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/

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.

• Introduction: Citizenship and Diversity nexus revisited. The Intercultural Citizenship FocusPART I: POST-MULTICULTURAL CONTEXT AND THE NEED OF A PRAGMATIC TURN IN DIVERSITY POLICY DEBATESChapter 1. The policy narrative context of diversity dynamics todayChapter 2. Avenues of origin of intercultural citizenship: the European local turn in diversity policiesChapter 3. Intercultural Turn in Europe: in a diverse Europe, what does ‘Europeanness’ mean today?Chapter 4: The business card of intercultural citizenship: Distinctive featuresPART II: FOUNDATIONS OF INTERCULTURAL CITIZENSHIPChapter 5. Conceptualizing an intercultural citizenship’s diversity-linkage theoryChapter 6. Normative policy drivers of intercultural citizenship: a comprehensive viewChapter 7. Republicanism, public space and intercultural citizenshipChapter 8. The social benefits of intercultural citizenship: diversity as a public goodConcluding roadmap: summarizing what the reader has found in this bookReferences