The ‘Parekh Report’ – National identities without nations and nationalism

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ID6256563
AuthorsVarun Uberoi (0000-0002-1396-3135, Department of Politics, History and Brunel School of Law, Brunel University, London, UK, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume15
Issue4
Pages509-526
Publication date2015-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnicities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-7968 • E-ISSN: 1741-2706
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1468796815577706
OpenAlexW2083260003
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited50

Multiculturalists’ often advocate national identities. Yet few study the ways in which ‘multiculturalists’ do so and in this article I will help to fill this gap. I will show that the Commission for Multi-Ethnic Britain's report reflects a previously unnoticed way of thinking about the nature and worth of national identities that the Commission's chair, and prominent political theorist, Bhikhu Parekh, had been developing since the 1970s. This way of thinking will be shown to avoid the questionable ways in which conservative and liberal nationalists discuss the nature and worth of national identities while offering an alternative way to do so. I will thus show that a report that was once criticised for the way it discussed national identities reflects how ‘multiculturalists’ think about national identities in a distinct and valuable way that has gone unrecognised

Commission · Ethnic group · National Identities · National identity · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Religious Education and Schools

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