British Multiculturalism and the Politics of Representation
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 19 - Politics and International Studies
- Output identifier
- 1261
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474422680
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The output emerged from nine-year research on different concepts/practices of inclusion (equality, recognition, tolerance, hospitality). It combines a novel theoretical framework, combining Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction and Ernesto Laclau’s theory of hegemony, with empirical analyses of British multiculturalism. Empirical material includes legal decisions and court documents from five cases from the early 1980s-2000s; newspaper articles and readers’ online comments from debates about four cases concerning school children in religious attire; a popular novel by Nick Hornby; different speeches and writings on Britishness by Gordon Brown/David Cameron; and official reports/materials for British citizenship tests–spanning the last four decades of British multiculturalism.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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