Interculturalism vs. Multiculturalism: A Distinction without a Difference?

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Notes

1. A situation aptly captured by Will Kymlicka's title (2003), “Multicultural States and Intercultural Citizens”.

2. The adjective ‘intercultural’ does have some currency in reference to Australian multiculturalism, albeit typically as an aspect of it rather than as an alternative to it (see, for example, FECCA 2010: 13).

3. I try to show how autonomy-based liberalism invites intercultural dialogue in Levey (2012).

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Geoffrey Brahm Levey

Geoffrey Brahm Levey is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Political Science at the University of New South Wales. He was founding director of the Program in Jewish Studies 1996–2005. His recent publications include, as editor, Political Theory and Australian Multiculturalism, 2nd ed. (Berghahn Books, 2012) and Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship (with Tariq Modood, Cambridge University Press, 2008)