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Multiculturalism
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Official government policy for 25 years, multiculturalism is now becoming one of the dirty words of national politics. Why has a policy that was for so long lauded as a template for the success of modern Britain been so apparently devalued? Embroiled in arguments over national cohesion, integration and participation, the debate raises key questions about how we wish society to operate and structure itself. Does multiculturalism reinforce racial segregation by emphasising difference over shared values, or do its policies reflect a progressive society that recognises that all cultures are imperfect? Counterpoint analyses public and institutional commitment to the values of diversity and tolerance to ask: is multiculturalism dead or simply ill-defined?
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Projects
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Publications
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Glass Houses
Author: Rughani, Pratap dir.
Part of the Keeping in touch project, this DVD forms a series of interviews with journalists from outside the UK, giving us the unique opportunity to look at Britain from the outside, through 17 pairs of eyes.
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Pausing to Reflect: on Europe's culture wars
Author: Bechler, Rosemary ed.
A collection of articles from around the world, which reflect on and provide an important snapshot of multiculturalism in Europe in 2006.
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Britain & Ireland: Lives Entwined II
Author: British Council Ireland
Essays on contemporary British-Irish relations, with views from the USA with a preface written by Mary McAleese, President of Ireland.
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A Sense of Place: migrating memories
Author: Wadham-Smith, Nick
Perspectives on movement and memory from the arts, science and psychotherapy.
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No Ordinary Life: Being Young in the Worlds of Islam
Author: Arbabzadah, Nushin, ed
When war broke out in the Middle East in March 2003, Counterpoint established an online community of young writers from around the world who kept diaries for a year. This book is an anthology of their writing.
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