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Readings by Week Weeks 1 and 2: Background Readings on Culture: What is Culture? Week 1: Clifford Geertz, “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretative Theory of Culture,” in The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: Basic Books 1973). Recommended: Sherry B. Ortner, The Fate of “Culture”: Geertz and Beyond (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). Week 2: Ernest Gellner: Nations and Nationalism, 2nd edition, introduction by John Breuilly (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008). Weeks 3 through 8: Culture in Multiculturalism, so what is culture? Week 3: Will Kymlicka: Liberalism, Community, and Culture. Week 4: Will Kymlicka: Multicultural Citizenship Recommended: Kymlicka’s chapter on Multiculturalism in his 2nd edition of Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction (Oxford, 2002). Volumes on multiculturalism edited by David Goldberg (1994), Barnor Hesse (2000), and Cynthia Willett (1998). Week 5: Charles Taylor: The Politics of Recognition (2nd edition, 1994) Week 6: James Tully: Strange Multiplicity (1995) Week 7: Iris Marion Young: Justice and the Politics of Difference (1990) Week 8: None: Question-and-Answer. Students bring questions from readings so far. Week 9: Break. No Reading. Rest and relaxation, and/or preparation for the second half. Weeks 10 through 12: Who Needs or Wants Culture? Criticism of Culture Week 10: Chandran Kukathas, “Are There Any Cultural Rights?” Political Theory 20(1):105-139. Will Kymlicka, “The Rights of Minority Cultures.” Political Theory 20(1):140-146. Chandran Kukathas, “Cultural Rights Again.” Political Theory 20(4):674-680. Susan Moller Okin: Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? (1999) Shachar, Ayelet. Multicultural Jurisdictions. (2001) Recommended: H.L.A. Hart, [1955] “Are There Any Natural Rights?” in Human Rights, ed. A.I. Melden (Belmont, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1970). Robert Goodin, “Liberal Multiculturalism.” Political Theory 34(3):289-303. Geoffrey Brahm Levey, “Equality, Autonomy, and Cultural Rights.” Political Theory 25(2):215-248. Week 11: Brian Barry: Culture and Equality, chapters 1 through 5. Week 12: Barry: Culture and Equality, chapters 6 through 8. Recommended: Brian Barry, “Is There a Right to Development?” in International Justice, ed. Tony Coates (Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2000). Brian Barry, “Second Thoughts – and Some First Thoughts Revived” In Multiculturalism Reconsidered, ed. Paul Kelly (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2002). Barry, Brian: Why Social Justice Matters (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2005). James Johnson, “Why Respect Culture?” American Journal of Political Science 44(3):405-418. David Scott, “Culture in Political Theory” Political Theory 31(1):92-115. Steven Wall, “Collective Rights and Individual Autonomy” Ethics 117:234-264. Weeks 13 through 17: The Current State of the Multiculturalism Literature (These readings are subject to change as new materials become available.) Week 13: Benhabib, Seyla. 2002. The Claims of Culture. Anne Phillips. 2007. Multiculturalism without Culture. Phillips, Anne and Sawitri Saharso. 2008. “The Rights of Women and the Crisis of Multiculturalism.” Guest Editorial. Ethnicities 8(3):291-301. Song, Sarah. 2005. “Majority Norms, Multiculturalism, and Gender Equality.” American Political Science Review 99(4):473-489. Recommended: Song. Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism. Week 14: Deveaux, Monique. 2006. Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States. Dhamoon, Rita. 2006. “Shifting From ‘Culture’ to ‘the Cultural’: Critical Theorizing of Identity/Difference Politics.” Constellations 13(3):354-373. Week 15: Kymlicka, Will and Baogang He, eds. 2005. Multiculturalism in Asia. Week 16: Laden, Anthony Simon and David Owen, eds. 2007. Multiculturalism and Political Theory. Week 17: Chambers, Clare. 2008. Sex, Culture, and Justice: the Limits of Choice. Week 18: Conclusion. No reading. Discussion of due dates for long essays. Suggestions about ways in which this course might be improved in the future. Third-generation statements, namely, statements at the cutting edge, state-of-the-art: Chambers, Clare. 2008. Sex, Culture, and Justice: the Limits of Choice. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. Deveaux, Monique. 2006. Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Dhamoon, Rita. 2006. “Shifting From ‘Culture’ to ‘the Cultural’: Critical Theorizing of Identity/Difference Politics.” Constellations 13(3):354-373. Kymlicka, Will. 2007. Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kymlicka, Will and Baogang He, eds. 2005. Multiculturalism in Asia. New York: Oxford University Press. Laden, Anthony Simon and David Owen, eds. 2007. Multiculturalism and Political Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Phillips, Anne. 2007. Multiculturalism without Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Phillips, Anne and Sawitri Saharso. 2008. “The Rights of Women and the Crisis of Multiculturalism.” Guest Editorial. Ethnicities 8(3):291-301. Song, Sarah. 2005. “Majority Norms, Multiculturalism, and Gender Equality.” American Political Science Review 99(4):473-489. Song, Sarah. 2007. Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Second-generation statements: Barry, Brian. 2001. Culture and Equality: An Equalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Barry, Brian. 2002. “Second Thoughts – and Some First Thoughts Revived” In Multiculturalism Reconsidered, ed. Paul Kelly. Cambridge, UK: Polity. Benhabib, Seyla. 2002. The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Buchanan, Allen. 2004. Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Dieckhoff, Alain, ed. 2004. The Politics of Belonging: Nationalism, Liberalism, and Pluralism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Eisenberg, Avigail and Jeff Spinner-Halev, eds. 2005. Minorities within Minorities: Equality, Rights and Diversity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hesse, Barnor, ed. 2000. Un/settled Multiculturalisms: Diasporas, Entanglements, Transruptions. London: Zed Books. Ingram, David. 2000. Group Rights: Reconciling Equality and Difference. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press. Kelly, Paul, ed. 2002a. Multiculturalism Reconsidered: Culture and Equality and its Critics. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. Kelly, Paul. 2002b. “The Long Shadow of John Stuart Mill: Brian Barry on Culture and Freedom.” Contemporary Politics 8/2: 117-128. Kukathas, Chandran. 1992. “Are There Any Cultural Rights?” Political Theory 20(1): 105-139. Kukathas, Chandran. 2003. The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kymlicka, Will. 2001. Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Levy, Jacob T. 2000. The Multiculturalism of Fear. Oxford: Oxford UP. Lukes, Steven. 2003. Liberals & Cannibals: The Implications of Diversity. London: Verso. Macedo, Stephen and Allen Buchanan, eds. 2003. NOMOS XLV: Secession and Self- determination. New York: New York University Press. Okin, Susan Moller. 1998. “Feminism and Multiculturalism: Some Tensions.” Ethics 108 (4):661-684. Okin, Susan Moller. 1999. Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? eds. Joshua Cohen, Matthew Howard, and Martha C. Nussbaum. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Okin, Susan Moller. 2002. “‘Mistresses of Their Own Destiny’: Group Rights, Gender, and Realistic Rights of Exit.” Ethics 112:205-230. Okin, Susan Moller. 2005. “Multiculturalism and Feminism: No Simple Question, No Simple Answers.” In Minorities within Minorities: Equality, Rights and Diversity. eds. Avigail Eisenberg and Jeff Spinner-Halev. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Shachar, Ayelet. 2001. Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women’s Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Young, Iris Marion. 2000. Inclusion and Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. First-generation statements: Buchanan, Allen. 1991. Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce from Fort Sumter to Lithuanian and Quebec. Boulder, CO: Westview. Goldberg, David Theo, ed. 1994. Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader. Oxford: Blackwell. Kymlicka, Will. 1989. Liberalism, Community and Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kymlicka, Will. 1995a. Multicultural Citizenship. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kymlicka, Will, ed. 1995b. The Rights of Minority Cultures. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kymlicka, Will. 2002. “Chapter 8. Multiculturalism.” Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction. 2nd Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Miller, David. 1995. On Nationality. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Shapiro, Ian and Will Kymlicka, eds. 1997. Nomos XXXIX Ethnicity and Group Rights. New York: New York University Press. Sitaram, K.S. and Michael Prosser, eds.. 1998. Civic Discourse: Multiculturalism, Cultural Diversity, and Global Communication: Volume 1. Stamford: Ablex Publishing Corporation. Tamir, Yael. 1993. Liberal Nationalism. Princeton: Princeton UP. Taylor, Charles. 1994. “The Politics of Recognition.” In Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition. Edited and introduced by Amy Gutmann. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Tully, James. 1995. Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Willett, Cynthia, ed. 1998. Theorizing Multiculturalism: A Guide to the Current Debate. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Young, Iris Marion. 1990. Justice and the Politics of Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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