Geoffrey Brahm Levey
Biographic Data
| ID | 195955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Brahm Levey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey Brahm |
| FAMILY NAME | Levey |
| SIGNATURE | LEVEY G B |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5803-5658 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Multiculturalism, immigration, and Home
Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture
Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition between minorities and the majority central to multiculturalism. This article finds the recent majority …
Bhikhu Parekh, multiculturality, and the public culture
How not to think about the state and religious recognition
The Bristol school of multiculturalism
Tariq Modood, Bhikhu Parekh, Nasar Meer and Varun Uberoi are well known for their defence of multiculturalism in Britain and beyond. The article contends that the collective oeuvre of these and other scholars associated with the University of Bristol’s Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship represents a distinctive and important school of multicultural political thought, a ‘Bristol school of multiculturalism’. The school challenges the…
Differentiating Multiculturalisms: A Rejoinder
The Turnbull government’s ‘Post-multiculturalism’ multicultural policy
The Turnbull government presented Australia’s fifth national multicultural policy statement in March 2017. This article analyses the policy statement and argues that it represents the most significant change to Australian multicultural policy in four decades. Among other things, it abandons the language of government responsiveness to cultural diversity that previously defined Australian multiculturalism. The 2017 policy amounts to a new form of …
Multiculturalism on the Move: An Australian Perspective
This chapter assesses the extent to which temporary migrants are ill-served by Australian multiculturalism and the ramifications of temporary migration for Australia’s successful multicultural society. To this end, it pursues three questions: 1) Is multicultural policy accessible to temporary residents even if it is not intended for them?; 2) How are the difficulties temporary residents face linked to multicultural policy?; and 3) What is the bes…
Multicultural immunisation: Liberalism and Esposito
Liberal nationalism and the Australian citizenship tests
Scholars have debated whether citizenship regimes in Western democracies are tracking a liberal universalistic path or continue to follow distinctive national traditions. This essay argues that the Australian case does both through a distinctive liberal nationalist architecture. Increasingly since the 1970s, Australian citizenship acquisition and status have largely followed a civic nationalist or liberal universalist formulation. However, this h…
Thinking about infant male circumcision after the Cologne court decision
The Cologne regional court’s decision of 26 June 2012 criminalizing circumcisions performed on boys for non-therapeutic reasons sparked extraordinary public controversy in Germany and around the world. Though the German parliament recently responded to that decision by passing a law allowing infant male circumcision for religious reasons when performed by a trained practitioner, the Cologne court decision is instructive for thinking about the iss…
Interculturalism vs. Multiculturalism: A Distinction without a Difference
Political theory and Australian multiculturalism
The Muhammad cartoons and multicultural democracies
The Danish cartoon affair presents a vehicle for rethinking some of our longstanding assumptions about liberal democracy and its capacity to accommodate cultural difference. The public and academic debates have tended to frame the affair as either a clash between liberal-democratic and illiberal religious values or as a question of whose position is most consistent with liberal-democratic values. We begin, instead, from the assumption that libera…
Beyond Durkheim: A Comment on Steven Lukes's ‘Liberal Democratic Torture
In a recent article, Steven Lukes offers a thought-provoking reflection on the apparently growing resort to torture by liberal democracies today. Professor Lukes aptly asks whether ‘torture is just another case of dirty hands in politics?’ – that is, the idea that in order to do the right thing or achieve the best public outcome in the circumstances one cannot avoid committing a wrong, such as deceit or cruelty. His answer is that torture differs…
Symbolic recognition, multicultural citizens, and acknowledgement: Negotiating the Christmas Wars
In recent times, December has come to mark a new tradition—an annual public debate over the degree to which Christmas should be publicly recognised and celebrated in a multicultural society. Curiously, political theorists of multiculturalism have had little to say on this controversy. In this article, I argue that there is a genuine issue at stake in the so-called 'December dilemma', but that the public debate—which construes the matter in terms …
Jews and Australian Politics
The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom
The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom. By Chandran Kukathas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 304p. $45.00. For over a decade, Chandran Kukathas has been a distinctive voice in the debate in political theory over what liberalism mandates with respect to multiculturalism and the political accommodation of cultural diversity. Many contemporary liberals defend cultural rights for cultural minorities while insisting that th…
When Did the Liberalism of American Jews Emerge
The liberalism of American Jews is typically traced to one of three contexts: the political realignment of the 1930s and Roosevelt's New Deal; political ideas in western Europe that Jewish immigrants brought with them in the early to mid—nineteenth century, which were then ‘triggered’ in the 1930s; or the socialist and communitarian subculture of the eastern European Jewish immigrants in the decades leading up to the New Deal. This article challe…
Liberal Nationalism and Cultural Rights
Liberal nationalists such as Yael Tamir and Will Kymlicka have argued for an extravagant range of cultural rights based on respect for individual autonomy. I present an alternative account of the moral import of liberal autonomy for the status of cultural minorities. The article examines three pivotal aspects of Tamir's argument for cultural rights and argues that, in each case, Tamir's position fails to honour the value of individual autonomy, a…
Equality, Autonomy, and Cultural Rights
Soulevant le probleme de la definition des groupes culturels et des droits culturels au sein de la theorie politique liberale, l'A. critique l'analyse de W. Kymlicka fondee sur le critere de l'egalite et des desavantages culturels et sur le lien entre autonomie, identite et appartenance culturelle. Examinant la distinction entre droits individuels et droits collectifs, l'A. redefinit la relation entre la valeur de l'autonomie et les droits cultur…
Theory Choice and the Comparison of Rival Theoretical Perspectives in Political Sociology
A standard problem in empirical inquiry is how to adjudicate between contending theories when they work from different fundamental assumptions. In the field of political sociology, several strategies are adopted, from metatheoretical and comparative historical approaches to the recent formal models of scientific growth proposed by Imre Lakatos and Larry Laudan. After considering the limitations of these approaches, I develop an alternative strate…
The Liberalism of American Jews – Has It Been Explained
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Judaism and the Obligation to Die for the State
Dying in the state′s behalf, and at its request, is a matter that one might expect to be of obvious concern to the Jews throughout their history. Twice in bygone eras (roughly, 1000–586 B.C.E. and 140–63 B.C.E.) they have been ensconced in their own sovereign land faced with preserving that sovereignty against hostile neighbors and ambitious empires. Elsewhere, in the diaspora, they have been forced to define their relations and responsibilities …
The Bristol school of multiculturalism
Tariq Modood, Bhikhu Parekh, Nasar Meer and Varun Uberoi are well known for their defence of multiculturalism in Britain and beyond. The article contends that the collective oeuvre of these and other scholars associated with the University of Bristol’s Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship represents a distinctive and important school of multicultural political thought, a ‘Bristol school of multiculturalism’. The school challenges the…
Interculturalism vs. Multiculturalism: A Distinction without a Difference
Equality, Autonomy, and Cultural Rights
Soulevant le probleme de la definition des groupes culturels et des droits culturels au sein de la theorie politique liberale, l'A. critique l'analyse de W. Kymlicka fondee sur le critere de l'egalite et des desavantages culturels et sur le lien entre autonomie, identite et appartenance culturelle. Examinant la distinction entre droits individuels et droits collectifs, l'A. redefinit la relation entre la valeur de l'autonomie et les droits cultur…
The Muhammad cartoons and multicultural democracies
The Danish cartoon affair presents a vehicle for rethinking some of our longstanding assumptions about liberal democracy and its capacity to accommodate cultural difference. The public and academic debates have tended to frame the affair as either a clash between liberal-democratic and illiberal religious values or as a question of whose position is most consistent with liberal-democratic values. We begin, instead, from the assumption that libera…
Symbolic recognition, multicultural citizens, and acknowledgement: Negotiating the Christmas Wars
In recent times, December has come to mark a new tradition—an annual public debate over the degree to which Christmas should be publicly recognised and celebrated in a multicultural society. Curiously, political theorists of multiculturalism have had little to say on this controversy. In this article, I argue that there is a genuine issue at stake in the so-called 'December dilemma', but that the public debate—which construes the matter in terms …
The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom
The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom. By Chandran Kukathas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 304p. $45.00. For over a decade, Chandran Kukathas has been a distinctive voice in the debate in political theory over what liberalism mandates with respect to multiculturalism and the political accommodation of cultural diversity. Many contemporary liberals defend cultural rights for cultural minorities while insisting that th…
Liberal nationalism and the Australian citizenship tests
Scholars have debated whether citizenship regimes in Western democracies are tracking a liberal universalistic path or continue to follow distinctive national traditions. This essay argues that the Australian case does both through a distinctive liberal nationalist architecture. Increasingly since the 1970s, Australian citizenship acquisition and status have largely followed a civic nationalist or liberal universalist formulation. However, this h…
The Liberalism of American Jews – Has It Been Explained
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Turnbull government’s ‘Post-multiculturalism’ multicultural policy
The Turnbull government presented Australia’s fifth national multicultural policy statement in March 2017. This article analyses the policy statement and argues that it represents the most significant change to Australian multicultural policy in four decades. Among other things, it abandons the language of government responsiveness to cultural diversity that previously defined Australian multiculturalism. The 2017 policy amounts to a new form of …
Beyond Durkheim: A Comment on Steven Lukes's ‘Liberal Democratic Torture
In a recent article, Steven Lukes offers a thought-provoking reflection on the apparently growing resort to torture by liberal democracies today. Professor Lukes aptly asks whether ‘torture is just another case of dirty hands in politics?’ – that is, the idea that in order to do the right thing or achieve the best public outcome in the circumstances one cannot avoid committing a wrong, such as deceit or cruelty. His answer is that torture differs…
Liberal Nationalism and Cultural Rights
Liberal nationalists such as Yael Tamir and Will Kymlicka have argued for an extravagant range of cultural rights based on respect for individual autonomy. I present an alternative account of the moral import of liberal autonomy for the status of cultural minorities. The article examines three pivotal aspects of Tamir's argument for cultural rights and argues that, in each case, Tamir's position fails to honour the value of individual autonomy, a…
Theory Choice and the Comparison of Rival Theoretical Perspectives in Political Sociology
A standard problem in empirical inquiry is how to adjudicate between contending theories when they work from different fundamental assumptions. In the field of political sociology, several strategies are adopted, from metatheoretical and comparative historical approaches to the recent formal models of scientific growth proposed by Imre Lakatos and Larry Laudan. After considering the limitations of these approaches, I develop an alternative strate…
Differentiating Multiculturalisms: A Rejoinder
Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture
Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition between minorities and the majority central to multiculturalism. This article finds the recent majority …
Thinking about infant male circumcision after the Cologne court decision
The Cologne regional court’s decision of 26 June 2012 criminalizing circumcisions performed on boys for non-therapeutic reasons sparked extraordinary public controversy in Germany and around the world. Though the German parliament recently responded to that decision by passing a law allowing infant male circumcision for religious reasons when performed by a trained practitioner, the Cologne court decision is instructive for thinking about the iss…
Judaism and the Obligation to Die for the State
Dying in the state′s behalf, and at its request, is a matter that one might expect to be of obvious concern to the Jews throughout their history. Twice in bygone eras (roughly, 1000–586 B.C.E. and 140–63 B.C.E.) they have been ensconced in their own sovereign land faced with preserving that sovereignty against hostile neighbors and ambitious empires. Elsewhere, in the diaspora, they have been forced to define their relations and responsibilities …
Judaism and the Obligation to Die for the State
Dying in the state′s behalf, and at its request, is a matter that one might expect to be of obvious concern to the Jews throughout their history. Twice in bygone eras (roughly, 1000–586 B.C.E. and 140–63 B.C.E.) they have been ensconced in their own sovereign land faced with preserving that sovereignty against hostile neighbors and ambitious empires. Elsewhere, in the diaspora, they have been forced to define their relations and responsibilities …
Theory Choice and the Comparison of Rival Theoretical Perspectives in Political Sociology
A standard problem in empirical inquiry is how to adjudicate between contending theories when they work from different fundamental assumptions. In the field of political sociology, several strategies are adopted, from metatheoretical and comparative historical approaches to the recent formal models of scientific growth proposed by Imre Lakatos and Larry Laudan. After considering the limitations of these approaches, I develop an alternative strate…
The Liberalism of American Jews – Has It Been Explained
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Equality, Autonomy, and Cultural Rights
Soulevant le probleme de la definition des groupes culturels et des droits culturels au sein de la theorie politique liberale, l'A. critique l'analyse de W. Kymlicka fondee sur le critere de l'egalite et des desavantages culturels et sur le lien entre autonomie, identite et appartenance culturelle. Examinant la distinction entre droits individuels et droits collectifs, l'A. redefinit la relation entre la valeur de l'autonomie et les droits cultur…
When Did the Liberalism of American Jews Emerge
The liberalism of American Jews is typically traced to one of three contexts: the political realignment of the 1930s and Roosevelt's New Deal; political ideas in western Europe that Jewish immigrants brought with them in the early to mid—nineteenth century, which were then ‘triggered’ in the 1930s; or the socialist and communitarian subculture of the eastern European Jewish immigrants in the decades leading up to the New Deal. This article challe…
Liberal Nationalism and Cultural Rights
Liberal nationalists such as Yael Tamir and Will Kymlicka have argued for an extravagant range of cultural rights based on respect for individual autonomy. I present an alternative account of the moral import of liberal autonomy for the status of cultural minorities. The article examines three pivotal aspects of Tamir's argument for cultural rights and argues that, in each case, Tamir's position fails to honour the value of individual autonomy, a…
Jews and Australian Politics
The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom
The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom. By Chandran Kukathas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 304p. $45.00. For over a decade, Chandran Kukathas has been a distinctive voice in the debate in political theory over what liberalism mandates with respect to multiculturalism and the political accommodation of cultural diversity. Many contemporary liberals defend cultural rights for cultural minorities while insisting that th…
Symbolic recognition, multicultural citizens, and acknowledgement: Negotiating the Christmas Wars
In recent times, December has come to mark a new tradition—an annual public debate over the degree to which Christmas should be publicly recognised and celebrated in a multicultural society. Curiously, political theorists of multiculturalism have had little to say on this controversy. In this article, I argue that there is a genuine issue at stake in the so-called 'December dilemma', but that the public debate—which construes the matter in terms …
Beyond Durkheim: A Comment on Steven Lukes's ‘Liberal Democratic Torture
In a recent article, Steven Lukes offers a thought-provoking reflection on the apparently growing resort to torture by liberal democracies today. Professor Lukes aptly asks whether ‘torture is just another case of dirty hands in politics?’ – that is, the idea that in order to do the right thing or achieve the best public outcome in the circumstances one cannot avoid committing a wrong, such as deceit or cruelty. His answer is that torture differs…
The Muhammad cartoons and multicultural democracies
The Danish cartoon affair presents a vehicle for rethinking some of our longstanding assumptions about liberal democracy and its capacity to accommodate cultural difference. The public and academic debates have tended to frame the affair as either a clash between liberal-democratic and illiberal religious values or as a question of whose position is most consistent with liberal-democratic values. We begin, instead, from the assumption that libera…
Interculturalism vs. Multiculturalism: A Distinction without a Difference
Political theory and Australian multiculturalism
Thinking about infant male circumcision after the Cologne court decision
The Cologne regional court’s decision of 26 June 2012 criminalizing circumcisions performed on boys for non-therapeutic reasons sparked extraordinary public controversy in Germany and around the world. Though the German parliament recently responded to that decision by passing a law allowing infant male circumcision for religious reasons when performed by a trained practitioner, the Cologne court decision is instructive for thinking about the iss…
Liberal nationalism and the Australian citizenship tests
Scholars have debated whether citizenship regimes in Western democracies are tracking a liberal universalistic path or continue to follow distinctive national traditions. This essay argues that the Australian case does both through a distinctive liberal nationalist architecture. Increasingly since the 1970s, Australian citizenship acquisition and status have largely followed a civic nationalist or liberal universalist formulation. However, this h…
Multicultural immunisation: Liberalism and Esposito
Multiculturalism on the Move: An Australian Perspective
This chapter assesses the extent to which temporary migrants are ill-served by Australian multiculturalism and the ramifications of temporary migration for Australia’s successful multicultural society. To this end, it pursues three questions: 1) Is multicultural policy accessible to temporary residents even if it is not intended for them?; 2) How are the difficulties temporary residents face linked to multicultural policy?; and 3) What is the bes…
The Bristol school of multiculturalism
Tariq Modood, Bhikhu Parekh, Nasar Meer and Varun Uberoi are well known for their defence of multiculturalism in Britain and beyond. The article contends that the collective oeuvre of these and other scholars associated with the University of Bristol’s Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship represents a distinctive and important school of multicultural political thought, a ‘Bristol school of multiculturalism’. The school challenges the…
Differentiating Multiculturalisms: A Rejoinder
The Turnbull government’s ‘Post-multiculturalism’ multicultural policy
The Turnbull government presented Australia’s fifth national multicultural policy statement in March 2017. This article analyses the policy statement and argues that it represents the most significant change to Australian multicultural policy in four decades. Among other things, it abandons the language of government responsiveness to cultural diversity that previously defined Australian multiculturalism. The 2017 policy amounts to a new form of …
How not to think about the state and religious recognition
Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture
Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition between minorities and the majority central to multiculturalism. This article finds the recent majority …
Bhikhu Parekh, multiculturality, and the public culture
Multiculturalism, immigration, and Home
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Multiculturalism (10 works) · Liberalism (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Citizenship (5 works)