Thinking with and beyond the Bristol school of multiculturalism

Picard, Pier-Luc Dupont; Sealy, Thomas; Dikici, Erdem

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Thinking with and beyond the Bristol school of multiculturalism

Pier-Luc Dupont Picard

, Thomas Sealy

, Erdem Dikici

Ethnicities

Swansea University Author: Pier-Luc Dupont Picard

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Since its emergence in the late 1990s, the Bristol School of Multiculturalism (BSM) has developed a complex, coherent and influential set of conceptual tools to critically and comparatively apprehend the politics of cultural and religious diversity. Animated by commitments to deep diversity, nationa...

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ISSN:	1468-7968 1741-2706
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Thinking with and beyond the Bristol school of multiculturalism

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