Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1: Introduction
2: The Identity Approach : Public decision making in diverse societies
3: Multiculturalism, identity quietism, and identity skepticism
4: Diversity and sexual equality: The challenge of incommensurability
5: Religious identity and the problem of authenticity
6: Indigenous identity: The perils of essentialism and domestication
7: Conclusion: Reasons of identity
Bibliography

About the Author

Avigail Eisenberg has been 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. 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.

Reviews

a timely and important contribution to the robust literature on multiculturalism and identity politics.
*Rina Verma Williams, Law and Politics Book Review*