Minority Recognition and the Diversity Deficit (eBook, PDF)

Comparative Perspectives
Redaktion: Eichler, Jessika; Topidi, Kyriaki

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses one of the most serious societal questions of our time: how to create new spaces and frameworks for minority recognition given the State-centric sovereignty discourse and the persisting equality jargon that dominate today's world. By so doing it approaches minority rights by means of a critical engagement with its underlying premises. Notably, it makes attempts to both construct and reconfigure neglected legal categories, in particular collective rights, and to deconstruct domestic constitutional orders. More precisely, it does so through diametrically opposed levels of analysis, that is top-down and bottom-up logics, by exploring sociolegal strategies, forms and formats of governance on the one hand, and grassroots demands on the other. Drawing on empirical findings in Europe and Latin America, the book gives us a sense of how recognition needs to be contextualised against the background of right-wing trends in Europe and the re-building of the State in the Andes. This is a fascinating study of one of the key questions engaging human rights, minority studies and discrimination law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509953097
• Artikelnr.: 66244156

Autorenporträt

Jessika Eichler is Associate at the Law & Anthropology Department at the Max Planck Institute and trAndeS, FU Berlin, and a HDR candidate with Sciences Po Paris, France. Kyriaki Topidi is Senior Researcher at the European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

ForewordMarie-Claire Foblets
Preface
Felipe González Morales
1. Introductory Remarks: Minority Recognition and its Transformative
Potential - Critically Engaging with the Diversity Deficit
Jessika Eichler (Sciences Po Paris, France) and Kyriaki Topidi (European
Centre for Minority Issues, Germany)
Part I
Theorising Recognition: (De)constructing Minorities in the Law and
Elsewhere
2. Making Social Groups Visible to and in Law - Essentialisation and Law's
Generality
Miodrag Jovanovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
3. Politicising Differences, Fighting Inequalities: Quilombolas in Brazil
Sergio Costa (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
4. Collectivising Human Rights or Scales of Collectivisation: Andean
Constitutionalism and other Juridical Points of Departure
Jessika Eichler (Sciences Po, France)
Part II
Pluralism from the Top and Below: The Multiplicity of Paradigms of
Recognition
5. Why Do the Old-Established Nation States Fail to Recognise Minorities?
Case Studies from France
Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (Sciences Po, France)
6. Participation of Minorities in Public Life: The Political Background and
Central Role of Minority Self-governments in Hungary
Balázs Vizi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
7. State Recognition and Religious Minority Group Agency in a European
Context
Kyriaki Topidi (European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany)
8. Is Multiculturalism a Satisfactory Framework to Address Religious
Diversity?
Eugenia Relaño Pastor (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Part III
Minority Recognition in Sociolegal Strategies and Frameworks
9. Freedom of Expression Revisited: Limiting Free Speech to Stop Silencing
Women and Vulnerable Minorities
Mia Caielli (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy)
10. Building Bridges between Dismissal Protection and Non-discrimination
Law: Reopening the Debate on Equality Principles and Social Groups
Ceren Kasim (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)