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Minority Politics in the Middle East and North Africa - The Prospects for Transformative Change (Hardcover)
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Minority Politics in the Middle East and North Africa - The Prospects for Transformative Change (Hardcover)
Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies
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Projects of democratic reform in the Middle East and North Africa
have said little about the place of minorities and minority rights
in their vision of reform, implying that these issues are best
deferred to some indefinite future. While many people describe the
Arab Spring as a 'battle for pluralism', there is a reluctance to
discuss what this pluralism might actually mean for the political
claims of minorities, for fear of triggering divisive conflicts and
undemocratic tendencies. Is there an alternative to this fearful
deferral of minority politics? Can we imagine 'transformative
minority politics' - 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? This volume
explores whether this is indeed a realistic prospect in the Middle
East and North Africa, examining cases that 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 various ethnic minorities in Iran. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial
Studies.
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