Cindy Holder

Contact Info

Email: clholder@uvic.ca
Office: CLE B322
Hours: M T 10:00-11:00
Phone: (250) 721-7516
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/~clholder/

Biography

History: B.A. (McGill), M.A. (Dalhousie), Ph.D. (University of Arizona), Associate Professor, has taught at the University of Arizona and joined this department in 2001.

Interests: Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Ethical Theory (Normative Theory), History of Moral and Social Thought, Feminist Philosophy, Ethical Theory (Metaethics).

Publications:

• “Preventing Humanitarian Crises” in Larry May, ed. War and Philosophy (Cambridge University Press: 2008).
• “Culture as an Activity and Human Right: An  Important Advance for Indigenous Peoples and International Law" Alternatives, Special Issue on Indigenous Peoples, 33 (2008).
• with Jeff Corntassel: “Who’s Sorry Now? Government Apologies, Truth Commissions and Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia, Canada, Guatemala and Peru” Human Rights Review 9:4 (July/September 2008).
•  “Debating the Danish Cartoons: Civil Rights or Civil Power?”, UNB Law Journal 55 (2006), 179-185.
• “Self-Determination as a Universal Human Right”, Human Rights Review 7:4 (July-September 2006), 5-18 .
• “Rethinking  Political Justification” Journal of Value Inquiry 30 (2005), 511-529.
• “Self-Determination as a Basic Human Right: The Draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” in Minorities within Minorities: Equality, Rights and Diversity, Avigail Eisenberg and Jeff Spinner-Halev, eds, (Cambridge University Press: 2004), pp 294-316.
• “Culture as a Basic Human Right” in Diversity and Equality: The Changing Framework of Freedom in Canada, Avigail Eisenberg, ed (University of British Columbia Press, 2005), pp. 170-208.
• Co-authored: “Indigenous Peoples and Multicultural Citizenship: Bridging the Gap Between Collective and Individual Rights”, Human Rights Quarterly 24:1 (February 2002), 126-151, with Jeff Corntassel, Indigenous Governance, University of Victoria. Reprinted in Human Rights and the Global Marketplace: Economic, Social and Cultural, Jeanne M. Woods and Hope Lewis, eds. (Transnational Publishers: New York, 2005)
• “Are Patriarchal Cultures Really a Problem? Rethinking Objections from Cultural Viciousness”, Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 12 (2002) 727-757.
• “Groups, Rights and Methodological Individualism:  In Defense of Collectivist Rights”, in Social Philosophy Today,  vol. 15: Cultural Integrity and World Community, Cheryl Hughes and Yeager Hudson, eds. (Edwin Mellen Press: 2000), pp 305 - 320.
• “Normativity and the Public Domain: Political Theory and Ethical Commitment”, Law Commission of Canada (Canada Communications Group: Ottawa, 1999).

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