Етикетирање: мултикултурализам као идеолошки (управљачки) апарат канадске државе
Namecalling: Multiculturalism As The Ideological (Ruling) Apparatus Of The Canadian State

Summary/Abstract: The discourse of multiculturalism supplies a brilliant conceptual and cultural technology for converting the fundamental social relations of inequality and power into categories of cultural difference and diversity. This article explores, critically, the composite discourse of multiculturalism and diversity from a feminist anti-racist perspective. It intends a critique of Canadian multiculturalism as a naming and controlling device for ‘political violence and security establishment’. Some basic issues are considered: 1) the discourse and practices of multiculturalism as state ideology, and connected to that the idea of national identity and citizenship and related governing practices; 2) the formation of a state apparatus consisting of administrative categories connected to groups designated as ‘ethnic’, i.e., non-Europeans, and their emergence as ‘minorities’; 3) the fact that current multicultural discourse of the state and popularized among Canadians both mutates into and solidifies the equation between an orientalist and racialized idea of culture/ethnicity and of religion.

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