The Pursuit of the Perak Regalia: Islam, Law, and the Politics of Authority in the Colonial State

Hussin, Iza

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“…Commoners did not remain passive in this process either. An emerging body of scholarship on the dynamics of colonialism has started to show that the widely accepted dichotomy between citizenship and subjecthood is simplistic and precludes serious analysis of the negotiations over rights and belonging (Cooper 2005; Hussin 2007; Hunter 2016a).…”

Section: Social Rootedness: Towards a Theory Of Ethnicity And Nationamentioning

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Individualistic and Collectivistic Orientations: Examining the Relationship between Ethnicity and National Attachment in Ghana

Asante

2020

Studies Ethnicity & National

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Ethnicity is regarded as the greatest threat to national attachment by both politicians and scholars. However, ethnicity is only one of the many forms of identification which could potentially clash with national attachment. This study therefore examines the relationship between ethnicity and national attachment by asking a general question: what is the impact of alternative group loyalties on national attachment? To answer this question, I develop a measure of national attachment drawing on several sentiments oriented towards the state. Using a survey of 996 university students, I find varying degrees of intensity of the selected identities. Specifically, while descriptive analysis supports recent reports of the declining salience of ethnicity in Ghana, inferential analysis contradicts theoretical expectations that the increasing salience of ethnicity would negatively affect national attachment. Conceptually, it is possible to map the various identities onto a collectivistic-individualistic scale. Individualistic orientations undermine national attachment, while collectivistic orientations boost it. I argue that rather than being contradictory impulses, ethnicity and national attachment are both underlain by the same collectivistic orientation, pointing to the importance of social rootedness. I deploy qualitative and historical data to give substance and texture to these findings.

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Section: Social Rootedness: Towards a Theory Of Ethnicity And Nationamentioning

confidence: 99%

Individualistic and Collectivistic Orientations: Examining the Relationship between Ethnicity and National Attachment in Ghana

Asante

2020

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“…Fears in wealthy countries about who does and who does not belong animate authoritarianism, evidenced by controversies in recent years over asylum seekers, which were preceded in many European states by controversies over immigration from former colonies. Brexit's appeal was in part the aspiration of marking who belongs and who does not, organized into orderly national categories, an impulse that in turn is continuous with the history of empire (Hussin, 2007;Massoud, 2013;Mishra, 2019), including policing members of the Commonwealth who came earlier. These lines have fed court cases.…”

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“…These studies reflected a postwar elite consensus concerning the most important issues in the United States. That postwar consensus from scholars based in the United States did not consider the centrality of governing indigenous peoples (Hamilton, 2011;Richland, 2005) or colonialism (Hussin, 2007), including migration from the former colonies in postcolonial societies (Sterett, 1997).…”

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Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law and Courts

Sterett¹,

Walker²

2019

Research Handbook on Law and Courts

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Susan Silbey (2005: 358) argued that studies of the politics of law needed to take on the creation of consensus at a time of war and polarization when governing is in the hands of wealthy elites. Since she wrote, wars continue, polarization has deepened, authoritarianism has more powerful and vocal advocates, and the electronic media she references have spread. This introduction will take the contests over what courts are for in the context Silbey described.

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“…Ironically, resistance to Article 3 came from those figures who were meant to be the guardians of Islam ‐‐ the Sultans, those local rulers who entered into agreements with the British to protect their power vis‐à‐vis their competitors (Hussin , ). At the time of the drafting of the independence constitution, the Sultans were concerned that a religion clause would impinge on their mandate as the religious leaders of their respective states, an arrangement that had been struck with the British decades earlier.…”

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The Judicialization of Religion

Moustafa

2018

Law Soc Rev

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Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, one Muslim-majority country after another adopted constitutional provisions meant to incorporate Islam into the legal order. In what is now a familiar pattern, leaders sought to harness the legitimating power of Islamic symbolism. But rather than shore up state legitimacy, these provisions opened new avenues of contestation. In countries where judicial institutions are robust, religion of the state clauses have helped to catalyze a "judicialization of religion," wherein courts were made to authorize an "official" religion and/or render judgment on the appropriate place for religion in the political order. This study theorizes one aspect of the judicialization of religion through the illustrative case study of Malaysia. The study examines how shifting political context provided opportunities for activist lawyers to advance sweeping new interpretations of Malaysia's Religion of the Federation clause and, with it, a new vision for state and society.

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The Pursuit of the Perak Regalia: Islam, Law, and the Politics of Authority in the Colonial State

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Individualistic and Collectivistic Orientations: Examining the Relationship between Ethnicity and National Attachment in Ghana

Individualistic and Collectivistic Orientations: Examining the Relationship between Ethnicity and National Attachment in Ghana

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law and Courts

The Judicialization of Religion

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