Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 09:31:17 -0800
From: "Marlene R. Atleo" <maratleo-AT-island.net>
Subject: Re: Strange Multiplicity?



Hi Mohammed

Tully is at the University of Victoria, BC Canada where he teaches 
political science and indigenous governance at the post graduate 
level.  His work is well respected in the First Nations community.  The 
difference he makes between multicultural and intercultural is based in 
communicative action whereby there are different levels of mutual 
recognition and respect with "intercultural" being the more 
interactive.  Separatism, multiculturalism and indigenous self 
determination are big issues in Canada where Tully writes.

The following excerpt from his website provides more of his context.  He is 
deeply influenced by First Nations/Canadian indigenous philosophies.  He 
teaches with Gerald Alfred, a Mohawk.  British Columbia and Canada 
are  currently involved in modern treaty negotiations with  non-treaty 
aboriginal people and this is part of the current context of the discourse 
also.

I think there might be a review in BC Studies in '96
I would recommend the book.  You might want to get in touch to see what he 
has worked on recently vis a vis the Arab-Western dialogue.  Course 
descriptions and bibs are also posted on his site.

http://sitka.dcf.uvic.ca/poli/tully/
James Tully's most recent book, Strange multiplicity: constitutionalism in 
an age of diversity, is based on his Sir John Robert Seeley distinguished 
lectures given at the University of Cambridge in 1994. He describes his 
method and applies it to the contemporary 'struggles for recognition' - of 
Indigenous Peoples, nationalists, cultural feminists, linguistic minorities 
and multicultural citizens - and to debates of democracy and difference 
that have arisen in response. Through an historical and critical study of 
struggles over forms of recognition during the last 300 years he shows that 
there is a form of democratic negotiation in which citizens can mutually 
understand and reach agreements on the just recognition and accommodation 
of these sorts of demand by freeing themselves from some of the unexamined 
and historically contingent conventions of the prevailing discussions of 
these issues.
 From 1992 to 1996 Professor Tully was an advisor to the Canadian Royal 
Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and contributed the cross-cultural 
articulation of the vision of a renewed relationship between Aboriginal and 
non-Aboriginal peoples of Canada in the final Report. He has written a 
number of articles on the recognition and accommodation of Indigenous 
peoples' equality, self-government and land claims in Canada, Mexico and 
Australia. He also writes and teaches on other aspects of identity politics 
- of multiculturalism, Quebec nationalism and federalism, linguistic 
minorities, human rights and cultural difference globally, and of questions 
of equity, cultural diversity and post-colonialism in the curriculum and 
classroom.
Current research includes new work on themes in Strange Multiplicity, 
comparisons with communicative democracy, discourse ethics and political 
liberalism, connections between the exchange of reasons and relations of 
power in processes of negotiation and dispute resolution, the extension of 
his approach to struggles over the environment, team research on 
plurinational societies in comparative perspective, collaborative research 
on an Arab-Western dialogue on rights and cultures, and continuing studies 
in the history of political philosophy.
cheers,
mar(e)

At 09:10 AM 03/05/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>Did anyone hear of the book Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an 
>age of diversity, by James Tully (Cambridge University Press, 1995)? Does 
>anybody know of reviews or critical comments on it? Is there someone 
>acquainted with Tully's ideas of 'inter-culturalism' and his criticism of 
>separatist self-determination? Somebody with views, for instance, about 
>Tully's taxation of Edward Said as 'inter-culturalist'--as different from 
>'multi-culturalist'?
>Many thanks in advance.
>Mohammed

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