POLI 227 Lecture 14: Politics of Cultural Pluralism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 227
• Professor: Rex Brynen

Document Summary

Midterm: up to gender section readings, lectures till gender, conferences till that week. Identity politics: nationality, race, religion, tribe, language. E. g. pitting catholics against protestants in ireland. Countries vary widely in terms of ethnic, religious, or other cultural pluralism: papua new guinea and congo are the most diverse, north korea is the least. Since 2003, conflict b/c mixed areas become less mixed; more segregated reinforced regional and religious identities. Political effects: repressive order and ethnic repression under saddam hussein. Did(cid:374)"t (cid:272)are a(cid:271)out u(cid:374)(cid:374)i (cid:448)s. hi"ite, hussei(cid:374) (cid:449)as se(cid:272)ular: kurdish self-go(cid:448)"t post (cid:1005)99(cid:1005, sectarian violence following us intervention in 2003, 2005 constitution: quasi-democratic, quasi-federal, slightly consociational political system, continued ethno sectarian tensions. Threat (cid:373)akes people choo e (cid:894) u(cid:374)(cid:374)i or hi"ite(cid:895), polarization heightens. 800 lang. and dialects exist (60 unrelated to hindi); 1 of most diverse countries. More than 1600 identifiable ethnic groups and sub-groups.