Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism

Solidarity in diverse societies: beyond neoliberal multiculturalism and welfare chauvinism

In the postwar period, projects of social justice have often drawn upon ideas of national solidarity, calling upon shared national identities to mobilize support for the welfare state. Several commentators have argued that increasing immigration, and the multiculturalism policies it often gives rise to, weaken this sense of national solidarity. This creates a potential “progressive’s dilemma”, ...

Beyond eurocentrism and the Western organizational model AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND AFRICAN STYLES OF ORGANIZATION

Introduction Organization in the international community has been extensively, if not completely, moulded over the past decades by the Western organizational model. Indeed an « organization » has come to mean a Western style organization. This model has acquired considerable credibility owing to its successes in many different arenas. The techniques contributing to these successes have been stu...

Common Principles and Multiculturalism

Judgment on rightness and wrongness of beliefs and behaviors is a main issue in bioethics. Over centuries, big philosophers and ethicists have been discussing the suitable tools to determine which act is morally sound and which one is not. Emerging the contemporary bioethics in the West has resulted in a misconception that absolute westernized principles would be appropriate tools for ethical d...

Multiculturalism and Museums in China

Multiculturalism and the Australian Constitution

The poet Shelley once said that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.* 1 He was right. Societies are shaped by images, metaphors and tropes word-pictures of what particular societies stand for, what principles are important, where the societies are heading. These images are often constitutive in the sense that they provide a unifying language of public action, shape individuals...