scholarly journals Equal Recognition: A Reply to Four Critics

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-191
Author(s):  
Alan Patten
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Preservation ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Normative Basis ◽  
Equal Recognition ◽  
Liberal Multiculturalism

Equal Recognition seeks to restate the case in favour of liberal multiculturalism in a manner that is responsive to major objections that have been advanced by critics in recent years. The book engages, among other questions, with two central unresolved problems. First, how should ideas of culture and cultural preservation be understood, given widespread suspicion that these ideas rely on an unavowed, but objectionable, form of essentialism? And, second, what exactly is the normative basis of cultural rights claims, and what are the limits on those claims? My four commentators advance a variety of different criticisms of the book’s answers to these questions. I offer replies to each of their main challenges.

scholarly journals Inklusi Sosial dalam Program Kartu Jakarta Sehat (KJS) dan Kartu Jakarta Pintar (KJP) di DKI Jakarta

Humaniora ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Yustinus Suhardi Ruman
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
International Community ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
People Participation ◽  
Normative Basis

Article focuses on elaborating social inclusion in health and education policy in DKI Jakarta through Kartu Jakarta Sehat and Kartu Jakarta Pintar program. The program is composed by the governor and vice governor of DKI Jakarta, Joko Widodo and Basuki Tjahaja Purnama. By using interpretative method, secondary data and social exclusion and inclusion concept, this article shows that Kartu Jakarta Sehat and Kartu Jakarta Pintar program can be valued as social inclusion program. Through Kartu Jakarta Pintar program everyone who is the citizen of DKI Jakarta can participate in basic education; and through Kartu Jakarta Sehat all citizens of DKI Jakarta get merely health services. The policies make education and health services more open for all people. Participation in education and getting health services are the rights of all people. These rights were acknowledged by international community through International Convension about economic, social and cultural rights in 1966. This convention was ratified by the Indonesian Government through Law Number 11, 2005. So the normative basis of Kartu Jakarta Sehat and Kartu Jakarta Pintar Program is identified as inclusion policy in accordance with the expectation of international community and also is appropriate with the Law of Indonesia. 

Equal Recognition

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Patten
Keyword(s):  
Minority Culture ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Equal Recognition ◽  
Major Argument ◽  
Cultural Justice

This chapter explores the question of under what conditions, if any, are there reasons for thinking that people have a complaint based on justice about the decline of the minority culture? More specifically: under what conditions can people justifiably make such a complaint while adopting a broadly liberal account of what justice is? It examines the implications of neutrality of treatment for the justification of minority cultural rights. It distinguishes between procedural and nonprocedural accounts of cultural justice and, within the former category, between “basic” and “full” liberal proceduralism. The major argument is that neutrality of treatment mandates the latter form of proceduralism, which incorporates a concern for what referred to as “equal recognition.” The second half of the chapter considers and responds to several objections to this defense of cultural rights.

scholarly journals Language rights and groups of immigrant origin

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iker Erdocia
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Language Rights ◽  
Language Recognition ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Liberal Multiculturalism ◽  
Territorial Boundaries

Abstract In this article, I aim to analyse language rights in relation to groups of immigrant origin. Liberal democracies are reluctant to consider immigrant groups as subjects entitled to the same set of language and cultural rights enjoyed by national minorities. However, the trend towards increasing levels of immigration is configuring new cultural and language correlations within territorial boundaries that provoke responses that problematise a fixed conception of language rights. Drawing on theories of liberal multiculturalism, I examine the case of claims for language recognition in the Spanish autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla and its normative implications. In these territories, factors such as size, concentration, and the historical ties of Arabic- and Berber-speaking communities challenge conventional approaches to minority groups’ rights based on a national versus immigrant minority distinction. I argue that these approaches are not satisfactory for language claims in these two cities and that a contextual approach is better suited to conceptualising the recognition of language rights.

Why Does Culture Matter?

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Patten
Keyword(s):  
Important Implication ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Cultural Preservation ◽  
Cultural Rights

The account of culture in Chapter 2 sets the stage for an account of why culture matters to people. Why is it a bad thing for one's culture to disappear, or for one to be denied the opportunity to participate in some cultural practice? This chapter takes up this question and develops an account of why culture matters that is salient to the strong cultural rights thesis. The thought is that it is bad for people to lose their culture, or to be denied certain cultural opportunities, because the options that are open to them are thereby diminished in an unacceptable way. Any account of this form is vulnerable to a dilemma, and an important implication of the dilemma is that strong cultural rights should not be thought of as rights to cultural preservation.

CULTURAL RIGHTS AND LIBERAL MULTICULTURALISM

2006 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-81
Author(s):  
Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Liberal Multiculturalism

scholarly journals Culture, neutrality and minority rights

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-374
Author(s):  
Aurélia Bardon
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Liberal Neutrality ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Fair Treatment ◽  
Cultural Minority ◽  
Equal Recognition

Alan Patten’s Equal Recognition offers a new and powerful argument to support the ‘strong cultural rights thesis’. Unlike other culturalist arguments, his argument is not based on a problematic and essentialist conception of culture but on a particular understanding of liberal neutrality as fair treatment and equal recognition. What justifies the existence of such rights is not culture itself but what culture means for people and the negative consequences it can have for them when they form a cultural minority. Patten’s argument, however, faces another challenge: I argue that culture and neutrality cannot be fully reconciled, and that, ultimately, the concept of culture might not be playing any significant role in his argument for minority rights.

scholarly journals Multiculturalism on the Back Seat? Culture, Religion, and Justice

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-146
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Maclure
Keyword(s):  
Normative Theory ◽  
Social Cooperation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Liberal Egalitarianism ◽  
Cultural Minorities ◽  
The Status ◽  
Equal Recognition ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Sophisticated Version

Alan Patten’s Equal Recognition is a major contribution to the normative literature on minority rights. I nonetheless suggest that liberal culturalism as a normative theory, even in Patten’s sophisticated version, is ill suited to deal with the challenges related to the status of religion in the public sphere that are so prevalent in contemporary democracies. In addition, I submit that Patten did not supply a fully convincing answer to the argument that liberal egalitarianism, well understood, is capacious enough to secure fair terms of social cooperation for members of cultural minorities, making the (allegedly burdensome) language of “cultural rights” and “cultural recognition” superfluous.

scholarly journals Neutrality as a Basis for Minority Cultural Rights

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-156
Author(s):  
Andrew Lister
Keyword(s):  
Main Issue ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Equal Recognition

This comment examines the idea of ‘neutrality of treatment’ that is at the heart of Alan Patten’s defense of minority cultural rights in Equal Recognition. The main issue I raise is whether neutrality of treatment can do without an ‘upstream’ or foundational commitment to neutrality of justification.

ROBOTICS PROJECTS IN SCHOOL INFORMATICS COURSE

2019 ◽  
pp. 52-56
Author(s):  
V. V. Tarapata
Keyword(s):  
Information Transmission ◽  
Educational Robotics ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
Teaching Tools ◽  
Modern School ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Information Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Normative Basis ◽  
Typical Model

The article describes the prerequisites for the use of educational robotics in the school course of informatics, the history of the development of its directions and the normative basis for its use in modern school education. A typical model of an educational robotic project for the organization of research and project activities of students has been proposed. The technological chart of the lesson as an example of the implementation of a robotic project in the framework of the research activities on informatics is considered. Approaches to the organization of educational activities, teaching tools and ways of evaluation in informatics class on the theme “Information processes. Information transmission” when using the project approach are described.

Review: Islam and politics in Iranian Kurdistan at a time of revolution: the life of Ahmad Moftizadeh

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-87
Author(s):  
Martin Van Bruinessen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Other ◽  
Islam And Politics ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Revolutionary Regime

Ali Ezzatyar, The Last Mufti of Iranian Kurdistan: Ethnic and Religious Implications in the Greater Middle East. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xv + 246 pp., (ISBN 978-1-137-56525-9 hardback).For a brief period in 1979, when the Kurds had begun confronting Iran’s new Islamic revolutionary regime and were voicing demands for autonomy and cultural rights, Ahmad Moftizadeh was one of the most powerful men in Iranian Kurdistan. He was the only Kurdish leader who shared the new regime’s conviction that a just social and political order could be established on the basis of Islamic principles. The other Kurdish movements were firmly secular, even though many of their supporters were personally pious Muslims.

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