Minorities, Scarcity and Conflict

Antonio Montañés Jiménez, Camila Ferreira Marinelli, Stavroula Pipyrou

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040391167
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Comparative Law
• Index: Law

This volume places scarcity as a defining aspect of minorities' experience and as a tool to comprehend ongoing and unresolved societal friction and global environmental challenges, strategies for survival and reproduction of the status quo, and aspirational desires for social mobility. The book is an experimental collective intellectual project departing from conventional approaches to scarcity solely as a resource-based economic or demographic concept. Boldly, the book looks at the ways in which disadvantaged social groups navigate their lives through scarcity, and how these circumstances are endured, interpreted, accepted or challenged.

In a thought-provoking turn, the book makes a novel contribution to minority studies by engaging with scarcity not only concerning resources but also emotion, memory and affect. In analysing scarcity as a multidimensional analytical framework and interrogating it from manifold angles, the book unpacks uncharted ramifications of debates around scarcity and opens new lines of enquiry.

The collection will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policymakers working in the areas of law, political anthropology and sociology.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Unlearning scarcity within ethno-cultural minority groups: between perceptions and reality
• 2 Understanding scarcity in “the land of abundance”: mexican migrants in Tulsa, Oklahoma (USA)
• 3 “The story of my father”: life narratives and memories of scarcity of a Spanish Gitano family
• 4 The rise of fabricated majoritarianism: how nationalism based on ‘othering’ in democracies at times of scarcity is exacerbating existential threats to minorities
• 5 Beyond the Western idea of scarcity. Contributions to a relational theory of law from indigenous cosmovisions
• 6 Vulnerabilities, minoritizing processes and concerted solutions for rural scarcities. Learning lessons and tackling marginalisation in Northern Italy
• 7 Emotional scarcity and well-being among international students at times of crisis in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
• 8 A people without a land: scarcity, biopolitics, and Romani people in the Middle East
• 9 Epistemic violence from silencing to “scarcity of empathy”: the experience of Indigenous scholars in Brazil
• 10 “A society only as wealthy as its most deprived”
• Index