POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: New Flemish Alliance, Will Kymlicka, Identity Politics
Document Summary
Poli 100 november 19, 2015 liberal muliculturalism the challenge of idenity: ethnicity. Idenity based calls for equality/equity: full inclusion in poliics legislaive/judiciary/execuive, equitable representaion recognize diference. Idenity based calls for recognizing diference: liberal muliculturalists need to recognize diference (group rights) Internaional: cultural/ethnicity: clash of civilizaions debate culture deines internaional poliics in 21st century, increase in intrastate warfare based on cultural idenity. Self determinaion against state (idenity based calls against state) Current treaty negoiaions: nisga"a treaty, bc muliple treaty negoiaions ongoing. Simple deiniion: heterogeneous populaion within a naion state. Recogniion of groups and the protecion rights to support diferent cultural ideniies, consistent with a liberal society (sovereignty of state and individual rights) e. g. will kymlicka, charles taylor. Eurocentrism" is inherent in most western" poliical thought and pracice, and there is a need for a deeper analysis to resist and deconstruct the depicion of the other" in western poliical thought and pracice e. g. edward said. Majority rule: potenial for segregaion or assimilaion.
