Neither Settler nor Native
Mahmood Mamdani
Paperback, 416 pages
9780674278608
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The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
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āA powerfully original argument, one that supplements political analysis with a map for our political future.ā āFaisal Devji, University of Oxford
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In case after case around the globeāfrom Israel to Sudanāthe colonial state and the nation-state have been constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority. The model emerged in America, where genocide and internment on reservations created a permanent native minority. In Europe, this template would be used both by the Nazis and the Allies.
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Neither Settler nor Native offers a vision for arresting this process. Mahmood Mamdani points to inherent limitations in the legal solution attempted at Nuremberg. Political violence demands political solutions: not criminal justice but a rethinking of the political community to include victims and perpetrators, bystanders and beneficiaries. Making the radical argument that the nation-state was born of colonialism, he calls on us to delink the nation from the state so as to ensure equal political rights for all who live within its boundaries.
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Neither Settler nor Native
Mahmood Mamdani
Paperback, 416 pages
9780674278608
Ā
The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
Ā
āA powerfully original argument, one that supplements political analysis with a map for our political future.ā āFaisal Devji, University of Oxford
Ā
In case after case around the globeāfrom Israel to Sudanāthe colonial state and the nation-state have been constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority. The model emerged in America, where genocide and internment on reservations created a permanent native minority. In Europe, this template would be used both by the Nazis and the Allies.
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Neither Settler nor Native offers a vision for arresting this process. Mahmood Mamdani points to inherent limitations in the legal solution attempted at Nuremberg. Political violence demands political solutions: not criminal justice but a rethinking of the political community to include victims and perpetrators, bystanders and beneficiaries. Making the radical argument that the nation-state was born of colonialism, he calls on us to delink the nation from the state so as to ensure equal political rights for all who live within its boundaries.
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Mahmood Mamdani
Paperback, 416 pages
9780674278608
Ā
The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
Ā
āA powerfully original argument, one that supplements political analysis with a map for our political future.ā āFaisal Devji, University of Oxford
Ā
In case after case around the globeāfrom Israel to Sudanāthe colonial state and the nation-state have been constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority. The model emerged in America, where genocide and internment on reservations created a permanent native minority. In Europe, this template would be used both by the Nazis and the Allies.
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Neither Settler nor Native offers a vision for arresting this process. Mahmood Mamdani points to inherent limitations in the legal solution attempted at Nuremberg. Political violence demands political solutions: not criminal justice but a rethinking of the political community to include victims and perpetrators, bystanders and beneficiaries. Making the radical argument that the nation-state was born of colonialism, he calls on us to delink the nation from the state so as to ensure equal political rights for all who live within its boundaries.
