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Subject(s)

• Indigenous peoples of Mexico—Politics and government [Browse]
• Armenians—Turkey—Poiltics and government [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of Central America—El Salvador—Politics and government [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of Mexico—Crimes against [Browse]
• Armenians—Crimes against—Turkey [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of Central America—Crimes against—El Salvador [Browse]
• Democratization—Social aspects—Mexico [Browse]
• Democratization—Social aspects—Turkey [Browse]
• Democratization—Social aspects—El Salvador [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Series

• Routledge global cooperation series. [More in this series]
• Routledge Global Cooperation Series

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

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 Morazan, El Salvador
• 8. Dynamics of shaming and claiming in comparative perspective
• 9. Conclusion : memory matters in shaming and claiming.

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ISBN

• 9781317358305
• 1317358309
• 9781315667508
• 1315667509
• 9781317358312
• 1317358317

OCLC

963346501

Doi

• 10.4324/9781315667508

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