Minority Rights and Social Change

Kyriaki Topidi is Head of the Research Cluster on Culture and Diversity and Senior Researcher at the European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany.Eugenia Relaño Pastor is Professor of Law in Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, and a cooperation partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.

• FOREWORD; I. Minority Groups at the crossroads of social change: A socio-legal framew Kyriaki Topidi and Eugenia Relaño Pastor; PART I: ACTORS; II. Nationalism and Social Movements; III. The National Minority as a right-holder and an actor; IV. Forging Unlikely Alliances: The Power of Social Cohesion in Reducing Gender Discrimination in Traditional Leadership Positions in South Africa; V. Cultural Citizenship and the Indonesian Buddhist Community in Postcolonial Indonesia; PART II: NORMS; VI. Indigenous people and the Mother Earth: can the language of “rights” really capture their claims?; VII. Slavery, Silence, and Rights in the Quilombola communities in Brazil; VIII. Roma educational discrimination in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: Patterns and tactics of social mobilization to overcome it; IX. Claims for Recognition among Muslim minorities in Spain; PART III: STRATEGIES; X. The Minority Safe Pack Saga; XI. Religious Pluralism, Minority Protection and Communitarianism in Singapore: An Alternative Model to Actor-based Agency; XII. Xakriabá participation in indigenous movements: youth agency from the local to the global; XIII. Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Modern Turkey: Category of Minority Rights in-between a Strategical Mechanism of Absorption and a Tactical Tool for Recognition