Intercultural Citizenship in the Post-Multicultural Era

Ricard Zapata-Barrero is a Full Professor of Political and Social Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain). He is also Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration at UPF, and Master in Migration Studies. He is member of the Board of Directors for IMISCOE and Chair of the External Affairs Committee. For information about publications, go to his webpage: https://www.upf.edu/web/ricard-zapata/

Introduction: Citizenship and Diversity nexus revisited. The Intercultural Citizenship Focus PART I: POST-MULTICULTURAL CONTEXT AND THE NEED OF A PRAGMATIC TURN IN DIVERSITY POLICY DEBATES Chapter 1. The policy narrative context of diversity dynamics today Chapter 2. Avenues of origin of intercultural citizenship: the European local turn in diversity policies Chapter 3. Intercultural Turn in Europe: in a diverse Europe, what does 'Europeanness' mean today? Chapter 4: The business card of intercultural citizenship: Distinctive features PART II: FOUNDATIONS OF INTERCULTURAL CITIZENSHIP Chapter 5. Conceptualizing an intercultural citizenship's diversity-linkage theory Chapter 6. Normative policy drivers of intercultural citizenship: a comprehensive view Chapter 7. Republicanism, public space and intercultural citizenship Chapter 8. The social benefits of intercultural citizenship: diversity as a public good Concluding roadmap: summarizing what the reader has found in this book References

Managing societal diversity is one of the greatest governance challenges of our century. This volume argues that facing this challenge requires a new concept of citizenship - intercultural citizenship. It offers solid academic arguments for a bold political statement - that the shift from the nation-focused to a rights-focused paradigm of diversity management is a matter of profound cultural change. Indeed, the intercultural paradigm is a kind of a neo-Renaissance project which makes collective identity a normative result of the interplay of multiple, evolving individual identities - the exact opposite of the historical process of building national identities. The main contribution of the book resides in the insights about ways in which one can "engineer" intercultural citizenship institutionally and in policy practice, and how it can be nurtured in individual attitudes and behavior. Irena Guidikova, Head of Inclusion and Anti-discrimination Programmes, Council of Europe. -- Irena Guidikova, There is no doubt that we are living today in a period of hyper-connectivity and significant human mobility. Coming to grips with the consequent super diversity is emerging as a significant challenge for both academe and social policy-making circles. Zapata-Barrero's book on Intercultural Citizenship framework situates this challenge expertly within its complex intellectual and political context chartering how best to progress this agenda against a background of rising polarised intellectual contestation. This is a scholarly tour de force from of one the leading voices in the interculturalism field. This topical and timely book will have significant impact beyond its immediate European context. Professor Fethi Mansouri, Director of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. -- Professor Fethi Mansouri