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Diversity and Equality: The Changing Framework of Freedom in Canada
Avigail I Eisenberg
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Description for Diversity and Equality: The Changing Framework of Freedom in Canada
paperback. Critically examines the challenge of protecting rights in diverse societies. Editor(s): Eisenberg, Avigail. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JPV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 345.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Law and Society
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774812405
SKU
V9780774812405
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About Avigail I Eisenberg
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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