Avigail Eisenberg

Reasons of Identity

A Normative Guide to the Political and Legal Assessment of Identity Claims

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines several key approaches used by courts and legislatures to assess the claims made by minorities for protection of some aspect of their identities such as a cultural or religious practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 166mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9780199291304
• ISBN-10: 0199291306
• Artikelnr.: 27034754

Autorenporträt

Avigail Eisenberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Faculty Associate in the Indigenous Governance program at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1: Introduction
2: The Identity Approach : Public decision making in diverse societies
3: Multiculturalism, identity quietism, and identity skepticism
4: Diversity and sexual equality: The challenge of incommensurability
5: Religious identity and the problem of authenticity
6: Indigenous identity: The perils of essentialism and domestication
7: Conclusion: Reasons of identity
Bibliography