A Community of Communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20086010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jim Mcguigan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 179-190 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Politics of Heritage (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203339978-23 |
| OpenAlex | W3006033229 |
| ISBN | 9780203339978 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The Parekh Report, The Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain (Runnymede Trust 2000) was not well received on publication in October 2000. It was read as an attack on Britishness and as an expression of the New Labour government’s political correctness, although the then Home Secretary, Jack Straw, managed simultaneously to launch the report publicly and distance himself from what he mistakenly construed to be its key argument. In this chapter I shall consider the reception of the Parekh Report as mediated by the national press in Britain and provide my own exegesis of it. Then, I will compare Labour peer Bhikhu Parekh’s thinking on multiculturalism with that of Samuel Huntington, theAmerican policy expert and erstwhile advisor to the Democrats on international relations. It is important to appreciate that the Parekh Report is not only of national but also of global significance, especially so in such a period of martial tension across the world. When considering the politics of heritage in Britain it is necessary to situate particular issues-to do with, for instance, museum policies, public symbols and broader negotiations of identity within the nation-state formation-in relation to these extended theoretical arguments and cross-national debates concerning past and present-day cultural configurations
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2011 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |