Book Review: Minorities and Politics
In: International migration review: IMR, Volume 5, Issue 1, p. 112-114
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
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In: International migration review: IMR, Volume 5, Issue 1, p. 112-114
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
In: International affairs, Volume 57, Issue 3, p. 495-496
ISSN: 1468-2346
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 72, Issue 3, p. 627-629
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Canadian journal of political science: CJPS = Revue canadienne de science politique : RCSP, Volume 11, p. 723-738
ISSN: 0008-4239
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Volume 89, Issue 2, p. 401-402
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: Reports 36
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Volume 10, Issue 3, p. 1-6
ISSN: 1461-7331
In: Index on censorship, Volume 4, Issue 1, p. 105-106
ISSN: 1746-6067
In: The American journal of economics and sociology, Volume 26, Issue 3, p. 225-230
ISSN: 1536-7150
In: Publications of the Indian Law Institute
In: Journal of peace research, Volume 16, Issue 1, p. 27-40
ISSN: 1460-3578
Over the last decade we can observe a growing political and cultural renaissance of minority consciousness: US Blacks and now the Indians, the Kurds subdivided in three different countries, the Scots and the Welsh, but religious minority identifications as well — from Philippine Muslims to Northern Irish Catholics. Switzerland, one of the most sophisticated countries in dealing with ethnic diversity, recently had to grant another minority a new canton, the Jura, but only after years of political conflict marked by — among other things — terrorist violence. The rise of so many minorities to general socio-political consciousness tends to be accompanied by 'terrorism' as apparently the only effective way to be heard in a society of nation-states. The desperate plea of the Palestinians over the years is the most dramatically known case, recently involving political partisans within metropolitan countries in similar acts of violence and/or terrorism. Behind this phenomenon lies some thing structural which goes far beyond immediate grievances: it is a challenge to the modem nation-state and a form of mediated class consciousness which challenges social inequalities differently from in the past. We are likely to experience even more national and inter national violence/terrorism along ethnic/religious/racial lines, so long as those coincide with socio-economic inequalities and discriminations. And this in turn seems unavoidable.
In: The Wadsworth civilization in Asia series