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Democratization and Memories of Violence
Mneesha Gellman
2017
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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.
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Keywords
- Acteal Massacre
- Alevi Kurds
- Armenians
- Citizenship
- cultural rights
- El Salvador’s Civil War
- ethnography of the state
- EU Membership Process
- Extra-institutional Mobilization
- Hrant Dink
- Hrant Dink Foundation
- Human Development Indices
- intercultural education
- Kurdish Language
- Kurds
- Language
- Las Abejas
- massacre
- Memory
- Minorities
- Nahua Community
- Nahua People
- Nahuat Language
- NGO Worker
- Oaxaca City
- Pan American Health Organization
- PRI Rule
- Pueblos Originarios
- Spanish language
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHV Political structures: democracy
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights
- thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues
- thema EDItEUR::L Law::LB International law::LBB Public international law::LBBR Public international law: human rights
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy
- Van Bruinessen
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DOI: 10.4324/9781315667508Editions