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Political Science History & Theory

Recognition versus Self-Determination

Dilemmas of Emancipatory Politics

edited by Avigail Eisenberg, Jeremy Webber, Glen Coulthard & Andr?e Boisselle

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2014
Category
History & Theory, Indigenous Peoples, Minority Studies
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774827447
    Publish Date
    Apr 2014
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774827423
    Publish Date
    Jan 2015
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774827416
    Publish Date
    Apr 2014
    List Price
    $95.00

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Description

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

About the authors

Contributor Notes

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. Andr?e Boisselle is an assistant professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.

Contributors: Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Fran?ois Boucher, Kirsty Gover, Courtney Jung, Rinku Lamba, Zoran Oklopcic, Ghislain Otis, Michel Seymour, Jakeet Singh, and Melissa S. Williams.