White, B. T. and Tejel Gorgas, J. (2016) The fragments imagine the nation? Minorities in the modern Middle East and North Africa [Guest editors]. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 43(2), pp. 135-139. (doi: 10.1080/13530194.2016.1138646)
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Abstract
Minorities in the Middle East have been a perennial object of scholarly attention. Minority politics have traditionally been considered as a problem: indeed, as one of the main reasons for the “unsuccessful” consolidation of the nation-state in the region. In recent years, with the events of the Arab Spring and its aftermath, minorities have been figured at times as an obstacle to broader processes of democratization and liberalization, or at others as being threatened by those same processes—and the violence that has ensued as they stalled. This special issue of BJMES attempts to develop more nuanced approaches to minority politics in the Middle East and North Africa, taking our inspiration from the title of Sami Zubaida’s article on minorities in modern Iraq, ‘The fragments imagine the nation’. In a collection of articles from a range of disciplines—history, comparative literature, religious studies, and politics, but all with a strong historical sense—we look at the different ways in which groups now defined as ‘minorities’ have understood themselves not in opposition to but as part of larger political identities.
Item Type: | Articles (Editorial) |
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Keywords: | Minorities, Middle East, North Africa, Ottoman Empire, Morocco, Arab Christians, Jews in the Arab world, Kurds, Algeria, Berbers, Lebanon, Iraq, Mandate Palestine, language politics. |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | White, Dr Benjamin Thomas |
Authors: | White, B. T., and Tejel Gorgas, J. |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BM Judaism B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity D History General and Old World > D History (General) D History General and Old World > DS Asia D History General and Old World > DT Africa H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > History |
Journal Name: | British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies |
Journal Abbr.: | BJMES |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN: | 1353-0194 |
ISSN (Online): | 1469-3542 |
Published Online: | 01 February 2016 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2016 British Society for Middle Eastern Studies |
First Published: | First published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 43(2):135-139 |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher |
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