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Title Citizenship, diversity, and pluralism : Canadian and comparative perspectives / edited by Alan C. Cairns [and others]
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 287 pages)
Contents Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Empire, Globalization, and the Fall and Rise of Diversity -- 3 Reflections on Ethnic Politics -- 4 Landed Citizenship: Narratives of Aboriginal Political Participation -- 5 Just How Civic Is Civic Nationalism in Quebec? -- 6 Social Citizenship and the Multicultural Welfare State -- 7 Is Citizenship a Gendered Concept? -- 8 National Self-Determination and Tomorrow's Political Map -- 9 The Legal Enforcement of Social Norms: Techniques and Principles
10 Citizenship, Diversity, and Pluralism: The Case of the European Union11 The Purchased Revolution in South Africa -- 12 Citizenship, Human Rights, and Diversity -- 13 Democratic Exclusion (and Its Remedies?)
Summary In Citizenship, Diversity, and Pluralism leading scholars assess the transformation of these two dimensions of citizenship in increasingly diverse and plural modern societies, both in Canada and internationally. Subjects addressed include the changing ethnic demography of states, social citizenship, multiculturalism, feminist perspectives on citizenship, aboriginal nationalism, identity politics, and the internationalization of human rights. Contributors include Heribert Adam (Simon Fraser), Keith Banting (Queen's), Anthony Birch (emeritus, Victoria), John Borrows (UBC), Alan Cairns, Walker Connor (Trinity College), John Erik Fossum (LOS?Senteret, Norway), Virginia Leary (emeritus, SUNY), Denise Réaume (Toronto), Lynn Smith (justice, BC Supreme Court), Charles Taylor (emeritus, McGill), and Jeremy Webber (Sydney, Australia)
Notes Papers presented at a conference held in Saskatoon, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1997
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Citizenship.
Citizenship -- Canada
Cultural pluralism.
Multiculturalism -- Canada
Cultural Diversity
citizenship.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civics & Citizenship.
Citizenship
Cultural pluralism
Multiculturalism
Citoyenneté.
Citoyenneté -- Canada.
Multiculturalisme -- Canada.
Pluralisme.
Canada
Form Electronic book
Author Cairns, Alan, editor.
ISBN 9780773568020
0773568026
9786612858246
6612858249
1282858246
9781282858244