Minority Recognition and the Diversity Deficit

Jessika Eichler is Associate at the Law & Anthropology Department at the Max Planck Institute and trAndeS, FU Berlin, and a HDR candidate with Sciences Po Paris, France. Kyriaki Topidi is Senior Researcher at the European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany.

ForewordMarie-Claire Foblets
Preface
Felipe González Morales
1. Introductory Remarks: Minority Recognition and its Transformative Potential – Critically Engaging with the Diversity Deficit
Jessika Eichler (Sciences Po Paris, France) and Kyriaki Topidi (European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany)

Part I
Theorising Recognition: (De)constructing Minorities in the Law and Elsewhere
2. Making Social Groups Visible to and in Law – Essentialisation and Law’s Generality
Miodrag Jovanovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
3. Politicising Differences, Fighting Inequalities: Quilombolas in Brazil
Sergio Costa (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
4. Collectivising Human Rights or Scales of Collectivisation: Andean Constitutionalism and other Juridical Points of Departure
Jessika Eichler (Sciences Po, France)

Part II
Pluralism from the Top and Below: The Multiplicity of Paradigms of Recognition
5. Why Do the Old-Established Nation States Fail to Recognise Minorities? Case Studies from France
Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (Sciences Po, France)
6. Participation of Minorities in Public Life: The Political Background and Central Role of Minority Self-governments in Hungary
Balázs Vizi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
7. State Recognition and Religious Minority Group Agency in a European Context
Kyriaki Topidi (European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany)
8. Is Multiculturalism a Satisfactory Framework to Address Religious Diversity?
Eugenia Relaño Pastor (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

Part III
Minority Recognition in Sociolegal Strategies and Frameworks
9. Freedom of Expression Revisited: Limiting Free Speech to Stop Silencing Women and Vulnerable Minorities
Mia Caielli (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy)
10. Building Bridges between Dismissal Protection and Non-discrimination Law: Reopening the Debate on Equality Principles and Social Groups
Ceren Kasim (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)