Multiculturalism and minority rights in the Arab world

Multiculturalism and minority rights in the Arab world / edited by Will Kymlicka and Eva Pföstl.

This title explores the obstacles to multiculturalism and minority rights in Arab states, including the history of European manipulation of minority politics.

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Other Authors: Kymlicka, Will (Editor), Pföstl, Eva (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Multiculturalism > Arab countries.
Minorities > Legal status, laws, etc. > Arab countries.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Minorities > Legal status, laws, etc.
Multiculturalism
Arab States.
Minorities.
Human rights.
Multicultural society.
Arab countries
Arabische Staaten
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Multiculturalism and Minority Rights in the Arab World; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1: Introduction; OVERVIEW OF THE VOLUME; CONCLUSION; Part I: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives; 2: The Minority Question: A View from History and the Kurdish Periphery; 3: Transformations in the Middle East: The Importance of the Minority Question; INTRODUCTION; READING EXCEPTIONALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST; The issue of territoriality and state boundaries; The nature of conflict; Faith in democracy?; THE HISTORICAL LEGACY OF THE MILLET SYSTEM
  • The foundation of the millet systemThe Ottomans and the millet system; "From millet to minority"55 and beyond; CONCLUSION; 4: Minorities in the Arab World: Faults, Fault-lines, and Coexistence; DEBATING MINORITIES: CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL; MINORITIES IN THE ARAB WORLD: MAPPING THE ARAB SOCIAL FABRIC AND EMERGENCE OF NATION-STATES; COMPETING PARADIGMS; Islamic theorizing on minorities; The Ottoman millet system; Modern Islamic theorizing on minorities; AN ALTERNATIVE MODEL; CONCLUSION; 5: Arab Minorities, Liberalism, and Multiculturalism; ARAB MINORITIES AND LIBERAL-DEMOCRACY
  • MINORITIES IN THE ARAB WORLD: EXAMPLES AND PROBLEMSREVISING IDEAS ABOUT COMMUNITY AND INDIVIDUALS WITHIN ISLAM; HUMAN RIGHTS AND MINORITY RIGHTS: THE DEBATE IN ARAB COUNTRIES; TOWARD MULTICULTURAL LIBERALISM; RECONCILIATION STRATEGY; CONCLUSION; Part II: Case Studies; 6: Bringing the Tribe Back In? The Western Sahara Dispute, Ethno-history, and the Imagineering of Minority Conflicts in the Arab World; WESTERN SAHARA AND THE ARAB CONTEXT; WHOSE PAST? THE INVENTION OF TRADITION IN NORTHWEST AFRICA; WHOSE PRESENT? THE POLITICS OF NAMING AND CLAIMING MINORITY RIGHTS IN WESTERN SAHARA; CONCLUSION
  • 7: The Role of the Amazigh Movement in the Processes of Political Reform in Postcolonial Algerian SocietyTHE RISE OF A MODERN IDENTITY; IMAZIGHEN: AN AMBIGUOUS MINORITY; Competing narratives of Algerian nationalism and the construction of a repressed minority; The first rupture; THE RISE OF A NEW MOVEMENT; The failure of the Coordinations; POTENTIAL TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF THE AMAZIGH MOVEMENT; CONCLUSION: A NEW FUTURE FOR THE AMAZIGH MOVEMENT?; 8: The Gulf 's Servant Class; INTRODUCTION; A SYSTEM OF EXPLOITATION; THE REPRESSIVE CORPORATIST STATE; THE GULF 'S SERVANT CLASS; CONCLUSION
  • 9: Hobbesian Citizenship: How the Palestinians Became a Minority in IsraelINTRODUCTION; THE HOBBESIAN MOMENTS OF 1949-50; THE RISE OF CONSTITUTIONALISM AND NATIONALISM IN THE 1990s AND SINCE; CONCLUSION; 10: The Federalization of Iraq and the Break-up of Sudan; LONG-RUN PARALLELS; SHORT-RUN PARALLELS; 11: How Does the Arab World Perceive Multiculturalism and Treat its Minorities? The Assyro-Chaldeans of Iraq as a Case Study; INTRODUCTION: THE RENEWAL OF ARAB POLITICAL DISCOURSE; MULTICULTURALISM IS A REALITY IN THE ARAB WORLD

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