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Emblems of Pluralism

Author : Carol Weisbrod
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825431
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Emblems of Pluralism written by Carol Weisbrod and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From outlawing polygamy and mandating public education to protecting the rights of minorities, the framing of group life by the state has been a subject of considerable interest and controversy throughout the history of the United States. The subject continues to be important in many countries. This book deals with state responses to cultural difference through the examination of a number of encounters between individuals, groups, and the state, in the United States and elsewhere. The book opens the concepts of groups and the state, arguing for the complexity of their relations and interpenetrations. Carol Weisbrod draws on richly diverse historical and cultural material to explore various structures that have been seen as appropriate for adjusting relations between states and internal groups. She considers the experience of the Mormons, the Amish, and Native Americans in the United States, the Mennonites in Germany, and the Jews in Russia to illustrate arrangements and accommodations in different times and places. The Minorities Treaties of the League of Nations, political federalism, religious exemptions, nonstate schools, and rules about adoption are among the mechanisms discussed that sustain cultural difference and create frameworks for group life, and, finally, individual life. At bottom, Emblems of Pluralism concerns not only relations between the state and groups, public and private, but also issues of identity and relations between the self and others.

Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism

Author : Jean L. Cohen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231546955
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism written by Jean L. Cohen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The achievements of the democratic constitutional order have long been associated with the sovereign nation-state. Civic nationalist assumptions hold that social solidarity and social plurality are compatible, offering a path to guarantees of individual rights, social justice, and tolerance for minority voices. Yet today, challenges to the liberal-democratic sovereign nation-state are proliferating on all levels, from multinational corporations and international institutions to populist nationalisms and revanchist ethnic and religious movements. Many critics see the nation-state itself as a tool of racial and economic exclusion and repression. What other options are available for managing pluralism, fostering self-government, furthering social justice, and defending equality? In this interdisciplinary volume, a group of prominent international scholars considers alternative political formations to the nation-state and their ability to preserve and expand the achievements of democratic constitutionalism in the twenty-first century. The book considers four different principles of organization—federation, subsidiarity, status group legal pluralism, and transnational corporate autonomy—contrasts them with the unitary and centralized nation-state, and inquires into their capacity to deal with deep societal differences. In essays that examine empire, indigenous struggles, corporate institutions, forms of federalism, and the complexities of political secularism, anthropologists, historians, legal scholars, political scientists, and sociologists remind us that the sovereign nation-state is not inevitable and that multinational and federal states need not privilege a particular group. Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism helps us answer the crucial question of whether any of the alternatives might be better suited to core democratic principles.

Frontiers of Diversity

Author : Avery Plaw
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 904201766X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Diversity written by Avery Plaw and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Frontiers of Diversity critically examines the explanatory and normative power of pluralism in contemporary philosophy, politics, economics and culture. Based on the papers presented at the "First Global Conference on Critical Issues in Pluralism" at Mansfield College, Oxford, it brings together for the first time essays examining pluralism's impact, both positive and negative, in each of these critical domains. These essays exhibit something of the fertility of the concept of pluralism, not only across the spectrum of fields, but at all levels of analysis, from individual to social to national and international, touching on specific cases from around the world. Through their diversity, the essays are intended to both promote cross-pollination between these domains of study and experience, and to encourage reflection on pluralism as a powerful cross-disciplinary approach for understanding the contemporary world."--BOOK JACKET.

From Recognition to Reconciliation

Author : Patrick Macklem
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144262499X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book From Recognition to Reconciliation written by Patrick Macklem and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than thirty years ago, section 35 of the Constitution Act recognized and affirmed “the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada.” Hailed at the time as a watershed moment in the legal and political relationship between Indigenous peoples and settler societies in Canada, the constitutional entrenchment of Aboriginal and treaty rights has proven to be only the beginning of the long and complicated process of giving meaning to that constitutional recognition. In From Recognition to Reconciliation, twenty leading scholars reflect on the continuing transformation of the constitutional relationship between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian state. The book features essays on themes such as the role of sovereignty in constitutional jurisprudence, the diversity of methodologies at play in these legal and political questions, and connections between the Canadian constitutional experience and developments elsewhere in the world.

Canada in the World

Author : Richard Albert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108419739
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Canada in the World written by Richard Albert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the Sesquicentennial of Confederation in Canada, this book examines the growing global influence of Canada's Constitution and Supreme Court on courts confronting issues involving human rights.

Laws and Societies in Global Contexts

Author : Eve Darian-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521113784
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Laws and Societies in Global Contexts written by Eve Darian-Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text promotes a more global sociolegal perspective that engages with multiple laws and societies and diverse sociolegal systems based on very different historical and cultural traditions, interacting on multiple local, national, and global levels. The approach to global legal pluralism seeks to provide a framework for envisioning new global governance regimes that move beyond state-based solutions to deal with trenchant transnational challenges.

Cultural Pluralism and the American Idea

Author : Horace Meyer Kallen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512817201
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Pluralism and the American Idea written by Horace Meyer Kallen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Culture in Law and Development

Author : Lan Cao
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190608218
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Culture in Law and Development written by Lan Cao and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of international law in the post-World War II era stemmed partly from the belief that universal norms would make life for the entire world's population safer, more equitable, and more conducive to each person's acquisition of basic material needs. Starting in the sixties and seventies, some scholars and activists challenged this assumption and established the school of "cultural relativism," a model that pays deference to local cultural traditions and favors them over international human rights norms. Scholars tried to create and practice a middle-ground approach between universalism and relativism, whereby the most egregious violations would be prevented through assimilating only jus cogens norms into indigenous groups' existing cultural traditions. Such efforts at combining a few select international norms with local cultural traditions largely failed. Culture in Law and Development presents a provocative new solution to the seemingly intractable problem of combining international norms with local cultural traditions by changing culture through law and development. In this book, Lan Cao demonstrates how the gradual expansion of customary international law (CIL) provides a model for changing culture in ways that protect and advance local populations. The book adopts a holistic view of development and argues that cultural norms that impede the human capabilities of the poor, women, and other marginal groups should be changed. The book reveals how a more conscious, coordinated effort on such change can succeed while non-violative local traditions are otherwise honored and preserved. Cao proposes that cultural change does not have to constitute cultural disrespect, and that local societies only benefit by a careful combination of externally wrought change and internally fostered tradition.

Critical theory and legal autopoiesis

Author : Gunther Teubner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526107244
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Critical theory and legal autopoiesis written by Gunther Teubner and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects and revises the key essays of Gunther Teubner, one of the world’s leading sociologists of law. Written over the past twenty years, these essays examine the ‘dark side’ of functional differentiation and the prospects of societal constitutionalism as a possible remedy. Teubner's claim is that critical accounts of law and society require reformulation in the light of the sophisticated diagnoses of late modernity in the writings of Niklas Luhmann, Jacques Derrida and select examples of modernist literature. Autopoiesis, deconstruction and other post-foundational epistemological and political realities compel us to confront the fact that fundamental democratic concepts such as law and justice can no longer be based on theories of stringent argumentation or analytical philosophy. We must now approach law in terms of contingency and self-subversion rather than in terms of logical consistency and rational coherence.

Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada

Author : Richard J. Moon
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774858532
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada written by Richard J. Moon and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada seeks to elucidate the complex and often uneasy relationship between law and religion in democracies committed both to equal citizenship and religious pluralism. Leading socio-legal scholars consider the role of religious values in public decision making, government support for religious practices, and the restriction and accommodation by government of minority religious practices. They examine such current issues as the legal recognition of sharia arbitration, the re-definition of civil marriage, and the accommodation of religious practice in the public sphere.

Pluralism and Identity

Author : Platvoet
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004378898
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Pluralism and Identity written by Platvoet and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this book is ritual behaviour, in particular of groups with a distinctive religious, ethnic or other identity which use rituals to pursue strategic ends ad intra and ad extra. Five essays offer theoretical perspectives on ritual in plural and pluralist societies, on similarity and demarcation, on the negative case of the Australian Aboriginals, on Brazilian religious pluralism, and on Ghanaian churches in the Netherlands. Three essays describe the ritualization of the encounter, or confrontation, between religions in India (between Buddhists and Hindus, and between Hindus and Muslims), and in Yemen between Muslims and Jews. Four essays study the responses to internal religious plurality, in early Israel, on Java, in Indonesia, and in Spain and North Africa. One essay explores responses to external religious plurality. In the epilogue, the social nature of pluralism and identity is highlighted.

Pluralism and World Order

Author : Feng Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811998728
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Pluralism and World Order written by Feng Zhang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the implications of pluralism for international order. Distinguished contributors from around the world offer insights into the character of a pluralistic world order. They focus especially on the manifestations of international pluralism in great power relations, multilateralism, and regionalism. Contributors examine the myriad challenges a pluralistic world order will face in the years ahead, yet they eschew alarmist conclusions. There is still scope for the great powers to better manage their relations, and equally important, much space for multilateralism and regionalism to play their increasingly important roles in stabilizing world order. Distinctive in bringing the themes of pluralism and world order together in both theoretical exposition and policy discussion, this book offers a stimulating reading for scholars and practitioners of world politics.

Emblems and Impact Volume I

Author : Ingrid Hoepel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527504352
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Emblems and Impact Volume I written by Ingrid Hoepel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of the emblem is a pan-European phenomenon which developed in Western and Central Europe in the early modern period. It adopted meanings and motifs from Antiquity and the Middle Ages as part of a general humanistic impulse. Technological developments in printing that permitted the combination of letterpress with woodblock, and later copperplate, images, ensured that the emblem spread rapidly by way of printed collections. With time, emblematic ideas moved beyond Europe, conveying their insights and wisdom in the compact form of the book. These same books came to influence artists and designers working in the decoration of buildings, furniture, and household items, so that emblems entered personal life; they infiltrated festive culture, too. In such environments beyond the book, emblems were transported, adapted, and embedded in new functional contexts shaped by social, political, or religious conditions, but also by architectonical and regional art historical parameters. The results of these transformations are often of an intricate and complex meaning. The combination of word and image that constitutes the emblem still has resonance in contemporary art and architecture. The study of emblems allows us to look back at the collaborative endeavours of creative minds of earlier times from across Europe and beyond. At a time when that continent is under strain, and the world in general seeks to come to terms with globalization, emblems allow reflection on strongly shared cultural values and connections.

Colonial Systems of Control

Author : Viviane Saleh-Hanna
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776617494
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Systems of Control written by Viviane Saleh-Hanna and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2008-04-18 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos, Nigeria are published alongside chapters by scholars and activists. While prisoners document the daily realities and struggles of life inside a Nigerian prison, scholar and human rights activist Viviane Saleh-Hanna provides historical, political, and academic contexts and analyses of the penal system in Nigeria. The European penal models and institutions imported to Nigeria during colonialism are exposed as intrinsically incoherent with the community-based conflict-resolution principles of most African social structures and justice models. This book presents the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria while contextualizing the colonial legacies that have resulted in the inhumane brutalities that are endured on a daily basis.

Gender, Religion, and Family Law

Author : Lisa Fishbayn Joffe
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683270
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Religion, and Family Law written by Lisa Fishbayn Joffe and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking theoretical and legal approaches to resolving conflicts between gender equality and cultural practices

Regime Interaction in International Law

Author : Margaret A. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107010489
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Regime Interaction in International Law written by Margaret A. Young and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars advance the discussion of international law's fragmentation in new and provocative ways.

Religion as Empowerment

Author : Kyriaki Topidi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317067665
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Religion as Empowerment written by Kyriaki Topidi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume shows how and why legal empowerment is important for those exercising their religious rights under various jurisdictions, in conditions of legal pluralism. At the same time, it also questions the thesis that as societies become more modern, they also become less religious. The authors look beyond the rule of law orthodoxy in their consideration of the freedom of religion as a human right and place this discussion in a more plurality-sensitive context. The book sheds more light on the informal and/or customary mechanisms that explain the limited impact of law on individuals and groups, especially in non-Western societies. The focus is on discussing how religion and the exercise of religious rights may or may not empower individuals and social groups and improve access to human rights in general. This book is important reading for academics and practitioners of law and religion, religious rights, religious diversity and cultural difference, as well as NGOs, policy makers, lawyers and advocates at multicultural jurisdictions. It offers a contemporary take on comparative legal studies, with a distinct focus on religion as an identity marker.