ISBN:
1306662303
,
9780415738354
,
9781306662307
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (327 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
Parallel Title:
Print version Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa : Aftermath of the Arab Spring
DDC:
305.800961
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Investigating the connections between multiculturalism, minorities, citizenship, and democracy in North Africa, this book argues that multiculturalism in this region- and in the Arab world at large - has reached a significant level in terms of scale and importance. In the rest of the world, there has been a trend - albeit a contested one - toward a greater recognition of minority rights. The Arab world however, particularly North Africa, seems to be an exception to this trend, as Arab states continue to promote highly unitary and homogenizing ideas of nationhood and state unity, whilst discour
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction: contextualizing multiculturalism and democracy in North Africa; Part I Conceptualization and historical background; 2 Colonial legacies, national identity, and challenges for multiculturalism in the contemporary Maghreb; 3 Algeria: cultural multiplicity and unity dialectics; Part II The Berber issue and democratization; 4 Tensions between Arabophones and Berberophones in Algeria; 5 Berber and language politics in the Moroccan educational system
Description / Table of Contents:
6 The Berber (Amazigh) movement in Morocco: local activism, the state, and transnationalismPart III Authoritarianism, change, and cultural diversity; 7 Why no Arab Spring in Algeria? Questioning multiculturalism and democracy experiments; 8 Race and color in North Africa and the Arab Spring; Part IV Islamism, women, and media in Tunisia; 9 Women's empowerment: the case of Tunisia in the Arab Spring; 10 The Tunisian media in transition: from manufacturing consent to manufacturing "discontent"; Part V Multiculturalism and minorities in Egypt
Description / Table of Contents:
11 The not-so-silent minority: the case of Egypt's Coptic minority in post-Arab Uprising Egypt12 Egypt: how the revolution has impacted the debate over minority rights and multiculturalism; 13 Claiming space for minorities in Egypt after the Arab Spring; Part VI Socio-cultural and political transformations in post-Qaddafi Libya; 14 Multiculturalism and democracy in post-Qaddafi Libya; 15 Minorities in the new Libya; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
