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| Cultural rights: Cultural rights are entitlements ensuring individuals and communities can uphold, express, and preserve their cultural identity, practices, languages, and traditions. These rights encompass access to cultural heritage, participation in cultural life, and protection against discrimination, fostering diverse cultural expressions and fostering societal cohesion and understanding. See also Culture, Cultural traditions, Cltural values, Multiculturalism, Community._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Jacob T. Levy on Cultural Rights - Dictionary of Arguments
Gaus I 253 Cultural Rights/Levy/Kukathas: [Will] Kymlicka's(1) defence of group-differentiated rights immediately raised a range of questions and problems, and the literature on multiculturalism over the past decade has tackled many of them. >Minority rights/Political Philosophy. The most helpful elucidation of the different kinds of rights claims made on behalf of cultural groups was offered by Jacob Levy (1997(2): 24—5), who distinguished eight categories of rights. categories of rights. These include exemption rights (exempting groups from laws that burden their cultural practices), assistance rights (to do those things the majority can do unassisted), self-government rights, rights to impose external rules (say, restricting non-members' rights to buy property or restricting their right to use their own language), rights to enforce intemal rules (even if they violate other rights), rights of recognition of the group's legal code, rights of representation in government, and rights to symbolic claims to acknowledge the worth, status, or existence of the group (1997(2): 25). >Culture/Kymlicka, >Minority rights/Kymlicka, >Minorities/Kymlicka. 1. Kymlicka, Will (1995a) Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2. Levy, Jacob (1997) 'Classifying cultural rights'. In Will Kymlicka and Ian Shapiro, eds, Ethnicity and Group Rights: NOMOS xxwx New York: New York University Press, 22—66. Kukathas, Chandran 2004. „Nationalism and Multiculturalism“. In: Gaus, Gerald F. & Kukathas, Chandran 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Levy I I. Levy Gambling With Truth an Essay of Induction and the Aims of Science Cambridge 1974 Gaus I Gerald F. Gaus Chandran Kukathas Handbook of Political Theory London 2004 |
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