ISSN:
0141-9870
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Ethnic and racial studies : ERS
Publ. der Quelle:
London [u.a.] : Routledge
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 38, No. 14 (2015), p. 2489-10
DDC:
390
Abstract:
This special issue explores the prospects for what Jacob Mundy calls 'transformative minority politics' in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region - that is, a form of minority politics that strengthens democratic reform in the region, and that helps deepen a culture of human rights and democratic citizenship. The cases examined in the special issue include the Amazigh in North Africa, the Copts in Egypt, the Kurds in Iraq, the Palestinians in Israel, the 'minoritarian' regimes in Syria and Bahrain, and the various ethnic minorities in Iran. In this introduction, we try to situate this debate in a larger historical and international context, identifying some of the factors that might help support a new transformative minority politics in the region, while also emphasizing the factors that have inhibited it in the past, and why they remain powerful.
Note:
Copyright: © 2015 Taylor & Francis 2015
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DOI:
10.1080/01419870.2015.1061132
URL:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2015.1061132
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