Becoming minority : how discourses and policies produce minorities in Europe and India /


edited by Jyotirmaya Tripathy & Sudarsan Padmanabhan.
Bok Engelsk 2016
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Becoming a minority category / Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Sudarsan Padmanabhan -- Contextualizing minority : the production of difference and sameness in Europe / Barbara Franz -- Re-turning the idea of minority : going beyond the politics of recognition / Lajwanti Chatani -- Manufacturing blackness at the turn of twentieth-century France / Abdoulaye Gueye -- The constitution of the Swedish Sámi people : Swedish Sámi policy and the justification of the inner colonisation of Sweden / Ulf Mörkenstam -- Institutional change and identity shift : the case of contemporary Scotland / Sherrill Stroschein -- The European minority rights regime and the Turkish/Muslim minority of western Thrace / Apostolos Agnantopoulos -- Cultural war of values : the proliferation of moral identities in the Danish public sphere / Peter Hervik -- Becoming a minority : ethno-manufacturing in the Netherlands / Paul Mutsaers, Hans Siebers and Arie de Ruijter -- "The numbers [of coloured immigrants] are of the essence" : the spectre of communalism as a casus belli for Enoch Powell's eugenic solution to Britain's immigration problem / Gëzim Alpion -- Minority question in India / Bishnu N. Mohapatra -- The politics of hurt religious feelings : the minority as emotional subject in India / Mohamed Mehdi -- The Indian state and the minority's right to culture / Malavika Menon -- Waqf and urban space : production of minority identity in Hyderabad's Old City / Shireen Mirza -- The fragmented minor : Tamil identity and the politics of authenticity / Anjana Raghavan.. - 'Becoming Minority' traces the processes through which minorities perform as minorities, their discursive formation, narrativization and representation. The book moves away from an uncritical understanding of the term minority as a container of some unchanging core ideals, and leads to a framework where minority comes into existence in the very act of representation.. - Specialized.
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93-5150-153-1. - 93-5150-467-0. - 93-5150-809-9

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