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- Title
Equity, Diversity and Interdependence: Cultural Policy in Northern Ireland.
- Authors
Nash, Catherine
- Abstract
This paper examines the new presence of“culture” within politics in Northern Ireland and attempts by cultural policymakers and community activists to constructively shift the meanings of“identity”,“tradition” and“heritage”. It focuses on the work of the Community Relations Council and the strategic development of its three principles of equity, diversity and interdependence, in relation to specific controversies about culture in Northern Ireland and wider debates about pluralism and multiculturalism. The distinctive configuration of questions of pluralism and culture in Northern Ireland highlights the ways in which multicultural theory is shaped by its geographies of development and circulation and how ideas of culture and multiculture work in different places and travel with sometimes ambiguous effects. At the same time, the pragmatic combination of optimism, realism, encouragement and critique in cultural policy in a context of continued division and political instability complicates familiar accounts of the geographies and politics of multiculture.
- Subjects
MULTICULTURALISM; EARTH sciences; POLITICAL participation; PUBLIC relations; POLICY sciences; COMPARISON (Psychology)
- Publication
Antipode, 2005, Vol 37, Issue 2, p272
- ISSN
0066-4812
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.0066-4812.2005.00493.x