Multiculturalism, Recognition and Abjection: (re)mapping Italian identity |
JAMIE KOWALCZYK, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
THOMAS S. POPKEWITZ, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
pages 423-435
doi: 10.2304/pfie.2005.3.4.423 |
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This article focuses Italy's conversations about multiculturalism as dual processes of national homogeneity and abjection with respect to its growing conversation around citizenship, national identity and immigration. Abjection is a concept that directs attention to border-making through dual cultural practices of recognizing and managing difference through the processes that simultaneously produces ghettoes of difference within the imaginary of the nation. Italian schools, along with other EU member schools, have been designated as a central institution for the production of the new citizen, both European and Italian. Through an analysis of documents from the European Union and Italian Ministry of Education, one can begin to map the multiple multicultural citizenships that make up these relational new citizens. This work gives intelligibility to particular dispositions, particular practices, ways of being and systems of reasoning connected to the new multicultural citizen. In doing so, it also makes visible the non-European, non-Italian and non-multicultural within multicultural, European Italy. |
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JAMIE KOWALCZYK, THOMAS S. POPKEWITZ (2005) Multiculturalism, Recognition and Abjection: (re)mapping Italian identity, Policy Futures in Education, 3(4), 423-435. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/pfie.2005.3.4.423 |
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