Is Multiculturalism Dead?
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Runnymede 360 will host a live webchat following from a Counterpoint event presenting Tariq Modood's new book Still not easy Being British: struggles for a multicultural citizenship.
Entitled Is Multiculturalism Dead? the webchat will feature author Tariq Modood, Counterpoint director Catherine Fieschi, and political blogger Sunny Hundal. The panel will discuss and present on multiculturalism, as well as the developments in Muslim identity politics. |
More information about the panellists, click on each name to read the articles they have submitted ahead of the webchat
Tariq Modood is the founding director of the University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. He is the co-founding editor of the international journal, Ethnicities, and his most recent publications include Still Not Easy Being British: Struggles for a Multicultural Citizenship (Trentham Books, 2010) and Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea, (Polity, 2007).
Tariq is strongly committed to public engagement and am a regular contributor to the media and policy debates in Britain, and was awarded a MBE for services to social sciences and ethnic relations in 2001. He also served on Runnymede’s Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain.
Sunny Hundal is editor of the group blog/magazine Liberal Conspiracy, which aims to reinvigorate British left liberalism through online campaigning and discussion. He also blogs at Pickled Politics.As a journalist and commentator, he has written for the Guardian, the Independent, Metro, the Times and the Financial Times on media, the environment and race relations.
Sunny founded the thinktank New Generation Network, which aims to challenge the thinking around race and faith politics, and is editor of the online magazine Asians in Media.
Catherine Fieschi took up her post as Director of Counterpoint at the British Council in November 2008. Prior to joining Counterpoint, she was director of the London based think tank Demos (2005-2008). From 2001 to 2005 she lectured in Politics at the University of Nottingham and directed the Centre for the Study of European Governance.
Catherine holds a PhD in Comparative Political Science from McGill University. She is the author of In the Shadow of Democracy: Fascism, Populism and the French Fifth Republic (MUP) and of numerous pamphlets and articles on extremism, citizenship and identity politics. Catherine is a contributing editor for Prospect Magazine, a Board member of the Quilliam Foundation and a Trustee of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) and of The New Deal of the Mind coalition and a regular contributor to radio and television debates.
