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Nubians in Contemporary Egypt: Mobilizing Return to Ancestral Lands
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Taylor & Francis, 2016.
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Abstract
- Based on original fieldwork, this article examines how Nubians in Egypt have mobilized to demand a return to ancestral lands along the Nile River. It begins with a historically informed analysis explaining how any attempts to make demands from the Egyptian state long have been quashed, effectively constraining any comprehensive mobilization. It thereafter argues that the emergence of several unprecedented legal and political opportunities in the past decade paved the way for substantial Nubian mobilization. This culminated in a Nubian representation in the drafting process of the 2014 Egyptian Constitution, and a subsequent constitutional reference to Nubian return. Finally, this article explores how Nubian activists have deployed competing legal and historical frames in demanding return to ancestral lands. These frames range from the right of return based on international indigenous/minority rights frameworks, to drawing parallels with the Palestinian right of return, to a less confrontational development discourse rooted in the displacement of the Nubians in the 1960s. publishedVersion
- Subjects :
- Cultural Studies
Right of return
History
legal mobilization
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Arab uprisings
minority groups
050601 international relations
Indigenous
Representation (politics)
Politics
State (polity)
Political science
Parallels
0505 law
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indigenous peoples
Constitution
05 social sciences
0506 political science
Constitutions
Political economy
Law
Political Science and International Relations
050501 criminology
Egypt
Nubia
Minority rights
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Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e1153bb5aaed0d9375918b7f728720bb