The Politics Of Reconciliation In Multicultural Societies

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 : K. Shimizu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137403608
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific written by K. Shimizu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY license. This edited collection focuses on theories, language and migration in relation to multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. Each chapter aims to provide alternative understandings to current conflicts that have arisen due to immigration and policies related to education, politics, language, work, citizenship and identity.

Author : Rachel Busbridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317215699
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multicultural Politics of Recognition and Postcolonial Citizenship written by Rachel Busbridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines claims for recognition of cultural difference from immigrant and Indigenous minorities, highlighting the ways in which they intersect with ideas of national community. Busbridge argues that there is an important, albeit under-explored, relationship between nation and multicultural politics of recognition. Drawing on the Australian context, the book explores how nation features as a productive, if somewhat ambivalent, discursive resource in contemporary Muslim and Aboriginal struggles to be recognised. In demanding recognition, minorities enter into the business of ‘making the nation’ by positing alternative conceptions of national identity, culture and belonging that are more attentive to their differences and claims. This dynamic is engaged as an expression of ‘postcolonial citizenship’. Postcolonial citizenship is imagined in terms of the ways in which minority groups actualise multicultural realities through rewriting ideas of national community. It underlines the critical importance of revising the power relations that deem some groups ‘more national’ and others less so – and which, in Western multicultural societies, are typically tied to notions of the ‘West’ and its ‘others’. This book is an important conceptual, theoretical and political intervention that brings postcolonialism and multiculturalism into dialogue on the increasingly potent issues of nation and national identity. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of sociology, politics, postcolonial studies, culture, identity and nation.

Author : Anke Bartels
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004335196
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Justice written by Anke Bartels and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Justice addresses a crucial issue in current postcolonial theory: the question of how to reconcile an ethics of diversity and difference with the normative, if not universal thrust that appears to energize any notion of justice.

Author : Kosuke Shimizu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781013285806
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific written by Kosuke Shimizu and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY license. Japan has recently promoted a number of initiatives that can be termed an opening to the world and the Asia-Pacific in particular. These have origins in Japan's globalization generally and multicultural policies more specifically. The chapters in this book are grouped in three parts-theories, language, and migration-and they explicate details of multiculturalism in the Asia-Pacific, largely focused on Japan, but including cases that extend beyond Japan as well. Alternative understandings based on analyzing conflicts and moving towards reconciliation underscore the urgency of viewing multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific from perspectives that are firmly based in the region. Themes such as immigration, identity, foreign language education, politics and language, English language policies, dual citizenship, foreign labor policies and movements, and higher education are all addressed in the individual chapters. This book will be of interest to scholars of multiculturalism in a wide variety of fields. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : K Shimizu
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349680542
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific written by K Shimizu and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY license. This edited collection focuses on theories, language and migration in relation to multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. Each chapter aims to provide alternative understandings to current conflicts that have arisen due to immigration and policies related to education, politics, language, work, citizenship and identity.

Author : Terry Maley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487554044
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Envisioning Democracy written by Terry Maley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few terms elicit such strong and varied feelings and yet have so little clarity as "democracy." Leaders of large states use "democracy" to designate their nations’ public character even as critics and rivals use the term to validate their own political perspectives. In Envisioning Democracy, the editors and contributors address the following questions: What does democracy mean today? What could it mean tomorrow? What is the dynamic of democracy in an increasingly interdependent world? Envisioning Democracy explores these questions amid the dynamic of democracy as a political phenomenon interacting with forms of economic, ethical, ethnic, and intellectual life. The book draws on the work of Sheldon S. Wolin (1922–2015), one of the most influential American theorists of the last fifty years. Here, scholars consider the historical conditions, theoretical elements, and practical impediments to democracy, using Wolin’s insights as touchstones in thinking through the possibilities and obstacles facing democracy now and in the future.

Author : Ranjan DATTA
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781773631707
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconciliation in Practice: A Cross-Cultural Perspective written by Ranjan DATTA and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Petr Agha
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509902813
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Between Law and Politics written by Petr Agha and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses human rights in post-national contexts and demonstrates, through the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, that the Margin of Appreciation doctrine is an essential part of human rights adjudication. Current approaches have tended to stress the instrumental value of the Margin of Appreciation, or to give it a complementary role within the principle of proportionality, while others have been wholly critical of it. In contradiction to these approaches this volume shows that the doctrine is a genuinely normative principle capable of balancing conflicting values. It explores to what extent the tension between human rights and politics, embodied in the doctrine, might be understood as a mutually reinforcing interplay of variables rather than an entrenched separation. By linking the interpretation of the Margin of Appreciation doctrine to a broader conception of human rights, understood as complex political and moral norms, this volume argues that the doctrine can assist in the formulation of the common good in light of the requirements of the Convention.

Author : A. Fleras
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230100120
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Multiculturalism written by A. Fleras and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops an account of 'inclusive multicultural governance' which is contrasted with assimilationist and separatist/differentialist approaches to the political management of and accommodation of multicultural diversity in liberal democracies.