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Ethnic Minorities in Democratizing Muslim Countries
This book explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities’ requests of inclusiveness and autonomy. The author examines the results of two important cases—the securitization of Kurds in Turkey and the “autonomization” (a new concept coined by the study) of Acehnese in Indonesia—through multiple hypotheses: the elites’ power interest, the international factors, the institutions and history of the state, and the ontological security of the country. By examining states with ethnic diversity and very little religious diversity, the research controls for the effect of religious conflict on minority inclusion, and so allows expanded generalizations and comparisons. In non-Muslim majority countries, and in so called “mature democracies,” the problem of the inclusion of old or new ethnic minorities is also crucial for the sustainability of the “never-ending” democratization processes.
Unraveled
"Deftly bridging literary conventions, this compelling work exposes the cultural origins of a quiet revolution that occurred over the course of the twentieth century. Elizabeth Krause combines novelistic and ethnographic techniques to illuminate population dynamics that have raised alarm across Europe and the United States, and manifested, for example, in Italy's extremely low birthrate. But what actually motivates people to have fewer children? Krause turns to the evocative story of one woman, Emilia Raugei, who was born in a Tuscan hill town in 1920 and worked as a straw weaver in a rapidly globalizing economy, to better understand this question. Based on extensive fieldwork, including ind...
Islamist Populism in Turkey and Indonesia: A Comparative Analysis
This book focuses on the dynamics of democracy and populism in Muslim-majority countries, such as Turkey and Indonesia. It does so by examining the complexities of democratic development in these areas, ranging from 'flawed' to 'hybrid' regimes. Despite the aspirations for democratic progress, recent democracy indices reveal a concerning trend of backsliding, particularly in the last decade. This regression can be attributed, in part, to the ascendancy of populist politics. Populist movements have adeptly exploited both real and perceived cultural insecurities to acquire, consolidate, and maintain political power. This phenomenon is especially pronounced in flawed democracies and hybrid regi...
A Crisis of Births
When reproduction becomes a political issue, where do you stand? A CRISIS OF BIRTHS: POPULATION POLITICS AND FAMILY MAKING IN ITALY tells the fascinating story of Italian families in the 1990s, when Italy had the lowest birthrate of any nation in the world. You'll gain an in-depth understanding of why Italy's birthrate has fallen so low and what this means for Italians as individuals and Italy as a society and how reproduction has become politicized. Personal dialogues with ordinary people ranging from sweater-makers to counts, and aging bachelors to doting mothers reveal how a silent revolution against patriarchy reshapes social and sexual morality to create new imperatives for family making.
Interpretar sociedades
Asistimos a un mundo que parece vivir de manera contradictoria una doble realidad: por un lado, la globalización, proceso que en su cuarta etapa de industrialización es considerado irreversible y, por el otro, una vuelta hacia los localismos y nacionalismos que hasta hace poco tiempo se creían superados. Esta obra se presenta como una recolección de testimonios académicos, cuyo propósito es estimular debates que vayan más allá de las singulares dialécticas disciplinarias, típicas del hacer universitario ortodoxo, a fin de difundir distintos saberes, provenientes de reflexiones e investigaciones muy diferentes. De esta manera se busca acrecentar el debate social y humanista sobre temáticas heterogéneas entre sí, pero puntuales en sus diferentes estudios, para animar una comunión no solo en el ámbito puramente académico, sino también fomentando un diálogo con toda la sociedad civil.
Más allá de las jerarquías
La metáfora espacial vertical se ha convertido en la principal forma expresiva del principio de jerarquía que, así, parece formar parte de los procesos cognitivos del ser humano. Nos cuesta darnos cuenta, pero cuando hablamos del "ascensor social" que premia a los más "capaces y merecedores", cuando evocamos el "paracaídas social" para los perdedores en la "carrera" de la vida o aludimos a las subidas y escalado- res, utilizamos metáforas espaciales cuyos orígenes son muy antiguos. Así, quienes detentan el poder y están "arriba" son sistemáticamente definidos como "superiores", mientras que quienes lo padecen, estando "abajo", son "inferiores" o "subalternos". Todo esto tiene impor...
Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems, FMOODS 2006, held in Bologna, Italy, June 2006. The book presents 16 revised full papers together with an invited paper and abstracts of 2 invited talks. Coverage includes component- and model-based design, service-oriented computing, software quality, modeling languages implementation, formal specification, verification, validation, testing, and service-oriented systems.
The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis
The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis provides an inclusive and forward-looking assessment of this subfield. Edited and written by a team of word-class scholars, it sets the agenda for future research in FPA and in IR.
Creating the Desired Citizen
A comparative analysis of the nation-building projects in Turkey under both Ataturk and Erdogan, concentrating on the concept of the desired, undesired and tolerated citizen. This shows how resulting historical traumas, victimhood, insecurities, anxieties, and fears have had influenced both state and society throughout these different periods.
Youth-Led Social Movements and Peacebuilding in Africa
This book critically examines and analyses the active role played by youth-led social movements in pushing for change and promoting peacebuilding in Africa, and their long-term impacts on society. Africa’s history is characterised by youth movements. The continent’s youth populations played pivotal roles in the campaign against colonialism and, ever since independence, Africa’s youth have been at the center of social mobilisation. Most recently, social media has contributed significantly to a further rise in youth-led social movements. However, the impact of youth voices is often marginalised by patriarchal and gerontocratic approaches to governance, denying them the place, voice, and ...
