Deliberative multiculturalism in New Labour's Britain
- Authors
- Kim, Nam-Kook
- Issue Date
- 2011
- Publisher
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Keywords
- New Labour; deliberative multiculturalism; cultural rights; individual equality; national borders
- Citation
- CITIZENSHIP STUDIES, v.15, no.1, pp.125 - 144
- Indexed
- SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- CITIZENSHIP STUDIES
- Volume
- 15
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 125
- End Page
- 144
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/114910
- DOI
- 10.1080/13621025.2010.534938
- ISSN
- 1362-1025
- Abstract
- The aim of this paper is to examine the principles that New Labour has employed in its citizenship and multicultural policies in Britain, and to clarify theoretical locations as well as philosophical rationales of those principles. By deliberative multiculturalism, I mean a set of policies and discourses of New Labour about citizenship and multicultural issues, which emphasizes rational dialogue and mutual respect with firmly guaranteed political rights especially for minorities. New Labour tries to go beyond liberal and republican citizenship practice through enhancing deliberation, the origin of which goes back to the British tradition of parliamentary sovereignty. It also attempts to achieve a one-nation out of cultural cleavages, shifting its focus from redistribution with social rights to multicultural deliberation with political rights. I organize my discussion with a focus on the difference between two theoretical concepts: the relationship between cultural rights and individual equality, and the relationship between national boundaries and global belonging. In the concluding section, I explain three positive developments of New Labour's approach and also four limitations it has faced.
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