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. The chapters look at cultural recognition in the context of public policy about intellectual and physical property, membership practices, and independence movements, while probing debates about toleration, democratic citizenship, and colonialism.

Together the contributions point to a distinctive set of challenges posed by a politics of recognition and self-determination to peoples seeking emancipation from unjust relations.

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This book re-evaluates the role of recognition in analyzing relations between groups in plural societies, the position of indigenous peoples in settler societies, and the principle of the self-determination of peoples.
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Preface

Introduction: On the Use and Abuse of Recognition in Politics / Melissa S. Williams

Part 1: Recognition and Self-Determination: Connections and Tensions

1 Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the History of Mexican Indigenous Politics / Courtney Jung

2 Recognition and Self-Determination: Approaches from Above and Below / Jakeet Singh

3 Two Faces of State Power / Rinku Lamba

Part 2: The Practice of Recognition and Misrecognition, Self-Determination, and Imposition

4 A Farewell to Rhetorical Arms? Unravelling the Self-Determination of Peoples / Zoran Oklopcic

5 The Politics of Recognition and Misrecognition and the Case of Muslim Canadians / Yasmeen Abu-Laban

6 Place against Empire: The Dene Nation, Land Claims, and the Politics of Recognition in the North / Glen Coulthard

7 The Rights of Indigenous Peoples to Self-Determination and the Struggle against Cultural Appropriation / Francois Boucher

8 Inter-Indigenous Recognition and the Cultural Production of Indigeneity in the Western Settler States / Kirsty Gover

Part 3: Possible Ways of Reframing the Issues

9 Recognition, Politics of Difference, and the Institutional Identity of Peoples / Michel Seymour

10 Custom and Indigenous Self-Determination: Reflections on “Post-Territoriality” / Ghislain Otis

11 The Generosity of Toleration / Jeremy Webber

12 Self-Determination versus Recognition: Lessons and Conclusions / Avigail Eisenberg

Index

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Is a politics informed by recognition valuable to minorities today?

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780774827423
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
University of British Columbia Press
Vekt
560 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
348

Om bidragsyterne

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.