Democratization and memories of violence : ethnic minority rights movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador / Mneesha Gellman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gellman, Mneesha, author.

Series:

Routledge global cooperation series.

Routledge Global Cooperation Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--Politics and government.

Indians of Mexico.

Armenians--Turkey--Poiltics and government.

Armenians.

Indians of Central America--El Salvador--Politics and government.

Indians of Central America.

Indians of Mexico--Crimes against.

Armenians--Crimes against--Turkey.

Indians of Central America--Crimes against--El Salvador.

Democratization--Social aspects--Mexico.

Democratization.

Democratization--Social aspects--Turkey.

Democratization--Social aspects--El Salvador.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

Ethnic minority communities make claims for cultural rights from states in different ways depending on how governments include them in policies and practices of accommodation or assimilation. However, institutional explanations don't tell the whole story, as individuals and communities also protest, using emotionally compelling narratives about past wrongs to justify their claims for new rights protections. Democratization and Memories of Violence: Ethnic minority rights movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador examines how ethnic minority communities use memories of state and paramilitary violence to shame states into cooperating with minority cultural agendas such as the right to mother tongue education. Shaming and claiming is a social movement tactic that binds historic violence to contemporary citizenship. Combining theory with empirics, the book accounts for how democratization shapes citizen experiences of interest representation and how memorialization processes challenge state regimes of forgetting at local, state, and international levels. Democratization and Memories of Violence draws on six case studies in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador to show how memory-based narratives serve as emotionally salient leverage for marginalized communities to facilitate state consideration of minority rights agendas.This book will be of interest to postgraduates and researchers in comparative politics, development studies, sociology, international studies, peace and conflict studies and area studies.

Contents:

1. Why communities shame and claim

2. Memory, violence, and shaming and claiming in Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico

3. The fight for Triqui autonomy in San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, Mexico

4. Turkey : memory, "mountain Turks", and the politics of Turkification

5. Armenians and the "G" word in Turkey

6. Nahuas in El Salvador : negating "pupusas" but eating them too

7. Cultural erosion : fragile Lenca persistence in Morazan, El Salvador

8. Dynamics of shaming and claiming in comparative perspective

9. Conclusion : memory matters in shaming and claiming.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781317358305

1317358309

9781315667508

1315667509

9781317358312

1317358317

OCLC:

963346501