Minorities within Minorities: Equality, Rights and Diversity

by Edited by Avigail Eisenberg , Jeff Spinner-Halev

• ISBN13: 9780521843140
• ISBN10: 0521843146
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Most discussions of multiculturalism and group rights focus on the relationship between the minority and the majority. This volume advances our understanding of minority rights by focusing on conflicts that arise within minority groups and by examining the different sorts of responses that the liberal state might have to these conflicts. Groups around the world are increasingly successful in maintaining or winning autonomy. In light of this trend, a crucial question emerges: what happens to individuals within groups who find that their group discriminates against them? This volume brings together distinguished scholars who examine this question by weaving together normative political theory with case studies drawn from South Africa, the United States, India, Canada, and Britain. Classical liberalism, deliberative democracy, feminism, and associative democracy are among the theoretical frameworks used to offer solutions to the complex set of issues raised by minorities within minorities.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction	1	(18)
Avigail Bisenberg
Jeff Spinner-Halev
Part I Toleration
Tolerable liberalism	19	(22)
Melissa S. Williams
A liberalism of conscience	41	(26)
Lucas Swaine
Part II Equality
Multiculturalism and feminism: no simple question, no simple answers	67	(23)
Susan Moller Okin
Can intra-group equality co-exist with cultural diversity? Re-examining multicultural frameworks of accommodation	90	(23)
Gurpreet Mahajan
Dilemmas of gender and culture: the judge, the democrat and the political activist	113	(22)
Anne Phillips
The rights of internal linguistic minorities	135	(22)
Alan Patten
Part III Individual autonomy
Autonomy, association and pluralism	157	(15)
Jeff Spinner-Halev
Sexual orientation, exit and refuge	172	(17)
Jacob T. Levy
On exit	189	(20)
Oonagh Reitman
Minors within minorities: a problem for liberal multiculturalists	209	(18)
Rob Reich
Beyond exit rights: reframing the debate	227	(22)
Daniel M. Weinstock
Part IV Self-determination
Identity and liberal politics: the problem of minorities within minorities	249	(22)
Avigail Eisenberg
Internal minorities and indigenous self-determination	271	(23)
Margaret Moore
Self-determination as a basic human right: the Draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples	294	(25)
Cindy Holder
Part V Democracy
Associative democracy and minorities within minorities	319	(21)
Veit Bader
A deliberative approach to conflicts of culture	340	(23)
Monique Deveaux
References	363	(22)
Index	385