Dominant Nationalism Dominant Ethnicity

Author : André Lecours,Geneviève Nootens
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9052014876

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Dominant Nationalism, Dominant Ethnicity by André Lecours,Geneviève Nootens Pdf

Although nationalism and ethnicity have long been associated with minority populations, an emerging literature looks at how the state and/or a majority group interact with minorities, and how, behind the expression of the nation promoted by the state, there is often an ethnic core. This book contributes to this emerging literature on dominant nationalism and dominant ethnicity by presenting multidisciplinary contributions that center on how states deploy their own nationalism, and how the state's nation-building and nation-consolidating processes are very often spearheaded by a specific ethnocultural group. It focuses on the interrelated issues of identity, federalism and democracy. Dominant nationalism and ethnicity involve the projection, the promotion, and sometimes the imposition by the state and/or a dominant group of an identity, which can be challenged, negotiated and/or resisted by minority groups. This brings questions for democratic practices, since it raises the issue of self-rule. Since dominant nationalism and ethnicity are shaped by ideas and institutions relating to the territorial division of power, federalism is crucial for understanding these phenomena. The book is amongst the first to look at dominant nationalism and ethnicity from historical, theoretical, empirical and normative perspectives.

Author : Eric P. Kaufmann
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415315425

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Rethinking Ethnicity by Eric P. Kaufmann Pdf

Globalization and migration are pressuring nations around the world to change their ethnic self-definition and to treasure diversity not homogeneity. This book explores the growing gap between modern nations and their dominant ethnic groups.

Author : Edward Mortimer,Robert Fine
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015047736874

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People, Nation and State by Edward Mortimer,Robert Fine Pdf

Nations in the developed world are no less immune from these complex issues - whether they involve Scottish nationalism, the rival national identities of Northern Ireland, the uneasy integration of former GDR citizens into a united Germany, the perennial problems of Afro-Americans and Hispanics in the USA, not to mention the myriad factors raised by the disappearance of the Soviet Union.

Author : Daniele Conversi
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415332737

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Ethnonationalism in the Contemporary World by Daniele Conversi Pdf

Essential reading for anyone interested in problems associated with ethnicity and nationalism - it offers a guide to understanding the ethnonational forces that underpin much of recent terrorist activity.

Author : Hans-Rudolf Wicker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000324198

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Rethinking Nationalism and Ethnicity by Hans-Rudolf Wicker Pdf

While there has been a spate of books concerned with race and ethnicity in Europe more specifically, this timely volume offers a broader perspective and positions issues of identity, ethnicity, multiculturalism, xenophobia, regionalism and ethnonationalism within the wider contexts of trans- and supranationalism. With the weakening of welfare states and the homogenizing influences of globalization, nations within both Eastern and Western Europe are discovering that the battlefield of political action is being redefined, and as a result emotional alliances threaten to bypass the democratic systems of the past. Offering fresh insights that are both empirically and theoretically informed, this book illuminates the processes and consequences of these new developments. In particular, it reviews Marx's, Durkheim's and Simmel's theories on nationalism and national identity, and presents case studies of Belgium, Italy's Northern League, right-wing intellectual production in Russia, and much more.

Author : Martyn Barrett,Chris Flood
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781527551619

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Nationalism, Ethnicity, Citizenship by Martyn Barrett,Chris Flood Pdf

Nationalism, ethnicity and citizenship lie at the heart of many of the societal changes that are currently transforming countries across the world. Global migration has undermined old certainties provided by the established framework of nation-states, with inward migration, cultural diversity and transnational affiliations having become established facts of life in many countries. These phenomena raise significant challenges for traditional conceptions of citizenship. This book provides a detailed examination, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, of contemporary issues relating to nationalism, ethnicity and citizenship. The book aims to take stock of current understandings in this area, and to establish whether there are connections between the understandings that are being articulated within different social science disciplines. The contributors, who are all senior international figures in their respective fields, are drawn from a range of disciplines, including Politics, Sociology, Communication/Media, Geography, Psychology and Education. Collectively, they address the following specific questions: • To what extent do multiculturalism and transnationalism undermine nationalism or, on the contrary, provoke its reassertion? • How do the multiple identities and multiple levels of belonging experienced today interact with traditional nationalist ideology? • Within multicultural societies, how far do representations of ‘cultural others’ still play a role in nationalist constructions of ‘the nation’? • How successfully have the welfare systems of nation-states responded to the influx of migrants? • How have national politicians responded to the cultural diversity of their own countries and have they moved beyond the traditional logic of nationalism within their thinking? • Why are extreme right-wing parties gaining increased levels of support? • What social and psychological resources do citizens require in order to function effectively at the political level within multicultural democratic societies? • How can the educational systems of states, which have traditionally been used for nationalist purposes, be harnessed to enhance the competences needed by their citizens for successful living in multicultural societies? • What changes need to be made to educational policies in order to ensure the effective integration of minority citizens? Despite the fact that they have been written from different disciplinary perspectives, the various chapters in this book paint a consistent picture. They offer a view of a world in which nationalism is still very much a dominant ideology which configures the discourse and thinking of citizens and politicians alike about nation-states, ethnic diversity, multiculturalism and citizenship. The crucial role of education is also highlighted, with school systems being uniquely positioned to equip citizens with the psychological resources and intercultural competences that are needed to function effectively within multicultural societies.

Author : Bodil Folke Frederiksen,Fiona Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135205669

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Ethnicity, Gender and the Subversion of Nationalism by Bodil Folke Frederiksen,Fiona Wilson Pdf

This volume explores the politics of identity by analysing the intersections between ethnicity, gender and nationalism in developing societies. These markers of identity are not understood as constituting essences, but as springing from people's core experiences, yearnings and strategic life plans in a context where resources are scarce. As such, identities may be, and are, contested. The intersections are traced across three areas: social and cultural reproduction; ideologies, stereotypes and practices; and nationalist politics and discourse which has tended to remove women from the public arena and construct an ideal of women's domesticity.

Author : Maria Montserrat Guibernau i Berdún,Montserrat Guibernau,John Rex
Publisher : Polity
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745647012

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The Ethnicity Reader by Maria Montserrat Guibernau i Berdún,Montserrat Guibernau,John Rex Pdf

Drawing on a wide range of examples, the selections included examine theories of nationalism and consider issues of ethnic integration and conflict in the USA, China, Britain, Germany, Quebec, Scotland, Galicia, Catalonia, Kurdistan, Iran, Iraq and Somaliland among other countries and regions. The reader, however, does not confine itself to the study of nationalism. Many of the selections deal with the role of ethnicity in groups which are not nationalist at all but for which ethnicity is an important factor in the process of migration. The concept of ethnicity is therefore discussed both in relation to group rights in existing nation states and in relation to transnational communities in a globalized world.

Author : Edwin Norman Wilmsen,P. A. McAllister
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226900169

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The Politics of Difference by Edwin Norman Wilmsen,P. A. McAllister Pdf

According to most social scientists, the advent of a global media village and the rise of liberal democratic government would diminish ethnic and national identity as a source of political action. Yet the contemporary world is in the midst of an explosion of identity politics and often violent ethnonationalism. This volume examines cases ranging from the well-publicized ethnonationalism of Bosnia and post-Apartheid South Africa to ethnic conflicts in Belgium and Sri Lanka. Distinguished international scholars including John Comaroff, Stanley J. Tambiah, and Ernesto Laclau argue that continued acceptance of imposed ethnic terms as the most appropriate vehicle for collective self-identification and social action legitimizes the conditions of inequality that give rise to them in the first place. This ambitious attempt to explain the inadequacies of current approaches to power and ethnicity forges more realistic alternatives to the volatile realities of social difference.

Author : Bruce J. Berman,André Laliberté,Stephen J. Larin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774833172

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The Moral Economies of Ethnic and Nationalist Claims by Bruce J. Berman,André Laliberté,Stephen J. Larin Pdf

Bringing together international experts on ethnicity and nationalism, this book argues that competing moral economies play an important role in ethnic and nationalist conflict. Its authors investigate how the beliefs and practices that normatively regulate and legitimize the distribution of wealth, power, and status in a society – moral economies – are being challenged in identity-based communities in ways that precipitate or exacerbate conflicts. The combination of theoretical chapters and case studies ranging from Africa and Asia to North America provides compelling evidence for the value of moral economy analysis in understanding problems associated with ethnic and nationalist mobilization and conflict.

Author : Michael Watson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136084447

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Contemporary Minority Nationalism by Michael Watson Pdf

Minority nationalism is a significant not to say potent force in the modern world. In many countries new problems of and for minority nationalism have recently surfaced. This book presents a wide ranging examination of the state of minority nationalism in the 1970s and 1980s. It considers many different cases in detail: Britain, Ireland, the Soviet Union, Canada, France, Spain and South Africa. It explores the political and socio-economic circumstances surrounding minority nationalism, analyses its successes and failures in recent years, and looks at an exhaustive range of issues: the structures and politics of minority nationalist movements, relations with governments, ideology, attitudes to human rights, and so on. Interestingly, it views both Afrikaners in South Africa and Protestants in Northern Ireland as cases of minority nationalists in dominant positions finding it increasingly difficult to maintain their positions.

Author : Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015028926148

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Ethnicity and Nationalism by Thomas Hylland Eriksen Pdf

This work provides a systematic examination of anthropological research on the critical issue of ethnicity. Chapters cover all aspects of ethnicity, including: approaches to ethnicity, social classification, the social organization of ethnicity, ethnic identity and ideology, ethnicity and social change, minorities and nationalism and ethnicity.

Author : Alain Gagnon,Geneviève Nootens,André Lecours
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773538252

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Contemporary Majority Nationalism by Alain Gagnon,Geneviève Nootens,André Lecours Pdf

For many years nationalism has been associated with political demands by minority nations that challenge the rights of the central state. However, over the last two decades many works have challenged this perspective, arguing that nationalism - as a political phenomenon - is likely to emerge among both majority and minority nations. In light of a renewed interest in the study of national Contemporary Majority Nationalism brings together a group of major scholars committed to making sense of this widespread phenomenon. To better illustrate the reality of majority nationalism and the way it has been expressed, authors combine analytical and comparative perspectives. In the first section, contributors highlight the paradox of majority nationalism and the ways in which collective identities become national identities. The second section offers in-depth case study analyses of France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Canada, and the United States. This book is an international project led by three members of the Research Group on Plurinational Societies based at Université du Québec à Montréal.

Author : Thomas Spira
Publisher : Gulf Breeze, Fla. : Academic International Press
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015042559651

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Nationalism and Ethnicity Terminologies by Thomas Spira Pdf

Author : Gurnam Singh
Publisher : Kanishka Publishers Distributors
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015056687646

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Ethno-nationalism and Emerging World (dis) Order by Gurnam Singh Pdf

Ethic Dimensions Of Politics And Political Dimensions Of Ethnicity Is An Area In Which Scholarship Has Remained Oblivious For Long. The Present Volume Goes A Long Way In Rectifying This Anomaly.