European Multiculturalism: Between Unity and Exclusion

Understanding Multiculturalism : The Habsburg Central European Experience

European paediatrics--unity with diversity?

The 900 consultant paediatricians in Britain might occasionally pause to reflect that they have about 30 000 paediatrician colleagues within the European Community (EC). The total number in greater Europe between Lisbon and the Urals must approach six figures. The geographic and political map of the continent has radically changed during the last year and it is likely that colleagues working in...

“Utter Failure” or Unity out of Diversity? Debating and Evaluating Policies of Multiculturalism

Across immigrant-receiving democracies, “multiculturalism” has come under assault by political decision-makers and commentators. The academic debate, while less fiery, is also heated. We start by outlining the multiple meanings of “multiculturalism”: a term for demographic diversity; a political philosophy of equality or justice; a set of policies to recognize and accommodate ethno-racial and r...

Unity within psychology, and unity between science and practice.

The unity of psychology as a science is to be found in its definition as the science of mental life, and its explanation of individual behavior in terms of mental states. This disciplinary focus will help negotiate psychology's relations with other disciplines, such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The unity within psychology between science and practice is to be found in a focus on scien...

MetaMix: Between Unity and Collaboration

In this paper, I describe MetaMix (2002) and I analyze its ambivalent relationship to modern and postmodern thought. I offer neither a complete analysis of the work nor a deep exploration of relevant theory. Rather, I focus on the two key aspects of MetaMix which best exemplify its ambivalence towards modernism and postmodernism: its approach to form, and its transformation of the roles of comp...