Full Description
Minority movements tirelessly continue to engage in the process of social change, trying to promote and enforce minority protection norms and to have their world views, cultural practices, and norms recognized by the state. Through an examination of selected cases, this book problematizes how collective identities are not structurally guaranteed but rather constructed in dialectically interrelated positions and identity layers. The authors show the kind of impact that these processes can, or fail to, have on minority norms, actors, and strategies.
Going beyond abstract normative principles, this collection reflects both Global North as well as Global South perspectives and examines through a variety of angles the role that race and ethnicity, culture, or religion play within social mobilization towards social change. The volume offers global insight on actor and strategy attempts to foster social change through the instrumental use and interpretation of minority rights as norms. This book will be of interest to those researching minority rights broadly understood within the disciplines of law, anthropology, sociology, and political science.
Contents
FOREWORD; I. Minority Groups at the crossroads of social change: A socio-legal framew Kyriaki Topidi and Eugenia Relaño Pastor; PART I: ACTORS; II. Nationalism and Social Movements; III. The National Minority as a right-holder and an actor; IV. Forging Unlikely Alliances: The Power of Social Cohesion in Reducing Gender Discrimination in Traditional Leadership Positions in South Africa; V. Cultural Citizenship and the Indonesian Buddhist Community in Postcolonial Indonesia; PART II: NORMS; VI. Indigenous people and the Mother Earth: can the language of "rights" really capture their claims?; VII. Slavery, Silence, and Rights in the Quilombola communities in Brazil; VIII. Roma educational discrimination in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: Patterns and tactics of social mobilization to overcome it; IX. Claims for Recognition among Muslim minorities in Spain; PART III: STRATEGIES; X. The Minority Safe Pack Saga; XI. Religious Pluralism, Minority Protection and Communitarianism in Singapore: An Alternative Model to Actor-based Agency; XII. Xakriabá participation in indigenous movements: youth agency from the local to the global; XIII. Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Modern Turkey: Category of Minority Rights in-between a Strategical Mechanism of Absorption and a Tactical Tool for Recognition
