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Showing 1 - 12 of 15 results for “will kymlicka”
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  • Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society

    Edited by Simone Chambers, Will Kymlicka ...
    Series series Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics
    The idea of civil society has long been central to the Western liberal-democratic tradition, where it has been seen as a crucial site for the development and pursuit of basic liberal values such as individual freedom, social pluralism, and democratic citizenship. This book considers how a host of other ethical traditions define civil society. Unlike most studies of the subject, which focus on a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Multicultural Citizenship : A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights

    A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights

    by Will Kymlicka ...
    Series series Oxford Political Theory
    The increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new issues and conflicts, as ethnic and national minorities demand recognition and support for their cultural identity. This book presents a new conception of the rights and status of minority cultures.It argues that certain sorts of `collective rights' for minority cultures are consistent with liberal democratic ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Animals and the Right to Politics

    by Sue Donaldson, Will Kymlicka ...
    The assumption that only humans can engage in politics - that only humans are 'zoon politikon' - is foundational to the Western tradition of political philosophy. While there is increasing recognition of animals' moral status (both within moral philosophy and at the level of public opinion), animals are not recognized as political subjects. This carefully researched but accessibly written volume - ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Zoopolis

    A Political Theory of Animal Rights

    by Sue Donaldson, Will Kymlicka ...
    Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to. Zoopolis shifts the debate from the realm of moral theory and applied ethics to the realm of political theory, focusing on the relational obligations ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Uneasy Partners

    Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada

    by Janice Stein, David Robertson Cameron, John Ibbitson, Will Kymlicka, John Meisel, Haroon Siddiqui, Michael Valpy ...
    Series series Canadian Commentaries
    After decades of extraordinary successes as a multicultural society, new debates are bubbling to the surface in Canada. The contributors to this volume examine the conflict between equality rights, as embedded in the Charter, and multiculturalism as policy and practice, and ask which charter value should trump which and under what circumstances? The opening essay deliberately sharpens the conflict ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Multicultural Odysseys : Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity

    Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity

    by Will Kymlicka ...
    We are currently witnessing the global diffusion of multiculturalism, both as a political discourse and as a set of international legal norms. States today are under increasing international scrutiny regarding their treatment of ethnocultural groups, and are expected to meet evolving international standards regarding the rights of indigenous peoples, national minorities, and immigrants. This ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa

    Edited by Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh, Will Kymlicka ...
    The politics of identity and ethnicity will remain a fundamental characteristic of African modernity. For this reason, historians and anthropologists have joined political scientists in a discussion about the ways in which democracy can develop in multicultural societies. In Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa, the contributors address why ethnicity represents a political problem, how the problem ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Animal Labour

    A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice?

    Edited by Charlotte E. Blattner, Kendra Coulter, Will Kymlicka ...
    Is animal labour inherently oppressive, or can work be a source of meaning, solidarity, and social membership for animals? This challenging question drives this thought-provoking collection which explores the possibilities and complexities of animal labour as a site for interspecies justice. The book assembles an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars who carefully grapple with the ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Chimpanzee Rights

    The Philosophers’ Brief

    by Kristin Andrews, Crozier G.K.D., Sue Donaldson, Andrew Fenton, L. Syd M Johnson, Will Kymlicka, Letitia Meynell, Nathan Nobis, David Pena-Guzman, Jeff Sebo, Gary Comstock, Tyler John, Robert Jones ...
    Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual request—asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine whether Kiko and Tommy, two captive chimpanzees, should be considered legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty.While the courts have agreed that chimpanzees share emotional, behavioural, and cognitive ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Minority Politics in the Middle East and North Africa

    The Prospects for Transformative Change

    Edited by Will Kymlicka, Eva Pföstl ...
    Series series Ethnic and Racial Studies
    Projects of democratic reform in the Middle East and North Africa have said little about the place of minorities and minority rights in their vision of reform, implying that these issues are best deferred to some indefinite future. While many people describe the Arab Spring as a ‘battle for pluralism’, there is a reluctance to discuss what this pluralism might actually mean for the political ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism

    Towards a New Synthesis

    Edited by Will Kymlicka, Ruth Rubio-Marín ...
    Around the world, we see a 'participatory turn' in the pursuit of gender equality, exemplified by the adoption of gender quotas in national legislatures to promote women's role as decision-makers. We also see a 'pluralism turn', with increasing legal recognition given to the customary law or religious law of minority groups and indigenous peoples. To date, the former trend has primarily benefitted ... Read more

    $84.59 USD

  • The Strains of Commitment

    The Political Sources of Solidarity in Diverse Societies

    Edited by Keith Banting, Will Kymlicka ...
    Building and sustaining solidarity is a compelling challenge, especially in ethnically and religiously diverse societies. Recent research has concentrated on forces that trigger backlash and exclusion. The Strains of Commitment examines the politics of diversity in the opposite direction, exploring the potential sources of support for an inclusive solidarity, in particular political sources of ... Read more

    $97.99 USD