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Postcolonial Liberalism presents a compelling account of the challenges to liberal political theory by claims to cultural and political autonomy and land rights made by indigenous peoples today. It also confronts the sensitive issue of how liberalism has been used to justify and legitimate colonialism. Ivison argues that there is a pressing need to re-shape liberal thought to become more receptive to indigenous aspirations and modes of being. What is distinctive about the book is the middle way it charts between separatism, on the one hand, and assimilation, on the other. These two options present a false dichotomy as to what might constitute a genuinely postcolonial liberal society. In defending this ideal, the book addresses important recent debates over the nature of public reason, justice in multicultural and multinational societies, collective responsibility for the past, and clashes between individual and group rights.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political ideologies

• Full title: Postcolonial Liberalism
• Author: Duncan Ivison
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226
• EAN: 9780521527514
• ISBN: 0521527511
• ID: 02033853
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 362 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 153 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. November 2002

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