and conjectures

In this book, Robert Talisse critically examines the moral and political implications of pluralism, the view that our best moral thinking is indeterminate and that moral conflict is an inescapable feature of the human condition. Through a careful engagement with the work of William James, Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, and their contemporary followers, Talisse distinguishes two broad types of moral pluralism: metaphysical and epistemic. After arguing that metaphysical pluralism does not offer a compelling account of value and thus cannot ground a viable conception of liberal politics, Talisse proposes and defends a distinctive variety of epistemic pluralism. According to this view, certain value conflicts are at present undecidable rather than intrinsic. Consequently, epistemic pluralism countenances the possibility that further argumentation, enhanced reflection, or the acquisition of more information could yield rational resolutions to the kinds of value conflicts that metaphysical pluralists deem irresolvable as such. Talisse's epistemic pluralism hence prescribes a politics in which deep value conflicts are to be addressed by ongoing argumentation and free engagement among citizens; the epistemic pluralist thus sees liberal democracy is the proper political response to ongoing moral disagreement.

Contents -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Shattering Culture: An Introduction - Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good with Seth Donal Hannah and Sarah S. Willen -- Part I - Cultural Environments of Hyperdiversity -- Chapter 2. Clinical Care in Environments of Hyperdiversity - Seth Donal Hannah -- Chapter 3. Pas de Trois: Medical Interpreters, Clinical Dilemmas, and the Patient-Provider-Interpreter Triad -Sarah S. Willen -- Chapter 4. Praying Along: Interfaith Chaplaincy and the Politics of Translation - Lisa Stevenson -- Chapter 5. Clinician-Patient Matching - Sarah S. Willen

This is the first work in political theory to bring together IR, comparative politics and political theory approaches to analyze the post-sovereign state and develop a new interpretative scheme for social and political scientists.

This edited volume provides a coherent and comprehensive assessment of William E. Connolly's significant contribution to the field of political theory.

Cet ouvrage à voix plurielles se place resolument dans une perspective interdisciplinaire. Neuf auteurs de premier plan, oeuvrant sous des horizons diversifies, se confrontent à la crise actuelle de la democratie. Une these centrale ordonne le travail d'analyse : cette crise tire son origine de l'oubli de la notion même de democratie, dans le rejet de toute problematique de fondements. Identite et difference, communaute et pluralisme, droits individuels et droit collectifs, discours public et legitimation de valeurs, autant de problemes cruciaux pour le renouvellement de la democratie et de sa.