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Title:	Contesting Multiculturalism & Security: Challenges & Alternatives - A Public Lecture by Dr. Rita Kuar Dhamoon
Description:	Contesting Multiculturalism & Security: Challenges & Alternatives Is there really a tension between multiculturalism and security in Canada? In the post September 11 2001 context, critics claim that multicultural policies undermine security because they breed “home-grown terrorists”. Defenders of multiculturalism argue that such policies promote toleration and can in fact counter security concerns. In other words multiculturalism and security are pitted against one another. Dr. Dhamoon suggests that this characterization of the debate mischaracterizes the long history between multicultural and security discourses, and masks over exclusionary forms of nation-building and race-making. Rather than being oppositional to one another, it is argued that multiculturalism is a mechanism of security, one that regulates difference and secures hegemonic nation-building endeavors. Rita Kaur Dhamoon is in the Department of Philosophy & Political Science at the University of the Fraser Valley. Her research interests include: identity/difference politics, gender and feminism, intersectionality, critiques of ‘culture’ and multiculturalism, anti-racism and critical race theory, and citizenship and democratic theory. She is author of Identity/Difference Politics: how difference is produced and why it matters (UBC Press, 2009), and journal articles on “Shifting from Culture to Cultural: Critical Theorizing of Identity/Difference Politics.” Constellations (13: 3, 2006), and “Dangerous (Internal) Foreigners and Nation-Building: The Case of Canada”, co-authored with Yasmeen Abu-Laban in International Political Science Review. (30: 2, 2009), as well as several book chapters. Her current research projects are on multiculturalism and security, teaching and learning about race and racism, and feminist theories and practices of intersectionality.
Sponsor:	Department of Sociology
When:	January 31, 2010, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Where:	2M70 University of Winnipeg Winnipeg, MB Canada Map
Contact:	Angela Failler a.failler@uwinnipeg.ca 786-9116
Category:	Lectures

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