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The Political Uses of Cultural Diversity
Katherine Smits
2026
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This book examines how states deploy cultural recognition and inclusion policies to build modernized national identities in diverse societies but reveals they also pay other useful dividends for governments. It focuses on three pluralist postcolonial settler states in the cases of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, all of which are characterized by cultural pluralism stemming from colonial history and the presence of Indigenous peoples, and diverse migration. Analysing policy and political discourse, it reveals that official cultural recognition plays a key role in building and reinforcing national identity but that the social cohesion and community it brings domestically is matched by signalling a nation-state’s modernized status as postcolonial and post-racist to the global economy. The book also explores the ways in which religious diversity poses particular challenges to these strategies of ethno-cultural recognition and appropriation. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political science, comparative politics, public policy, political theory, political sociology and political anthropology.
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Keywords
- Canada Model
- Cultural Community in New Zealand
- Cultural Diversity
- Ethnocultural Recognition
- Indigeneity and National Identity
- Multiculturalism
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPP Public administration
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy
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DOI: 10.4324/9781032719528Editions