Full Description
This volume looks at the work of those who are concerned with ethnic and cultural conflicts. Conflicts such as those between individual and group interests and cultural conflicts and globalization in relation to liberal theories of justice and economic development are covered by a whole range of professions, from philosophers and legal theorists to political and social scientists.
Contents
Global ethics and respect for culture, Andreas Follesdal; cosmopolitanism and cultural pluralism, Sharon Anderson-Gold; a practice theory of culture and the intercultural intelligibility problem, Brandon Claycomb; challenging the bias, N. Ruth Gasson; domestic societies and the law of peoples, David Meeler; globalization, democracy and modernity, Jonathan P.G. Bach; transitional democracy, George Carew; the role of moral psychology in understanding democracy, William C. Pamerleau; discourse ethics and identity politics, Jordy Rocheleau; ethnocide and education - some disturbing questions, Thomas Platt; the anti-theorist's paradox - dialogue with a Rortian, Matthew R. Silliman and David K. Johnson; community, conformity and justice, Tanya R. Glaser; liberal abstraction and social inequality - a critique of Dworkin, Lisa H. Schwarzman; economic rights and global capitalism - a response to Shue and Pogge, Caleb Mason; the application of the capabilities theory of development, Seetha Burtner; rethinking justice, Jim Cadello; groups, rights and methodological individualism - in defence of collectivist rights, Cindy Holder; cultural identity, autonomy and rights, John Mahoney; Maasai rejection of the Western paradigm of development - a Foucaultian analysis, Gail M. Presbey; equality, exclusion and political representation, Andrew S. Schwartz; responsibility, entitlement and justice in teen single parenting, James Wong and David Checkland; equality, socialism, democracy - Cuba as a test case, Rodney Peffer; equality, justice and democracy - a response to Peffer, Alistair Macleod; some questions about hypocrisy - comments on Ruth W. Grant's "Hypocrisy and Integrity", Margaret A. Crouch; some questions about hypocrisy - comments on Ruth W. Grant's "Hypocrisy and Integrity", Christopher B. Gray; repsonse to NASSP Book Award Panel, Ruth W. Grant.
