Lentin, Alana and Titley, Gavan
(2012)
The crisis of
‘multiculturalism’ in
Europe:
Mediated minarets,
intolerable subjects.
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 15 (2).
pp. 261-267.
ISSN 1367-5494
Abstract
During the last decade, European countries have declared a ‘crisis’ of multiculturalism. This
crisis has gained significant political traction, despite the empirical absence of a failed experiment
with multiculturalism. This introduction focuses on the narrative of multicultural backlash,
which purports that ‘parallel societies’ and ‘intolerable subjects’ and practices have been allowed
to flourish within European societies. Beyond particular contexts, the problem of intolerable
subjects is seen as a shared European challenge, requiring disintegrated migrants and Muslim
populations to display loyalty, adopt ‘our’ values, and prove the legitimacy of their belonging.
This introduction critiques multicultural backlash, less as a rejection of piecemeal multicultural
policies than as a denial of lived multiculture. This is developed through an examination of
racism in a post-racial era, and by analysing the ways in which integrationist projects further
embed culturalist ontology
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