The Ambivalence of Postcolonial Mauritius
Policy versus practice in education: A reading of official and popular multiculturalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12340398 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Naseem L Aumeerally (University of Mauritius, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 307-323 |
| Publication date | 2005-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Cultural Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1028-6632 • E-ISSN: 1477-2833 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1028663042000312543 |
| OpenAlex | W1486469933 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 7 |
At the independence of Mauritius, multiculturalism policy, as part of the decolonisation agenda of “Mauritianisation”, was instituted in education. The official English language, through the curriculum, was buttressed to police the population according to the moral standards of multiculturalism. In this article, popular culture as manifested through ethnographic research into students’ negotiations of official multiculturalism implemented through school textbooks, will be shown to flout policy. It will be demonstrated that resistive cultural practices of Mauritian students, embodied by vernacular Creole, contest the cultural essentialism promoted by the government. Creole language, in particular, and various in‐between cultural experiences articulate the hybrid, diasporic and global dimensions of the lives of ordinary postcolonial Mauritians
Creole language · Governmentality · Media studies · Multiculturalism · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vernacular · Anthropology · Economic Zones and Regional Development · Gender Studies · Law · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Multilingual Education and Policy
Women of African Islands
Switching or selecting
Social policies, risks and vulnerabilities
The Role of Language Contact in the Development of Three Mauritian Pragmatic Markers
Fieldwork on Law
The dynamics of language and ethnicity in Mauritius
Intergroup evaluations, group indispensability and prototypicality judgments
Understandings of national identity and outgroup attitudes in culturally diverse Mauritius
Multiculturalism, Mauritian Style
| Citations per year | 0.45 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |