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This collection analyses the concept of minority and minorities in
global history. Taking transnational, transregional and comparative
approaches, it explores narratives of inclusion and exclusion both
conceptually and through case studies. Exploring examples of
marginalization in Imperial Russia, early-20th century Korea, WWII
China and Postcolonial Africa amongst others, the chapters in this
volume seek to understand the entanglements of ‘fluid
minorities’ and native populations in various historical
settings. They explore dynamics between nation states and empires,
minority-majority processes in (post)imperial and (post)Soviet
contexts, fourth world perspectives and transnational minority
movements. Taken together, the contributions to this collection
address the exposure to and challenge of historical and
contemporary treatments of marginalization, exclusion, belonging
and inclusion in global history.
This volume adds to the plurality of global histories by locating
the global through its articulation and manifestation within
particular localities. It accomplishes this by bringing together
interlinked case-studies that analyse various temporal and spatial
dimensions of the global in the local and the interactions between
the local and the global. The case-studies apply a spatial approach
to analyse how global questions of space, movement, networks,
borders, and territory are worked out at a local level. The
material draws on the Nordic countries, Europe, the Atlantic world,
Africa, and Australia and ranges from the seventeenth to the
twentieth century. It is further divided into sections that address
topics such as the translocality of humans and goods, local
articulations of identities and globalities, parliamentarism and
anti-colonialism, the organization of knowledge and the
construction of spaces of representation and memory.
This edited collection is a global history of workers'
organisations since 1919, the year when the International Labour
Organisation (ILO), the Comintern and the International Federation
of Trade Unions were formed. This historical moment represents a
caesura in labour history as it epitomises the beginning of what
the editors and the contributors in this book call the
internationalisation of the labour question. The case studies in
this centenary volume analyse the relationship between global
workers' organisations and the new ideological confrontation
between liberal capitalism, socialism and communism since the
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Workers' organisations, trade
unions in particular, grew in importance and managed to organise
internationally, forming alliances cemented by ideology and
sustained by international institutional bodies or centrals. In the
nascent capitalist versus communist struggle, trade unions thrived.
Is it mere coincidence that today's decline of unionism coincides
with the end of ideological antagonism? This book emphasises
important global labour issues such as gender as well as
international workers' histories from Latin America, Asia and
Africa.
This book addresses the discourses, agendas and actions of Muslim
faith-based organizations and activists to empower Muslim
communities in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. The individual
chapters discuss how traditional Muslim welfare and charity
institutions, zakat (obligatory or mandatory almsgiving), sadaqa
(voluntary almsgiving and donations) and waqf (pious endowments),
are used to improve social welfare, focusing on instrumentalization
and institutionalization in the collection and distribution of
zakat. The book includes case studies from West Africa (Ghana,
Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana and Senegal), the Horn of Africa
(Somalia) and East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania), highlighting the
role and interplay of local, national and international Sunni, Shia
and Ahmadiyya Muslim faith-based organizations and NGOs. Chapters
"Muslim NGOs, Zakat and the Provision of Social Welfare in
Sub-Saharan Africa: An Introduction" and "Discourses on Zakat and
Its Implementation in Contemporary Ghana" are available open access
under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via
link.springer.com.
This book addresses the discourses, agendas and actions of Muslim
faith-based organizations and activists to empower Muslim
communities in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. The individual
chapters discuss how traditional Muslim welfare and charity
institutions, zakat (obligatory or mandatory almsgiving), sadaqa
(voluntary almsgiving and donations) and waqf (pious endowments),
are used to improve social welfare, focusing on instrumentalization
and institutionalization in the collection and distribution of
zakat. The book includes case studies from West Africa (Ghana,
Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana and Senegal), the Horn of Africa
(Somalia) and East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania), highlighting the
role and interplay of local, national and international Sunni, Shia
and Ahmadiyya Muslim faith-based organizations and NGOs. Chapters
"Muslim NGOs, Zakat and the Provision of Social Welfare in
Sub-Saharan Africa: An Introduction" and "Discourses on Zakat and
Its Implementation in Contemporary Ghana" are available open access
under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via
link.springer.com.
This edited collection is a global history of workers'
organisations since 1919, the year when the International Labour
Organisation (ILO), the Comintern and the International Federation
of Trade Unions were formed. This historical moment represents a
caesura in labour history as it epitomises the beginning of what
the editors and the contributors in this book call the
internationalisation of the labour question. The case studies in
this centenary volume analyse the relationship between global
workers' organisations and the new ideological confrontation
between liberal capitalism, socialism and communism since the
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Workers' organisations, trade
unions in particular, grew in importance and managed to organise
internationally, forming alliances cemented by ideology and
sustained by international institutional bodies or centrals. In the
nascent capitalist versus communist struggle, trade unions thrived.
Is it mere coincidence that today's decline of unionism coincides
with the end of ideological antagonism? This book emphasises
important global labour issues such as gender as well as
international workers' histories from Latin America, Asia and
Africa.
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