Multiculturalism and minority rights in the Arab world

edited by Will Kymlicka and Eva Pföstl

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 and more 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 the contested 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 a more 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).

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[目次]

  • 1. Introduction
  • PART I: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
  • 2. Minority Rights and Multiculturalism in the Arab World: A View from History and the Kurdish Periphery
  • 3. Transformations in the Middle East: The Importance of the Minority Question
  • 4. Minorities in the Arab World: Faults, Fault-lines and Co-existence
  • 5. Arab Minorities, Liberalism, and Multiculturalism
  • 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
  • 7. The Role of the Amazigh Movement in the Processes of Political Reform in Postcolonial Algerian Society
  • 8. The Gulf's Servant Class
  • 9. Hobbesian Citizenship: How the Palestinians Became a Minority in Israel
  • 10. The Federalization of Iraq and the Break-Up of Sudan
  • 11. How does the Arab World Perceive Multiculturalism and Treat its Minorities? The Assyro-Chaldeans of Iraq as a Case Study

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書名 Multiculturalism and minority rights in the Arab world
著作者等 Kymlicka, Will
Pfostl Eva
Pföstl Eva
出版元 Oxford University Press
刊行年月 2014
ページ数 xi, 295 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 9780199675135
NCID BB15358563
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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