Debating Multiculturalism Should There be Minority Rights?

by Lenard, Patti Tamara; Balint, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780197528372
• ISBN10: 0197528376
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-02-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Peter Balint is a Senior Lecturer in International & Political Studies at UNSW Canberra. His most recent book Respecting Toleration: Traditional Liberalism and Contemporary Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2017), was awarded an APSA CRISP Prize in 2018. His research is in political theory and is
primarily focussed on the principles for diversity, including respect, toleration, neutrality, and social cohesion. He is regularly asked to consult government on issues of migration, multiculturalism, and citizenship.

Patti Tamara Lenard is Professor of Applied Ethics in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa.. She is the author of Trust, Democracy and Multicultural Challenges (Penn State, 2012) and How Should Democracies Fight Terrorism? (Polity, 2020). She is active in the
fields of political theory of migration, counter-terrorism, and democracy more generally. In Ottawa, she runs a small community organization called Rainbow Haven, which sponsors, settles and advocates for LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Multiculturalism and Minority Rights
Peter Balint & Patti Tamara Lenard

PART I: Pro Multiculturalism
Patti Tamara Lenard
Chapter 1: Introduction to Part I
Chapter 2: What is Culture? Why Political Inclusion?
Chapter 3: Cultural Claims and Political Inclusion
Chapter 4: Cultural Preservation and Multicultural Accommodation
Chapter 5: Non-Interference and Political Inclusion
Chapter 6: Shared Public Culture in Diverse States

PART II: Against Multicultural Minority Rights
Peter Balint
Chapter 7: Introduction to Part II
Chapter 8: We are All Neutralists Now!
Chapter 9: Neutrality without Minority Rights
Chapter 10: National Minorities, Indigenous Peoples, and Historical Injustice
Chapter 11: Multiculturalism and the Demands on Citizens
Chapter 12: Conclusion to Part II

Part III: Responses
Chapter 13: Response to Balint
Culture not Colanders: Why Neutralism Fails to Respond Effectively to the Challenges of Cultural Diversity
Patti Tamara Lenard
Chapter 14: Response to Lenard
Multiculturalism without Minority (or Majority) Rights
Peter Balint