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Citizenship, Democracy and Ethnocultural Diversity
Newsletter of the Queen's Forum for Philosophy and Public Policy
No. 12, February 1999
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Upcoming Conferences
3. Call for Papers
4. Recent Publications
5. New Journals
6. Internet Resources
7. 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 twelfth 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
There will be a workshop on "Multiculturalism and Struggles for
Recognition in Comparative Perspective", hosted by the Centre for
European Studies, Harvard, March 5-6, 1999, organized by Seyla
Benhabib. The goal of the workshop is to bring together Europeanists
and social and political theorists to examine new forms of political
conflict around issues of gender, cultural, linguistic, ethnic and
sexual-orientation related identities, and to think through the
theoretical, institutional, legal and cultural implications of the
emergence of these issues in a comparative perspective. For more
information, visit the CES website:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ces/psge/activities.html
Henri Giordan is organizing a major conference on cultural minorities,
called "Pour la liberte des cultures", to be held in Toulon, France on
March 5-7, 1999. Topics include the relation between cultural
pluralism and economic inequality, the threat to cultural liberty from
the extreme right, and the relation between cultural pluralism and
republican citizenship. For more information, contact Henri Giordan,
Directeur de recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS), 61 Traverse des Eaudes, 30250-Villevieille, France. Fax:
33-4-66806135; email: [email protected]
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A conference on "Multiculturalism and Democracy in Divided Societies"
is being organized by the Centre for Multiculturalism and Educational
Research at the University of Haifa, March 17-18 1999. The conference
will focus on problems of multiculturalism, democracy and minorities
in five countries: Israel, Northern Ireland, Estonia, Slovakia, and
Germany. For further information, contact Sammy Smooha, Department of
Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel.
Fax: 972-4-8240819; E-mail: [email protected]
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The 4th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of
Nationalities (ASN), on the general topic of "Rethinking Identities:
State, Nation, Culture", will be held at Columbia University in New
York on 15-17 April 1999. It will be the largest gathering ever of
scholars interested in issues of ethnicity, nationalism, national
identity, and nation-building of the former Soviet bloc. For more
information, or registration and ASN membership forms, contact Oded
Eran, ASN Convention Coordinator, Harriman Institute, Columbia
University, 1215 IAB, 410 W. 118th St., New York, NY 10027. Email:
[email protected]. The preliminary program is available on ASN's new
web site: http://picce.uno.edu/ASN/ASNannualConf1.htm
Galillee College, in cooperation with the International Organization
for Migration (IOM) is organizing an international workshop on
"Absorption and Integration of Immigrants" on April 26 - May 4, 1999
in Israel. It is intended primarily for senior executives in
ministries, public agencies and organizations which deal with the
integration of immigrants into society. It will examine the concepts,
practices and institutions developed in the Israeli context and their
relevance for other countries. For further information, contact Gila
Alony: [email protected]
The Council of Europe is organizing a major conference on "Linguistic
Diversity for democratic citizenship in Europe" in Innsbruck Austria
on May 10-12 1999. The conference will examine language education
policies in the context of increasing mobility in Europe, the
internationalisation of the marketplace, the increasing demands for
language rights by various communities, and the language issues facing
new democracies in Europe. For more information, contact the Modern
Languages Section of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Tel:
33-3-88412625; fax: 33-3-88412706; email: [email protected] or
[email protected]. Or visit the Section's website at:
http://culture.coe.fr/lang
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The International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) Institute is
organizing an international mini-conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia on
the theme of "Youth in the Plural City: Individualized and
Collectivized Identity Projects" on May 24-29, 1999. For more
information, contact Prof. Yngve Lithman, University of Bergen, at:
[email protected]. Or visit the conference website at:
http://www.svf.uib.no/sefos/imer/dubrovnik.html
There will be a conference on "Racism and the Challenges of
Multiculturalism" on June 25-27 1999 at Rhodes University in
Grahamstown, South Africa. The conference is organized by the
Department of Philosophy, and aims to bring philosophical thinkers
together in order to present new work and reflect further on some of
the issues connected with race and multiculturalism. It will include
academics from Africa, North America, Europe, Asia and Australasia.
The deadline for proposals/abstracts is March 5 1999. For more
information, contact Thomas Martin, Department of Philosophy, Rhodes
University, PO Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa. Fax: (046)
622-5049; E-mail: [email protected], or visit the conference
website: http://www.ru.ac.za/academic/departments/philosophy
There will be an international conference on "Immigrants and
Immigration" on August 12-15 1999 in Toronto, Canada, sponsored by the
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). Possible
topics include determinants of policy support, intergroup attitudes
and relations, multiculturalism, ethnic identity and acculturation.
Send proposals by March 15, 1999 to Victoria Esses, Department of
Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C2,
E-mail: [email protected]. For additional information and updates
on the conference, visit the conference website at:
http://www.spssi.org/immigrantcnf.html
There will be a conference on "Re-imagining Multiculturalism" on
October 1-3, 1999 at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. It will
bring together researchers and cultural producers from North America,
Asia and Pacific regions to discuss multiculturalism and ways in which
it can be reimagined. Send abstracts by March 31st 1999 to Ms Anna
Dacre, Centre for Women's Studies, Monash University, Melbourne,
Australia 3168. Fax: 61-3-99051454; Email:
[email protected]
The Center for Philosophical Education (CPE) at Santa Barbara City
College is organizing a-two-part project on "Secession, Transitional
Justice and Reconciliation". The first conference will be held in June
1999 at Belgrade University, and then a follow-up conference on
October 9-11 1999 at San Francisco University. For information,
contact Dr Alexandar Jokic, Centre for Philosophical Education (CPE),
Santa Barbara City College, 721 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.
Tel: 805-687-5570; Email: [email protected]. Website:
http://www.sbcc.net/academic/phil/
In the last issue of the newsletter, we mentioned the ongoing series
of "EUROFOR" conferences on issues of migration. Forthcoming EUROFOR
conferences include "New Integration Strategies", May 1999, Granada,
Spain; "International and Local Migration Policies", September 1999,
Lisbon, Portugal; "Fragmented Labour Market and the Role of Migrants",
October 1999, Berlin, Germany; "Ethnic Radicalisation", January 2000,
Jerusalem, Israel; "Immigration Communities, Diasporas and Politics",
Athens, May 2000. For further information, send an email to:
[email protected], or visit the EUROFOR website:
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~migratio
3. CALL FOR PAPERS
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The theme of the 1999 volume of the newly-established European
Yearbook on Minorities will be minority languages in the OSCE
countries (excluding USA and Canada). The Yearbook welcomes
contributions, comments, texts of recent laws or other documents on
the subject. For further information, contact Snezana Trifunovska,
Faculty of Law, Centre for Migration Law, University of Nijmegen,
Postbus 9094, 6500 KK Nijmegen, Netherlands; Fax: 31 (0) 24 361-6145;
E-mail: [email protected] (for more on this journal, see "New
Journals" below).
The newly-established journal National Identities is having a special
issue on "National identity and Justice", to be published in 2000.
Collective claims about identity frequently involve conceptions of
justice, and rely on combatting present, or memorializing past,
injustice. This is particularly true of national identities. The
journal is currently seeking articles that draw on the connection
between claims of national identity and of justice and/or injustice.
Deadline for submission for this special issue is November 1, 1999.
For further information, contact Dr. Stephen Heathorn, Dept. of
History, Indiana University, Indianapolis Indiana 46202; tel:
317-278-3291; fax: 317-278-7800; e-mail: [email protected]. (For more
information on this journal, see "New Journals" below)
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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Ronald Beiner (ed) Theorizing Nationalism (SUNY Press, 1999), $21.95,
with articles by John Dunn, Wayne Norman, Yael Tamir, Michael
Ignatieff, Bernard Yack, Will Kymlicka, Kai Nielsen, Brian Walker,
Judith Lichtenberg, Neil McCormick, Michael Walzer, Charles Taylor,
Brian Barry, Roger Scruton, Bhikhu Parekh.
David Bennett (ed) Multicultural States: Rethinking Difference and
Identity (Routledge, 1998) $24.99.
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Clive J. Christie, Race and Nation: A Reader (St. Martin's Press,
1998), $19.75.
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Walter Feinberg, Common Schools/Uncommon Identities: National Unity
and Cultural Difference (Yale UP, 1998) $28.50.
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Carol Greenhouse (ed) Democracy and Ethnography: Constructing
Identities in Multicultural Liberal States (SUNY Press, 1998) $21.95
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Daniele Joly (ed) Scapegoats and Social Actors: The Exclusion and
Integration of Minorities in Western and Eastern Europe (St. Martin's
Press, 1998) $65.00
Andreas Klinke et al (eds) Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society:
Proposals for a New Era in Eastern Europe (Ashgate, 1998) $34.95
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Margaret Moore (ed) National Self-Determination and Secession (Oxford
University Press, 1998), $65.00, with articles by Allen Buchanan,
Wayne Norman, David Miller, Daniel Philpott, Kai Nielsen, Margaret
Moore, Ronald Beiner, Donald Horowitz, John McGarry and Rogers
Brubaker.
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Jennifer Preece, National Minorities and the European Nation-States
System (Oxford University Press, 1998) $55.00.
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Anthony D. Smith, Nationalism and Modernism: A Critical Survey of
Recent Theories of Nations and Nationalism (Routledge, 1998) $25.99.
Graham Smith (ed) Nation-Building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands: the
politics of national identities (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
$22.95
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K. Woodward, Identity and Difference (Sage, 1997) $22.95.
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In addition there are several recent journal symposia which might be
of interest:
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All of the issues of the journal Citizenship Studies will be of
interest to readers, but the most recent issue (Vol. 2, #3, 1998) will
be of special interest to political theorists, with articles on
citizenship and diversity by Bhikhu Parekh, Veit Bader, Joseph Carens,
Melissa Williams and Marlies Galenkamp.
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There was a special issue of Journal of Christian Education on
"Multiculturalism as an educational policy", December 1997, vol. 40,
n. 3.
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5. NEW JOURNALS
There are two new journals which might be of interest to readers:
There is a new international and interdisciplinary journal called
National Identities, being published by Carfax. It will explore the
formation and expression of national identity from antiquity to the
present, focusing on the role of cultural and political factors in the
forging of national identities, and comparing the historical
significance of nation in relationship to other important forms of
identity such as religion, region, tribe or class. The editors are
Peter Caterall, David Hooson, Elfie Rembold and Christopher Vernon.
For more information, visit the website at:
http://www.carfax.co.uk/nid-ad.htm
The Centre for Migration Law at the University of Nijmegen is starting
a new periodical called the European Yearbook on Minorities, to be
published by Kluwer. It is intended to be an immediate and reliable
source of information on what is happening in the legal and political
fields, both internationally and within each European country. Each
volume will have three sections: an academic discussion of a
particular issue concerning minorities (the first such "theme of the
year" will be minority languages); information on the activities and
documents of various international organizations; and a review of the
national activities and documents on the OSCE countries. They welcome
all contributions, comments, texts of recent laws or other documents
or jurisprudence. The editor in chief is Dr. Snezena Trifunovska, Law
Faculty, Centre for Migration Law, University of Nijmegen, Postbus
9094, 6500 KK Nijmegen Netherlands. Tel: 31-24-3615988; fax:
31-24-3616145. Email: [email protected]
6. ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
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Those working on issues of linguistic diversity may be interested in a
new monthly email newsletter, produced by the publisher Multilingual
Matters. It includes information on language-related journals and
books, academic conferences etc.. For a free subscription, send an
email to [email protected], including the word `subscribe'
as the subject and in the body of the email.
The Centre for Immigration Studies in Washington DC
(http://www.cis.org) operates a free internet mailing list on
immigration policy for academics, policymakers, journalists, activists
and others. The list concentrates on the United States, but includes
information from other countries. The list, called CISNEWS, is a
moderated list for announcements, news items, reviews, queries, etc.
There are 15 or so postings a week. To join the list, go to:
http://athena.minerva.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/CISNEWS
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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 assistance, and
to Lise Charlebois for help with the distribution of the newsletter.
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