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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Twenty-five years and counting, since Will Kymlicka's first book-length intervention in 1989,1 statements championing the politics of recognition and/or difference have emerged along with statements challenging the liberal accommodation of minority cultures.2 Falling under the broad description of multiculturalism, this genre of literature has gained traction in the mainstream and beyond. Today at least three specialized areas of research have been developed sometimes in opposition to and sometimes overlapping with liberal multiculturalism: feminist criticisms of multiculturalism,3 multiculturalism as antiracism, 4 and multiculturalism in Asia.5 Taking cue from, but not delimiting to, the last and burgeoning strand of multiculturalism, this special issue seeks to draw particular attention to three interrelated phenomena of ethnicities, governance, and human rights in Asia. Although these three topics have often been discussed in political science and sociology journals, rarely have they been examined in one setting. Moreover, these three issues tend to be subsumed under the broad descriptions of post-colonialism, nationalism, state-building, and development; they are largely incorporated into monograms on justice, democracy, rights, the state, culture, and equality. That is, despite their importance, the three themes have not been brought together.
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