Minorities in Global History: Cultures of Integration and Patterns of Exclusion(Global History: European Perspectives and Approaches)

This collection analyses the concept of minority and minorities in global history. Taking transnational, transregional and comparative approaches, it explores narratives of inclusion and exclusion both conceptually and through case studies. Exploring examples of marginalization in Imperial Russia, early-20th century Korea, WWII China and Postcolonial Africa amongst others, the chapters in this volume seek to understand the entanglements of 'fluid minorities' and native populations in various historical settings. They explore dynamics between nation states and empires, minority-majority processes in (post)imperial and (post)Soviet contexts, fourth world perspectives and transnational minority movements. Taken together, the contributions to this collection address the exposure to and challenge of historical and contemporary treatments of marginalization, exclusion, belonging and inclusion in global history.

Table of Contents:
Introduction, Holger Weiss (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) 1. When and Why do Minorities Become Relevant? Territorialization, the Transformation of Politics and the Ascendency of Nation and Race, Daniel Hanglberger (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Part I: Concepts and Contexts in Processes of Minoritization 2. The Majority as Other: The Formulation of “Peasant” Courts in Imperial Russia, Jane Burbank (New York University, USA) 3. Chinese Citizenship and Property Rights in the Sino-Korean Borderland in the Late-19th and Early-20th Centuries, Kwangmin Kim (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) 4. The National Question in Finnish Communism: Leninist-Stalinist Theory and Finland-Swedish Minority Practices, Jonas Ahlskog and Mats Wickström (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) 5. The Chagossian Diaspora: Deportation, Exile and Resistance, Mohammad Shameem Chitbahal (Bordeaux-Montaigne University, France) Part II: Strategies and Activities of Minority Communities and Indigenous Peoples 6. Imperial In-Betweens: The Portuguese Communities in Hong Kong and Shanghai during the Second World War, Helena F.S. Lopes (Cardiff University, UK) 7. Countering Economic Marginalization: Africanisation Strategies in Tanzania's and Ghana's Insurance Markets before and during Decolonization, Eva Kocher and Francis Dauda (University of Basel, Switzerland) 8. Copper and Colonialism: Metal Extraction in Northern Fennoscandia in a Global Seventeenth Century Context, Jonas Monié Nordin (Stockholm University, Sweden) 9. Kazakhstani Poles as Second Class Citizens: “Underground” Catholicism in Soviet Kazachstan, Jerzy Rohozinski (Pilecki Institute, Warzaw, Poland) 10. Documenting an Ongoing Pandemic: A Sámi Reindeer Herders' Diary during the COVID-19 Pandemic, May-Britt Öhman (Uppsala University, Sweden) Part III: Minority Rights and their Politization 11. Minorities and European-Southeast Asian Connections: The European Communities as an International Actor in Southeast Asia, Andreas Weiss (Independent Scholar, Germany) 12. Universal Basic Income as a Tool Against Minority Marginalisation, Craig Willis & David Schweikard (European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany) 13. “Women Without a Country”: Marriage, Dependent Citizenship and the Transnational Fight for Equal Citizenship Rights in the Interwar Period, Laura Frey (University of Basel, Switzerland) 14. Defending Rights of Woman as “a Mother, Worker and Citizen” – Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) and its Work with Women in Latin America, Yulia Gradskova (Stockholm University, Sweden) 15. Memory Politics and History Education in the Context of Shifting Majority-Minority Power Dynamics and Competitive Victimhood in Post-colonial Rwanda and Burundi, Denise Bentrovato (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

About the Author :
Holger Weiss is Professor of History at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. His research focuses on Global and Atlantic history, West African environmental history, and Islamic Studies. His latest monograph is A Global Radical Waterfront: The International Propaganda Committee of Transport Workers and the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers (2021).