Culture, Citizenship, and Community: A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness

This book contributes to contemporary debates about multiculturalism and democratic theory by reflecting upon the ways in which claims about culture and identity are actually advanced by immigrants, national minorities, aboriginals and other groups in a number of different societies. Carens advocates a contextual approach to theory that explores the implications of theoretical views for actual cases, reflects on the normative principles embedded in practice, and takes account of the ways in which differences between societies matter. He argues that this sort of contextual approach will show why the conventional liberal understanding of justice as neutrality needs to be supplemented by a conception of justice as evenhandedness and why the conventional conception of citizenship is an intellectual and moral prison from which we can be liberated by an understanding of citizenship that is more open to multiplicity and that grows out of practices we judge to be just and beneficial.

This book makes a significant contribution to the contemporary debate about multiculturalism and democratic theory. It reflects upon the ways in which claims about culture and identity are advanced by immigrants, national minorities, aboriginals, and other groups. It argues that liberal democrats should provide recognition and support for minority cultures and identities, and examines case studies from a number of different societies to show how theorists can learn about justice.

Foreword, Professor W. G. Hill

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. The origins of today's livestock breeds

2. Genes, genetic codes and genetic variation

3. Strategies for genetic improvement

4. What affects response to selection within breeds?

5. Predicting breeding values

6. Dairy cattle breeding

7. Beef cattle breeding

8. Sheep breeding

9. New technologies

Table showing values of selection intensity for different proportions of animals selected

Glossary of technical terms

A colour section appears between pages 146-147 and pages 274-275