HUMR4501 - Autumn 2005

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Required reading list:

  • Bowring, Bill, "Multicultural Citizenship: A More Viable Framework for Minority Rights?" in Minority and Group Rights in the New Millennium, Deirdre Fottrell and Bill Bowring (eds), The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1999. Pp. 1-23. (23 pp.)

  • Comaroff, John L., “Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Politics of Difference in an Age of Revolution”, in The Politics of Difference. Ethnic Premises in a World of Power, Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1996. Pp. 162-183. (22 pp.)

  • Dinstein, Yoram, “The Degree of Self-Rule of Minorities in Unitarian and Federal States”, in Peoples and Minorities in International Law, Catherine Brölmann, René Lefeber and Marjoleine Zieck (eds.), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993, pp. 221-235. (15 pp.)

  • Eide, Asbjørn, “Citizenship and International Human Rights Law” in Citizenship and the State in the Middle East Nils A. Butenschøn, Uri Davis, Manuel Hassassian (eds.), New York: Syracuse University Press 2000. Pp. 88-122. (35 pp.)

  • Eide, Asbjørn, “Cultural Autonomy: Concepts, Content, History and Role in the World Order”, in Autonomy: Applications and Implications, Markku Suksi (ed.), The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1998. Pp. 251-276. (26 pp.)

  • Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, “Nationalism” – Chapter 4 in Ethnicity & Nationalism. Anthropological Perspectives, 2nd edition. London: Pluto Press 2002. Pp. 96-120 (25 pp.)

  • Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, “Ethnic Identity and Ideology” – Chapter 6 in Ethnicity & Nationalism. Anthropological Perspectives, 2nd edition. London: Pluto Press 2002. Pp. 59-77 (19 pp.)

  • Ghai, Yash, “Ethnicity and Autonomy: A Framework for Analysis”, in Autonomy and Ethnicity: Negotiating Competing Claims in Multi-Ethnic States, Yash Ghai (ed.), Cambridge: University Press, 2000, pp. 1-26 (26 pp.)

  • Hannikainen, Lauri, “Self-determination and Autonomy in International Law”, in Autonomy: Applications and Implications, Markku Suksi (ed.), The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1998. Pp. 79-95. (17 pp.)

  • Keating; Michael, “Nations Without States: the Accommodation of Nationalism in the New State Order”, Minority Nationalism and the Changing International Order, Michael Keating and John McGarry (eds.), Oxford: University Press, 2001. Pp. 19-43. (25 pp.)

  • Kymlika, Will, “Immigrant Integration and Minority Nationalism”, Minority Nationalism and the Changing International Order, Michael Keating and John McGarry (eds.), Oxford: University Press, 2001. Pp. 61-83. (23 pp.)

  • Kymlicka, Will, “Modernity and National Identity”, in Ethnic Challenges to the Modern Nation State, Shlomo Ben-Ami and Yoav Peled and Alberto Spektorowski (eds.), Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. 11-41. (31 pp.)

  • Lewis-Anthony, Sian, “Autonomy and the Council of Europe – With Special Reference to the Application of Article 3 of the 1st Protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights”, in Autonomy: Applications and Implications, Markku Suksi (ed.), The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1998. Pp. 317-342. (26 pp.)

  • Lijphart, A. “Majority rule versus democracy in deeply divided societies”, Politikon, vol. 4, 1977, no. 2, pp. 113-126. (14 pp.)

  • Moore, Margaret, “Globalization, Cosmopolitanism, and Minority Nationalism”, Minority Nationalism and the Changing International Order, Michael Keating and John McGarry (eds.), Oxford: University Press, 2001. Pp. 44-60. (16 pp.)

  • Packer, John, ”Problems in Defining Minorities”, in Minority and Group Rights in the New Millennium, Deirdre Fottrell and Bill Bowring (eds), The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1999. Pp. 223-273. (51 pp.)

  • Scheinin, Martin, “What are Indigenous Peoples?” in Minorities, Peoples and Self-Determination, Nazila Ghanea & Alexandra Xanthaki (eds.), The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2005. Pp 3-13. (11 pp.)

  • Thornberry, Patrick, “Images of Autonomy and Individual and Collective Rights in International Instruments on the Rights of Minorities”, in Autonomy: Applications and Implications, Markku Suksi (ed.), The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1998. Pp. 97-124. (28 pp.)

Reference texts

  • Brownlie, Ian & Guy S. Goodwin-Gill (eds.), Basic Documents on Human Rights, Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • Relevant legislation to the case studies (handouts at lectures/seminars).

Recommended reading list

The recommended reading is suggested texts of relevance for further reading in preparation of the case studies.

  • Barry, Brian, Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001. Selected chapters.

  • Cassese, Antonio, Self- Determination of peoples. A legal reappraisal, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Selected chapters.

  • Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, “Nationalism” in Ethnicity & Nationalism. Anthropological Perspectives, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, London: Pluto Press 1993. Pp. 18-35. (18 pp.)

  • Ghai, Yash, “Autonomy Regimes in China: Coping with Ethnic and Economic Diversity” in Autonomy and Ethnicity. Negotiating Competing Claims in Multi-ethnic States, Yash Ghai (ed.), Cambridge: University Press 2000. Pp.78-98. (21 pp.)

  • Hutchinson, John & Anthony D. Smith, Nationalism, Oxford University Press, 1994. Selected chapters (chapter 1 in particular pp. 15-46) (32 pp.)

  • van Klinken, Gerry, “Big States and Little Secessionist Movements” in Guns and Ballot Boxes: East Timor’s Vote for Independence, Kingsbury, Damian (ed.) Clayton Monash Asia Institue, 2002. Pp. 157-168. (11 pp.)

  • Kook, Rebecca, “ Towards the Rehabilitation of “Nation-Building” and the Reconstruction of Nations”, in Ethnic Challenges to the Modern Nation State, Shlomo Ben-Ami and Yoav Peled and Alberto Spektorowski (eds.), Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. 42-64. (23 pp.)

  • Kymlicka, Will, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Selected chapters.

  • Kymlicka, Will, “Nation-Building & Minority Rights: Comparing Africa & the West” in Ethnicity & Democracy in Africa, Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh & Will Kymlicka (eds.), Oxford: James Curry Ltd, 2004. Pp. 54-71. (18 pp.)

  • Butenschøn, Nils, “State, Power and Citizenship in the Middle East. A Theoretical Introduction” in Citizenship and the State in the Middle East Nils A. Butenschøn, Uri Davis, Manuel Hassassian (eds.), New York: Syracuse University Press 2000. Pp. 3-27. (25 pp.)

  • McGibbon, Rodd. 2003. “Between Rights and Repression: The Politics of Special Autonomy in Papua”, in Local Power and Politics in Indonesia: Decentralisation & Democratisation, Edward Aspinall and Greg Fealy (eds.), Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. (Ch. 13, pp. 194-210 (17 pp.)

  • Peled, Yoav, Brunner, Jose, “Culture is Not Enough: a Democratic Critique of Liberal Multiculturalism. in Ethnic Challenges to the Modern Nation State, Shlomo Ben-Ami and Yoav Peled and Alberto Spektorowski (eds.), Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000. Pp.65-92. (28 pp.)

  • Tronvoll, Kjetil, Ethiopia – A New Start? London: Minority Rights Group International, 2000. (36 pp.)

  • Ulfstein, Geir, “Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Land”, in Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, von Bogdandy, Armin & Rüdiger Wolfrum, Christiane E. Phillipp (eds.), vol 8, 2004. (47 pp.)

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