Diversity and Equality - The Changing Framework of Freedom in Canada

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Diversity and Equality critically examines the challenge of protecting rights in diverse societies such as Canada. Zusammenfassung Critically examines the challenge of protecting rights in diverse societies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: New Approaches to Fundamental Freedom in Canada / Avigail Eisenberg 1. Reconciling Struggles over the Recognition of Minorities: Towards a Dialogical Approach / James Tully 2. Reasoning about Identity: Canada's Distinctive Culture Test / Avigail Eisenberg 3. The Imperative of "Culture" in a Colonial and de Facto Polity / Shauna McRanor 4. Culture as a Basic Human Right / Cindy Holder 5. The Misuse of "Culture" by the Supreme Court of Canada / Neil Vallance 6. Gender, Difference, and Anti-Essentialism: Towards a Feminist Response to Cultural Claims in Law / Maneesha Deckha 7. Interpreting the Identity Claims of Young Children / Colin Macleod 8. Protecting Confessions of Faith and Securing Equality of Treatment for Religious Minorities in Education / 9. The Irreducibly Religious Content of Freedom of Religion / Jeremy Webber Notes on Contributors Index

Product details

• Authors: Avigail (EDT) Eisenberg
• Assisted by: Avigail Eisenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2007
• EAN: 9780774812405
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1240-5
• No. of pages: 207
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Law and Society; Law and Society (Paperback); Law and Society; Law and Society (Paperback)
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology