Citizenship, Democracy and Ethnocultural Diversity: Issue 11
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Citizenship, Democracy and Ethnocultural Diversity
Newsletter of the Queen's Forum for Philosophy and Public Policy
No. 11, October 1998
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Recent and Upcoming Conferences
3. Call for Papers
4. Recent Publications
5. Internet Resources
6. Related Research Programs
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 eleventh 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 613-545-6545. 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
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The Swiss Ethnological Association is devoting its annual conference
to the topic of "Individual and collective rights: perspectives from
the anthropology of law" on Oct. 15-17, 1998 at the University of
Fribourg, Switzerland. Conference themes include models of
citizenship, communitarianism and constitutional patriotism,
minorities and new social movements, multination and multiculture. For
more information, contact Roberta Colombo Dougoud, SSE Seminaire 1998,
Seminaire d'ethnologie, Rte des Bonnefontaines 11, 1700 Fribourg,
Switzerland. Email: [email protected]
The High Commissioner for National Minorities of the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is organizing a conference
on "Governance and Participation: Integrating Diversity", in Locarno,
Switzerland October 18-20 1998. The conference will explore ways and
means to integrate diversity through effective participation in public
decision-making processes, including through decentralisation and
subsidiarity. While this is of general interest in all democratic
societies, it has special significance for persons belonging to
national minorities whose special needs may be largely addressed
through various forms of governance and participation. The conference
will examine this issue both in general, and in the specific context
of education. For more information, contact Stefan Vassilev, fax:
31-703635910; email:
[email protected]
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The Berlin Institute for Comparative Social Research, as part of the
Europen Research Forum on Migration and Ethnic Relations (EUROFOR) is
organizing a large series of conferences on issues of migration, which
are held throughout Europe. Upcoming conferences include the role of
religion in the marginalization of ethnic minorities (in London),
immigration policies in the European Union (Berlin), integration
strategies (in Spain) ethnic radicalism (Israel), ethnic conflicts and
their solution (Austria). Grants are available for young scholars from
the EU. For a list of these "euroconferences", see
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~migratio/
The Centre Jacques Cartier is organizing a conference on "Identite(s):
multiculturalisme, integration" in Grenoble, France on 6-9 December
1998, comparing different approaches to the accommodation of diversity
and the promotion of integration in several European countries, as
well as Canada and Australia. Speakers include John Crowley, William
Safran, Anna Krasteva, Bernard Cleary, Xavier Arbos, Jocelyn
Letourneau, Jean Tournon. For more information, contact Prof. Helene
Greven, Maison des Langues et des Cultures, Universite
Stendahl-Grenoble 3. Fax: 33- 0476827749; email:
[email protected]
The Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University, in
conjunction with the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, is organizing a
conference on "Islam and Human Rights in PostCommunist Europe", to be
held in Sofia Bulgaria on March 15- 17 1999. Anyone interested in
presenting papers should submit abstracts of 500 words by November 1
1998 to: Dr. Elizabeth Cole, Center for the Study of Human Rights,
Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027. fax:
212-854-6785; email: [email protected].
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The Sociology Department of the University of Bristol is hosting an
international conference on "Nationalism, Identity and Minority
Rights" on September 16-19 1999. Keynote speakers will include Craig
Calhoun, T.H.Eriksen, Stuart Hall, Will Kymlicka, Ali Mazrui, Bhikhu
Parekh, Jan Pieterse, Iris Marion Young and Nira Yuval-Davies. People
who would like to submit a paper proposal (300-500 words) should
contact the conference organizers (Stephen May, Tariq Modood and
Judith Squires) by March 31, 1999 at: Nationalism, Identity and
Minority Rights Conference, c/o Sociology Dept., University of
Briston, 12 Woodland Road, Bristol BSQ 1UQ. Email:
[email protected]. Conference website:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Sociology/main/frset.htm
3. CALL FOR PAPERS
The Australasian Journal of Philosophy is planning a "Special
Millenium Issue" to appear in September 2000 on Indigenous Rights.
This theme will be interpreted broadly to include philosophical issues
related to indigenous people. Topics might include:
self-determination, sovereignty, special rights, historical
responsibility, conceptions of property etc. Contributions which
relate their arguments to general questions about philosophy,
political theory and morality will be especially welcome. Deadline for
submissions is 30 June 1999; final decisions will be made by December
1999. Potential contributors are invited to discuss their
contributions with the Guest Editors: Ross Poole
([email protected]) and Chandran Kukathas
([email protected]). However, submissions should be sent to:
Managing Editor, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, School of Social
Science, University of New England, Armidale NSW 2351, Australia.
Submissions will be subject to normal refereeing procedures.
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://amazon.com,
which also contains more information about the contents of each book
(eg., tables of contents, quotes from book reviews):
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William Barbieri, *Ethics of Citizenship: Immigrants and Group Rights
in Germany* (Duke University Press, 1998), $16.95
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Rainer Baubock and John Rundell (eds) *Blurred Boundaries: Migration,
Ethnicity, Citizenship* (Ashgate, 1998), with articles by Baubock,
Charles Westin, Wihtol de Wenden, Danielle Juteau, Marie McAndrew,
Veit Bader, Stephen Castles, Elisabetta Galeotti, Daniel Weinstock,
Alistair Davidson, Agnes Heller and others.
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Robin Cohen, *Global Diasporas: An Introduction* (University of
Washington Press, 1997), $19.95. (This is the first in a new series on
"Global Diasporas").
Jocelyne Couture, Kai Nielsen and Michel Seymour (eds) *Rethinking
Nationalism* (University of Calgary Press, 1998), $30, with articles
by Yael Tamir, Ross Poole, David Miller, Leah Greenfeld, Barrington
Moore, Allen Buchanan, Omar Dahbour, Andrew Levine, Harry Brighouse,
Dominique Schnapper, Thomas Pogge and others.
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Adrian Favell, *Philosophies of Integration: Immigration and the Idea
of Citizenship in France and Britain* (St. Martin's Press, 1998),
$65.00
Paul Gilbert, *The Philosophy of Nationalism* (Westview, 1998) $19.50.
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Adrian Hastings, *The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion
and Nationalism* (Cambridge UP, 1998) $19.95.
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James Kellas, *The Politics of Nationalism and Ethnicity* (NYU Press,
1998), $21.95
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Anna Krasteva, *Communities and Identities* (Sofia, Petekston, 1998)
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Percy Lehning (ed), *Theories of Secession* (Routledge, 1998), $75;
with articles by Lehning, Michael Freeman, Harry Beran, Hillel
Steiner, Keith Dowding, Linda Bashai, Will Kymlicka, Simon Caney,
Philip Abbot, Paul Gilbert and Allen Buchanan.
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James McPherson, *Is Blood Thicker than Water: Crises of Nationalism
in the Modern World* (Random House, 1998).
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Thomas Musgrave, *Self-Determination and National Minorities* (Oxford
UP, 1997), $95.00
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Sebastian Poulter, *Ethnicity, Law and Human Rights: The English
Experience* (Oxford UP, 1998), $85.00
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Peter Schuck, *Citizens, Strangers and In-Betweens: Essays on
Immigration and Citizenship* (Westview, 1998), $28.00
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Dominique Schnapper, *Community of Citizens: on the modern idea of
nationality* (Transaction Publishers, 1998), $32.95
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Metta Spencer, *Separatism: democracy and disintegration* (Rowman and
Littlefield, 1998), $62.50
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Ray Taras (ed) *National Identities and Ethnic Minorities in Eastern
Europe* (St. Martin's 1998), $65.00.
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Hans-Rudolf Wicker (ed), *Rethinking Nationalism and Ethnicity: The
Struggle for Meaning and Order in Europe* (Berg, 1997), $19.50
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Joseph Yacoub, *Les minorites dans le monde* (Desclees de Brouwer,
1998)
5. INTERNET RESOURCES
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~migratio/welcomee.htm
This is the home-page for the European Migration Centre, at the Free
University in Berlin. The Centre publishes a journal entitled
"European Journal of International Migration and Ethnic Relations",
and organizes the EUROFOR conferences (see under "conferences" above).
http://www.ciral.ulaval.ca/alx/amlxmonde/accmonde.htm
This website includes detailed information in French about language
policy around the world, with information organized by country,
language, and type of linguistic policy. It is part of the "Centre
Internationale de Recherche en Amenagement Linguistique" (CIRAL) at
Laval University.
http://www.netcom.com/~ethnic/per.html
This is the website for the Princeton-based "Project on Ethnic
Relations" (PER), founded in 1991 in anticipation of the serious
inter-ethnic conflicts in the post-communist world. PER conducts
programs of intervention and dialogue, and mediates in several
disputes in the region. It also conducts programs of training,
education and research at international, national and community
levels. The website contains many interesting reports on particular
countries or regions (eg., the Balkans, Slovakia, Romania), groups
(eg., the Roma) or more general topics (eg., the role of the media;
East-West relations), as well as back-issues of the PER bulletin.
http://users.skynet.be/suffrage-universel
This website, developed by Pierre-Yves Lambert, contains a
miscellaneous array of information (mostly in French, with some in
English) about the relations between democracy and ethnicity in many
different countries, primarily in Europe, North America and Africa,
including election data, scholarly articles, and bibliographical
references. It also includes back-issues of "suffrage-universel", a
newsletter in French about relations between citizens, democracy,
ethnicity and nationality.
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We gratefully acknowledge 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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