Full Description
This book will make you revisit the 'minority question' as it has been understood, conventionally.
This book subjects to scrutiny some of the well-established social science concepts such as minority, ethnicity, inclusion, exclusion, and self-determination, among others. The purpose of the enquiry is neither to debunk these concepts nor to highlight their relevance/irrelevance, but merely to guard against their unselective usage by scholars. The work is an endeavor to address some of the questions that animate current scholarship on minority and minoritization. In doing so, the book draws upon European and Indian experiences of cultural diversities as these regions are two of the most culturally diverse regions in the world and engage with diversity from within a democratic framework.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
I : THE MAKING OF MINORITY
Becoming a Minority Category - Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Sudarsan Padmanabhan
Contextualizing Minority: The Production of Difference and Sameness in Europe - Barbara Franz
Re-Turning the Idea of Minority: Going beyond the Politics of Recognition - Lajwanti Chatani
II : THE EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE
Manufacturing Blackness at the Turn of 20th-Century France - Abdoulaye Gueye
The Constitution of the Swedish Sámi People: Swedish Sámi Policy and the Justification of the Inner Colonization of Sweden - Ulf Mörkenstam
Institutional Change and Identity Shift: The Case of Contemporary Scotland - Sherrill Stroschein
The European Minority Rights Regime and the Turkish/Muslim Minority of Western Thrace - Apostolos Agnantopoulos
Cultural War of Values: The Proliferation of Moral Identities in the Danish Public Sphere - Peter Hervik
Becoming a Minority: Ethno-Manufacturing in The Netherlands - Paul Mutsaers, Hans Siebers and Arie de Ruijter
The Specter of Communalism and the Eugenic Solution to Britain's Immigration Problem - Gëzim Alpion
III : THE INDIAN EXPERIENCE
Minority Question in India - Bishnu N Mohapatra
The Politics of Hurt Religious Feelings: The Minority as Emotional Subject in India - Mohamed Mehdi
The Indian State and the Minority's Right to Culture - Malavika Menon
Waqf and Urban Space: Production of Minority Identity in Hyderabad's Old City - Shireen Mirza
The Fragmented Minor: Tamil Identity and the Politics of Authenticity - Anjana Raghavan
Index
