<p>This book explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities’ requests of inclusiveness and autonomy. The author examines the results of two important cases―the securitization of Kurds in Turkey and the “autonomization” (a new concept coined by the study) of Acehnese in Indonesia―through multiple hypotheses: the elites’ power interest, the international factors, the institutions and history of the state, and the ontological security of the country. By examining states with ethnic diversity and very little religious diversity, the research controls for the effect of religious conflict on minority inclusion, and so allows expanded generalizations and comparisons. In non-Muslim majority countries, and in so called “mature democracies,” the problem of the inclusion of old or new ethnic minorities is also crucial for the sustainability of the “never-ending” democratization processes. </p>

Ethnic Minorities in Democratizing Muslim Countries: Turkey and Indonesia (Minorities in West Asia and North Africa)

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Geri, Maurizio

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The idea behind the book was twofold: create a basic journey for anybody wanting to discover Gypsy Jazz and offer some insight into the Italian environment relative to the Gypsy Jazz world. This makes it much more than a classic method; as a self taught guitarist, I tend to give more importance to sharing and confronting each other’s musical experiences, valuing more oral rather than written learning. I see tradition as a steppingstone from which to begin a journey and composition never as an absolute arrival point. These are the items that I consider essential to move towards experimentation, and to propel a musician through the stimulating, and often hardship-filled road of studying first, and planning projects after. This is what I have tried to enclose and organize didactically in this book. Together with colleagues Augusto Creni, Tolga During, Jacopo Martini and Dario Napoli, to whom I’m united by deep respect and friendship, we have undertaken this difficult but beautiful journey inside the music of the genius, Django Reinhardt. The style is so articulate, father of what today is called, with an ugly word“contamination”- if anything, music produces encounter and integration - and, in spite of geographical or political influences, it had to be observed from different points of view to truly be fully explored and seen in its true beauty. And if the journey needs to be taken, better to do so in good company.

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