How Groups Matter

Gideon Calder is Reader in Ethics and Social Philosophy at the University of South Wales.

This volume asks: what problems are posed to political philosophy by a collection of individuals who act or are treated in a collective way? Focusing not only on ways in which institutions should treat groups, but also on the normative implications of considering groups as possible social agents, when acting either in vertical relations with the state or in horizontal relations with other groups (or individuals), this book explores these issues from both theoretical and practical perspectives, combining questions about the nature of groups, and their social and political impacts, with the particular, pressing considerations to which such groups give rise.

Introduction Magali Bessone, Gideon Calder and Federico Zuolo Part I: Situating Groups, Evaluating Group Rights 1. Representing Groups Gideon Calder 2. Toleration, Groups, and Multiculturalism Sune Lægaard 3. Collective Rights, Public Goods, and Participatory Goods Peter Jones 4. States' Rights as Group Rights: An Analytical Perspective Adina Preda 5. Resolving the Dilemma of Group Membership Suzy Killmister 6. Groups and Affirmative Action Daniel Sabbagh Part II: Groups in Practice: Constructed Identities, Specific Treatments and Legal Recognition 7. Toleration and Purpose-Built Mosques: Contestations in Contemporary Europe Anna Elisabetta Galeotti 8. Toleration, Respect, and the Cultural Defense Emanuela Ceva 9. Political, Not Ethno-Cultural: A Normative Assessment of Roma Identity in Europe Magali Bessone and Sophie Guérard de Latour 10. The Emergence and Regulation of Minority Religious Groups in Europe Giorgos Kentas and Achilles C. Emilianides 11. Beyond Groups? Types of Sharing and Normative Treatment Federico Zuolo