HUMR 4501 Ethnic Challenges to the Nation State: Studying State Responses from a Human Rights Perspective (H05)

PURCHASE RECOMMENDATIONS

Minority Nationalism and the Changing International Order, Michael Keating and John McGarry (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2001. (300 pp, ISBN: 0199242143, NOK 699 at Akademika.no) [ORDERED AT AKADEMIKA SENTRUM BUT DELIVERY FROM PUBLISHER IS DELAYED. REQUIRED READINGS WILL BE REPRINTED IN A COMPENDIUM IF NECESSARY.]

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, Ethnicity & Nationalism. Anthropological Perspectives, 2nd edition. London: Pluto Press 2002. Forlag: Pluto Press. [This book is available at Akademika Blindern; NOK 279] (208 pp. ISBN: 0745318878,)

Minority and Group Rights in the New Millennium, Deirdre Fottrell and Bill Bowring (eds), The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1999. [THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE AT AKADEMIKA. CHAPTERS INCLUDED IN REQUIRED READINGS WILL BE REPRIONTED IN A COMPENDIUM.]

Autonomy: Applications and Implications, Markku Suksi (ed.), The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1998. [THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE AT AKADEMIKA. CHAPTERS INCLUDED IN REQUIRED READINGS WILL BE REPRIONTED IN A COMPENDIUM.]

LIBRARY LOAN RECOMMENDATIONS
Most readings are available for short-term loans or in-house use at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights’ library.

COMPENDIA (KOPISAMLINGER)

HUMR4501 Ethnic Challenges to the Nation State: Studying State Responses from a Human Rights Perspective. Compendium 1: Various required readings.

HUMR4501 Ethnic Challenges to the Nation State: Studying State Responses from a Human Rights Perspective. Compendium 2: Required readings from books by Suksi (ed.) and Fottrell & Bowring (eds.) [See also notes above under ‘Purchase recommendations’.]

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HUMR 4501 Ethnic Challenges to the Nation State: Studying State Responses from a Human Rights Perspective. Compendium 1: Various required readings.

Content:

Required Readings:

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