Are there any cultural universals left? Does multiculturalism inevitably involve a slide into moral relativism? This timely and insightful book examines questions of politics and identity in the age of multicultures.

Recognition and Difference - Scott Lash and Mike Featherstone Politics, Identity, Multiculture PART ONE: RECOGNITION Recognition without Ethics? - Nancy Fraser Recognition or Redistribution? - Axel Honneth Changing Perspectives on the Moral Order of Society Recognition and the Politics of Human(e) Desire - Majid Yar Oh, My Others! There Is No Other - John O′Neill Capital Culture, Class and Other-Wiseness Towards a Citizen′s Welfare State - Ruth Lister The 3 + 2 `R′s of Welfare Reform From Community to Coalition - Sylvia Walby The Politics of Recognition as the Handmaiden of the Politics of Equality in an Era of Globalization PART TWO: DIFFERENCE The Great War of Recognition - Zygmunt Bauman Joined-Up Politics and Post-Colonial Melancholia - Paul Gilroy Vertigo and Emancipation - Francoise Vergès Creole Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Politics Nuestra America - Boaventura de Sousa Santos Reinventing a Subaltern Paradigm of Recognition and Redistribution Hybridity, So What? - Jan Nederveen Pieterse The Anti-Hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition Complex Choreography - Sallie Westwood Poliltcs and Regimes of Recognition Dyscivilization, Mass Extermination and the State - Abram De Swaan