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The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies (Hardcover)
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Most countries around the world exhibit a long history of exclusion
and discrimination directed against ethnic, racial, national,
religious, or ideological groups. The underlying justifications for
these forms of exclusion have been increasingly discredited by the
post-war human rights revolution, decolonization, and by
contemporary norms of liberal-democratic constitutionalism, with
their commitment to equal rights and non-discrimination. However,
even as these older practices and ideologies of exclusion are
discredited and repudiated, they continue to have enduring effects.
The legacies of exclusion can still be seen in a wide range of
social attitudes, cultural practices, economic and demographic
patterns, and institutional rules that obstruct efforts to build
genuinely inclusive societies of equal citizens. Finding ways to
overcome this problem is a major challenge facing virtually every
society around the world.
This book focuses on two parallel intellectual and political
movements that have arisen to address this challenge: the 'politics
of reconciliation', with its focus on reparations, truth-telling
and healing amongst former adversaries, and the 'politics of
difference', with its focus on the recognition and empowerment of
minorities in multicultural societies. Both the politics of
reconciliation and the politics of difference are having a profound
impact on the theory and practice of democracy around the world,
but remarkably little has been written about the relationship
between them. This book aims to fill that gap. Drawing on both
theoretical analysis and case studies from around the world, the
authors explore how the politics of reconciliation and the politics
ofdifference often interact in mutually supportive ways, as
reconciliation leads to more multicultural conceptions of
citizenship. But there are also important ways in which the two may
compete in their aims and methods. This book is the first attempt
to systematically explore these areas of potential convergence and
divergence.
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