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About the Book
The tension between diversity and equality is central to debates about multiculturalism, self-determination, identity, and pluralism. How, for example, can the claims of ethnic and religious groups be respected when they conflict with individual rights and liberal equality? Diversity and Equality critically examines the challenge of protecting rights in diverse societies such as Canada. It develops new approaches in philosophy, law, politics, and anthropology to address the goals and problems associated with cultural, religious, and national minority rights. The contributors to this volume explore the conflicts between group demands for cultural autonomy and individual assertions of basic interests. At stake in these debates about rights and autonomy in multicultural and multinational democracies is the very meaning of freedom.
About the Author(s)
Avigail Eisenberg is a professor of political science at the University of Victoria. She is the author of Reconstructing Political Pluralism and co-editor of Minorities within Minorities and Painting the Maple.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: New Approaches to Fundamental Freedom in Canada
Avigail Eisenberg
1. Reconciling Struggles over the Recognition of Minorities: Towards a Dialogical Approach / James Tully
2. Reasoning about Identity: Canada’s Distinctive Culture Test / Avigail Eisenberg
3. The Imperative of "Culture" in a Colonial and de Facto Polity / Shauna McRanor
4. Culture as a Basic Human Right / Cindy Holder
5. The Misuse of "Culture" by the Supreme Court of Canada / Neil Vallance
6. Gender, Difference, and Anti-Essentialism: Towards a Feminist Response to Cultural Claims in Law / Maneesha Deckha
7. Interpreting the Identity Claims of Young Children / Colin Macleod
8. Protecting Confessions of Faith and Securing Equality of Treatment for Religious Minorities in Education / John McLaren
9. The Irreducibly Religious Content of Freedom of Religion / Jeremy Webber
Notes on Contributors
Index
Reviews
"This is a thoughtful and smart book; highly recommended for those working on the hard questions that multiculturalism generates for our theories of rights and justice."
- Duncan Ivison, author of Postcolonial Liberalism
The contribution of this collection is manifold. It presents specific Canadian conflicts concerning minority rights with sensitivity and particularity such that one can abstract broad, valuable principles as well as lessons for further theoretical and practical work in this area, locally and globally.
- Natasha Bakht, Review of Constitutional Studies, Vol.12, Issue 2, 2007
Sample Chapter
Front Matter and Chapter One
Related Topics
Political Science
Political Science > Canada
Law
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