Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship

by Will Kymlicka

Overview

Will Kymlicka is widely regarded as the most influential and original theorist of the rights and status of ethnocultural groups in liberal democracies.This volume brings together fifteen of Will Kymlicka's recent essays on nationalism, multiculturalism and citizenship. These essays expand on the well-known theory of minority rights first developed in his Multicultural Citizenship. In these new essays, Kymlicka applies his theory to several pressing controversies regarding ethnic relations today, responds to some of his critics, and situates the debate over minority rights within the larger context of issues of nationalism, democratic citizenship and globalization.political processes. Taken together, these essays make a major contribution to enriching our understanding of the theory and practice of ethnocultural relations in Western democracies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198296652
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/29/2001
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Will Kymlicka is the author of four books published by Oxford University Press: "Liberalism, Community, and Culture" (1989), "Contemporary Political Philosophy" (1990), "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, and "Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada" (1998). He is also the editor of "Justice in Political Philosophy" (Elgar, 1992), "The Rights of Minority Cultures" (Oxford, 1995), and "Ethnicity and Group Rights (NYU, 1997)". He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Queens University.

Table of Contents

Part A. The New Debate over Minority Rights1. The New Debate over Minority Rights2. Do We Need a Liberal Theory of Minority Rights? Reply to Carens, Young, Parekh and Forst3. Liberal Culturalism: An Emerging Consensus?Part B. Ethnocultural Justice4. Human Rights and Ethnocultural Justice5. Minority Nationalism and Multination Federalism6. Theorizing Indigenous Rights7. Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice8. The Theory and Practice of Immigrant MulticulturalismPart C. Misunderstanding Nationalism9. Misunderstanding Nationalism10. Modernity and Minority Nationalism: Commentary on Thomas Franck11. The Paradox of Liberal Nationalism12. From Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism to Liberal Nationalism13. Cosmopolitanism, Nation-States and Minority Nationalism: A Critical Review of Recent Literature14. American Multiculturalism in the International Arena15. Minority Nationalism and Immigrant IntegrationPart D: Democratic Citizenship in Multiethnic States16. Return of the Citizen: A Survey of Recent Work on Citizenship Theory17. Education for Citizenship18. Citizenship in an Era of Globalization: Commentary on Held19. Liberal Egalitarianism and Civic Republicanism: Friends or Enemies?