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Ethnicity and group rights

Title: Ethnicity and group rights / edited by Ian Shapiro and Will Kymlicka.
Publication: New York : New York University Press, [1997], ©1997.

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xiv, 627 pages : maps; 22 cm.

Summary

Within Western political philosophy, the rights of groups have often been neglected or addressed in only the narrowest fashion. Focusing solely on whether rights are exercised by individuals or groups misses what lies at the heart of ethnocultural conflict, leaving central questions unanswered: Can the familiar system of common citizenship rights within liberal democracies sufficiently accommodate the legitimate interests of "ethnic" citizens?
How does membership in an ethnic group differ from other groups, such as professional, lifestyle, or advocacy groups? How important is ethnicity to personal identity and self-respect, and does accomodating these interests require more than standard citizenship rights? Perhaps most important, what forms of ethnocultural accomodations are consistent with democratic equality, individual freedom, and political stability?
Invoking numerous case studies and addressing the issue of ethnicity from a range of perspectives, Ethnicity and Group Rights seeks to answer these questions.

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Nomos ; 39

Uniform Title

Nomos ; 39.

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Note

"Began as papers and commentaries read at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy held in conjunction with the Association of American Law Schools, held in New Orleans, Louisiana in January 1995"--Pref.

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Contents

1. Introduction / Will Kymlicka and Ian Shapiro -- 2. Classifying Cultural Rights / Jacob T. Levy -- 3. Cultural Toleration / Chandran Kukathas -- 4. Response to Kukathas / Michael Walzer -- 5. On Human Diversity and the Limits of Toleration / Adeno Addis -- 6. The Idea of Nonliberal Constitutionalism / Graham Walker -- 7. Group Rights and Ethnicity / Thomas W. Pogge -- 8. On Justifying Special Ethnic Group Rights: Comments on Pogge / S. James Anaya -- 9. Group Agency and Group Rights / James W. Nickel -- 10. Common-Law Constructions of Group Autonomy: A Case Study / Denise G. Reaume -- 11. A Tale of Two Villages (Or, Legal Realism Comes to Town) / Nomi Maya Stolzenberg -- 12. Deferring Group Representation / Iris Marion Young -- 13. What Is a Balanced Committee? Democratic Theory, Public Law, and the Question of Fair Representation on Quasi-Legislative Bodies / Andrew Stark -- 14. Self-Determination: Politics, Philosophy, and Law / Donald L. Horowitz --
15. Tribes, Regions, and Nationalism in Democratic Malawi / Deborah Kaspin -- 16. "That Time Was Apartheid, Now It's the New South Africa": Discourses of Race in Ruyterwacht, 1995 / Courtney Jung and Jeremy Seekings -- 17. From Ethnic Exclusion to Ethnic Diversity: The Australian Path to Multiculturalism / John Kane -- 18. Straight Gay Politics: The Limits of an Ethnic Model of Inclusion / Cathy J. Cohen.

ISBN

LCCN

96035605

OCLC

ocm35249543

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries