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Universities and colleges like to self-idealize as relatively
neutral and value-free sites of higher learning. In reality, the
idea of the Westernized academy is deeply embedded in a Eurocentric
logic that not only excludes alternative forms of knowledge and
knowing, but also remains racialized, gendered, and sited in
coloniality with respect to governance, scholarship, and
entitlements. Efforts to address this gap between the ideal and
reality have tended toward diversifying the academy through
multicultural initiatives in diversity, inclusion, and equity.
However helpful as a first step, these interventions are
insufficient in generating the kind of substantive changes that
would abort the academy's crisis of legitimacy. Moves to
decolonize, ungender, and deracialize the academy will require a
commitment to the transformative principles of inclusivity,
including a focus on those root causes associated with structural
barriers and systemic biases. It remains to be seen if the academia
can rise to the challenge of deEurocentrizing the idea of the
academy along postEurocentric lines, while engaging the emergent
demands and evolving realities of a postmulticultural world.
Postmulticulturalism: Realities, Discourses, Practices looks to
analyze and assess the current salience and future prospects of
Canada's official multiculturalism by recasting the understanding
of its past, present, and future through the prism of a
postmulticulturalism lens. This book begins with the observation of
a messy postmulticultural world of transnationality,
cosmopolitanism, postethnicity, and multiversality, rather than an
ordered multicultural world of homogeneity, centrality, and
clarity. However durable and popular as a diversity governance
model, Canada's official multiculturalism is no longer
theoretically attuned to the realities and demands of this rapidly
changing, deeply networked, and diversely complex era. In what is
arguably the first book on postmulticulturalism as diversity
governance, Postmulticulturalism proposes a new governance mindset
that conceptually engages the principles and dynamics of a
postmulticultural world as a discursive framework for living
together with/in/through a complexity of differences. This book
also contends that any move beyond multiculturalism as diversity
governance is not about rejection or retreat, but more accurately
it's about building on its positives while moving positively
forward in ways theoretically aligned to 21st-century challenges.
Citizenship in a Transnational Canada offers a distinct look at the
prospect of rethinking citizenship in a contested world of shifting
narratives, evolving models, ongoing challenges, and future
possibilities. The book's central theme embodies a critical
awareness that we no longer live in a national citizenship world
but rather in one reorganized around the emergent realities,
discourses, and practices of a postcitizenship world that is
reshaping how we think, talk, and do citizenship. A new vocabulary
is thus required for thinking, talking, and doing citizenship if
there is any hope of formulating a narrative consistent with a
world of posts, trans, and isms. The book is also premised on the
assumption that the citizenship concept is experiencing an identity
crisis ("what it is?") and a crisis of confidence ("what should it
be doing?") in an increasingly diverse, changing, and complex
world, disenchanted with the certainties of the past although
unsure of what lies in store. New citizenship narratives and
practices are emerging that not only challenge the conventional
citizenship model of a single nation-state within a territorially
bounded framework but also capitalize on the complexities of
transmigrant identities across a networked web of transnational
linkages, postnational realities, and a postmulticultural world of
diverse-diversities. No less salient are the postcolonial politics
that accompany the politicization of Indigenous peoples'
citizenship arrangements commensurate with their constitutional
status as "the (de facto) sovereigns within." The paradoxes and
possibilities that accompany the conceptual makeover of national
citizenship regimes along "postcitizenship" lines are explored as
well across the settler domains of Canada and (to a lesser extent)
the United States, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Australia.
The period 1995 to 2004 was the UN's International Decade of World
Indigenous Peoples. This reflected the increasing organization of
indigenous peoples around a commonality of concerns, needs and
ambitions. In both New Zealand and Canada, these politics challenge
the colonial structures that social and political systems are built
upon. Both countries have accomplished much in their management of
indigenous issues. New Zealand has begun to right historical wrongs
through treaty settlements and to implement bicultural strategies.
Canada is experimenting with self-government for aboriginal
peoples. Yet there are still many issues to be addressed, with
recent statistics showing indigenous peoples in both these
countries struggling to balance functioning in everyday life with
preserving their cultures. By focusing on the present within the
context of the past and future, The Politics of Indigeneity casts
light on the constitutional politics in both countries that are
redefining the relation
Beyond the romanticized image of newcomers arriving as a "huddled
mass" at Halifax's Pier 21, understanding the reality and
complexity of immigration today requires an expert guide. In this
book, the intricacies of immigration get the attention they deserve
with analysis of all aspects, including admission policies, the
refugee processing system, the temporary foreign worker program,
and the emergence of transnational identities. Given the
unprecedented number of federal policy reforms of the past decade,
such a roadmap is essential. By thoroughly capturing the politics,
patterns, and paradoxes of contemporary migration, Immigration
Canada rethinks the thorny issues and reframes the key debates.
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