Politics in the vernacular: nationalism, multiculturalism and citizenship

Will Kymlicka is widely regarded as the most influential and original theorist of the rights and status of ethnocultural groups in liberal democracies. This volume brings together fifteen of his most important essays, tackling pressing issues of immigration, nationalism, multiculturalism, and the meaning of citizenship in today's increasingly pluralistic societies. These essays will enrich our understanding of the theory and practice of ethnic relations in liberaldemocracies.

Introduction -- PART I: THE EVOLUTION OF THE MINORITY RIGHTS DEBATE: The new debate over minority rights -- Liberal culturalism: an emerging consensus? -- Do we need a liberal theory of minority rights? Reply to Carens, Young, Parekh, and Forst -- PART II: ETHNOCULTURAL JUSTICE: Human rights and ethnocultural justice -- Minority nationalism and multination federalism -- Theorizing indigenous rights -- Indigenous rights and environmental justice -- The theory and practice of immigrant multiculturalism -- A crossroad in race relations -- PART III: MISUNDERSTANDING NATIONALISM: From enlightenment cosmopolitanism to liberal nationalism -- Cosmopolitanism, nation-states, and minority nationalism -- Misunderstanding nationalism -- The paradox of liberal nationalism -- American multiculturalism in the international arena -- Minority nationalism and immigrant integration -- PART IV: DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP IN MULTIETHNIC STATES: Education for citizenship -- Citizenship in an era of globalization: commentary oh Held -- Liberal egalitarianism and civic republicanism: friends or enemies?