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Citizenship, Democracy and Ethnocultural Diversity Newsletter
No. 15
Citizenship, Democracy and Ethnocultural Diversity
Newsletter of the Queen's Forum for Philosophy and Public Policy
No. 15, November 1999
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Upcoming Conferences
3. Call for Papers
4. Recent Publications
5. Internet Resources
6. Related Research Programs
7. Job Opening
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 fifteenth 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 University of Ottawa is hosting a conference on "Shaping Nations:
Constitutionalism and Society in Australia and in Canada", December
7-9, 1999. The conference is organized by the Centre for Australian
Cultural Studies (University College, ADFA, Canberra), and the
Institute of Canadian Studies (University of Ottawa). The sessions
will include "Shaping Nations: Constitutionalism in Canada", "Shaping
Nations: Colonial but New", "Republicanism and National Identity",
"Governance in Australia and Canada", and others. For more
information, contact Chad Gaffield, Director Institute of Canadian
Studies, University of Ottawa, P.O. Box 450, Station A, Ottawa Ontario
K1N 6N5; tel (613) 562-5111; fax: (613) 562-5216; e-mail:
[email protected] or visit:
www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/cdn/
The Fourth International Metropolis Conference will be held in
Georgetown University Conference Center, Washington D.C., December
7-11, 1999. As discussed in previous newsletters, the Metropolis
Project is a massive research project examining issues of immigrant
integration in many countries of the world. For further information,
contact Yasmin Santiago, International Migration Policy Program,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue,
NW, Washington D.C. 20036; tel: (202) 939-2278; fax: (202) 332-0945;
e-mail: [email protected]
The second international meeting of the Teachers for Tolerance will be
on the theme "Tolerance, Respect and Human Rights", and will be held
at Police Training College Prague, January 20-22, 2000. For further
information, contact Ms. Laura Laubeova, HOST/Education for Tolerence,
Kettnerova 2052, 155 00 Praha 5, Czech Republic; fax: 4202 651-4442;
e-mail: [email protected]
The 30th EUROFOR Conference will be on "Ethnic Radicalisation", in
Jerusalem, January 20-23, 2000. For further information send an
e-mail to [email protected] or visit the EUROFOR website:
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~migratio/
A conference on "Re-Thinking Democracy in the New Millennium"
organized by James L. Gibson and Raymond Duch, Department of Political
Science, University of Houston with the support of the National
Science Foundation will be held at the University of Houston, Houston,
Texas, February 16-19, 2000. The scope of the conference will be both
retrospective - assessing the accomplishment of the last decade - and
prospective - identifying salient and unanswered questions for the
field. For further information contact Democratization Conference,
c/o Department of Political Science, University of Houston, Houston,
Texas 77204-3474; tel: (713) 743-3895;
fax: (713) 743-3978 or visit the conference website:
http://www.uh.edu/democracy
The Centre for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University is
organizing a conference on "Tolerance and Beyond: Religions, Rights
and Civil Society in the OSCE Countries", to be held Berlin, March
13-15, 2000. The conference will focus on themes including
international and domestic legislation and institutions, civil
society, education for tolerance. The language of the conference will
be English. Those interested in presenting papers should submit an
abstract (500 words) by December 1, 1999, to Dr. Elizabeth Cole,
Research Director, Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia
University, 1108 IAB, 420 W. 118th Street, New York, NY 10027; tel.
(212) 854-7189; fax: (212) 854-6785; e-mail: [email protected]
There will be two one-day conferences on multiculturalism organized by
the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies (NACS) on March 20, 2000
in Oslo and March 21, 2000 in Bergen, Norway. For further
information, contact John Erik Fossum, Department of Administration
and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Norway; e-mail:
[email protected]
The Program for the Study of Germany and Europe at the Minda de
Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, is
organizing a conference on "New Citizenship Claims and the Future of
the Social Democratic Welfare State", April 7-9, 2000. For further
information, contact Lisa Eschenbach, tel: (617) 495-4303 x231 or
e-mail: [email protected] or visit:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ces
The 2nd International Symposium on "Aspects of Interculturality
Canada and the United States: A Comparison" organized by the Centre
for Canadian Studies at the University of Vienna will be held at the
University of Vienna, April 12-14, 2000. The aim of the conference is
to address the issues of interculturality in a comparative fashion.
Proposals are invited for short papers (20 minutes) on various aspects
of this topic. Send paper proposals (about 200 words in English,
French or German) by December 15, 1999 to Univ. Prof. Dr. Waldemar
Zacharasiewicz, Director, Department of English and American Studies,
University of Vienna, Universittcampus, Hof 8, Spitalgasse 2, A 1090
Wien, Austria; fax: (43) (1) 4277-42497; e-mail:
[email protected]
A Canadian-European conference on the theme "Recasting European and
Canadian History: National Consciousness, Migration, Multicultural
Lives" will be held in Bremen, Germany, May 18-21, 2000. The
conference is organized by the European Network for Canadian Studies.
For further information, contact Dr. Christiane Harzig or Prof. Dr.
Dirk Hoerder, University of Bremen, Bibliothekstrasse, 28359 Bremen.
Fax: (0421) 218-3625; e-mail: [email protected]
The Annual Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies will be
on the topic "Canadian Cultures: The Challenge of Pluralism", at the
University of Alberta, Edmonton, May 27-29, 2000. The conference
theme will be "Representing our Differences: Canadian Cultures at
Millennium Eve". The conference intends to explore this theme from
interdisciplinary angles ranging from history, geography, literary
studies, native studies, politics, sociology, and urban studies.
Secondary themes will include competing Canadian nationalisms,
diasporas in Canada, multiculturalism. For further information,
contact Gregory Slogar, Director, Communications and Programmes,
Association for Canadian Studies; tel: (514) 987-7784; fax: (514)
987-3481; e-mail: [email protected]
The Forum for European Philosophy is organizing a conference on the
theme of "Recognition: Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Difference",
scheduled tentatively for June 3-4, 2000. The conference will bring
together philosophers, sociologists and psychoanalysts. For further
information, contact Catherine Audard, Department of Philosophy, LSE
and Forum for European Philosophy, European Institute, London School
of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE; fax: 0171 955-7546;
e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] or visit the website
of the Forum for European Philosophy:
www.philosophy-forum.org
There will be an international conference organized by the Dutch
National Foundation for Curriculum Development (SLO) and the
Consortium of Institutions for Development and Research in Education
in Europe (CIDREE) on "Emerging Democracies and Human Rights
Education", Enschede, The Netherlands, June 18-21, 2000. The
objective of the conference is to gain insight into democratization
processes in countries such as the Eastern Bloc and South Africa as
well as into issues faced by Western countries. The conference will
focus in particular on the meaning and implementation of an education
policy. For further information, contact Jeroen Bron, e-mail:
[email protected] or Yvonne Schnetz, fax: (31) (0) 53 484-0620; e-mail:
[email protected]
There will be a conference on "Exploring Cultural Differences"
organized by the International Cultural Research Network (ICRN),
Xi'an, China, June 28-July 3, 2000. The conference organizers welcome
paper submissions. For further information, contact Annette
Richardson, PhD., 7-104 Education North, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G5 or visit the ICRN website:
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/icrn
The 12th Annual Conference on Socio-Economics on the theme
"Citizenship and Exclusion", organized by the Society for the
Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), will be held at the London
School of Economics, July 7-10, 2000. The deadline to submit
proposals is December 15, 1999. For further information, visit the
SASE website:
http://www.sase.org.
The Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of
Brisbane is organizing a conference on "Natural Law and Sovereignty"
to be held in Brisbane, Australia, July 8-10, 2000. The conference
will focus on the relation between early modern doctrines of natural
law and constructions of political sovereignty. For further
information or to submit paper proposals, contact Associate Professor
Ian Hunter, Director, Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities,
e-mail: [email protected] or visit the Centre's website:
http://www.gu.edu.au/centre/cash.html
A workshop on "Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts" will be held as
part of the 7th ISSEI conference "Approaching a New Millennium:
Lessons from the Past Prospects for the Future", Bergen, Norway,
August 14-18, 2000. The workshop will focus on different types of
ethnic conflict regulation across the European continent, including
minority rights, territorial autonomy, federalism, power-sharing as
well as bi- and multilateral conflict management. Those who are
interested in submitting a proposal on any of these aspects should
contact Stefan Wolff, e-mail: [email protected]
3. CALL FOR PAPERS:
The School Field is an international journal of theory and research in
education. The aim of the journal is to present the issue of
education and its practices in the context of contemporary theoretical
debates by questioning its usual boundaries and by discussing general
topics that reflect current social changes and the development of
educational theory. The editors of The School Field welcome paper
submissions on the topic of "Justice in education" (issue 1/2) and
"Education and Human Rights" (issue 3/4). For further information and
submission of manuscripts, contact Mitja Sardoc, Managing Editor, The
School Field: International Journal of Theory and Research in
Education, Mestni trg 17, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia; fax: (386) (61)
120-1266; e-mail: [email protected] or visit the journal's website:
http://www.schoolfield.com
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):
Ian Barns, Patricia Harris, Alan Petersen and Janice Dudley,
Poststructuralism, Citizenship and Social Policy (Routledge, 1999),
$24.99.
Bill Bowring and Deirdre Fottrell (eds.) Minority and Group Rights in
the New Millennium (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999) $ 111.00.
Alastair Davidson and Kathleen Weekley (eds.) Globalization and
Citizenship in the Asia-Pacific (St Martins Press, 1999), $69.95.
Leo Driedger and Shiva Halli (eds.) Immigrant Canada: Demographic,
Economic and Social Challenges (University of Toronto Press, 1999),
$24.95.
Keith Faulks, Citizenship in Modern Britain (Edinburgh University
Press, 1998), $25.00.
Miriam Feldblum, Reconstructing Citizenship: The Politics of
Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France (State
University of New York Press, 1999), $17.95.
Robert Booth Fowler, Enduring Liberalism: American Political Thought
Since the 1960s (University Press of Kansas, 1999), $35.00.
Andrew Geddes and Adrian Favell (eds.) The Politics of Belonging:
Migrants and Minorities in Contemporary Europe (Ashgate, 1999),
$61.95.
Jean Grugel (ed.) Democracy without Borders: Transnationalization and
Conditionality in New Democracies (Routledge, 1999), $90.00.
Montserrat Guibernau, Nations Without States: Political Communities in
a Global Age (Blackwell, 1999), $26.95.
Leslie Holmes and Philomena Murray (eds.) Citizenship and Identity in
Europe (Ashgate, 1999), $69.95.
Charles Jones, Global Justice: Defending Cosmopolitanism (Oxford
University Press, 1999), $65.00.
Danielle Juteau, L'ethnicite et ses frontieres (Presses de
l'Universite de Montreal, 1999)
Caren Kaplan, Norma Alarcon, Minoo Moallem (eds.) Between Woman and
Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State (Duke UP,
1999), $18.95.
John Keane, Civil Society: Old Images, New Visions (Stanford
University Press, 1999), $13.56.
Andrew Linklater, The Transformation of Political Community: Ethical
Foundations of the Post-Westphalian Era (Univ. of South Carolina
Press, 1999), $ 19.95.
Alexander J. Motyl, Revolutions, Nations, Empires: Conceptual Limits
and Theoretical Possibilities (Columbia University Press, 1999),
$18.50.
Daniel Nettle, Linguistic Diversity (Oxford UP, 1999), $19.95.
Anne Phillips, Which Equalities Matter? (Blackwell, 1999), $24.95.
Ross Poole, Nation and Identity (Routledge, 1999), $24.99.
John Rawls, Law of Peoples (Harvard UP, 1999), $15.75.
Ian Shapiro, Democratic Justice (Yale University Press, 1999), $20.97.
Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon (eds) Democracy's Edges
(Cambridge University Press, 1999), $19.95.
Thomas Spragens, Civic Liberalism: Reflections on Our Democratic
Ideals (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), $22.95.
Steven Vertovec and Robin Cohen (eds.) Migration, Diasporas, and
Transnationalism (Edward Elgar, 1999), 245.00.
Joel Westheimer and Larry Cuban, Among School Teachers: Community,
Autonomy, and Ideology in Teachers' Work (Teachers College Press,
1998), $14.36.
Kosaku Yoshino (ed.) Consuming Ethnicity and Nationalism: Asian
Experiences (University of Hawaii Press, 1999), $21.95.
Published Symposia/Special Issues:
The journal Orbis has a special issue on the theme of multiculturalism
in history (Vol. 43, N. 4, Fall 1999) with articles by Elizabeth
Fox-Genovese, William McNeill, David Gress, Stanley Wolpert, June
Teufel Dreyer, and Walter McDougall.
There was a special issue of Citizenship Studies on "Cities and
Citizenship in the Global Age" (Vol. 3, No. 2, July 1999), with
articles by Engin Isin, Zygmunt Bauman, Martin Thom, Thomas Bender,
Richard Ohmann, Iris Marion Young, and Raymond Rocco.
The most recent issue of Globe. Revue internationale d'etudes
quebecoises is a special issue on linguistic coexistence, "Les enjeux
de la coexistence linguistique", Pierre Coulombe, guest editor. This
special issue includes articles by James Tully, Angeline Martel, Jean
Dansereau, Michael MacMillan, Ines Molinaro, Luisa Domenichelli, and
Tony Simons.
5. INTERNET RESOURCES
As part of the LGI Managing Multiethnic Communities Project a Virtual
Library of Internet resources on national and ethnic minorities in
Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union has been
created. The aim of this database is to provide guidance and
assistance in accessing information on national and ethnic minorities
in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. The
virtual library includes the most comprehensive list of websites on
this topic. The electronic library welcomes contributions by users,
as well as suggestions and comments. Those who would like to send new
entries to the database can do so either directly from the website by
using the on-line feedback form or by sending an e-mail to Andrea
Krizsn: [email protected]
Visit:
http://www.osi.hu/lgi/ethnic/weblibrary/index.html
A new mailing list has been set up to facilitate discussion within the
field of Ethnopolitics by encouraging exchange between academics and
practitioners on issues related to (non-immigrant) ethnic minorities,
minority rights, and the origin, development and settlement of ethnic
conflicts. To subscribe, go to:
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/ethnopolitics/
As we noted in newsletter #10, the Council of Europe's "Framework
Convention for the Protection of National Minorities" was a major
development in the international protection of minorities, since the
Convention has some real legal force, unlike most of the other recent
international declarations on minority rights, which remain mere
declarations. On the other hand, the vagueness of the concepts
contained within the Convention, and the number of reservations made
by the signatory countries, shows how difficult it is to find a
formula which will cover the very different needs and circumstances of
minority groups in different countries. This Framework Convention will
be a test-case for the possibility of building minority rights into
the general system of human rights and international law. The European
Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) has just issued an interesting
report entitled "Implementing the Framework Convention", examining
what has happened since the Convention came into legal force in 1998.
The report can be downloaded from the ECMI website:
http://www.ecmi.de/publications.htm
For the text of the Convention itself, see
http://www.coe.fr/eng/legaltxt/157e.htm
6. RELATED RESEARCH PROGRAMS
The Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship is a new
interdisciplinary centre located in the department of Sociology at the
University of Bristol, UK. The Centre, whose aim is to provide a home
for interdisciplinary work on ethnicity and citizenship, has been set
up in recognition of the importance of ethnicity to the study of
contemporary societies and polities, and prospects for social justice
and social cohesion. The centre promotes research in two broad areas:
a) Ethnicity and state structures, cultural pluralism and its
institutionalisation, the politics of multiculturalism and other forms
of "difference", including gendered ethnicity and ethno-religious
identities, minority rights and human rights, challenges to
secularism, the nation-state and other aspects of conceptions of
citizenship; b) Ethnicity and socio-economic structures with focus on
racialized exclusion, inter-generational poverty, labour markets,
health, education, ethnic stratification and social mobility, ethnic
competition and ethnic networks as a local, national and transnational
economic resources. The Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and
Citizenship promotes the study of ethnicity through funded research,
publications, conferences, and seminars. It will host an
international journal, "Etnicities", published by Sage from 2001. For
further information on the Centre and its activities, contact Tariq
Modood, Director, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, 12
Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 IUQ, UK; e-mail:
[email protected] or visit:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Sociology
A Joint Programme between the European Commission and the Council of
Europe has been established on "National Minorities in Europe". This
program is a co-operation between European countries in the field of
national minorities. This joint program has been created as a follow
up to the Action Plan adopted in October 1997 at the Second Summit of
Heads of State and Government of Council of Europe member States. An
initial Joint Programme between the European Commission and the
Council of Europe, entitled "Minorities in Central European
Countries", was carried out between the second half of 1996 and early
1998 as a measure to support the Stability Pact. In view of the
success of the First Joint programme, a second programme has been
launched for the period January 1999 June 2000. This programme has
four new aspects: it is open to all Council of Europe member States
and applicant States; it is based on a thematic approach (media,
education, participation in decision-making processes etc.); it
concerns sub-regional or bilateral projects; it envisages greater
participation by representatives of national minorities. For further
information, contact: Council of Europe, Directorate of Human Rights,
Minorities Unit, F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex, France;
tel: (33) (0) 3 90-21-49-05; fax: (33) (0) 3 88-41-27-93
The Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain was set up by The
Runnymede Trust in 1997 and was officially launched in early 1998 by
the home secretary, Jack Straw. The Commission's present chair is
Bhikhu Parekh. Its purpose is to consider the development of Britain
as a multi-ethnic and multi-faith society and to make recommendations
for future policy. Its recommendations will be directed not only to
central government but also a wide range of other public bodies,
including local authorities and police authorities. The Commission's
final report will be published in summer 2000. For futher
information, contact: Commission on Multi-Ethnic Britain, 133
Aldersgate Street, London EC1A;
tel: 0 (171) 600-911; fax: 0 (171) 600-8999
The International Association of Centers for Federal Studies (IACFS)
is an association of Centres and Institutes around the world with
interests in independent research and publication about political,
constitutional, legal, administrative, fiscal, economic, historical,
and philosophical issues relevant to political systems which have
federal features. The aim of the Association is to promote research
on federalism, exchange of information, educational activities, the
formation of additional institutions. Visit:
http://iacfs.org/
7. JOB OPPORTUNITIES AT ECMI
The European Centre for Minority Issues has two job openings: one for
the Director of the Centre, and one for a Research Associate. The
Director is, in co-operation with the Executive Board, responsible for
the management of the Centre. Requirements include a high academic
profile in minority-majority relations, with experience in leading
research positions. A practical background in conflict management
would be an asset. The Research Associate should be able to cover the
fields of international law, minority rights and human rights.
Requirements include a suitable academic profile and expertise,
preferably with an emphasis on south-eastern Europe. Applications
should include a c.v., full professional details, a complete list and
sample of publications, and be addressed to: Ambassador Peter Dyvig,
Chairman of the ECMI Executive Board, c/o Astrid Voss, Schiffbruecke
12, D-24939 Flensburg, Germany, no later than 31 January 2000. For
further information, please contact Ms. A. Voss at [email protected]. The
job announcement can be found at:
http://www.ecmi.de/jobs.htm
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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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