Multiculturalism Bites - Audio

Jul 07 2011 15
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Multiculturalism is one of the most vexing political issues of our day. How can people with very different values and customs live alongside each other? What is the history of multiculturalism? What are the arguments for and against its various forms? Has it failed? Does it have a future? The Open University's Nigel Warburton interviews ten leading thinkers about the meaning and implications of multiculturalism. David Edmonds introduces each episode.

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Tariq Modood on The History of Multiculturalism

Jul 07 2011 20 mins  
In this interview Tariq Modood traces the history of the idea from US civil rights movements in the 1950s and 60s via Canada to present day Europe.

Chandran Kukathas on Varieties of Multiculturalism

Jul 07 2011 17 mins  
Chandran Kukathas analyses the varieties of multiculturalism and the implications of a rigorous liberalism.

Martha Nussbaum on Disgust

Jul 07 2011 14 mins  
Martha Nussbaum argues that disgust plays to large a role in many people's assessment of those from whom they differ.

Clare Chambers on Justifying Intervention

Jul 07 2011 19 mins  
Can a liberal ever intervene in another person's way of living? Clare Chambers argues that in some circumstances intervention is appropriate.

Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism and Liberalism

Jul 07 2011 19 mins  
Anne Phillips explores some of the challenges that multiculturalism provides for liberals and in the process questions some assumptions about the nature of culture.

David Miller on the Welfare State and Multiculturalism

Jul 07 2011 18 mins  
David Miller explains how these two institutions can be perceived as incompatible.

Alan Haworth on Free Speech and Multiculturalism

Jul 07 2011 15 mins  
Alan Howarth explores questions of offence and the value of being able to express dissenting or potentially offensive views.

John Horton on Political Obligation and Multiculturalism

Jul 07 2011 17 mins  
Should members of a minority be obliged to respect the laws imposed by a majority? John Horton discusses this difficult question.

Susan Mendus on Toleration

Jul 07 2011 20 mins  
The concept of toleration has a long history; Sue Mendus shows how present day debate is informed by 17th Century discussions.

Nancy Fraser on Recognition and Multiculturalism

Jul 07 2011 18 mins  
Recognition and respect are key ideas when it comes to achieving political equality. They are, Nancy Fraser argues, central to the debates surrounding multiculturalism.