| Description |
xi, 245 p. ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : struggles for inclusion and reconciliation in modern democracies / Bashir Bashir and Will Kymlicka -- Reconciliation reconceived : religion, secularism, and the language of transition / Jonathan VanAntwerpen -- Accommodating historically oppressed social groups : deliberative democracy and the politics of reconciliation / Bashir Bashir -- Reconciling history and equal citizenship in Israel : democracy and the politics of historical denial / Nadim N. Rouhana -- Act and fact : slavery reparations as a democratic politics of reconciliation / Lawrie Balfour -- The very basis of civility : on agonism, conquest, and reconciliation / Paul Muldoon -- Under western eyes : into the heart of Africa, colonial ethnographic display, and the politics of multiculturalism / Sonali Thakkar -- The jurisprudence of reconciliation : aboriginal rights in Canada / Mark D. Walters -- Gender and collective reparations in the aftermath of conflict and political repression / Ruth Rubio-Marn |
| Summary |
"This book 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 |
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This book is the first attempt to systematically explore these areas of potential convergence and divergence."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc
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Conflict management
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Reconciliation -- Political aspects
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Reconciliation
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Cultural pluralism
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Minorities -- Civil rights
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Multiculturalism
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| Author |
Bashir, Bashir, 1976-
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Kymlicka, Will
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| LC no. |
2008024472 |
| ISBN |
9780199233809 (hbk.) : |
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0199233802 (hbk.) : |
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