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FROM HOMOGENEITY TO DIFFERENCE? COMPARING MULTICULTURALISM AS A DESCRIPTION AND A FIELD FOR CLAIM-MAKING

Multicultural Challenge

ISBN: 978-0-76231-064-7, eISBN: 978-1-84950-243-6

Publication date: 29 October 2003

Abstract

In 1983, in typically Parisian manner, J. F. Lyotard claimed that redistributive conflict had gone out of fashion, with the focus of postmodern conflict revolving increasingly less around issues of resource allocation. Contemporary societies were having to deal with le différend, with horizontal conflicts rooted in heterogeneous languages, instances, and rules. The concern and claims of one group could not be understood within the languages of the other (Belohradski, 1990; Lyotard, 1983).

Citation

Sciortino, G. (2003), "FROM HOMOGENEITY TO DIFFERENCE? COMPARING MULTICULTURALISM AS A DESCRIPTION AND A FIELD FOR CLAIM-MAKING", Brochmann, G. (Ed.) Multicultural Challenge (Comparative Social Research, Vol. 22), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 263-285. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0195-6310(03)22010-X

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