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Diversity and Equality
The Changing Framework of Freedom in Canada
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Edited by:
Avigail Eisenberg
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English
Published/Copyright:
2007
About this 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.
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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.
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Duncan Ivison, author of Postcolonial Liberalism:
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.
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.
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: New Approaches to Freedom in Canada
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Reconciling Struggles over the Recognition of Minorities: Towards a Dialogical Approach
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Reasoning about Identity: Canada’s Distinctive Culture Test
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The Imperative of “Culture” in a Colonial and de facto Polity
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Culture as a Basic Human Right
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The Misuse of “Culture” by the Supreme Court of Canada
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Gender, Difference, and Anti-Essentialism: Towards a Feminist Response to Cultural Claims in Law
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Interpreting the Identity Claims of Young Children
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Protecting Confessions of Faith and Securing Equality of Treatment for Religious Minorities in Education
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The Irreducibly Religious Content of Freedom of Religion
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Contributors
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Index
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