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AVIGAIL EISENBERG

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University of Victoria

Department of Political Science

PO Box 3050 STN CSC

Victoria BC V8W 3P5

Office: COR A330
Phone: 250-721-7499
Fax: 250-721-7485
Email: avigaile@uvic.ca

Brief bibliography

Dr. Avigail Eisenberg (BA, University of Alberta; MA, Queen's; Ph.D., Queen's) is a Faculty Member in the Department of Political Science and a Faculty Associate of Indigenous Governance. She is a founding member of Consortium on Democratic Constitutionalism (Demcon) and the Victoria Colloquium in Political, Legal and Social Theory at UVIC. She teaches political theory, Canadian politics, democratic constitutionalism, and gender and politics and is particularly interested in democratic theory and minority rights.

Professor Eisenberg is the author of numerous articles in political theory and Canadian politics. She is also author of Reconstructing Political Pluralism (SUNY 1995). She is co-editor of and a contributing author to Painting the Maple: Race, Gender and the Construction of Canada (UBC 1998) and Minorities within Minorities (CUP 2005). She is the editor of Diversity and Equality (UBC 2006). She is associate editor of Contemporary Political Theory and an editorial board member of Review of Constitutional Studies.

Originally from Alberta, Professor Eisenberg moved to Kingston, Ontario to attend Queen's University. Following the completion of her doctorate in 1991, she taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. In 1999, Professor Eisenberg arrived at UVIC, where she now lives with her husband and son.

 Publications

Books (monographs and edited):

Chapters and Journal Articles:

  • 2006 “Should Canada Have a Distinctive Culture Test?” in Accommodating Cultural Diversity: Contemporary Issues in Theory and Practice, Stephen Tierney ed. London: Ashgate (in press).
  • 2006 “Religious Arbitration and Multiculturalism: the Debate over Sharia Law in Canada,” Sexual justice/cultural justice, co-edited with Barbara Arneil, Monique Deveaux and Rita Dhamoon, Routledge, forthcoming (in press).
  • 2006 “Pluralism and the Politics of Diversity” in Pluralism: Developments in the Theory and Practice of Democracy, Rainer Eisfeld ed., World of Political Science Series, Germany: Barbara Burdich.
  • 2006 “New Approaches to Fundamental Freedom in Canada: An introduction,” in Diversity and Equality: New Approaches to Fundamental Freedom in Canada, Avigail Eisenberg ed., Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.
  • 2006 “Reasoning about Identity: Canada’s Distinctive Culture Test,” in Diversity and Equality: New Approaches to Fundamental Freedom in Canada, Avigail Eisenberg ed., Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.
  • 2006 “Education and the Politics of Difference,” Educational Philosophy and Theory, Special Issue on the Politics of Iris Marion Young, Jan 38(1): 7-23.
  • 2006 “Is Trust a Multicultural Concept?” Social Capital and Social Diversity, Fiona Kay and Richard Johnston eds., Vancouver: UBC Press, (in press)
  • 2006 with Colin Macleod, “The Normative Dimensions of Equality,” Dimensions of Inequality in Canada, David Green and Jon Kesselman eds., Vancouver: UBC Press, forthcoming 2006 (in press)
  • 2005 “The Distinctive Culture Test,” Human Rights Dialogue, Special Issue on Cultural Rights, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, 12:2 (Spring) 26-7.
  • 2005 “The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism: A Response to Patrick Loobyck.” Ethnicities 5:1 (March): 123-7.
  • 2005 with Jeff Spinner-Halev, “Introduction” Minorities with Minorities: Equality, Rights and Diversity, Avigail Eisenberg and Jeff Spinner-Halev eds. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press,pp. 1-18.
  • 2005 “Identity and Liberal Politics: The Problem of Minorities within Minorities,” Minorities with Minorities: Equality, Rights and Diversity, Avigail Eisenberg and Jeff Spinner-Halev ed. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 249-270.
  • 2004 “Are Referendum on Minority Rights Every Justified?” Representation and Democratic Theory, David Laycock ed., Vancouver: UBC Press, pp. 3-22.
  • 2003 "Diversity and Equality: Three Approaches to Cultural and Sexual Difference,” Journal of Political Philosophy 11; 1 (March) 41-64.
  • 2002 "Context, Difference, Sex and Social Justice,"Canadian Journal of Political Science. 35:3 (September) 613-28.
  • 2002 “Pluralism, Consociationalism, Group-Differentiated Citizenship and the Problem of Social Cohesion,” in Chang Shiyin ed., Collected Works on Sino-Western Political Culture , Tianjin People's Press, Tianjin, pp. 235-62. (Published in Mandarin).
  • 2001 "The Medium is the Message: How Referenda Lead Us to Understand Equality for Minorities" in Matthew Mendelsohn and Andrew Parkin, eds., Referendum Democracy, London: Palgrave.
  • 2001 “The Politics of Unethical Conduct in Politics,” in Ethical Integrity and Political Leadership, co-edited Colin Macleod, Avigail Eisenberg and Maureen A. Maloney, Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, 2001: 33-50.
  • 2000 “Cultural Pluralism Today,” in Gary Browning, et al., eds., Understanding Contemporary Society: Theories of the Present, London: Sage, pp. 385-401.
  • 1999 "Two Types of Pluralism in Canada," Canada: The State of the Federation, 1998/99. Kingston: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, pp. 61-86.
  • 1998 “The Public Interest and the Politics of Difference,” International Review of Sociology,8;3, pp. 363-376.
  • 1998 “Domination and Political Representation in Canada,” in Painting the Maple Vancouver: UBC Press, pp. 37-52.
  • 1998 “Race, Gender and the Construction of Canada,” introductory chapter co-written (25% each) with Joan Anderson, Sherrill Grace and Veronica Strong Boag, in Painting the Maple, Vancouver, UBC Press, pp. 3-15.
  • 1997 “L’Intérêt Public et Les Minorités Politiques au Canada,” Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée, 4 pp. 22-43.
  • 1996 “Individual Development in Anglo-American Pluralism,” Social Science Information sur les sciences sociales, 35 pp. 363-387.
  • 1994 "The Politics of Individual and Group Difference in Canadian Jurisprudence," Canadian Journal of Political Science, 27 pp. 3-21.
  • 1985 “Commentary on Round-table Discussion: Executive Federalism, Public Input and Public Interest,” P.M. Leslie and R.L. Watts, eds., Canada: The State of the Federation 1987-88, (Kingston, Ontario: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, pp. 215-256.


Miscellaneous reports and consultancies

  • 2003 Consultant, Citizen’s Assembly on Electoral Reform, British Columbia.
  • 2002-3 The Legal Architecture of Canadian Pluralism, Aga Khan Foundation, Ottawa, 78 mss pp.
  • 2002 Expert Witness Testimony, Wilson v AG BC, (BC referendum on Aboriginal land claims) Supreme Court of British Columbia, April, 18 pp.
  • 2001 “Presentation to the Select Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs for the BCCLA,” in Proceedings of the Select Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, BC, November 2nd, 2001, 6 mss pp.
  • 1994 “Recall and Initiative,” The Democratic Commitment, 28, 1994 pp. 1-3.
  • 1992 Grand Council of Treaty #3 – First Nations, Chiefs of Ontario.
  • 1992 “Participation and Process,” Newsletter of the Network on the Constitution, February, 1992, pp. 16-17.

Web publications

Book Reviews

  • Jeff Spinner-Halev, Surviving Diversity, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 98: 2 (2004), pp. 147-8.
  • Alexandra Dobrowolsky, The Politics of Pragmatism: Women, Representation and Canadian Constitutionalism in Canada, American Political Science Review, 2001 95:4, p. 1015.
  • Karen Slawner and Mark E. Denham eds., Citizenship After Liberalism, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 22:1, 2001 pp. 89-91.
  • Michael Walzer, On Toleration, and Ian Shapiro, Democracy’s Place, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 31, 1998 pp. 203-205.
  • David Miller and Michael Walzer, eds., Pluralism, Justice and Equality, American Political Science Review, 90, 1996 pp. 635-636.
  • “Easton on Regulating Speech,” The Problem of Pornography by Susan M. Easton, in Dialogue: The Canadian Philosophical Review, 1996 pp. 208-12.
  • Nancy Hirschmann, Rethinking Obligation: A Feminist Method for Political Theory, The Philosophical Review, 103,1994 pp. 387-90.
  • Allen Buchanan, Secession, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 25, 1992 pp. 389-90.
  • Allan Gilbert, Democratic Individuality, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 24 1991, pp. 665-66.

 

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