Recognition versus Self-Determination: Dilemmas of Emancipatory Politics (Ethnicity and Democratic Governance) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774827424 ISBN 13: 9780774827423

Publisher: UBC Press, 2015

Synopsis

The political concept of recognition has introduced new ways of thinking about the relationship between minorities and justice in plural societies. But is a politics informed by recognition valuable to minorities today? Contributors to this volume examine the successes and failures of struggles for recognition and self-determination in relation to claims of religious groups, cultural minorities, and Indigenous peoples on territories associated with Canada, the United States, Europe, Latin America, India, New Zealand, and Australia. They point to a distinctive set of challenges posed by a politics of recognition and self-determination to peoples seeking emancipation from unjust relations.

About this title

From the Author:

Avigail Eisenberg is a professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria. Jeremy Webber is Dean of Law and Canada Research Chair in Law and Society at the University of Victoria. Glen Coulthard is a member of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation and is an assistant professor in the First Nations Studies Program and the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Andrée Boisselle is an assistant professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.

Contributors: Yasmeen Abu-Laban, François Boucher, Kirsty Gover, Courtney Jung, Rinku Lamba, Zoran Oklopcic, Ghislain Otis, Michel Seymour, Jakeet Singh, and Melissa S. Williams.

Book Description:

Is a politics informed by recognition valuable to minorities today?

About this edition

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0774827424
• ISBN 13: 9780774827423
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348
• Editor: Eisenberg Avigail, Webber Jeremy, Coulthard Glen, Boisselle Andrée