Four questions to Will Kymlicka
While liberal values can be twisted to justify limiting civil rights, religious authorities may not replace civil law, argues Will Kymlicka. "The same forces that support ethnic politics within liberal democracy also operate over time to channel it in peaceful and democratic ways." [ more ]
"Critique & Humanism" takes a neighbourly view on Turkey; "dérive" doesn't play ball; "Reset" picks up the pieces after Veltroni's defeat; "Multitudes" joins the carnival; "The Hungarian Quarterly" finds the country in a gloomy mood; "Mittelweg 36" asks what's in a friendship; "Revista Crítica" reads epistemologies of the South; "Springerin" sees the provincial in the universal; "Kulturos barai" watches patriarchs fall; and "Cogito" casts a tragic hero for our times.
(b.1962) is professor at the Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, US. Author of Work-place (1996) and Workfare states (2001).
In Richard Florida's "creative city", the creative class dissolves the classical division between the productive bourgeoisie and the bohemian. But creativity strategies have been crafted to co-exist with urban socio-economic problems, not to solve them. [more]
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