Minorities within Minorities :Equality, Rights and Diversity

Publication subTitle :Equality, Rights and Diversity

Author: Avigail Eisenberg;Jeff Spinner-Halev;  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 2005

E-ISBN: 9781316939925

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521843140

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780521843140

Subject: D562 Ethnic Problems

Keyword: 政治理论

Language: ENG

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Distinguished scholars examine the balance between group autonomy and individual rights in this edited volume. If rights are awarded to minority groups, what should be the response if these groups in turn discriminate against some of their members? Sixteen distinguished scholars examine the balance between group autonomy and individual rights in relation to gender, religion, culture, and indigenous rights in the national and international sphere. If rights are awarded to minority groups, what should be the response if these groups in turn discriminate against some of their members? Sixteen distinguished scholars examine the balance between group autonomy and individual rights in relation to gender, religion, culture, and indigenous rights in the national and international sphere. Most discussions of multiculturalism and group rights focus on the relationship between the minority and the majority. This volume advances our understanding of minority rights by focusing on conflicts that arise within minority groups and by examining the different sorts of responses that the liberal state might have to these conflicts. Groups around the world are increasingly successful in maintaining or winning autonomy. In light of this trend, a crucial question emerges: what happens to individuals within groups who find that their group discriminates against them? This volume brings together distinguished scholars who examine this question by weaving together normative political theory with case studies drawn from South Africa, the United States, India, Canada, and Britain. Classical liberalism, deliberative democracy, feminism, and associative democracy are among the theoretical frameworks used to offer solutions to the complex set of issues raised by minorities within minorities. Introduction Avigail Eisenberg and Jeff Spinner-Halev; Part I. Toleration: 1. Tolerable liberalism Melissa S. Williams; 2. A liberalism of conscience Lucas Swaine; Part II. Equality: 3. Multiculturalism and feminism: no simple question, no simple answers Susan Moller Okin; 4. Can intra-group equality co-exist with cultural diversity?: re-examining multicultural frameworks of accommodation Gurpreet Mahajan; 5. Gender versus culture: not always a deep disagreement Anne Phillips; 6. The rights of internal linguistic minorities Alan Patten; Part III. Individual Autonomy: 7. Autonomy, association and pluralism Jeff Spinner-Halev; 8. Sexual orientation, exit and refuge Jacob T. Levy; 9. On exit Oonagh Reitman; 10. Exit 'exit rights': reframing the debate Daniel M. Weinstock; Part IV. Self-Determination: 12. Identity and liberal politics: the problem of minorities within minorities Avigail Eisenberg; 13. Internal minorities and indigenous self-determination Margaret Moore; 14. Self-determination as a basic human right: the draft UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples Cindy Holder; Part V. Democracy: 15. Associative democracy and minorities within minorities Veit Bader; 16. A deliberative approach to conflicts of culture Monique Deveaux. "...a valuable and much welcomed contribution to studies in contemporary phenomenology and Husserl scholarship." --Christopher McTavish, Loyola University of Chicago: Philosophy in Review

Chapter

Peace

Disconnected discourses

Giving peace its due

2 A liberalism of conscience

Theocratic minorities in liberal democracies

Discord in the public realm

Four prudential problems of theocracy

Four moral failures of liberalism

The charge of liberalism: meeting the challenges of theocracy

Conclusion

Part II Equality

3 Multiculturalism and feminism: no simple question, no simple answers

Posing a question, positing an answer?

Marilyn Friedman’s autonomy-based approach: leaning towards liberalism

Monique Deveaux’s deliberative approach: emphasizing and expanding democracy

Conclusions

4 Can intra-group equality co-exist with cultural diversity? Re-examining multicultural frameworks of accommodation

I

II

III

IV

5 Dilemmas of gender and culture: the judge, the democrat and the political activist

Against intractable value conflict

Gender versus culture: not a matter of competing equality claims

Political dilemmas

6 The rights of internal linguistic minorities

The territorial imperative argument

Communication

Identity

Conclusion

Part III Individual autonomy

7 Autonomy, association and pluralism

Defending a meaningful right to exit

The minimal standard argument

The libertarian challenge

The liberal challenge

Exceptions to the rule: justice and legitimacy

Conclusion

8 Sexual orientation, exit and refuge

I

II

III

IV

9 On exit

Exit’s basic role

Exit’s protective and transformative roles

The cost of exit

The counter-productive ricochet of exit’s transformative potential

Designing exit

Non-interventionism and exit

10 Minors within minorities: a problem for liberal multiculturalists

A right to culture?

The myopia of Raz’s liberal multiculturalism

Raz’s presumption of individual monoculturalism

Autonomy for illiberal cultures?

Conclusion

11 Beyond exit rights: reframing the debate

I

Autonomy liberalism

Pluralism

Associationist liberals

II

III

Conclusion

Part IV Self-determination

12 Identity and liberal politics: the problem of minorities within minorities

The dominant rights-based approach

The difference approach

Four problems with using identity

The general character of resolutions

13 Internal minorities and indigenous self-determination

Cultural incommensurability arguments

Respect for identity arguments

Historical injustice and rectificatory justice arguments

Conclusion

14 Self-determination as a basic human right: the Draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Introduction

Self-determination in the Draft Declaration

Basic rights, derivative rights and particular claims

Self-determination as a basic right

Self-determination as a right of all peoples

Self-determination as a human right

Conclusion

Part V Democracy

15 Associative democracy and minorities within minorities

Why does AD provide a better institutional setting than its main rivals?

The claims explained

Minimal moral constraints: minorities, issues and policy mix

AD, moderate voluntarism, and free entry and exit

AD and voice

Conclusion

16 A deliberative approach to conflicts of culture

Reconceiving democratic activity and the basis of legitimacy

Problems with deliberative democracy as usual

The challenge from pluralism

The problem of covert power and interests

An amended model of political deliberation: negotiation and compromise

Sex equality and the reform of customary marriage in South Africa

Conclusion: a conundrum?

References

Index

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