The Minorities Of Cyprus

Author : Nicholas Coureas,Marina Elia,Andrekos Varnava
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443811934

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The Minorities of Cyprus by Nicholas Coureas,Marina Elia,Andrekos Varnava Pdf

This book examines the various minorities living in the island of Cyprus from the early modern (late Venetian and early Ottoman) period down to the present day. It charts their history, with special emphasis on their relations with the powers ruling Cyprus and with the two dominant Christian-Greek and Muslim-Turkish communities. The theme running through the book is that despite being significant members of Cyprus’ society, the three historical minorities (Maronites, Armenians and Latins) were only included in society to a certain extent by the two major communities. This was formalised in the post-independence (1960) period when they were compelled to become members of either dominant community and thus they suffered ‘internal exclusion’ by being regarded as religious sub-groups of one of the two dominant communities rather than national minorities in their own right. Within this general context, the social, legal and political roles, customs, culture and language of the various minorities are examined as they evolved through time and in response to internal and external developments affecting Cyprus in the political, economic and global spheres. They are discussed not as static entities, but as evolving groups that have adapted with greater or lesser degrees of success to the radical and at times painful changes Cyprus has undergone, especially over the last 150 years, in all walks of life. Finally, the question of what the future holds for the minorities of the island in the light of Cyprus’ EU membership and the prospect of reunification are also analysed. This book is a product of the conference “Minorities of Cyprus: Past, Present and Future”, which was held on 24 and 25 November 2007 at the European University Cyprus.

Author : Peter Loizos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Cyprus
ISBN : OCLC:716452501

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Cyprus by Peter Loizos Pdf

Author : Dominick J. Coyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015006564044

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Minorities in Revolt by Dominick J. Coyle Pdf

The author examines recent historical events in three countries and concludes that violence has occurred in these countries because the agencies of social control failed in a number of ways to satisfy the needs of minorities.

Author : Nikolas Kyriakou,Nurcan Kaya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cyprus
ISBN : 1907919082

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Minority Rights by Nikolas Kyriakou,Nurcan Kaya Pdf

This report maps the current demography of minorities on the island; assesses the peace processes that failed in the past; examines the problems, prospects and challenges that the peace process is facing in regard to minority issues and explores ways in which minorities could positively contribute to a solution; and gives an opportunity for the voices of minority representativemembers to be heard at the domestic and internationallevels.www.minorityrights.org/download.php?id=977

Author : Nikolas Kyriakou,Nurcan Kaya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1900791900

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Minority Rights by Nikolas Kyriakou,Nurcan Kaya Pdf

Author : Thekla Kyritsi,Nikos Christofis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319978048

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Cypriot Nationalisms in Context by Thekla Kyritsi,Nikos Christofis Pdf

This book explores the different perspectives and historical moments of nationalism in Cyprus. It does this by looking at nationalism as a form of identity, as a form of ideology, and as a form of politics. The fifteen contributors to this book are scholars of different scientific backgrounds and present Cypriot nationalisms from an interdisciplinary framework, including approaches such as history, political science, psychology, and gender studies. The chapters take a historical approach to nationalism and argue that the world of nations, ethnic identity, and national ideology are neither eternal, nor ahistorical nor primordial, but are rather socially constructed and function within particular historical and social contexts. As a land that was, and still is, marked by opposed nationalisms – that is, Greek and Turkish – Cyprus constitutes a fertile ground for examining the history, the dynamics, and the dialectics of nationalism.

Author : Yiannis Papadakis,Nicos Peristianis,Gisela Welz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253111913

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Divided Cyprus by Yiannis Papadakis,Nicos Peristianis,Gisela Welz Pdf

"[U]shers the reader into the complexities of the categorical ambiguity of Cyprus [and]... concentrates... on the Dead Zone of the divided society, in the cultural space where those who refuse to go to the poles gather." -- Anastasia Karakasidou, Wellesley College The volatile recent past of Cyprus has turned this island from the idyllic "island of Aphrodite" of tourist literature into a place renowned for hostile confrontations. Cyprus challenges familiar binary divisions, between Christianity and Islam, Greeks and Turks, Europe and the East, tradition and modernity. Anti-colonial struggles, the divisive effects of ethnic nationalism, war, invasion, territorial division, and population displacements are all facets of the notorious Cyprus Problem. Incorporating the most up-to-date social and cultural research on Cyprus, these essays examine nationalism and interethnic relations, Cyprus and the European Union, the impact of immigration, and the effects of tourism and international environmental movements, among other topics.

Author : Anastasia Yiangou,Antigone Heraclidou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351781565

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Cyprus from Colonialism to the Present: Visions and Realities by Anastasia Yiangou,Antigone Heraclidou Pdf

This volume is published in honour of the acclaimed work of Robert Holland, historian of the British Empire and the Mediterranean, and it brings together essays based on the original research of his colleagues, former students and friends. The focal theme is modern Cyprus, on which much of Robert Holland’s own history writing was concentrated for many years. The essays analyse British rule in Cyprus between 1878 and 1960, and especially the transition to independence; the coverage, however, also incorporates the post-colonial era and the construction of present-day dilemmas. The Cypriot experience intertwines with Anglo-Hellenic relations generally, so that a section of the book is devoted to those aspects that have been central to Robert Holland’s sustained contribution. The essays explore, inter alia, historiography, social history, economics, politics, ideology, education and the 2013 financial crisis. Taken as a collection the essays serve as an appropriate tribute to Robert Holland as well as an innovative addition to the existing historiography of colonial and post-colonial Cyprus. They will be of great interest to anyone interested in Imperial and Commonwealth History, Anglo-Hellenic relations and the Eastern Mediterranean in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : Anthony C. Hepburn
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001864555

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Minorities in History by Anthony C. Hepburn Pdf

Author : Bahriye Kemal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000750911

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Writing Cyprus by Bahriye Kemal Pdf

Bahriye Kemal's ground-breaking new work serves as the first study of the literatures of Cyprus from a postcolonial and partition perspective. Her book explores Anglophone, Hellenophone and Turkophone writings from the 1920s to the present. Drawing on Yi-Fu Tuan’s humanistic geography and Henri Lefebvre’s Marxist philosophy, Kemal proposes a new interdisciplinary spatial model, at once theoretical and empirical, that demonstrates the power of space and place in postcolonial partition cases. The book shows the ways that place and space determine identity so as to create identifications; together these places, spaces and identifications are always in production. In analysing practices of writing, inventing, experiencing, reading, and construction, the book offers a distinct ‘solidarity’ that captures the ‘truth of space’ and place for the production of multiple-mutable Cypruses shaped by and for multiple-mutable selves, ending in a 'differential’ Cyprus, Mediterranean, and world. Writing Cyprus offers not only a nuanced understanding of the actual and active production of colonialism, postcolonialism and partition that dismantles the dominant binary legacy of historical-political deadlock discourse, but a fruitful model for understanding other sites of conflict and division

Author : Olga Demetriou
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857458995

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Capricious Borders by Olga Demetriou Pdf

Borders of states, borders of citizenship, borders of exclusion. As the lines drawn on international treaty maps become ditches in the ground and roaming barriers in the air, a complex state apparatus is set up to regulate the lives of those who cannot be expelled, yet who have never been properly ‘rooted’. This study explores the mechanisms employed at the interstices of two opposing views on the presence of minority populations in western Thrace: the legalization of their status as établis (established) and the failure to incorporate the minority in the Greek national imaginary. Revealing the logic of government bureaucracy shows how they replicate difference from the inter-state level to the communal and the personal.

Author : Anthony Gorman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748686131

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Diasporas of the Modern Middle East by Anthony Gorman Pdf

Approaching the Middle East through the lens of Diaspora Studies, the 11 detailed case studies in this volume explore the experiences of different diasporic groups in and of the region, and look at the changing conceptions and practice of diaspora in the

Author : Yianni Cartledge,Andrekos Varnava
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031108495

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New Perspectives on the Greek War of Independence by Yianni Cartledge,Andrekos Varnava Pdf

This book marks the 200-year anniversary of uprisings in the Ottoman Balkans between February and March 1821, which became known in the West as the beginnings of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832), and led to the formation of the modern Greek state. It explores the war and its impact on societies involved by delving into the myths that surround it, the realities that have often been ignored or suppressed, and its lasting legacies on national identities and histories. It also explores memory and commemoration in Greece, in other countries impacted, and the Greek diaspora. This book offers a fresh perspective on this pivotal event in Greek, Ottoman, Balkan, Mediterranean, European, and world histories. It presents new research and reflections to connect the war to wider history and to understand its importance across the last 200 years.

Author : Andrekos Varnava
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785275531

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Assassination in Colonial Cyprus in 1934 and the Origins of EOKA by Andrekos Varnava Pdf

This book explores the assassination of Antonios Triantafyllides, a leading Cypriot lawyer and politician, in British colonial Cyprus in January 1934. This event has been the infamous subject of rumours since its occurrence and a taboo subject for Cypriot society and historians alike, as the event has been silenced or dismissed. This book explores the assassination in its broadest possible context by situating it within the broader events within the British Empire, the region and the world more generally at that time. The basis for the exploration is a ‘community of records’ through which all the evidence is sifted, reading it both with and against the grain, in order to provide the most likely answer to who was really behind this mysterious cold case. Through rigorous analysis, this book concludes that those who most likely masterminded the assassination supported radical right-wing extremist pro-enosis nationalism and were subsequently also prominent in forming the EOKA terrorist group in the 1950s.

Author : Spyros Sakellaropoulos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030918392

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The Evolution of the Political, Social and Economic Life of Cyprus, 1191-1950 by Spyros Sakellaropoulos Pdf

The book examines the evolution of the political, social and economic life of Cyprus from its conquest by Richard the Lionheart to the 1950 referendum on Enosis. Even with such a long period, around 900 years, the interest in controlling the island becomes clear given its particularly advantageous geographical position between Europe, Africa and Asia. Undoubtedly, Cyprus has always been an important centre for military and economic activity in the wider region. This book provides an interdisciplinary approach which combines history, political science, sociology, international relations and economics. It will be of interest to academics in Economic History, Middle-Eastern Studies, Mediterranean Studies and researchers in general, as well as anyone interested in political theory and the role of the state in particular.