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Tariq Modood

Professor and Director, Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol
EducationPhD, University College Swansea; PGCE, University College Cardiff; MA, University of Durham
http://www.tariqmodood.com/
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Visiting Toronto Metropolitan University

Spring 2022

Research focus while a CERC Scholar - Rethinking multiculturalism and nationalism: Canadian and international perspectives

While a CERC Scholar of Excellence, Tariq will explore the idea of “a multicultural nationalism.” According to Tariq, what is often described today as neo-nationalism or a new nationalist-populism arguably looks like the old nationalism. What is emerging as genuinely new are the identity-based nationalisms of the centre-left, sometimes called ‘liberal nationalism’ or ‘progressive patriotism’, which nationalism studies have been slow to recognize. Tariq will explore this idea with special reference to multiculturalism; the place of secularism, religion and religious identity; and the place of the majority. 

Related to CERC research theme: Politics and Narratives of Migration

Career Achievements

Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the founding Director of the Bristol University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship. Tariq has held over 40 grants and consultancies (U.K., European and U.S.), has over 35 (co-)authored and (co-)edited books and reports, and over 250 articles or chapters in political philosophy, sociology and public policy. He was a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute for part of 2013 to 2015, a “Thinker in Residence” at the Royal Academy of Flanders, Brussels in 2017, and was a Visiting Fellow, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor (2017-2020).

Relevant Publications

Modood, T. (2005). Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain. University of Minnesota Press; University of Edinburgh Press.

Modood, T. (2007). Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea. Polity Press.

Modood, T. and Levey, G.B. (Eds.). (2009). Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship. Cambridge University Press.

Modood, T. (2010). Still not easy being British. Trentham Books.

Modood, T. (2013). Multiculturalism (2nd ed.). Polity.

Modood, T. (2019). A Multicultural Nationalism? Brown Journal of World Affairs. Spring-Summer Issue.

Modood, T. (2019). Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism. ECPR Press; Rowman & Littlefield International.

Modood, T., Uberoi V., & Thompson, S. (Eds.). (2022) Special Issue: Multiculturalism, Religion, Secularism and Nationalism - Twenty Years of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, Ethnicities. SAGE Journals.

Meer, N., Modood, T., & Zapata-Barrero, R. (Eds.). (2016). Multiculturalism and Interculturalism: Debating the dividing lines. Edinburgh University Press.

Triandafyllidou, A., Modood, T. (Eds). (2017) The Problem of Religious Diversity: European Problems, Asian Challenges, Edinburgh University Press.

Triandafyllidou, A., Modood, T., & Meer, N. (Eds). (2012). European Multiculturalisms: Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges. Edinburgh University Press.

Uberoi, V., & Modood, T. (Eds.). (2015). Multiculturalism Rethought: Interpretations, Dilemmas and New Directions. Edinburgh University Press.