Citizenship, Democracy and Ethnocultural Diversity Newsletter No. 14, August 1999


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Citizenship, Democracy and Ethnocultural Diversity Newsletter
No. 14, August 1999


Citizenship, Democracy and Ethnocultural Diversity
Newsletter of the Queen's Forum for Philosophy and Public Policy
No. 14, August 1999
 
Contents
 
1. Introduction
2. Upcoming Conferences
3. New Journals and Call for Papers
4. Recent Publications
5. Internet Resources
6. Related Research Programs

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>From the moderator: for the full text of the newsletter, see Will
Kymlicka's home page at http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~philform/news.html
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1. INTRODUCTION
 
The Forum for Philosophy and Public Policy at Queen's University is
organizing a multi-year, research project on citizenship, democracy
and minority rights in multiethnic states, under the direction of
Prof. Will Kymlicka. As part of this project, the Forum distributes a
quarterly newsletter updating recent developments in the field, of
which this is the fourteenth issue. We hope that it will be of
interest to anyone working in the field, whether in academia, public
service, or various non-governmental organizations.
 
If you know anyone who would like to be added to the mailing list for
this newsletter, or if you would like copies of the back-issues,
please contact us at [email protected]. For further
information about the research project, you can also reach us by fax
at 613-533-6545. Back-issues of the newsletter are posted on the Web
on Will Kymlicka's home-page:
http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~philform/news.html
 
2. UPCOMING CONFERENCES
 
The 28th EUROFOR conference will be on "International and Local
Migration Policies", Lisbon, Portugal, 2-5 September 1999.  For
further information, send an e-mail to [email protected] or
visit the EUROFOR website: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~migratio

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The fifteenth biannual conference organized by the Canadian Ethnic
Studies Association will be on "Ethnicity and Human Rights at the
Millennium: Identity, Community, Nation", Toronto, March 25-27, 2000. 
The conference themes include emergent diasporas, rights to
identities, ethnic challenges to statecraft, reconfiguring
institutional structures, and defining community at the millennium. 
For more information, contact CESA 2000 Secretariat, c/o Multicultural
History Society of Ontario, 43 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto ON
M5S 2C3. Tel: 416-979-2973; fax: 416-979-79-47; e-mail:
[email protected]
 
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The topic of the next annual conference of the UK Association for
Legal and Social Philosophy will be "The Culture of Toleration", and
will be held at the University of Exeter on 6-8 April, 2000.
Conference themes include "The idea of Tolerance and its legal and
political dimensions", "toleration and political neutrality"; and
"Toleration and civic education". Paper proposals should consist of a
title and a few lines giving an idea of content and approach. The
deadline to send paper proposals is November 30, 1999. For further
information, contact Dr Catriona McKinnon, Department of Politics,
Amory Building, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ. Tel: +44
01392-263183; fax: +44 01392-263305; e-mail: [email protected]
 
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3. NEW JOURNALS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS:
 
The Journal of Imperial and Post-Colonial Historical Studies is a new
semi-annual fully-refereed journal that seeks to combine traditional
historical approaches with more contemporary methods used by scholars
from a wide array of disciplines.  Contributions to JIPCHS include the
themes of statecraft, social change, cultural interaction and economic
relations within the historical context of imperialism and colonialism
in any region of the world and in any time period.  JIPCHS currently
welcomes contributions.  For further information, contact the Journal
of Imperial and Post-Colonial Historical Studies, c/o Department of
History, 301 Morill Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
48824-1036, e-mail: [email protected] or visit the JIPCHS website:
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/JIPCHS
 
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"Balayi: Culture, Law and Colonialism" is a new bi-annual, refereed
academic journal which will focus on theorising Indigenous issues, and
examine continuing practices of colonialism. The theme of the first
issue of the journal, to be published in December 1999, is "The
Unfinished Business of Colonialism". Submissions of under 6000 words
are welcome. Relevant topics for this issue include "reconciliation,
justice, land rights, responsibility for the past, negotiation and
sovereignty". Submissions should be sent to: Dr. Kathryn Trees, School
of Arts, Murdoch University, South Street, Murdoch, Western Australia
6150, Australia. Email: [email protected]
 

4. RECENT PUBLICATIONS: To keep our listing manageable, and in line
with the aims of our overall research project, our focus is on those
publications which have a strongly theoretical and normative focus,
rather than a purely descriptive or historical focus. Also, we are
listing only books and journal symposia, not individual journal
articles. All prices in U.S. dollars. Most of these books can be
ordered through the Amazon electronic bookstore at
http://www.amazon.com, which also contains more information about the
contents of each book (eg., tables of contents):
 
Jeffrey Alexander, Real Civil Societies: The Dilemmas of
Institutionalization (Sage, 1998), $27.95
 
Dan Avnon and Avner De-Shalit (eds), Liberalism and Its Practice
(Routledge, 1999), $27.99.
 
Gerd Baumann, The Multicultural Riddle: Rethinking National, Ethnic,
and Religious Identities (Routledge, 1999), $18.99.
 
David Bennett (ed), Multicultural States: Rethinking Difference and
Identity (Routledge, 1998), $24.99.
 
Andrew Calabrese and J.C. Burgelman, Communication, Citizenship and
Social Policy (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), $22.95
 
Emilios Christodoulis (ed), Communitarianism and Citizenship (Ashgate,
1998), $67.95.
 
Desmond Clarke and Charles Jones (eds), The Rights of Nations: Nations
and Nationalism in a Changing Europe (Cork University Press, 1999),
with articles by Anthony Smith, Michael Freeman, Neil MacCormick, Yael
Tamir, Will Kymlicka, Brian Barry, David Archard
 
Karl Cordell (ed), Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe
(Routledge, 1998), $27.99.

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Patrick Hanafin and Melissa Williams (eds), Identity, Rights and
Constitutional Transformation (Ashgate, 1999), $74.95

Michael Hanagan and Charles Tilly (eds), Extending Citizenship,
Reconfiguring States (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), $27.95
 
Paul Havemann (ed), Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Australia, Canada
and New Zealand (Oxford UP, 1999), $95.00.

Orit Ichilov (ed), Citizenship and Citizenship Education in a Changing
World (Woburn Press, 1998), $25.00.

May Joseph, Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship
(University of Minnesota Press, 1999), $18.95.

Uday Singh Mehta, Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century
British Liberal Thought (University of Chicago Press, 1999), $17.00.
 
Kurt Mills, Human Rights in the Emerging Global Order: A New
Sovereignty? (St. Martin's Press, 1998), $65.00.
 
Pippa Norris (ed), Critical Citizens: Global Support for Democratic
Government (Oxford UP, 1999), $19.95.
 
Leroy H. Pelton, Doing Justice: Liberalism, Group Constructs, and
Individual Realities (SUNY Press, 1999), $17.56.
 
Joseph Pestieau, Les citoyens au bazar: Mondialisation, nations et
minorites (Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 1999), $30.00.
 
Michel Seymour, La nation en question (L'Hexagone, 1999)

Michel Seymour (ed), Nationalite, citoyennete et solidarite (Liber,
Montreal), with papers by Daniel Weinstock, Margaret Moore, Henri
Gordan, Daniel Turp, Kai Nielsen, Allen Patten, Jeff Spinner-Halev,
Jocelyne Couture, Bernard Cleary, Rene Boudreault, Ross Poole,
Genevieve Nootens, Yael Tamir, Alain Finkielkraut and others.
 
George Steinmetz (ed), State/culture: State-Formation After the
Cultural Turn (Cornell University Press, 1999), $22.95
 
Markku Suksi (ed), Autonomy: Applications and Implications (Kluwer Law
International, 1998), with articles by Asbjorn Eide, Juha Raikka,
Patrick Thornberry, Gudmundur Alfredsson, John Packer and others,
$100.00.
 
James Tully, Une etrange multiplicite: Le constitutionalisme a une
epoque de diversite (Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, June 1999),
$25.00.
 
Published Symposia/Special Issues:
 
There was a special issue of Political Studies on "Sovereignty at the
Millennium" (Vol 47/3, 1999) edited by Robert Jackson, with articles
by Alan James, James Mayall, William Wallace, Christopher Clapham,
Paul Taylor, Daniel Philpott, and Georg Sorensen.
 
There was a symposium on comparative citizenship policy in a recent
issue of Georgetown Immigration Law Journal (Vol. 13/2, 1999), with
articles by Lowell Barrington, Donald Galloway, Ayelet Shachar,
Stephen Castles and others. The papers are drawn from the "Comparative
Citizenship Project" organized by the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (mentioned in newsletter #11).
 
There were two symposia in Canadian Ethnic Studies which might be of
interest. The first was on citizenship education (Vol. 29/2, 1997),
with articles by Alan Sears, Michel Page, Fernand Ouellet, Marie
McAndrew and Caroline Tessier, Yvonne Hebert, and others. The second
was on "Canadian Immigration and Immigrant Adaptation at the
Millennium" (Vol. 30/3, 1998).
 
There was a special issue of the International Journal of Social
Education (Vol. 11/2, 1996) on citizenship education, with articles
examining the topic in the U.S., Canada and Australia.
 
5. INTERNET RESOURCES
 
Those working on linguistic rights may be interested in UNESCO's MOST
(Management of Social Transformations) Clearing House on Linguistic
Rights website.  The site contains UNESCO MOST Policy on Linguistic
Rights, international legal instruments, major non-government
documents, national constitutional provisions involving language,
international documents on linguistic rights, and links to other
linguistic sites.  Visit:
http://www.unesco.org/most/ln1.htm
 
The updated website of the Centre for European Migration and Ethnic
Studies (CEMES) now contains a new directory of research institutes,
centres and departments in more than 30 European countries.  There is
up-to-date information on the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
(JEMS), with current contents, abstracts of recent articles and
information for contributors.  The website provides information on
CEMES projects, including the complete text of all the publications
arising from the Ethnobarometer Programme.  The CEMES website also
provides information on the activities of the Migrants in European
Cities research network, the Mediterranean Migration project including
a listing of experts in the countries of the European south.  Visit:
http://www.cemes.org
 
The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) has a new ECMI Enriched
Links Database providing access to more than 200 links to Internet
resources on minority issues in 13 subject categories:
http://www.ecmi.de
 
The Transnational Communities project, headed by Steve Vertovec
(Oxford) of the Metropolis International Steering Committee, has a
website containing research generated by the project.  The website
also provides information on events and activities of Transnational
Communities, a bibliography, and links to other relevant sites. Visit:
http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk Or contact Anna Winton to be added to
the project's mailing list:
[email protected]
 
5. RELATED RESEARCH PROGRAMS
 
The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at
Brandeis University (mentioned in newsletter #13) has started a new
three-year Initiative in "Intercommunal Coexistence" under the
direction of Dr. Cynthia Cohen.  The purpose of the initiative is to
inquire into the ethical and educational dimensions of intercommunal
coexistence and reconciliation.  The results of these inquiries will
be shared by practitioners, scholars, and students through
publications, case studies, on-line working papers, and conference
presentations.  By the end of the third year, the Center for Ethics,
Justice and Public Life anticipates launching a Master's program in
Intercommunal Relations.  For further information, contact Dr. Cynthia
Cohen, e-mail: [email protected] or visit the Center's
website: http://www.brandeis.edu/ethics
 
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:  If you would like to announce a new research project,
publication, call for papers, or upcoming conference in a future issue
of this newsletter, please contact us at [email protected],
or you can write to the Forum for Philosophy and Public Policy,
Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Watson Hall 313,
Kingston Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada. Fax: 613-533-6545.
 
The Forum gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in funding this
newsletter. Special thanks to Idil Boran for research help, and to
Lise Charlebois for help with the distribution of the newsletter.

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