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Social Science Minority Studies

Diversity and Equality

The Changing Framework of Freedom in Canada

edited by Avigail Eisenberg

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2011
Category
Minority Studies, General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774841153
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $99.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774812405
    Publish Date
    Jan 2007
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774812399
    Publish Date
    Apr 2006
    List Price
    $95.00

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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.

About the author

Contributor Notes

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.