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- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 295 pages) : illustration, maps.
- Summary
- "Since the Arab Spring, Arab states have become the new front line in the struggle for democratization and for open societies. As the experience of other regions has shown, one of the most significant challenges facing democratization relates to minority rights. This book explores how minority claims are framed and debated in the region, and in particular, how political actors draw upon, re-interpret, or resist both the new global discourses of minority rights and more local traditions and practices of co-existence. The contributors examine a range of pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial factors that shape contemporary minority politics in the Arab world, and that encumber the reception of international norms of multiculturalism. These factors include the contested legacies of Islamic doctrines of the 'dhimmi' and the Ottoman millet system, colonial-era divide and rule and strategies, and post-colonial Arab national-building. While these legacies complicate struggles for minority rights, they do not entail an 'Arab exceptionalism' to global trends to multiculturalism. This volume explores a number of openings for new, more pluralistic conceptions of nationhood and citizenship, and suggests that minority politics at its best can serve as a vehicle for a more general transformative politics, supporting a broader culture of democracy and human rights, and challenging older authoritarian, clientalistic, or patriarchal political tendencies. The chapters include both broad theoretical and historical perspectives as well as more focused case studies (including Western Sahara/Morocco, Algeria, Israel/Palestine; Sudan; and United Arab Emirates and Iraq)"--Unedited summary from book jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Multiculturalism and minority rights in the Arab world (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- "Most of the chapters in this volume were initially presented at a workshop held in Rome on 25-6 March 2011." -- Page [v]
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction / Will Kymlicka and Eva Pföstl -- Part I: Theoretical and historical perspectives -- The minority question : a view from history and the Kurdish periphery / Janet Klein -- Transformations in the Middle East : the importance of the minority question / Joshua Castellino and Kathleen Cavanaugh -- Minorities in the Arab world : faults, fault-lines and coexistence / Zaid Eyadat -- Arab minorities, liberalism, and multiculturalism / Francesca Maria Corrao and Sebastiano Maffettone -- Part II: Case studies -- Bringing the tribe back in? The Western Sahara dispute, ethno-history, and the imagineering of minority conflicts in the Arab world / Jacob Mundy -- The role of the Amazigh movement in the processes of political reform in postcolonial Algerian society / Eva Pföstl -- The Gulf's servant class / Nicholas McGeehan -- Hobbesian citizenship : how the Palestinians became a minority in Israel / Hassan Jabareen -- The federalization of Iraq and the break-up of Sudan / Brendan O'Leary -- How does the Arab world perceive multiculturalism and treat its minorities? The Assyro-Chaldeans of Iraq as a case study / Joseph Yacoub.
- LCCN
- 2013951378
- OCLC
- ssj0001701774
- Title
Multiculturalism and minority rights in the Arab world [electronic resource] / edited by Will Kymlicka and Eva Pföstl.
- Imprint
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Edition
First edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Kymlicka, Will.
Pföstl, Eva.
- Other Form:
Multiculturalism and minority rights in the Arab world (NL-LeOCL)374532583 (OCoLC)875585500