The Long Genocide in Upper Mesopotamia: Minority Population Destruction amidst Nation-Building and “International Security”

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-131
Author(s):  
Hannibal Travis
Keyword(s):  
International Security ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Minority Population

scholarly journals Minority Response to Ethnic Democracy

Intersections ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolis Dambrauskas
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
Ethnic Minority Population ◽  
Perception Of Threat ◽  
Minority Policies

This article focuses on the evolution of Polish minority responses to Lithuanian minority policies in the post-EU-accession period.  State-minority conflicts in Lithuania have not generated violence or minority radicalization, despite continuing discontent among members of the state’s Polish minority (which constitutes Lithuania’s largest ethnic minority population) and the failure of the Lithuanian state to resolve the causes of discontent.  Employing Smooha’s concept of ethnic democracy, the article addresses this puzzle through an ethnographic exploration of the views held by members of the Polish minority about the Lithuanian state’s policies of nation-building.  The findings reveal a diverse set of critical perceptions among Poles in Lithuania, which emphasize the ineffectiveness of state policies in addressing minority needs.  However, a shared perception of threat from Russia, generated after the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, helps to sustain the regime’s stability and its strategy of stalling the resolution of minority concerns.

Diverse Voices: The Inclusion of Language-Minority Population in National Studies: Challenges and Opportunities

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose Maria Li ◽  
Peggy McCardle ◽  
Rebecca L. Clark ◽  
Kevin Kinsella ◽  
Daniel Berch
Keyword(s):  
Language Minority ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
National Studies

Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Janet Klein ◽  
David Romano ◽  
Michael M. Gunter ◽  
Joost Jongerden ◽  
Atakan İnce ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Eastern Anatolia ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Turkey ◽  
Oxford University Press

Uğur Ümit Üngör, The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 352 pp. (ISBN: 9780199603602).Mohammed M. A. Ahmed, Iraqi Kurds and Nation-Building. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 294 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-137-03407-6), (paper). Ofra Bengio, The Kurds of Iraq: Building a State within a State. Boulder, CO and London, UK: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012, xiv + 346 pp., (ISBN 978-1-58826-836-5), (hardcover). Cengiz Gunes, The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey, from Protest to Resistance, London: Routledge, 2012, 256 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-415—68047-9). Aygen, Gülşat, Kurmanjî Kurdish. Languages of the World/Materials 468, München: Lincom Europa, 2007, 92 pp., (ISBN: 9783895860706), (paper).Barzoo Eliassi, Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden: Quest for Belonging among Middle Eastern Youth, Oxford: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 234 pp. (ISBN: 9781137282071).

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