Multiculturalism in Asia
Will Kymlicka and Baogang He
Abstract
This book explores the different ways that issues of ethnocultural diversity are conceptualised and debated in South and East Asia. It looks at the legacies of precolonial and colonial traditions for managing diversity, their reinterpretation under postcolonial independence and globalisation, and their relationship to Western liberal models of multiculturalism and emerging international norms of human and minority rights. It shows that political actors draw on a range of intellectual resources and traditions when thinking through these questions. Appeals to international human rights instrumen ... More
This book explores the different ways that issues of ethnocultural diversity are conceptualised and debated in South and East Asia. It looks at the legacies of precolonial and colonial traditions for managing diversity, their reinterpretation under postcolonial independence and globalisation, and their relationship to Western liberal models of multiculturalism and emerging international norms of human and minority rights. It shows that political actors draw on a range of intellectual resources and traditions when thinking through these questions. Appeals to international human rights instruments and Western policies of multiculturalism are interspersed with appeals to local traditions, national mythologies, regional practices, and religious doctrines. An attempt to understand these debates or contribute to them requires an understanding of the complex interaction between the different ways of conceptualising diversity and citizenship.
Keywords:
South Asia,
East Asia,
multiculturalism,
ethnocultural diversity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2005 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199277629 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006 |
DOI:10.1093/0199277621.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Will Kymlicka, editor
Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen's University, Canada
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Baogang He, editor
Associate Professor in Government, University of Tasmania
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