From Multiculturalism To Democratic Discrimination

Author : Alberto Spektorowski
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472127209
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Multiculturalism to Democratic Discrimination written by Alberto Spektorowski and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effect of Islam on Western Europe has been profound. Spektorowski and Elfersy argue that it has transformed European democratic values by inspiring an ultra-liberalism that now faces an ultra-conservative backlash. Questions of what to do about Muslim immigration, how to deal with burqas, how to deal with gender politics, have all been influenced by western democracies’ grappling with ideas of inclusion and most recently, exclusion. This book examines those forces and ultimately sees, not an unbridgeable gap, but a future in which Islam and European democracies are compatible, rich, and evolving.

Author : Gurpreet Mahajan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788178290980
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Multicultural Path written by Gurpreet Mahajan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Will Kymlicka
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199233802
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies written by Will Kymlicka and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most countries around the world exhibit a long history of exclusion and discrimination directed against ethnic, racial, national, religious, or ideological groups. The underlying justifications for these forms of exclusion have been increasingly discredited by the post-war human rights revolution, decolonization, and by contemporary norms of liberal-democratic constitutionalism, with their commitment to equal rights and non-discrimination. However, even as these older practices and ideologies of exclusion are discredited and repudiated, they continue to have enduring effects. The legacies of exclusion can still be seen in a wide range of social attitudes, cultural practices, economic and demographic patterns, and institutional rules that obstruct efforts to build genuinely inclusive societies of equal citizens. Finding ways to overcome this problem is a major challenge facing virtually every society around the world. The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies focuses on two parallel intellectual and political movements that have arisen to address this challenge: the 'politics of reconciliation', with its focus on reparations, truth-telling and healing amongst former adversaries, and the 'politics of difference', with its focus on the recognition and empowerment of minorities in multicultural societies. Both the politics of reconciliation and the politics of difference are having a profound impact on the theory and practice of democracy around the world, but remarkably little has been written about the relationship between them. This book aims to fill that gap. Drawing on both theoretical analysis and case studies from around the world, the authors explore how the politics of reconciliation and the politics of difference often interact in mutually supportive ways, as reconciliation leads to more multicultural conceptions of citizenship. But there are also important ways in which the two may compete in their aims and methods. The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies is the first attempt to systematically explore these areas of potential convergence and divergence.

Author : Steven Vertovec
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135270716
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiculturalism Backlash written by Steven Vertovec and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiculturalism has been much questioned across the world in recent years. This is a comprehensive analysis of how this happened and its consequences for our societies.

Author : Neus Torbisco Casals
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402042094
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Group Rights as Human Rights written by Neus Torbisco Casals and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberal theories have long insisted that cultural diversity in democratic societies can be accommodated through classical liberal tools, in particular through individual rights, and they have often rejected the claims of cultural minorities for group rights as illiberal. Group Rights as Human Rights argues that such a rejection is misguided. Based on a thorough analysis of the concept of group rights, it proposes to overcome the dominant dichotomy between "individual" human rights and "collective" group rights by recognizing that group rights also serve individual interests. It also challenges the claim that group rights, so understood, conflict with the liberal principle of neutrality; on the contrary, these rights help realize the neutrality ideal as they counter cultural biases that exist in Western states. Group rights deserve to be classified as human rights because they respond to fundamental, and morally important, human interests. Reading the theories of Will Kymlicka and Charles Taylor as complementary rather than opposed, Group Rights as Human Rights sees group rights as anchored both in the value of cultural belonging for the development of individual autonomy and in each person’s need for a recognition of her identity. This double foundation has important consequences for the scope of group rights: it highlights their potential not only in dealing with national minorities but also with immigrant groups; and it allows to determine how far such rights should also benefit illiberal groups. Participation, not intervention, should here be the guiding principle if group rights are to realize the liberal promise.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004291229
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenging the Status Quo written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the Status Quo offers the latest cutting-edge scholarship in the subfield of sociology of diversity and inclusion.

Author : P. Balint
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137320400
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberal Multiculturalism and the Fair Terms of Integration written by P. Balint and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiculturalism has come under considerable attack in political practice, yet the fact of diversity remains, and with it the need to establish fair terms of integration. This book defends multiculturalism as the most coherent and practicable approach to liberal integration, but one that is not without the need for crucial reformulation.

Author : Michael G. Hanchard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691203679
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectre of Race written by Michael G. Hanchard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How racism and discrimination have been central to democracies from the classical period to today As right-wing nationalism and authoritarian populism gain momentum across the world, liberals, and even some conservatives, worry that democratic principles are under threat. In The Spectre of Race, Michael Hanchard argues that the current rise in xenophobia and racist rhetoric is nothing new and that exclusionary policies have always been central to democratic practices since their beginnings in classical times. Contending that democracy has never been for all people, Hanchard discusses how marginalization is reinforced in modern politics, and why these contradictions need to be fully examined if the dynamics of democracy are to be truly understood. Hanchard identifies continuities of discriminatory citizenship from classical Athens to the present and looks at how democratic institutions have promoted undemocratic ideas and practices. The longest-standing modern democracies —France, Britain, and the United States—profited from slave labor, empire, and colonialism, much like their Athenian predecessor. Hanchard follows these patterns through the Enlightenment and to the states and political thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and he examines how early political scientists, including Woodrow Wilson and his contemporaries, devised what Hanchard has characterized as "racial regimes" to maintain the political and economic privileges of dominant groups at the expense of subordinated ones. Exploring how democracies reconcile political inequality and equality, Hanchard debates the thorny question of the conditions under which democracies have created and maintained barriers to political membership. Showing the ways that race, gender, nationality, and other criteria have determined a person's status in political life, The Spectre ofRace offers important historical context for how democracy generates political difference and inequality.

Author : Varun Uberoi
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474401899
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiculturalism Rethought written by Varun Uberoi and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the leading theorists of multiculturalism revisit aspects of Parekh's work both to underline its continuing importance and the ongoing vitality of multiculturalist theory.

Author : Patti Tamara Lenard
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271058889
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trust, Democracy, and Multicultural Challenges written by Patti Tamara Lenard and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banning minarets by referendum in Switzerland, publicly burning Korans in the United States, prohibiting kirpans in public spaces in Canada—these are all examples of the rising backlash against diversity that is spreading across multicultural societies. Trust has always been precarious, and never more so than as a result of increased immigration. The number of religions, races, ethnicities, and cultures living together in democratic communities and governed by shared political institutions is rising. The failure to construct public policy to cope with this diversity—to ensure that trust can withstand the pressure that diversity can pose—is a failure of democracy. The threat to trust originates in the perception that the values and norms that should underpin a public culture are no longer truly shared. Therefore, societies must focus on building trust through a revitalized public culture. In Trust, Democracy, and Multicultural Challenges, Patti Tamara Lenard plots a course for this revitalization. She argues that trust is at the center of effective democratic politics, that increasing ethnocultural diversity as a result of immigration may generate distrust, and therefore that democratic communities must work to generate the conditions under which trust between newcomers and “native” citizens can be built, so that the quality of democracy is sustained.