Interculturalism
Subtitle: a view from Quebec
By: Gérard Bouchard ; translated by Howard Scott
Contributors: Scott, Howard, 1952- translator
Edition: English-language edition.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781442647763; 9781442615847
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Multiculturalism; Cultural pluralism; Reasonable accommodation; Laicism
Work titles: Interculturalisme
Description: Accommodating ethnic diversity is a major challenge for all democratic nations and a topic that has attracted a great deal of attention in the last few decades. Within Quebec, a new approach has emerged that seeks a balance between the needs of minorities and those of the majority.  In Interculturalism, sociologist and historian Gérard Bouchard presents his vision of interculturalism as a model for the management of diversity. A pluralist approach which recognizes the existence of a cultural majority whose rights must also be acknowledged, interculturalism constitutes an important alternative to multiculturalism both in Canada and internationally. Written by one of Quebec's leading public intellectuals and the co-chair of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on reasonable accommodation, Interculturalism is the first clear and comprehensive statement in English of an approach being discussed around the world.  A translation of Bouchard's award-winning French-language work, L'Interculturalisme: Un point de vue québécois, this book features a new foreword by philosopher Charles Taylor and an afterword by the author written specifically for the English-language edition. -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Translation of: L'interculturalisme.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Conditions and foundations of Quebec interculturalism; title: Quebec interculturalism: A definition; title: Interculturalism and mutliculturalism; title: Criticism and defence of interculturalism; title: For an inclusive secularism; title: Conclusion.