Minorities in Global History

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 Wickstrom (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 Monie 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 Sami 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)