Multiculturalism and minority rights in the Arab world / edited by Will Kymlicka and Eva Pföstl.

ISBN:

9780191662621

9780191753084

9781306549066

Title:

Multiculturalism and minority rights in the Arab world / edited by Will Kymlicka and Eva Pföstl.

Author:

Kymlicka, Will, editor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 295 pages)

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Cover; Multiculturalism and Minority Rights in the Arab World; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1: Introduction; OVERVIEW OF THE VOLUME; CONCLUSION; Part I: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives; 2: The Minority Question: A View from History and the Kurdish Periphery; 3: Transformations in the Middle East: The Importance of the Minority Question; INTRODUCTION; READING EXCEPTIONALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST; The issue of territoriality and state boundaries; The nature of conflict; Faith in democracy?; THE HISTORICAL LEGACY OF THE MILLET SYSTEM

The foundation of the millet systemThe Ottomans and the millet system; "From millet to minority"55 and beyond; CONCLUSION; 4: Minorities in the Arab World: Faults, Fault-lines, and Coexistence; DEBATING MINORITIES: CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL; MINORITIES IN THE ARAB WORLD: MAPPING THE ARAB SOCIAL FABRIC AND EMERGENCE OF NATION-STATES; COMPETING PARADIGMS; Islamic theorizing on minorities; The Ottoman millet system; Modern Islamic theorizing on minorities; AN ALTERNATIVE MODEL; CONCLUSION; 5: Arab Minorities, Liberalism, and Multiculturalism; ARAB MINORITIES AND LIBERAL-DEMOCRACY

MINORITIES IN THE ARAB WORLD: EXAMPLES AND PROBLEMSREVISING IDEAS ABOUT COMMUNITY AND INDIVIDUALS WITHIN ISLAM; HUMAN RIGHTS AND MINORITY RIGHTS: THE DEBATE IN ARAB COUNTRIES; TOWARD MULTICULTURAL LIBERALISM; RECONCILIATION STRATEGY; CONCLUSION; Part II: Case Studies; 6: Bringing the Tribe Back In? The Western Sahara Dispute, Ethno-history, and the Imagineering of Minority Conflicts in the Arab World; WESTERN SAHARA AND THE ARAB CONTEXT; WHOSE PAST? THE INVENTION OF TRADITION IN NORTHWEST AFRICA; WHOSE PRESENT? THE POLITICS OF NAMING AND CLAIMING MINORITY RIGHTS IN WESTERN SAHARA; CONCLUSION

7: The Role of the Amazigh Movement in the Processes of Political Reform in Postcolonial Algerian SocietyTHE RISE OF A MODERN IDENTITY; IMAZIGHEN: AN AMBIGUOUS MINORITY; Competing narratives of Algerian nationalism and the construction of a repressed minority; The first rupture; THE RISE OF A NEW MOVEMENT; The failure of the Coordinations; POTENTIAL TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF THE AMAZIGH MOVEMENT; CONCLUSION: A NEW FUTURE FOR THE AMAZIGH MOVEMENT?; 8: The Gulf 's Servant Class; INTRODUCTION; A SYSTEM OF EXPLOITATION; THE REPRESSIVE CORPORATIST STATE; THE GULF 'S SERVANT CLASS; CONCLUSION

9: Hobbesian Citizenship: How the Palestinians Became a Minority in IsraelINTRODUCTION; THE HOBBESIAN MOMENTS OF 1949-50; THE RISE OF CONSTITUTIONALISM AND NATIONALISM IN THE 1990s AND SINCE; CONCLUSION; 10: The Federalization of Iraq and the Break-up of Sudan; LONG-RUN PARALLELS; SHORT-RUN PARALLELS; 11: How Does the Arab World Perceive Multiculturalism and Treat its Minorities? The Assyro-Chaldeans of Iraq as a Case Study; INTRODUCTION: THE RENEWAL OF ARAB POLITICAL DISCOURSE; MULTICULTURALISM IS A REALITY IN THE ARAB WORLD

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Subject Term:

Multiculturalism -- Arab countries.

Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Arab countries.

Multiculturalisme -- États arabes.

SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.

SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.

Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Multicultural society.

Geographic Term:

Arab countries

Added Author:

Kymlicka, Will,

Pföstl, Eva,

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

Oxford :

Oxford University Press,

2014.

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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 andmore 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 thecontested legacies of Islamic doctrines of the `dhimmi' and the Ottoman millet system, colonial-era divide and rule strategies, and post-colonial Arab nation-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 amore 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; United Arab Emirates, and Iraq).

Author Notes

Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. His work, translated into 34 languages, has focused on how democratic countries address issues of ethnic, racial and religious diversity, with a special focus on the theory and practice of multicultural citizenship. He is the author of seven books published by Oxford University Press, including Multicultural Citizenship (1995), and MulticulturalOdysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007).Eva Pföstl is Scientific Director in the Department of Law and Economics at the Istituto di Studi Politici S. Pio V, Rome, Contract Professor at the University LUSPIO Rome and LUISS University Rome, and Adviser of the Tibetans in Exile. Her research interest focus on comparative constitutional law with a special focus on minority and group rights in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. She is author of several publications among them La questione tibetana. Autonomia e non indipendenza. Unaproposta realistica, Marsilio Editore 2009.