Multiculturalism in Asia

2005, Multiculturalism in Asia Oxford University Press, Oxford, England.

Attached Files (Some files may be inaccessible until you login with your Deakin Research Online credentials)
Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads

Title Multiculturalism in Asia
Editor(s) Kymlicka, Will
He, Baogang
Publication date 2005
Total pages xi, 364 p.
Publisher Oxford University Press
Place of Publication Oxford, England
Keyword(s) Multiculturalism -- Asia
Asia -- Ethnic relations -- Government policy
Asia -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Summary 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.
Notes Contents: Liberal multiculturalism : western models, global trends, and Asian debates / Will Kymlicka -- Minority rights with Chinese characteristics / Baogang He -- A liberal model of minority rights for an illiberal multiethnic state? The case of Lao PDR / Vatthana Pholsena -- Subjects of the nation without citizenship : the case of 'hill tribes' in Thailand / Mika Toyota -- Liberal and structural ethnic political accommodation in Malaysia / N. Ganesan -- Normative pluralism in Indonesia : regions, religions, and ethnicities / John Bowen -- The cost of membership in ascribed community / Chua Beng Huat -- Justice for migrant workers? The case of foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong and Singapore / Daniel A. Bell and Nicola Piper -- At the margins of a liberal-democratic state : ethnic minorities in Japan / Lam Peng-Er -- Multination federalism and minority rights in Sri Lanka / Rohan Edrisinha -- Burma/Myanmar : struggle for democracy and ethnic rights / Alan Smith -- Indian exceptionalism or Indian model : negotiating cultural diversity and minority rights in a democratic nation-state / Gurpreet Mahajan.
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006
ISBN 0199277621
019927763X
9780199277629
9780199277636
Language eng
Field of Research 160603 Comparative Government and Politics
HERDC Research category A7 Edited book
Copyright notice ©2005, Oxford University Press
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30010331

Document type: Book
Collection: School of International and Political Studies
Connect to link resolver
 
Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in Deakin Research Online is owned by the author, with all rights reserved.

Versions
Version Filter Type
Access Statistics: 1228 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics
Created: Tue, 21 Oct 2008, 08:01:16 EST