Titley, Gavan
(2011)
Circuits of aversion: the transnational mediation of
multicultural crisis.
Irish Journal of Sociology, 19 (2).
pp. 43-59.
ISSN 0791 6035
Abstract
Since '9/ 11 ', commentators, politicians and media discourse in a range of
European contexts have increasingly drawn on narratives of the ' crisis of multiculturalism'
to make sense of a broad range of events and political developments.
For all this focus, multiculturalism has rarely amounted to more than a patchwork
of initiatives, rhetoric and aspirations in any context, and has been subject
to a long and well-documented history of 'backlash'. Multiculturalism, therefore,
can be approached analytically as a mobilising metaphor and discursive
assemblage that facilitates and orders debate on questions of race, legitimacy
and belonging. This article examines the transnational mediation of ' multicultural
crisis', and explores the cultural dynamics through which a congruent
narrative of a ' failed experiment' has. been shaped and circulated. It argues that
these transnational dynamics have become politically significant in positioning
and justifying a politics of integration predicated on visions of core values and
'ways oflife', and invested in by a complex spectrum of political positions.
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