The Radical Liberal Interculturalism Triad: Toward Retrieving Liberalism From White Domination
| dc.contributor.author | McKee, James Colton | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | McDonough, Graham | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-09T18:33:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-09-09T18:33:02Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2015 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-09-09 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Curriculum and Instruction | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Issues relating to diversity and pluralism permeate both social and political discourses in Canada. Of particular interest to this thesis are those issues raised when the demands of ethno-cultural diversity fail to converge with prescriptive objectives to promote said diversity within a democratic liberal state. In this way, this thesis scrutinizes the prescriptive intentions of Canadian multiculturalism and the ways in which it functions to conceal and protect White-European cultural and political dominance in Canadian society. So proposed, this thesis argues for a robust reorientation of liberalism through the normative starting point of non-ideal theory. Likewise, I will show that a radical liberal interculturalism triad, consisting of interculturalism, asymmetrical reciprocity and rectificatory justice can upend the misleading framework of mainstream liberal social contract theory. Hence, I move away from ideal theory’s tendency to exclude, or at least marginalize, the actual state of affairs, by (1) subverting the taken-for-granted neutrality of the liberal individual; (2) jettisoning the misrepresented truths of ideal theory; (3) exposing the hegemonic practices of multiculturalism; and (4) illustrating the racial foundations of mainstream liberalism. In sum, this thesis claims that the radically liberal interculturalism triad offers a viable path toward dislodging the sites of White cultural and epistemological domination that lies just beneath the misleading facade of Canada’s official multiculturalism. | en_US |
| dc.description.proquestcode | 0422 | en_US |
| dc.description.proquestcode | 0727 | en_US |
| dc.description.proquestcode | 0998 | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6678 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | Diversity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pluralism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Canada | en_US |
| dc.title | The Radical Liberal Interculturalism Triad: Toward Retrieving Liberalism From White Domination | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |