Titley, Gavan
(2014)
After the end of
multiculturalism:
Public service media and
integrationist imaginaries for
the governance of difference.
Global Media and Communication, 10 (3).
pp. 247-260.
ISSN 1742-7665
Abstract
This article assesses the public service media (PSM) ‘turn to diversity’ in several
European contexts and examines the ways in which this emerges from a rejection
of multiculturalism that is at once politically sustained and analytically inchoate. It
approaches PSM as national institutions conditioned to mediate coherent images of
society. In contemporary European societies, this positions PSM in a field in which
integrationist imaginaries of the nation are insistent, but under conditions of social
complexity, which render homogeneous visions of the nation difficult to mediate. In
this context, diversity has developed as a framework for mediating, and being held
to mediate, lived multiculture. However, recent research suggests that this shift to
diversity both depoliticizes the ‘politics of difference’ and may also further the prevalent
integration politics currently in the ascendant in Western Europe.
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