Cultural, Religious and Political Contestations: The Multicultural Challenge

Section 1: Histories and Politics of Multiculturalism.- Chapter 1: The Multicultural Experiment: Premises, Promises, and Challenges.- Chapter 2: Multicultural Inclusion Confronts Questions of National Identity.- Chapter 3: Multiculturalism, Rights and Religion: The individual's human right to participate and belong.- Chapter 4: Multiple Multiculturalisms: Resentment, Religion and Liberalism.- Section 2: Justice and Education as Key Dimensions of Multiculturalism.- Chapter 5: Disenchantments: Counter-terror narratives and conviviality.- Chapter 6: Between Rhetoric and Reality: Shari'a and the Shift towards Neo-Liberal Multiculturalism in Australia.- Chapter 7: Multiculturalism and Education.- Chapter 8: 'The only blonde in the playground' - School choice and the multicultural imaginary.- Chaptert 9: A Multicultural Italy? The Educational Challenge Faced by Gypsies and Migrants.- Section 3: Performing Multicultural Belongings.- Chapter 10: At Home/Out of Place: Young People's Multicultural Belongings.- Chapter 11: "And Yet We Are Still Excluded": Reclaiming Multicultural Queer Histories and Engaging with Contemporary Multicultural Queer Realities.- Chapter 12: Migrant Youth and Social Inclusion in Multicultural Australia: Exploring Cross-Cultural Networking.- Chapter 13: Looking beyond multicultural performance: multiculturalising as process of engagement and negotiation.