Multiculturalism1 and the Politics of Nationalism in the Global Age

Global changes have provided the conditions for the emergence of new theoretical discourses that pose a powerful challenge to modern assumptions regarding the unity of nationalism and culture, the state and the nation, and national identity and the universal imperatives of a common culture. The historic and spatial shifts that have, in part, produced new forms of theorizing about globalization, the politics of diaspora, immigration, identity …