Dr. Avigail Eisenberg is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Faculty Associate in the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria. Before moving to Victoria, Eisenberg was an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, where she spent the first ten years of her academic career. She has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Edinburgh (1996-7), and the Universite de Montreal (2004-5). She has been a resident fellow at the Rockefeller Centre in Bellagio, Italy. |
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Citizenship and Diversity I supervise graduate students interested in citizenship, diversity, cultural rights, identity politics, feminism and constitutionalism. In the coming year, I have funding available for students working in the following areas of research: Citizenship and Religious Diversity What are alternative strategies for articulating and acknowledging religious diversity in public contexts? This project explores how religious diversity is perceived and accommodated in Canada through legal and political processes. The thematic questions guiding the project include: What are the political processes by which religious forms of hegemony are preserved? Does a shift from a discourse of tolerance to a discourse of recognition change how religious minorities are accommodated in Canadian constitutional law? What happens to religious freedom when religion is treated as ‘culture’? What are the key means by which democratic space for religious discourse is constructed or maintained in Canada? Cultural Accommodation versus Participation This research project looks at recent efforts by public commissions, governments and courts to require that minority groups be consulted or that they participate in decision making about measures to accommodation their practices, values, or traditions. The broad theoretical questions I'm interested in are:
At a practical level, the project will look at recent attempts in Canada, Quebec, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands to use consultation and participation as a means to decide how to accommodate the cultural and religious practices of minority groups. For further information, contact avigaile@uvic.ca |
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Workshop on Reconciling Multiculturalism and Feminism: New Perspectives Culture in Legal and Political Reasoning Identity Politics in the Public Realm Diversity and Democracy: Self-rule, shared rule and secession Hot Spots, Religion and Diversity Identity, Human Rights and the Law Panel on Migration and Membership Workshop on Autonomy, Authenticity and Culture Workshop on Religion in the Public Sphere Workshop on Multiculturalism and Religious Identity: Perspectives from Ottawa and Delhi Panel on ‘Multiculturalism and Minority Rights: Assessing the Role of the State’ Workshop on Territorial Rights and Ethnic Diversity Panel on ‘Culture, Identity and Tradition’: Plenary session discussant Roundtable on ‘How Reasonable is Reasonable Accommodation’ Panel on Democratic Engagement in Neoliberal Times Reasons of Religious Identity: How Courts Assess Claims About What is Important to our Religious Identities Ethnicity and Democracy Public Conference: Globalization, Urbanization and Ethnicity Colloquium on Governance Modern Pluralism: Anglo-American Debates since 1880 Perspectives on Taylor-Bouchard from Outside Quebec |