The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies

Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University, and the author of six books published by Oxford University Press: Liberalism, Community, and Culture (1989), Contemporary Political Philosophy (1990; second edition 2002), Multicultural Citizenship (1995), which was awarded the Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association, and the Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association, Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998), Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, Citizenship (2001), and Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007). He is a visiting professor in the Nationalism Studies program at the Central European University in Budapest, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research. 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. He has a Ph.D. in Political Theory from the Government Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has taught political theory at the LSE, Queen's University and the Hebrew University. His primary research interests are democratic theories of inclusion, conflict-resolution and the politics of reconciliation, deliberative democracy, and multiculturalism.

1. Introduction: Struggles for Inclusion and Reconciliation in Modern Democracies; 2. Reconciliation Reconceived: Religion, Secularism, and the Language of Transition; 3. Reconciling Historically Excluded Social Groups: Deliberative Democracy and the Politics of Reconciliation; 4. Reconciling History and Equal Citizenship in Israel: Democracy and the Politics of Historical Denial; 5. Act & Fact: Slavery Reparations as a Democratic Politics of Reconciliation; 6. 'The Very Basis of Civility': On Agonism, Conquest and Reconciliation; 7. Under Western Eyes: 'Into the Heart of Africa', Colonial Ethnographic Display, and the Politics of Multiculturalism; 8. The Jurisprudence of Reconciliation: Aboriginal Rights in Canada; 9. Gender and Collective Reparations in the Aftermath of Conflict and Political Repression; Bibliography; Index