On What Might Have Been: Some Reflections on Critical Multiculturalism

2002 ◽  
pp. 171-182
Keyword(s):  
Critical Multiculturalism

Daya Komunikasi Paham Multikulturalisme Kritis di Ranah Politik Daring dalam Konteks Indonesia

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Hendar Putranto
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Critical Multiculturalism ◽  
Rational Persuasion ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Online Politics

Indonesia is a fertile ground for flourishing respect towards differences as well as nurturing diversity, considering its unique history and genealogy of its formation. Despite the progress of information and communication technology for the last two decades, added with the emergence of informational politics or online politics after the reformation era 1998, there arose several radical groups and extreme social organization threatening the very foundation of multiculturalism in Indonesia, namely the freedom of religion/belief. Through analyzing and synthesizing the framework of critical multiculturalism and online politics, this research results in producing four parameters (accessibility, interactivity, criticality, solidarity) to measure the level of pro and anti-multiculturalism within certain websites. Here, the role and influence of sympathetic communication power is highly important because online politics depend more on the soft power rather than hard power, rational persuasion in communicative action framework rather than physical violence and politics-by-mass movement. Critical multiculturalism is properly needed in an era of information proliferation and easy access to various power relations. For the sake of a better future, critical multiculturalism should participate further and deeper in the context of emancipation, empowerment, and struggle for justice, especially justice for “those who have no voice, those who toil, those who live unappreciated, and those who die in silence.” Keywords: multiculturalism, critical multiculturalism, online politics, informational politics,Communication Power, “accesibility, interactivity, criticality and solidarity” parameters

scholarly journals Combining intercultural dialogue and critical multiculturalism

Ethnicities ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Stokke ◽  
Lena Lybæk
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Dialogue ◽  
Critical Multiculturalism

Antidotes to Brexit

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
Andrew Ryder
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Critical Multiculturalism ◽  
Structural Framework ◽  
Authoritarian Populism ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Core Message ◽  
The Eu

A core message of the book is that authoritarian populism (Brexit nationalism) is a state of affairs where emotions are orchestrated by an increasingly demagogic subsection of the elite to polarise, mobilise and demonise, a reactive, illiberal and antagonist form of politics. It presents a threat in that although perhaps it has manifested itself in one of its most extreme forms in Britain through Brexit, it is in fact an endemic threat to all of Europe. In January 2019 a group of thirty lead European thinkers, writers, historians and nobel laureates, declared that Europe as an idea was “coming apart before our eyes” and the consequences would be “calamitous” if the rising tide of populism was not challenged. The final section of the book seeks to identify the panacea to the rise of authoritarian populism and forms of agonism, both in Britain and Europe. Britain’s future relationship with the EU will be a key determiner in Britain’s course as a nation, hence the book advocates Britain’s eventual re-entry into a reformed European Union grounded within the concept of Social Europe and a conception of identity that is inclusive and accommodated in a structural framework that is deliberative and egalitarian. The chapter also seeks to challenge ‘post-truth’ politics through a reformed public sphere and inclusive and bridging speech acts and rhetoric. Finally, the chapter reflects on the value of critical multiculturalism as a mechanism that might dispel monoculturalism and nativism.

The Place of the Niqab in the Courtroom

ICL Journal ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vrinda Narain
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
Fair Trial ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Reasonable Accommodation ◽  
Critical Multiculturalism ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Right ◽  
Religious Reasons

AbstractThis paper analyzes the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R v NS, 2012 SCC 72 where the Court considered if a witness who wears a niqab for religious reasons can be required to remove it while testifying. The Court identified the two Charter rights engaged: the witness’ freedom of religion and the accused’s fair trial rights, including the right to make full answer and defense. This paper focuses on those aspects of the Supreme Court’s decision that relate to religious freedom, multiculturalism and reasonable accommodation. Analyzing the Court’s reasoning through the lens of critical multiculturalism, I consider the potential of the reasonable accommodation framework to forward minority rights. I suggest that had the Supreme Court applied an intersectional framework to adjudicating NS’s claim, it could have crafted a more contextual response based on her location along multiple axes of discrimination: gender, religion and racialised minority. This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of mediating individual and group tensions, to move towards a more inclusive notion of citizenship than can foster a commitment to a shared multicultural future.

Essay Review: Crossing Borders/Shifting Paradigms: Multiculturalism and Children's Literature

1995 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 634-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Essay Review ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Critical Multiculturalism ◽  
Utopian Vision ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Broad Understanding

If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, course and sing, in all the undeniable and representative and participating voices of everybody here. We would make our language conform to the truth of our many selves and we would make our language lead us into the quality of power that a democratic state must represent. (Jordan, 1987, p. 24) June Jordan's words bring forth a utopian vision of a future in which issues of language, voice, truth, power, and democracy all come together in the creation of a culturally diverse democratic world. She speaks in the language of a critical multiculturalism, one in which words such as representation, many selves, power, and democracy are integral. In this article, I develop a broad understanding of the basic epistemological positions underlying the discourse of multicultural education and, in particular, multiculturalism in children's literature.

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