Tariq Modood, Director of the Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol at Intercultural Relations in Arts and Cultural Management Practice, the fourth seminar of an AHRC funded research network, Brokering Intercultural Exchange: Interrogating the Role of Arts and Cultural Management. The network is based at Queen's University Belfast (PI Victoria Durrer) in partnership with Heilbronn University (Co-I Raphaela Henze). www.managingculture.net

2. On Intercultural Public
Intellectual Engagement
Tariq Modood
University of Bristol

3. Derived from
• Modood, T (2017): Intercultural Public
Intellectual Engagement, in F. Mansouri (ed.)
Interculturalism at the Crossroads. Comparative
Perspectives on Concepts, Policies and Practices,
UNESCO: 83 – 102.
• Also in Journal of Citizenship and Globalisation
Studies, 1(1), 36-47, Open Access:
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jcgs.2017.1.issu
e-1/jcgs-2017-0004/jcgs-2017-0004.xml

4. Contents
1. Intercultural Dialogue
2. Intercultural Dialogue and Political
Theory
3. Public Intellectual Engagement
4. Illustration: the Rushdie Affair

5. Intercultural Dialogue
• A foundational idea in Multiculturalism
Eg. Charles Taylor and Bhikhu Parekh
• Interculturalism?
- Not an alternative to Multiculturalism
- Micro-level to Multiculturalism’s Macro-
level; face-to-face encounters in public
spaces v. clash of big ideas

6. I-C Dialogue and Political
Theory
- Liberal Theory: dialogue not necessary,
one reasoner can come up with the just
solution.
- MC: i) need to understand and take into
account the diverse cultural needs of others
ii) The presence of different parties leads to
different outcomes, so open
iii) Building a relationship of trust

7. Multiculturalism (cont)
• For MC, the principles of social justice are not
arrived at by identity-less reasoners but arrived
at through conflict and learning, dialogue and
negotiation in circumstances of inequality and
minority-claims making.
• Dialogue comes into being cos of identity-based
claims; proceeds by recognising identities; its
goal is new identities and new relationships
(‘We’).
• Operative public values (OPV) and fusion of
horizons.

8. Public Intellectual Engagement
• Beyond the ivory tower but independent
and capable of speaking in own voice
• Outsider/exile v. Insider/embeddedness
• Commitments to principles – but also
commitment to people/societies
• Enable the marginal to join in and speak
for themselves

9. The Salman Rushdie Affair
• Use of Political Theory in dialogical way
• My embeddness and dual commitments
• New concepts: apostasy, fatwa, jihad
• Use of existing laws, policies and equality
frameworks (OPV)
• Fusion of horizons
• Law: Apostasy - Blasphemy – Incitement
to Religious Hatred: but this required
movement on both sides

10. The Salman Rushdie Affair
• Use of Political Theory in dialogical way
• My embeddness and dual commitments
• New concepts: apostasy, fatwa, jihad
• Use of existing laws, policies and equality
frameworks (OPV)
• Fusion of horizons
• Law: Apostasy - Blasphemy – Incitement
to Religious Hatred: but this required
movement on both sides