Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
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22 Dec 2014TL;DR: The Other Saudis as mentioned in this paper traces the politics of the Shia in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia from the nineteenth century until the present day, outlining the difficult experiences of being Shia in a Wahhabi state, and casts new light on how the Shia have mobilised politically to change their position.
Abstract: Toby Matthiesen traces the politics of the Shia in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia from the nineteenth century until the present day. This book outlines the difficult experiences of being Shia in a Wahhabi state, and casts new light on how the Shia have mobilised politically to change their position. Shia petitioned the rulers, joined secular opposition parties and founded Islamist movements. Most Saudi Shia opposition activists profited from an amnesty in 1993 and subsequently found a place in civil society and the public sphere. However, since 2011 a new Shia protest movement has again challenged the state. The Other Saudis shows how exclusionary state practices created an internal Other and how sectarian discrimination has strengthened Shia communal identities. The book is based on little-known Arabic sources, extensive fieldwork in Saudi Arabia and interviews with key activists. Of immense geopolitical importance, the oil-rich Eastern Province is a crucial but little known factor in regional politics and Gulf security.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of tourism development in the coastal area of Malindi, Kenya, to the stimulation and negotiation of ethnic conflict within the host community is discussed, and it is shown that tourism acts as a catalyst for the reinterpretation of identity among members of the local community who depend on or are otherwise affected by the industry and its many businesses.
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TL;DR: More than 30 years ago, Tom Humphries coined the term “audism” to describe audiocentric assumptions and attitudes of supremacy.
Abstract: More than 30 years ago, Tom Humphries coined the term “audism” to describe audiocentric (based on hearing and speaking) assumptions and attitudes of supremacy. Only a handful of scholarly articles ...
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TL;DR: The authors treat the pairing of "transgender" and "transracial" in the intertwined discussion of Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal as an intellectual opportunity rather than a political provocation.
Abstract: This article treats the pairing of “transgender” and “transracial” in the intertwined discussion of Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal as an intellectual opportunity rather than a political provocation. I situate the Dolezal affair in the context of the massive destabilization of long taken-for-granted categorical frameworks, which has significantly enlarged the scope for choice and self-fashioning in the domains of race, ethnicity, sex, gender, and sexuality. Anxieties about opportunistic, exploitative, or fraudulent identity claims have generated efforts to “police” unorthodox claims – as well as efforts to defend such claims against policing – in the name of authentic, objective, and unchosen identities. Instead of a shift from given to chosen identities, as posited by theories of reflexive modernity, we see a sharpened tension between idioms of choice, autonomy, subjectivity, and self-fashioning on the one hand and idioms of givenness, essence, objectivity, and nature on the other.
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TL;DR: The authors posit that the international environment in which a state develops partially determines the extent of its linguistic commonality, and that some countries are more linguistically homogeneous than others, while others are linguistically more diverse.
Abstract: Why are some countries more linguistically homogeneous than others? We posit that the international environment in which a state develops partially determines the extent of its linguistic commonali...
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