Fills a remarkable gap in the literature and stimulates further research in this important area
Most countries around the world exhibit a long history of exclusion and discrimination directed against ethnic, racial, national, religious, or ideological groups. The underlying justifications for these forms of exclusion have been increasingly discredited by the post-war human rights revolution, decolonization, and by contemporary norms of liberal-democratic constitutionalism, with their commitment to equal rights and non-discrimination. However, even as these older practices and ideologies of exclusion are discredited and repudiated, they continue to have enduring effects. The legacies of exclusion can still be seen in a wide range of social attitudes, cultural practices, economic and demographic patterns, and institutional rules that obstruct efforts to build genuinely inclusive societies of equal citizens. Finding ways to overcome this problem is a major challenge facing virtually every society around the world. This book focuses on two parallel intellectual and political movements that have arisen to address this challenge: the `politics of reconciliation`, with its focus on reparations, truth-telling and healing amongst former adversaries, and the `politics of difference`, with its focus on the recognition and empowerment of minorities in multicultural societies. Both the politics of reconciliation and the politics of difference are having a profound impact on the theory and practice of democracy around the world, but remarkably little has been written about the relationship between them. This book aims to fill that gap. Drawing on both theoretical analysis and case studies from around the world, the authors explore how the politics of reconciliation and the politics of difference often interact in mutually supportive ways, as reconciliation leads to more multicultural conceptions of citizenship. But there are also important ways in which the two may compete in their aims and methods. This book is the first attempt to systematically explore these areas of potential convergence and divergence.

Contents
1: Bashir Bashir and Will Kymlicka: Introduction: Struggles for Inclusion and Reconciliation in Modern Democracies
2: Jonathan VanAntwerpen: Reconciliation Reconceived: Religion, Secularism, and the Language of Transition
3: Bashir Bashir: Reconciling Historically Excluded Social Groups: Deliberative Democracy and the Politics of Reconciliation
4: Nadim Rouhana: Reconciling History and Equal Citizenship in Israel: Democracy and the Politics of Historical Denial
5: Lawrie Balfour: Act & Fact: Slavery Reparations as a Democratic Politics of Reconciliation
6: Paul Muldoon: `The Very Basis of Civility`: On Agonism, Conquest and Reconciliation
7: Sonali Thakkar: Under Western Eyes: `Into the Heart of Africa`, Colonial Ethnographic Display, and the Politics of Multiculturalism
8: Mark D. Walters: The Jurisprudence of Reconciliation: Aboriginal Rights in Canada
9: Ruth Rubio-Marín: Gender and Collective Reparations in the Aftermath of Conflict and Political Repression
Bibliography
Index

A kötet szerkesztői:
Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen`s University.

Bashir Bashir, Fellow in the Department of Political Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Research Fellow at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

A kötet szerzői:
Bashir Bashir is a post-doctorate fellow at the Department of Political Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a research fellow at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen`s University.
Paul Muldoon is a Lecturer in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University.
Nadim N. Rouhana is the Henry Hart Rice Professor of Conflict Studies at George Mason University.
Sonali Thakkar is a doctoral student in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Ruth Rubio-Marín is Professor of Public Law at the University of Seville, Spain and a member of the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University.
Jonathan VanAntwerpen is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Mark Walters is an associate professor at the faculty of law at Queen`s University, Canada.