Mapping the limits of multiculturalism in the context of globalization

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Beteiligte: Shome, Raka (VerfasserIn)
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2012
Teil von: , Erschienen in: International Journal of Communication, volume 6/2012, pp. 144-165, (ISSN 1932-8036)
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Umfang: 22 p.
Sprache: Englisch
Teil von: , Erschienen in: International Journal of Communication, volume 6/2012, pp. 144-165, (ISSN 1932-8036)
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"This article has tried to take seriously the growing calls in communication studies for rethinking many of our North Atlantic-centered concepts and placing them in the tensions and struggles of transnationalism and non-Western modernities. It has also underscored the importance of recognizing how cultural relations in non-Western modernities may not lend themselves to the conceptual frames of justice, equality, cultural identity, and multiculturalism that we work with (and even unwittingly universalize) in Anglo-American contexts. As scholars committed to issues of cultural inequalities, power, and critique, our goal and responsibility must not only be to diversify the field of communication studies by focusing on different ethnic groups within our “known” public spheres. Our goal must also be to interrogate the extent to which our focus on diversity and cultural difference might remain saturated by the thick temporalities of Anglo-American histories that prevent us from engaging with other historical relations and struggles of cultural inequalities in other modernities. Further, globalizing communication studies should not simply be a atter of looking outward into non-Western contexts from our vantage points—where we absorb other cultural contexts or cultural relations into our already-existing epistemic fields. Rather, globalizing communication studies must minimally be an attempt to shift and unsettle the very epistemic vocabularies and underlying temporalities through which we engage in culture and cultural relations. In focusing on the concept of multiculturalism, I have argued that concept is so saturated by the history and temporalities of Western national cultures that it betrays its limits when placed in the context of global relations and the logics of non-Western modernities. Such a betrayal, however, is not a failure. Rather, it offers a productive opportunity to forge other vocabularies for addressing cultural inequalities that are responsive to the realities of our transnational moment and committed to a global democratic projekt whose logics can exceed West-centric engagements with cultural difference."[Information des Anbieters]

Unsettling the primacy of cultural identity; conclusion; references