1st Edition
Minorities, Scarcity and Conflict
Introduction
Antonio Montañés Jiménez, Camila Ferreira Marinelli, and Stavroula Pipyrou
1 Unlearning scarcity within ethno-cultural minority groups: between perceptions and reality
Kyriaki Topidi
2 Understanding scarcity in “the land of abundance”: mexican migrants in Tulsa, Oklahoma (USA)
Ana P. Gutiérrez Garza
3 “The story of my father”: life narratives and memories of scarcity of a Spanish Gitano family
Antonio Montañés Jiménez with Gory Carmona
4 The rise of fabricated majoritarianism: how nationalism based on ‘othering’ in democracies at times of scarcity is exacerbating existential threats to minorities
Joshua Castellino
5 Beyond the Western idea of scarcity. Contributions to a relational theory of law from indigenous cosmovisions
Silvia Bagni
6 Vulnerabilities, minoritizing processes and concerted solutions for rural scarcities. Learning lessons and tackling marginalisation in Northern Italy
Roberta Medda-Windischer and Federica Maino
7 Emotional scarcity and well-being among international students at times of crisis in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
Faith Mkwananzi, Patience Mukwambo, Matome Winter Seshoka, and Nomzingisi Notenga
8 A people without a land: scarcity, biopolitics, and Romani people in the Middle East
Arpan Roy
9 Epistemic violence from silencing to “scarcity of empathy”: the experience of Indigenous scholars in Brazil
Camila Ferreira Marinelli
10 “A society only as wealthy as its most deprived”
Rita Izsák-Ndiaye
Biography
Antonio Montañés Jiménez is a Margarita Salas postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, UK, and ISOR (Research in Sociology of Religion) at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain. He previously held an Economic and Social Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the University of St Andrews, UK.
Camila Ferreira Marinelli holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of St Andrews, UK, and is Co-Coordinator of the MSCA Staff Exchanges Project (2024–2027) funded by Horizon Europe.
Stavroula Pipyrou is a senior lecturer in social anthropology and Founding Director of the Centre for Minorities Research at the University of St Andrews, UK.
