| Diversity and Equality: The Changing Framework of Freedom in Canada Contributor(s): Eisenberg, Avigail (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0774812397 ISBN-13: 9780774812399 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Social Science | Essays - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 323.171 |
| LCCN: 2006389430 |
| Series: Law and Society (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 in these debates about rights and autonomy in multicultural and multinational democracies is the very meaning of freedom. |