Tolerance, Intolerance and Respect: Hard to Accept?

264 Pages·2013·1.27 MB·English

by  Jan Dobbernack

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TOLERANCE,INTOLERANCEANDRESPECT
HardtoAccept?
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NEGOTIATINGMULTICULTURALEUROPE
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BRITISHASIANMUSLIMWOMEN,MULTIPLESPATIALITIESAND
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CITIZENSHIP,IDENTITYANDTHEPOLITICSOFMULTICULTURALISM
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THEPLURALSTATESOFRECOGNITION
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Tolerance, Intolerance
and Respect
Hard to Accept?
Editedby
Jan Dobbernack
UniversityofLincoln,UK
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Tariq Modood
UniversityofBristol,UK
Afterwordby
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Contents
ListofTables vii
NotesonContributors viii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction–TheAcceptanceofCulturalDiversityinEurope:
TheoreticalPerspectivesandContemporaryDevelopments 1
JanDobbernackandTariqModood
Part I BeyondToleration?
1 MoralMinimalismandMoreDemandingMoralities:Some
Reflectionson‘Tolerance/Toleration’ 23
VeitBader
2 StateToleration,ReligiousRecognitionandEquality 52
SuneLægaard
3 TolerationandNon-Domination 77
IseultHonohan
Part II ANewIntolerance
4 TheLogicsofToleration:OutlineforaComparative
ApproachtotheStudyofTolerance 103
WernerSchiffauer
5 LiberalismandtheDiminishingSpaceofTolerance 127
PerMouritsenandToreVincentsOlsen
Part III ChallengesofNewCulturalDiversity
6 NationalIdentityandDiversity:TowardsPluralNationalism 159
AnnaTriandafyllidou
7 AcceptingMultipleDifferences:TheChallenge
ofDoubleAccommodation 186
TariqModoodandJanDobbernack
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vi Contents
Conclusion 208
JanDobbernackandTariqModood
Afterword:ReligiousToleranceinaComparativePerspective 222
BhikhuParekh
Index 245
Tables
3.1 Modesofacceptanceandrelationalstatus 79
4.1 Theboundariesoftolerance 112
7.1 Four‘modesofdifference’ 188
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Contributors
VeitBaderisEmeritusProfessorofSociologyandofSocialandPolitical
Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He has written on a wide
rangeofissuesincriticalsocialtheory,includingsocialinequalitiesand
collectiveaction;democracyandtheruleoflaw(particularlyintheEU);
racism,ethnicityandcitizenship;ethicsofmigrationandincorporation
of minorities; global justice; and governance of religious diversity. His
mostrecentbookisDemocracyorSecularism?AssociationalGovernanceof
ReligiousDiversity(2007).
JanDobbernackisaresearchfellowattheCentrefortheStudyofEth-
nicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol, and Lecturer in Politics at
the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln. He
is interested in comparative and critical perspectives on the politics of
ethnicminorityaccommodation,interpretivepolicyanalysisandsocial
theory.
IseultHonohanisaseniorlecturerintheSchoolofPoliticsandInterna-
tionalRelations,UniversityCollegeDublin.Herresearchinterestsliein
normative political theory, with a focus on republican theory, both its
foundationsanditsapplicationtoareasincludingcitizenship,immigra-
tion and diversity. Her publications include Civic Republicanism (2002);
‘Friends, Strangers or Countrymen? The Ties between Citizens as Col-
leagues’, in Political Studies (2001); and ‘Reconsidering the Claim to
FamilyReunificationinMigration’,inPoliticalStudies(2009).
Sune Lægaard is Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy in the
DepartmentofCultureandIdentityatRoskildeUniversityinDenmark.
His research includes work on toleration, politics of recognition, free
speech,immigrationandsecularism.HeisalsoeditorofthejournalRes
Publica.
Tariq Modood is Founding Director of the University of Bristol’s
ResearchCentrefortheStudyofEthnicityandCitizenship.Hehasheld
over 40 grants and consultancies (in the United Kingdom, Europe and
UnitedStates),hasover30co-authoredandco-editedbooksandreports
viii
NotesonContributors ix
and over 150 articles or chapters in political philosophy, sociology
and public policy. Recent publications include Multiculturalism: A Civic
Idea (2013) and Still Not Easy Being British: Struggles for a Multicultural
Citizenship(2010).
Per Mouritsen is Professor of Political Theory and Citizenship Studies
in the Political Science Department, Aarhus University, where he was
previouslyDirectoroftheCentreforJournalismStudies.Hehaspartici-
patedinordirectedmanyDanishandEuropeanresearchprojectswithin
politicaltheory,migrationstudiesandjournalism.Heiscurrentlywork-
ing on a book on citizenship and a comparative project on the civic
integrationistturninNorth-WesternEurope.
Tore Vincents Olsen is Associate Professor in Political Theory in
the Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University.
He has worked on issues concerning the legitimacy of the EU, the
Europeanization of national political institutions, anti-discrimination
legislation in Europe and the relation between political culture and
immigrant inclusion. He has recently published ‘The Political Consti-
tutionoftheEUCitizenRightsRegime’,intheJournalofEuropeanPublic
Policy,18(1):2011.
Lord Professor Bhikhu ParekhisaFellowoftheBritishAcademyand
the author of numerous books in political theory including Rethinking
Multiculturalism:CulturalDiversityandPoliticalTheory(2000)andANew
Politics of Identity: Political Principles for an Interdependent World (2008).
He was Chair of the Runnymede Commission on the Future of Multi-
Ethnic Britain (1998–2000), whose report was published in 2000, the
yearinwhichhebecameaLabourmemberoftheHouseofLords.Heis
a former President of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK), and among
his many international honours he has received the Sir Isaiah Berlin
PrizeforlifetimecontributiontopoliticalphilosophyfromthePolitical
StudiesAssociation(2002).
Werner Schiffauer is Professor for Comparative Social and Cultural
Anthropology at the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder. He
has worked on the transformation of rural and urban Turkey, on
labour migration, on the organization of diversity in European soci-
eties and recently on Islam in Europe. His most recent book is Nach
demIslamismus.DieIslamischeGemeinschaftMilliGörüs¸.EineEthnographie
(2010).