Minority recognition and the diversity deficit : comparative perspectives / Jessika Eichler and Kyriaki Topidi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eichler, Jessika, author.

Topidi, Kyriaki, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Civil rights.

Minorities.

Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

1

Place of Publication:

Bloomsbury Publishing 2022

Summary:

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.

Contents:

List of Contributors 1. Introductory Remarks: Minority Recognition and its Transformative Potential - Critically Engaging with the Diversity Deficit 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 3. Politicising Differences, Fighting Inequalities: Quilombolas in Brazil1 4. Collectivising Human Rights or Scales of Collectivisation: Andean Constitutionalism and other Juridical Points of Departure 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 6. Participation of Minorities in Public Life: The Political Background and Central Role of Minority Self-governments in Hungary 7. State Recognition and Religious Minority Group Agency in a European Context 8. Is Multiculturalism a Satisfactory Framework to Address Religious Diversity? PART III: MINORITY RECOGNITION IN SOCIOLEGAL STRATEGIES AND FRAMEWORKS 9. Freedom of Expression Revisited: Limiting Free Speech to Stop Silencing Women and Vulnerable Minorities 10. Building Bridges between Dismissal Protection and Non-discrimination Law: Reopening the Debate on Equality Principles and Social Groups

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5099-5309-4