Vicki A Spencer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1444734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vicki A Spencer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vicki A |
| FAMILY NAME | Spencer |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCER V A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Herder's Nondualism
Herder's Legacy Revisited: Introduction
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) was one of the leading German intellectuals of the late eighteenth century. He was a literary critic, translator, historian, Lutheran minister, teacher, educatio
Respectful tolerance, misrecognition, and religious diversity: Reflections on the New Zealand government’s response to the 2019 Christchurch massacre
This paper shows that the traditional framing of diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand in terms of ethnicity hampers the government's ability to give due recognition to Muslim communities in the wake of the Christchurch massacre. It first examines the New Zealand government's response to the Royal Commission's inquiry into the massacre with specific focus on the establishment of the Ministry of Ethnic Communities. The analysis draws from government d…
Formal recognition, freedom, and power: The case of Australia’s First Nations
This paper examines the case of Australia’s First Nations’ rejection of the federal government’s desire to provide symbolic, formal recognition of their original habitation in the Australian Constitution. In a number of respects, this case exemplifies the point made by North American Indigenous scholars Audra Simpson and Glen Coulthard that, in the particular circumstances of colonialism, recognition––as opposed to misrecognition or nonrecognitio…
Introduction to dialogue: Revisiting the politics of recognition
Over the past 30 years, demands for justice in Western liberal democracies have been increasingly conceived in terms of identity and difference. Responding to the shift from a more traditional clas
Visions of Peace: Asia and the West
H erder, J ohann G ottfried (1744–1803)
The German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder was the first thinker in the western tradition to emphasize the importance of language and culture to individual identity and to recognize the radical harm endured by those who suffer from linguistic and cultural oppression. He applied the principle of collective self‐determination universally, to all peoples, whether or not they possessed their own state. His thought is also distinguished from moder…
Kant and Herder on colonialism, indigenous peoples, and minority nations
It is the orthodox view in the cosmopolitan and normative international relations literature that Immanuel Kant is a staunch critic of European colonialism. This paper offers a far more critical stance towards Kant’s position with respect to minority nations and stateless Indigenous peoples through an analysis that draws on the criticisms developed by his contemporary and former student, Johann Gottfried Herder. The paper proceeds in three parts.…
Democratic Citizenship and the “Crisis in Humanities”
As a consequence of the recent global recession, a new “crisis in the humanities” has been declared, and ideas of how best to defend the humanities have been vigorously debated. Placing this “crisis” in the context of neoliberal reforms to higher education since the 1980s, I examine the argument expounded by Martha Nussbaum that the very foundation of democratic citizenship is at stake. I indicate a number of problems with Nussbaum’s case. First,…
Rethinking cultural and political nationalism
This paper addresses the distinction between cultural and political (or civic) nationalism. The idea of an apolitical cultural nationalism can be traced at least as far back as the German historian Friedrich Meinecke's work in the early twentieth century. In the 1940s, Hans Kohn overlaid this cultural–political divide with an East–West divide, and in the 1970s, John Plamenatz cemented this typology in political studies with his article on “Two Ty…
Language, history and the nation: An Historical Approach to Evaluating Language and Cultural Claims
In contrast to the abstract commitment to individual rights found in liberal critics of Bill 101 and the equally ahistorical approach of multicultural theorists like Bhikhu Parekh, this paper proposes that the particular historical circumstances surrounding the current minority status of different groups is crucial in evaluating the legitimacy of one cultural group to promote its cultural needs over another group within existing states. When the …
In Defense of Herder on Cultural Diversity and Interaction
Diversity and unity are pivotal to the thought of the eighteenth-century German philosopher, Johann Gottfried Herder. Yet despite the enormous influence of his thought on the late Isaiah Berlin in the development of his own pluralism and Berlin's urging for those interested in cultural diversity to learn from Herder, many commentators fail to heed Berlin's equal recognition of Herder's radical antidualism. Thus, while an increasing number of theo…
Herder and Nationalism: Reclaiming the Principle of Cultural Respect
Assimilation and Multiculturalism: The ‘Hanson Phenomenon’
(1997). Assimilation and Multiculturalism: The ‘Hanson Phenomenon’. Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 167-179
Towards an ontology of holistic individualism: Herder's theory of identity, culture and community
In Defense of Herder on Cultural Diversity and Interaction
Diversity and unity are pivotal to the thought of the eighteenth-century German philosopher, Johann Gottfried Herder. Yet despite the enormous influence of his thought on the late Isaiah Berlin in the development of his own pluralism and Berlin's urging for those interested in cultural diversity to learn from Herder, many commentators fail to heed Berlin's equal recognition of Herder's radical antidualism. Thus, while an increasing number of theo…
Language, history and the nation: An Historical Approach to Evaluating Language and Cultural Claims
In contrast to the abstract commitment to individual rights found in liberal critics of Bill 101 and the equally ahistorical approach of multicultural theorists like Bhikhu Parekh, this paper proposes that the particular historical circumstances surrounding the current minority status of different groups is crucial in evaluating the legitimacy of one cultural group to promote its cultural needs over another group within existing states. When the …
Rethinking cultural and political nationalism
This paper addresses the distinction between cultural and political (or civic) nationalism. The idea of an apolitical cultural nationalism can be traced at least as far back as the German historian Friedrich Meinecke's work in the early twentieth century. In the 1940s, Hans Kohn overlaid this cultural–political divide with an East–West divide, and in the 1970s, John Plamenatz cemented this typology in political studies with his article on “Two Ty…
Towards an ontology of holistic individualism: Herder's theory of identity, culture and community
Kant and Herder on colonialism, indigenous peoples, and minority nations
It is the orthodox view in the cosmopolitan and normative international relations literature that Immanuel Kant is a staunch critic of European colonialism. This paper offers a far more critical stance towards Kant’s position with respect to minority nations and stateless Indigenous peoples through an analysis that draws on the criticisms developed by his contemporary and former student, Johann Gottfried Herder. The paper proceeds in three parts.…
Assimilation and Multiculturalism: The ‘Hanson Phenomenon’
(1997). Assimilation and Multiculturalism: The ‘Hanson Phenomenon’. Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 167-179
Towards an ontology of holistic individualism: Herder's theory of identity, culture and community
Herder and Nationalism: Reclaiming the Principle of Cultural Respect
Assimilation and Multiculturalism: The ‘Hanson Phenomenon’
(1997). Assimilation and Multiculturalism: The ‘Hanson Phenomenon’. Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 167-179
In Defense of Herder on Cultural Diversity and Interaction
Diversity and unity are pivotal to the thought of the eighteenth-century German philosopher, Johann Gottfried Herder. Yet despite the enormous influence of his thought on the late Isaiah Berlin in the development of his own pluralism and Berlin's urging for those interested in cultural diversity to learn from Herder, many commentators fail to heed Berlin's equal recognition of Herder's radical antidualism. Thus, while an increasing number of theo…
Language, history and the nation: An Historical Approach to Evaluating Language and Cultural Claims
In contrast to the abstract commitment to individual rights found in liberal critics of Bill 101 and the equally ahistorical approach of multicultural theorists like Bhikhu Parekh, this paper proposes that the particular historical circumstances surrounding the current minority status of different groups is crucial in evaluating the legitimacy of one cultural group to promote its cultural needs over another group within existing states. When the …
Democratic Citizenship and the “Crisis in Humanities”
As a consequence of the recent global recession, a new “crisis in the humanities” has been declared, and ideas of how best to defend the humanities have been vigorously debated. Placing this “crisis” in the context of neoliberal reforms to higher education since the 1980s, I examine the argument expounded by Martha Nussbaum that the very foundation of democratic citizenship is at stake. I indicate a number of problems with Nussbaum’s case. First,…
Rethinking cultural and political nationalism
This paper addresses the distinction between cultural and political (or civic) nationalism. The idea of an apolitical cultural nationalism can be traced at least as far back as the German historian Friedrich Meinecke's work in the early twentieth century. In the 1940s, Hans Kohn overlaid this cultural–political divide with an East–West divide, and in the 1970s, John Plamenatz cemented this typology in political studies with his article on “Two Ty…
H erder, J ohann G ottfried (1744–1803)
The German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder was the first thinker in the western tradition to emphasize the importance of language and culture to individual identity and to recognize the radical harm endured by those who suffer from linguistic and cultural oppression. He applied the principle of collective self‐determination universally, to all peoples, whether or not they possessed their own state. His thought is also distinguished from moder…
Kant and Herder on colonialism, indigenous peoples, and minority nations
It is the orthodox view in the cosmopolitan and normative international relations literature that Immanuel Kant is a staunch critic of European colonialism. This paper offers a far more critical stance towards Kant’s position with respect to minority nations and stateless Indigenous peoples through an analysis that draws on the criticisms developed by his contemporary and former student, Johann Gottfried Herder. The paper proceeds in three parts.…
Visions of Peace: Asia and the West
Formal recognition, freedom, and power: The case of Australia’s First Nations
This paper examines the case of Australia’s First Nations’ rejection of the federal government’s desire to provide symbolic, formal recognition of their original habitation in the Australian Constitution. In a number of respects, this case exemplifies the point made by North American Indigenous scholars Audra Simpson and Glen Coulthard that, in the particular circumstances of colonialism, recognition––as opposed to misrecognition or nonrecognitio…
Introduction to dialogue: Revisiting the politics of recognition
Over the past 30 years, demands for justice in Western liberal democracies have been increasingly conceived in terms of identity and difference. Responding to the shift from a more traditional clas
Respectful tolerance, misrecognition, and religious diversity: Reflections on the New Zealand government’s response to the 2019 Christchurch massacre
This paper shows that the traditional framing of diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand in terms of ethnicity hampers the government's ability to give due recognition to Muslim communities in the wake of the Christchurch massacre. It first examines the New Zealand government's response to the Royal Commission's inquiry into the massacre with specific focus on the establishment of the Ministry of Ethnic Communities. The analysis draws from government d…
Herder's Nondualism
Herder's Legacy Revisited: Introduction
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) was one of the leading German intellectuals of the late eighteenth century. He was a literary critic, translator, historian, Lutheran minister, teacher, educatio
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