Diversity and Equality: The Changing Framework of Freedom in Canada (Law and Society) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774812400 ISBN 13: 9780774812405

Publisher: UBC Press, 2007

Synopsis

The tension between diversity and equality is central to debates about multiculturalism, self-determination, identity, and pluralism. How, for example, can the claims of ethnic and religious groups be respected when they conflict with individual rights and liberal equality? Diversity and Equality critically examines the challenge of protecting rights in diverse societies such as Canada. It develops new approaches in philosophy, law, politics, and anthropology to address the goals and problems associated with cultural, religious, and national minority rights. The contributors to this volume explore the conflicts between group demands for cultural autonomy and individual assertions of basic interests. At stake in these debates about rights and autonomy in multicultural and multinational democracies is the very meaning of freedom.

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About the Author

Avigail Eisenberg is a professor of political science at the University of Victoria. She is the author of Reconstructing Political Pluralism and co-editor of Minorities within Minorities and Painting the Maple.

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Diversity and Equality critically examines the challenge of protecting rights in diverse societies such as Canada.

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Diversity and Equality critically examines the challenge of protecting rights in diverse societies such as Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774812400
• ISBN 13: 9780774812405
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Eisenberg Avigail