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. 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. This book is the first attempt to systematically explore these areas of potential convergence and divergence.
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Drawing on both theoretical debates and case studies from around the world, this book explores how the politics of reconciliation relates to various models of democratic citizenship.
1. Introduction: Struggles for Inclusion and Reconciliation in Modern Democracies ; 2. Reconciliation Reconceived: Religion, Secularism, and the Language of Transition ; 3. Reconciling Historically Excluded Social Groups: Deliberative Democracy and the Politics of Reconciliation ; 4. Reconciling History and Equal Citizenship in Israel: Democracy and the Politics of Historical Denial ; 5. Act & Fact: Slavery Reparations as a Democratic Politics of Reconciliation ; 6. 'The Very Basis of Civility': On Agonism, Conquest and Reconciliation ; 7. Under Western Eyes: 'Into the Heart of Africa', Colonial Ethnographic Display, and the Politics of Multiculturalism ; 8. The Jurisprudence of Reconciliation: Aboriginal Rights in Canada ; 9. Gender and Collective Reparations in the Aftermath of Conflict and Political Repression ; Bibliography ; Index
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Fills a remarkable gap in the literature and stimulates further research in this important area
Bashir Bashir is a post-doctorate fellow at the Department of Political Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a research fellow at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He has a Ph.D. in Political Theory from the Government Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He obtained MSc in Political Theory from the LSE in 2000, and a B.A. in Political Science and in Sociology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1998). He has taught political theory at the LSE, Queen's University and the Hebrew University. His primary research interests are democratic theories of inclusion, conflict-resolution and the politics of reconciliation, deliberative democracy, and multiculturalism. Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University, and the author of six books published by Oxford University Press: Liberalism, Community, and Culture (1989), Contemporary Political Philosophy (1990; second edition 2002), 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, Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998), Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, Citizenship (2001), and Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007). He is a visiting professor in the Nationalism Studies program at the Central European University in Budapest. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research.
Les mer
Fills a remarkable gap in the literature and stimulates further research in this important area

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ISBN
9780199233809
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
519 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
258

Biographical note

Bashir Bashir is a post-doctorate fellow at the Department of Political Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a research fellow at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He has a Ph.D. in Political Theory from the Government Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He obtained MSc in Political Theory from the LSE in 2000, and a B.A. in Political Science and in Sociology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1998). He has taught political theory at the LSE, Queen's University and the Hebrew University. His primary research interests are democratic theories of inclusion, conflict-resolution and the politics of reconciliation, deliberative democracy, and multiculturalism. Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University, and the author of six books published by Oxford University Press: Liberalism, Community, and Culture (1989), Contemporary Political Philosophy (1990; second edition 2002), 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, Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998), Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, Citizenship (2001), and Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007). He is a visiting professor in the Nationalism Studies program at the Central European University in Budapest. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research.