Introduction to Political Theory

Multiculturalism and the politics of identity Charles Taylor argues that the sense of who we are is constructed in the eyes of o ...

owes a huge amount to a liberal conception of the human subject. Culture is not, for Taylor, something set apart from human bei ...

Communitarians, on the other hand, fail to define ‘community’: is it a neighbourhood or the whole world? For the purposes of his ...

Before the Quiet Revolution [1960–6], the Québécois generally shared a rural, Catholic, conservative, and patriarchal conception ...

constitutionalism stresses sovereignty, regularity and uniformity, and this contrasts with the implied rejection of sovereignty ...

of justice are generated from a moral standpoint occupied by autonomous moral agents is a form of comprehensive liberalism, and ...

unilateral declarations of divorce by men; (e) morally indifferent. From the perspective of respect for secular law, only (b) mi ...

Multiculturalism and feminism Is multiculturalism bad for women? Many feminists think so, but before outlining their objections ...

legislation. This exclusion is often extended to educational establishments, where girls are not educated in the same way as boy ...

Responses to Okin Okin’s critique of multiculturalism generated a significant debate and responses to her essay are contained in ...

a liberal perspective of gender-blindness – women ‘suffer’ more than men. The question is whether it is valid to reduce culture ...

to the controversy of the burqa is an effective way of drawing out both the philosophical bases and political implications of mu ...

Summary Multiculturalism emerged in the 1960s as a distinct area of academic debate, and over the following decades the language ...

Michael, G. (2006) ‘Professor Kevin MacDonald’s Critique of Judaism: Legitimate Scholarship or the Intellectualization of Anti-S ...

Chapter 16 Ecologism Introduction Ecologism has only emerged as a fully fledged ideology since the 1960s. As with all recent ide ...

Nuclear Power? Yes Please! I n the 1980s plastered on cars and on lapel badges was the German slogan around a smiley ‘sun’ face: ...

Ecologism or environmentalism? Of the four chapters on new ideologies in this book, this one has proved to be the most difficult ...

catastrophic consequences, and that food aid to the developing world should be ended so that population levels can be allowed to ...

regardless of its wider impact. The use of agricultural chemicals and the genetic modification of crops are identified by some e ...

contradiction: the possibility of a Green politics depends on the generation of surplus goods and, therefore, the consumer socie ...