Fr. 235.00

Minorities, Scarcity and Conflict

English · Hardback

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This volume places scarcity as a defining aspect of minorities' collective experience and as a tool to comprehend ongoing and unresolved societal friction and global environmental challenges, strategies for survival and reproduction of the status quo, as well as aspirational desires for social mobility.


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Introduction Chapter 1. Unlearning Scarcity within Ethno-Cultural Minority Groups: Between Perceptions and Reality Chapter 2. Understanding Scarcity in "the land of abundance": Mexican migrants in Tulsa, Oklahoma (USA) Chapter 3. "The story of my father": Life narratives and memories of scarcity of a Spanish Gitano family Chapter 4. The rise of fabricated majoritarianism: How nationalism based on "othering" in democracies at times of scarcity is exacerbating existential threats to minorities Chapter 5. Beyond the Western Idea of Scarcity. Contributions to a Relational Theory of Law from Indigenous Cosmovisions Chapter 6. Diversity governance, minoritizing processes and concerted solutions for rural scarcities. Learning lessons and tackling vulnerabilities in Northern Italy Chapter 7. Emotional scarcity and well-being among international students at times of crisis in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic Chapter 8. A People without a Land: Scarcity, Biopolitics, and Romani People in the Middle East Chapter 9. Epistemic violence from silencing to 'scarcity of empathy': the experience of indigenous scholars in Brazil Postface


About the author










Antonio Montañés Jiménez is a Margarita Salas postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, UK, and ISOR (Research in Sociology of Religion) at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain. He previously held an Economic and Social Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the University of St Andrews, UK.
Camila Ferreira Marinelli holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews, UK and is Co-Coordinator of the MSCA Staff Exchanges Project (2024-2027) funded by Horizon Europe.
Stavroula Pipyrou is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Founding Director of the Centre for Minorities Research at the University of St Andrews, UK.


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