Syllabus/achievement requirements

All articles are compiled in compendiums that can be purchased from Gnist Akademika bookstore (Domus Nova), Law faculty.

Required reading:

  • Amit, Vered, “Reconceptualising Community” in Vered Amit (ed.) Realizing Community. Concepts, social relationships and sentiments. London: Routledge 2002, pp 1-19. (19pp).

  • Chanock, Martin, “Culture and human rights: orientalising, occidentalising and authenticity”, in Mahmood Mamdani (ed.), Beyond Rights Talk and Cultural Talks. Comparative Essays on the Politics of Rights and Culture, Cape Town: David Phillips Publishers, 2000, ch 1. (22 pp.)

  • Derman, Bill and Anne Hellum. “Land, Identity and Violence in Zimbabwe", in Bill Derman, Rie Odgaard and Espen Sjaastad(eds.), Conflicts over Land and Water in Africa, James Curry 2007, pp 161-186. (25 pp.)

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

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

  • Ekern, Stener, “Visions of the Right Order: Contrasts between Mayan Communitarian Law in Guatemala and International Human Rights Law” in Lone Lindholt and Sten Schaumberg-Müller (eds.), Human Rights in development Yearbook 2003. Human Rights and Local/Living Law, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2005, pp 265-290. (25 pp.)

  • Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, “Ethnic identification and ideology” (ch. 4), “Ethnicity in history” (ch. 5) and “Nationalism” (ch. 6) in /Ethnicity & Nationalism : Anthropological Perspectives/, 3rd edition, London: Pluto Press 2010, pp. 70-146. (76 pp.)

  • Gellner, David, “From group rights to individual rights and back: Nepalese struggles over culture and identity” in Cowan, Jane K, Marie Bénédicte Dembour and Richard A. Wilson: Culture and Rights. Anthropological Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp 177-200. (23 pp).

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

  • Kymlicka, Will, “Modernity and National Identity”, in Shlomo Ben-Ami and Yoav Peled and Alberto Spektorowski (eds.), Ethnic Challenges to the Modern Nation State, 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, “How to Resolve Conflicts between Individual and Collective Rights?”, in Martin Scheinin and Reetta Toivanen (eds.), Rethinking Non-Discrimination and Minority Rights, ?bo/Turku: Institute for Humar Rights, ?bo Akademi, 2004, pp 2189-38. (20 pp).

  • van Zyl, Paul, "Promoting Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Societies", in Alan Bryden and Heiner H?nggi (eds.), Security Governance in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, Geneva 2005, pp 209-222 (13 pp).

550 pp

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