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

"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 al...

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Main Author: Gellman, Mneesha (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2017.
Series:Routledge global cooperation series.
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Table of 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 Morazán, El Salvador
  • 8. Dynamics of shaming and claiming in comparative perspective
  • 9. Conclusion : memory matters in shaming and claiming.