On security, minorities, and opportunistic narcissism
Abstract
At a global level, the last two decades have consistently witnessed the encroachment of right-wing rhetoric and anti-minority logos, with several states clearly promoting a discourse of fear of minorities. Seeing minorities either as the ‘enemy within’ or a political necessity that must be endured, states are sceptical in how they recognise or incorporate minority identities that threaten ideologies of national homogeneity. Adopting an anthropological perspective and having engaged in long-term research on minorities in Greece and Italy, I argue that the state selectively recognises minority traits that are deemed ‘secure’ enough to be incorporated into the national body of policies and governance in what I term opportunistic narcissism; the process of highlighting minority differences, territorialising them, and finally claiming them for the national corpus.
Citation
Pipyrou , S 2021 , ' On security, minorities, and opportunistic narcissism ' , Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe , vol. 20 , no. 1 , pp. 24-44 . https://doi.org/10.53779/HGSF5693
Publication
Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1617-5247Type
Journal article
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