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Politics in the Vernacular Will Kymlicka (Queen's National Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Queen's National Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Canada)

Politics in the Vernacular By Will Kymlicka (Queen's National Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Queen's National Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Canada)

Summary

Will Kymlicka is widely regarded as the most influential and original theorist of the rights and status of ethnocultural groups in liberal democracies. This text brings together 18 of his most important essays, tackling issues of immigration, nationalism, multiculturalism and the meaning of citizenship in today's increasingly pluralistic societies.

Politics in the Vernacular Summary

Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship by Will Kymlicka (Queen's National Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Queen's National Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Canada)

This volume brings together eighteen of Will Kymlicka's recent essays on nationalism, multiculturalism and citizenship. These essays expand on the well-known theory of minority rights first developed in his Multicultural Citizenship. In these new essays, Kymlicka applies his theory to several pressing controversies regarding ethnic relations today, responds to some of his critics, and situates the debate over minority rights within the larger context of issues of nationalism, democratic citizenship and globalization. The essays are divided into four sections. The first section summarizes 'the state of the debate' over minority rights, and explains how the debate has evolved over the past 15 years. The second section explores the requirements of ethnocultural justice in a liberal democracy. Kymlicka argues that the protection of individual human rights is insufficient to ensure justice between ethnocultural groups, and that minority rights must supplement human rights. In particular, Kymlicka explores why some form of power-sharing (such as federalism) is often required to ensure justice for national minorities; why indigenous peoples have distinctive rights relating to economic development and environmental protection; and why we need to define fairer terms of integration for immigrants. The third section focuses on nationalism. Kymlicka discusses some of the familiar misinterpretations and preconceptions which liberals have about nationalism, and defends the need to recognize that there are genuinely liberal forms of nationalism. He discusses the familiar (but misleading) contrast between 'cosmopolitanism' and 'nationalism', and discusses why liberals have gradually moved towards a position that combines elements of both. The final section explores how these increasing demands by ethnic and national groups for minority rights affect the practice of democratic citizenship. Kymlicka surveys recent theories of citizenship, and raises questions about how they are challenged by ethnocultural diversity. He emphasizes the importance of education as a site of conflict between demands for accommodating ethnocultural diversity and demands for promoting the common virtues and loyalties required by democratic citizenship. And, finally, he explores the extent to which 'globalization' requires us to think about citizenship in more global terms, or whether citizenship will remain tied to national institutions and political processes. Taken together, these essays make a major contribution to enriching our understanding of the theory and practice of ethnocultural relations in Western democracies.

Politics in the Vernacular Reviews

Takes a characteristically coherent and thoughtful multiculturalist stand on various issues such as global distributive justice, citizenship in multinational states, nationalism and federalism. * Nations and Nationalism *
Kymlicka's criticisms set extremely high standards of rigor and even-handedness for critics of his own views ... this volume represents a further distinguished contribution to the remarkable recent flowering of Canadian political thought by one of its major representatives. * Canadian Journal of Political Science *

About Will Kymlicka (Queen's National Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Queen's National Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Canada)

Will Kymlicka is the author of four books published by Oxford University Press: "Liberalism, Community, and Culture" (1989), "Contemporary Political Philosophy" (1990), "Multicultural Citizenship" (1995), which was awarded the Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association, and the Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association, and "Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada" (1998). He is also the editor of "Justice in Political Philosophy" (Elgar, 1992), "The Rights of Minority Cultures" (Oxford, 1995), and "Ethnicity and Group Rights (NYU, 1997)". He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Queens University.

Table of Contents

PART A. THE NEW DEBATE OVER MINORITY RIGHTS ; 1. The New Debate over Minority Rights ; 2. Do We Need a Liberal Theory of Minority Rights? Reply to Carens, Young, Parekh and Forst ; 3. Liberal Culturalism: An Emerging Consensus? ; PART B. ETHNOCULTURAL JUSTICE ; 4. Human Rights and Ethnocultural Justice ; 5. Minority Nationalism and Multination Federalism ; 6. Theorizing Indigenous Rights ; 7. Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice ; 8. The Theory and Practice of Immigrant Multiculturalism ; PART C. MISUNDERSTANDING NATIONALISM ; 9. Misunderstanding Nationalism ; 10. Modernity and Minority Nationalism: Commentary on Thomas Franck ; 11. The Paradox of Liberal Nationalism ; 12. From Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism to Liberal Nationalism ; 13. Cosmopolitanism, Nation-States and Minority Nationalism: A Critical Review of Recent Literature ; 14. American Multiculturalism in the International Arena ; 15. Minority Nationalism and Immigrant Integration ; PART D: DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP IN MULTIETHNIC STATES ; 16. Return of the Citizen: A Survey of Recent Work on Citizenship Theory ; 17. Education for Citizenship ; 18. Citizenship in an Era of Globalization: Commentary on Held ; 19. Liberal Egalitarianism and Civic Republicanism: Friends or Enemies?

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NPB9780198296652
9780198296652
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Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship 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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2001-01-18
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