1st Edition
Minority Rights and Social Change Norms, Actors and Strategies
List of Contributors
FOREWORD: Carlos Gomez Martinez
I. Minority groups at the crossroads of social change: a socio-legal framework – Kyriaki Topidi and Eugenia Relaño Pastor
PART I: ACTORS
II. Nationalism and social movements – Vello Pettai
III. National minority as a right-holder and an actor: why minority protection is in decline in Europe – Boriss Cilevičs
IV. Forging unlikely alliances: the power of social cohesion in reducing gender discrimination in traditional leadership positions in South Africa – Christa Rautenbach and Rufaro Emily Chikuruwo
V. Securing religious diversity in Indonesia: the case of the Indonesian Buddhist community – Martin Ramstedt
PART II: NORMS
VI. Indigenous people and the global environmental movement: can the language of “rights” really capture their claims? – Silvia Bagni
VII. Slavery, silence, and recognition through female voices in the quilombo communities in Brazil – Shirley A de Miranda, Stavroula Pipyrou and Débora Rodrigues Azevedo
VIII. Roma educational discrimination in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: patterns and tactics of social mobilization to overcome it – Hanna Vasilevich
IX. To be or not to be recognized? Claims for recognition among Muslim minorities in Spain – Johanna M. Lems
PART III: STRATEGIES
X. The European citizens’ initiative (ECI): bottom-up participation through social movements – lessons learned and ways forward for the Minority Safepack initiative – Katharina Crepaz
XI. Pluralism, minority protection, and communitarianism in Singapore: an alternative model to actor-based agency – Li-ann Thio
XII. "Territory is where life happens": indigenous education and culture as political basis for Xakriabá youth participation in indigenous movements – Célia Corrêa Xakriabá, Diana Rocha Xakriabá, Edgar Corrêa Xakriabá, Eliane Pereira Xakriabá, Fernanda Oliveira Xakriabá, Joel Oliveira Xakriabá, Vanginei Leite Silva Xakriabá, Matheus Machado Vaz, Rebeca Cássia Andrade and Ana Maria R. Gomes
XIII. Conceptualization of a minority between a strategical mechanism of absorption and a tactical tool for recognition: the Constitutional Court judgements on the political party bans in Turkey – Cansu Bostan
Biography
Kyriaki Topidi is Head of the Research Cluster on Culture and Diversity and Senior Researcher at the European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany.
Eugenia Relaño Pastor is Professor of Law in Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, and a cooperation partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.
