An Excess of alterity? Debating difference in a multicultural society
Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume 30, Issue 6 November 2007 , pages 979 - 998
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Ralph Grillo
"Debates about the incompatibility of different ways of living are occurring in the UK as in most multicultural societies. One point of view, now widely expressed in Europe, is that multicultural countries have become 'too diverse', and the presence of communities adhering to values at odds with those of 'Western' secular society threaten cohesion. Focusing on the UK, the article examines what has been called a 'cultural-diversity sceptical turn' or 'backlash against difference', emphasises the 'fuzziness' of the concepts involved, and proposes that the backlash should be understood inter alia in terms of the problems of the governability of what are, in a neo-liberal, transnationalised ecumene, increasingly fragmented societies."
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