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Citizenship in Diverse Societies Will Kymlicka (Queen's National Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Queen's National Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University Canada)

Citizenship in Diverse Societies By Will Kymlicka (Queen's National Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Queen's National Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University Canada)

Summary

Is it possible, in a modern, pluralistic society, to promote common bonds of citizenship while accommodating ethnocultural diversity? This work examines points of conflict and convergence between concerns for citizenship and diversity in democracies, reassessing and refining existing theories.

Citizenship in Diverse Societies Summary

Citizenship in Diverse Societies by Will Kymlicka (Queen's National Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Queen's National Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University Canada)

Is it possible, in a modern, pluralistic society, to promote common bonds of citizenship while at the same time accommodating and showing respect for ethnocultural diversity? 'Citizenship' and 'diversity' have been two of the major topics of debate in both democratic politics and political theory over the past decade. Much has been written about the importance of citizenship, civic identities, and civic virtues for the functioning of liberal democracies, and also about the need to accommodate the ethnocultural, linguistic, and religious pluralism that is a fact of life in most modern states. By and large, however, these two topics have been largely discussed in mutual isolation. Much of the writing on the issues of both citizenship and diversity remains rather abstract and general and disconnected from the concrete issues of public policy and institutional design. Citizenship in Diverse Societies examines the specific points of conflict and convergence between concerns for citizenship and diversity in democratic societies and reassesses and refines existing theories of 'diverse citizenship' by examining these theories in the light of actual practices and policies of pluralistic democracies.

Citizenship in Diverse Societies Reviews

The fifteen very substantial chapters in Citizenship in Diverse Societies give an immensely comprehensive analysis of some of the key problems in bringing culture into the sphere of citizenship ... excellent volume. * The Global Review of Ethnopolitics *
The editors' introduction provides an excellent survey of the current state of play within Anglophone political philosophy ... this is a high-quality collection. * Radical Philosophy *
This collection represents an invaluable contribution to this literature ... This book contains fourteen essays written by some of the best and most thought-provoking writers on this subject, as well as an extended introduction that places these essays in the context of the wider debate. * Political Studies *

Table of Contents

1. Citizenship in Diverse Societies: an introduction ; PART I: CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY ; 2. Discrimination and Religious Schooling ; 3. Extending Diversity: Religion in Public and Private Education ; PART II: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND GROUP REPRESENTATION ; 4. What Does a Representative Do? Descriptive Representation in Communicative Settings of Distrust, Uncrystallized Interests, and Historically Denigrated Status ; 5. The Uneasy Alliance of Deliberative Democracy and Group Representation ; PART III: IMMIGRATION, IDENTITY AND MULTICULTURALISM ; 6. Cultural Identity and Civic Responsibility ; 7. Anti-Essentialism, Multiculturalism and the Recognition of Religious Groups ; PART IV: GENDER AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY ; 8. Should Church and State be Joined at the Altar: Women's Rights and the Multicultural Dilemma ; 9. Female Autonomy and Cultural Imperative: Two Hearts Beating Together ; PART V: LANGUAGE RIGHTS ; 10. Official Language Rights: Intrinsic Value and the Protection of Difference ; 11. Citizenship and Official Bilingualism in Canada ; PART VI: THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ; 12. Three Modes of Incorporating Indigenous Law ; 13. Landed Citizenship: Narratives of Aboriginal Political Participation ; PART VII: FEDERALISM AND NATIONALISM ; 14. Sustainable Federalism, Democratisation and Distributive Justice ; 15. Why Stay Together: A Pluralist Approach to Secession and Federation

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Citizenship in Diverse Societies by Will Kymlicka (Queen's National Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Queen's National Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University Canada)
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