UBC Press Intercultural Deliberation and the Politics of Minority Rights

Achieving socio-political cohesion in a community with significant ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity is a challenge in contemporary liberal democracies. Public policies and institutions shaped by the needs of the majority can inadvertently marginalize minority interests. Intercultural Deliberation and the Politics of Minority Rights articulates a type of political deliberation designed to mitigate this problem. Instead of asking what the liberal state can tolerate, R.E. Lowe-Walker asks how our understanding of difference affects our interpretation of minority claims, shifting the focus toward inclusive deliberations. This important work serves as a measure of social justice and a vehicle for social change. Review This book does a wonderful of job bringing analytical philosophy about semantics, truth, interpretation, and liberalism to bear on some of the basic terms used in multicultural debates. Author: Avigail Eisenberg, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria Book Description A unique contribution to the literature on minority rights, Intercultural Deliberation and the Politics of Minority Rights examines the role of cultural difference in minority rights claims, building a case for inclusive political deliberation in liberal democracies. From the Author R.E. Lowe-Walker lectures in social and political philosophy at the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia. Her research interests focus on the challenges of pluralism in liberal democracies. About the Author R.E. Lowe-Walker lectures in social and political philosophy at the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia. Her research interests focus on the challenges of pluralism in liberal democracies.