The Perils of Identity

The Perils of Identity
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Publisher : UBC Press
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 9780774820653
ISBN-13 : 0774820659
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Book Synopsis The Perils of Identity by : Caroline Dick

Download or read book The Perils of Identity written by Caroline Dick and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calls for the provision of group rights are a common part of politics in Canada. Many liberal theorists consider identity claims a necessary condition of equality, but do these claims do more harm than good? To answer this question, Caroline Dick engages in a critical analysis of liberal identity-driven theories and their application in cases such as Sawridge Band v. Canada, which sets a First Nation’s right to self-determination against indigenous women’s right to equality. She contrasts Charles Taylor’s theory of identity recognition, Will Kymlicka’s cultural theory of minority rights, and Avigail Eisenberg’s theory of identity-related interests with an alternative rights framework that account for both group and in-group differences. Dick concludes that the problem is not the concept of identity itself but the way in which prevailing conceptions of identity and group rights obscure intragroup differences. Instead, she proposes a politics of intragroup difference that has the power to transform rights discourse in Canada.


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