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The changing patterns of contemporary immigration have initiated a new form of majority nationalism. In recent years, liberal democracies have introduced immigration and citizenship policies that are designed to defend the majority culture. This trend is fed by fears of immigration-some justified, some paranoid-which explain the rise of extreme right-wing parties in the West. Liberal theory and human rights law seem to be out of sync with these developments. While they recognize the rights of minority groups to maintain their cultural identity, it is typically assumed that majority groups have neither a need for similar rights nor a moral basis for defending them. The majority culture, so the argument goes, "can take care of itself." This singular book shifts the focus from the prevailing discussion of minority rights and, for the first time, directly addresses the cultural rights of majorities. The findings reveal a troubling trend in liberal democracies, which, ironically, in order to protect liberal values, violate the very same values. The book criticizes this state of affairs and presents a liberal theory of cultural defense that distinguishes between justifiable and unjustifiable attempts by majorities to protect their cultural essentials. It formulates liberal standards by which liberal states can welcome immigrants without fundamentally changing their cultural heritage, forsaking their liberal traditions, or slipping into extreme nationalism. The Cultural Defense of Nations presents a timely, thought-provoking thesis on one of the most pressing issues of our time-immigrants, majority groups, and national identity

Sociology of minorities --- Human rights --- Sociology of culture --- RIGHTS OF MINORITIES -- 325.14 --- CULTURAL IDENTITIES -- 325.14 --- LIBERAL VALUES -- 325.14 --- Human Rights --- Liberalism --- Emigration and immigration law --- Immigrants --- Cultural assimilation --- Immigrants - Cultural assimilation

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Aux États-Unis, en Grande-Bretagne, en France, le début du millénaire a vu se multiplier des discours épurés de toute référence à la catégorie de « race ». La tolérance et la diversité sont désormais les registres dominants que l'on emploie pour parler de questions relevant auparavant de cette dernière. Ainsi, aux États-Unis, l'élection de Barack Obama a donné un puissant élan à ce que Thomas Sugrue nomme le « grand récit de la réconciliation raciale », en dépit de la racialisation évidente des inégalités sociales. De part et d'autre de l'Atlantique, la notion de color-blindness gagne en influence. Elle dissimule une forme de racisme culturel, ou de racisme différentialiste, qui se diffuse dans la sphère publique, et que revendiquent même parfois certains responsables politiques. Cette évolution intervient dans un contexte de remise en cause des modèles nationaux d'intégration et de déclarations catégoriques sur le prétendu échec du multiculturalisme : prises de position dont l'objet est de critiquer des politiques jugées trop différentialistes, tout en pointant du doigt certaines catégories de la population dont l'intégration s'avérerait problématique. Ce volume se propose de mieux comprendre les logiques sociales de racialisation, et leur rapport au politique, dans une perspective comparative et en recourant à différentes disciplines. Il pratique une forme d'« histoire du présent », à la fois empirique et théorisée. Celle-ci est de salubrité publique à l'approche d'échéances électorales cruciales, en Europe comme en Amérique, alors que les problématiques identitaires conservatrices, sinon réactionnaires, effectuent un retour en force dans le débat politique et l'exercice du pouvoir.

Racism --- Discrimination --- Minorities --- Marginality, Social --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions --- Government policy --- Multiculturalism - USA, Great Britain and France - Socio-cultural identities - Races - Political science.

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Urbanization --- Africa, East. --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Borderland Communities. --- Central Africa. --- Community Dynamics. --- Copperbelt. --- Cultural Identities. --- Economic Identities. --- Historical Analysis. --- Industrial Mining. --- Political Change. --- Social Change. --- Social Identities. --- Urban Change.

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"A Taste of Power is an investigation of the crucial role culinary texts and practices played in the making of cultural identities and social hierarchies since the founding of the United States. Nutritional advice and representations of food and eating, including cookbooks, literature, magazines, newspapers, still life paintings, television shows, films, and the internet, have helped throughout American history to circulate normative claims about citizenship, gender performance, sexuality, class privilege, race, and ethnicity, while promising an increase in cultural capital and social mobility to those who comply with the prescribed norms. The study examines culinary writing and practices as forces for the production of social order and, at the same time, as points of cultural resistance against hegemonic norms, especially in shaping dominant ideas of nationalism, gender, and sexuality, suggesting that eating right is a gateway to becoming an American, a good citizen, an ideal man, or a perfect mother. Cookbooks, as a low-prestige literary form, became the largely unheralded vehicles for women to participate in nation-building before they had access to the vote or public office, for middle-class authors to assert their class privileges, for men to claim superiority over women even in the kitchen, and for Lesbian authors to reinscribe themselves into the heteronormative economy of culinary culture. The book engages in close reading of a wide variety of sources and genres to uncover the intersections of food, politics, and privilege in American culture"--Provided by publisher.

Cookbooks --- Food habits --- Cooking, American --- Food --- Cook-books --- Cookery --- Recipe books --- Books --- Cooking --- Foods --- Dinners and dining --- Home economics --- Table --- Diet --- Dietaries --- Gastronomy --- Nutrition --- Social aspects --- History. --- Cookbooks - Social aspects - United States. --- Primitive societies --- 19th century food. --- american cooking. --- american cuisine. --- american culture. --- american studies. --- cooking. --- culinary culture. --- culinary discourse. --- culinary literature. --- culinary texts. --- culinary. --- cultural identities. --- food and agriculture. --- food and class. --- food and culture. --- food and gender. --- food and identity. --- food and power. --- food history. --- food lovers. --- food studies. --- food traditions. --- food writing. --- food. --- historian. --- history of cooking. --- history of food in america. --- humanities. --- politics of food. --- queering cooking. --- queering food. --- united states.

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Lengas propose un panorama raisonné des acquis de la recherche sociolinguistique depuis plus de trente ans. À partir d’un cas concret, celui de l’occitan, considéré dans sa globalité géographique et historique depuis la période médiévale jusqu’à aujourd’hui, Lengas a développé une analyse à la fois rigoureuse et ouverte à propos des situations de conflit linguistique ou de diglossie en Europe et dans le monde.

Occitan language --- French language --- Bilingualism --- Bilingualism. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- France. --- Language and languages --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- Langue d'oc --- Languedoc language --- Provençal language, Modern --- Francia --- Gallia --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Faguo --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Farans --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant͡sii͡ --- Frantsuzskai͡a Rėspublika --- Frantsyi͡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangs --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Falanxi --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frant͡ --- Frant͡s Uls --- Ranska --- sociology --- cultural identities --- corpus approaches --- language --- linguistics --- Lengua occitana --- Lengua francesa --- Bilingüismo --- Aspectos sociales --- France --- Lenguas románicas --- Dialectos criollos franceses --- Filología francesa --- Occitano --- Lengua de oc --- Oc, Lengua de --- Lengua provenzal --- Lenguas románicas --- Filología francesa --- Galicismos