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Reasons of Identity: A Normative Guide to the Political and Legal Assessment of Identity Claims
Reasons of Identity: A Normative Guide to the Political and Legal Assessment of Identity Claims
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The current legal and political context is perhaps more congenial than ever before to considering claims made by minorities for the protection of some aspect of their identity. Reasons of Identity argues that diverse societies depend for their success on having courts and legislatures which
are capable of assessing these identity claims in a fair and transparent manner. Despite the ubiquity of these claims today, how public decision makers assess minority identity claims in the course of decision making is only vaguely understood and mostly ignored in normative political theory and
public policy analysis. This book examines several key approaches used by national and international institutions to assess the identity claims of religious, cultural, and Indigenous minorities today. It takes up the central challenges to the public assessment of identity claims which raise concerns about the
incommensurability and questionable authenticity of such claims, and about the risks of essentializing and domesticating the identities of the people who advance identity claims. It develops a guide to aid in the fair assessment of identity claims which is grounded on the requirements that public
institutions must respect what people claim is deeply important to their self understandings and ways of life without merely accepting such claims at face value or deferring to claimants in every case, and public institutions must have the capacity to reflect on their own unfair biases. The guide
developed in Reasons of Identity aims at interrogating the strength of any identity claim on bases that are respectful of differences without being blinded by them.
Author: Avigail Eisenberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/01/2009
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780199291304
Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2010
are capable of assessing these identity claims in a fair and transparent manner. Despite the ubiquity of these claims today, how public decision makers assess minority identity claims in the course of decision making is only vaguely understood and mostly ignored in normative political theory and
public policy analysis. This book examines several key approaches used by national and international institutions to assess the identity claims of religious, cultural, and Indigenous minorities today. It takes up the central challenges to the public assessment of identity claims which raise concerns about the
incommensurability and questionable authenticity of such claims, and about the risks of essentializing and domesticating the identities of the people who advance identity claims. It develops a guide to aid in the fair assessment of identity claims which is grounded on the requirements that public
institutions must respect what people claim is deeply important to their self understandings and ways of life without merely accepting such claims at face value or deferring to claimants in every case, and public institutions must have the capacity to reflect on their own unfair biases. The guide
developed in Reasons of Identity aims at interrogating the strength of any identity claim on bases that are respectful of differences without being blinded by them.
Author: Avigail Eisenberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/01/2009
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780199291304
Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2010
About the Author
Avigail Eisenberg is an Associate Professor of Political Science and a Faculty Associate in the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.
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