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Sara Ahmed is Professor in Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths
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‘Liberal Multiculturalism is the Hegemony – Its an Empirical Fact’ – A response to Slavoj Žižek

by Sara Ahmed • 19 Feb 08

In his plenary talk at the Law and Critique Conference (2007)[1] Slavoj Žižek repeatedly asserted that liberal multiculturalism – and its ‘politically correct’ premise of respecting the other’s difference – is hegemonic. When asked questions about this position from the…