Europe And Ethnicity

Author : Farimah Daftary,Stefan Troebst
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 157181695X

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Radical Ethnic Movements in Contemporary Europe by Farimah Daftary,Stefan Troebst Pdf

Nation states and minorities resort more and more to violence when safeguarding their political interests. Although the violence in the Middle East has been dominating world politics for some time now, European governments have had their share of ethnic violence to contend with as this volume demonstrates. And as the case studies show, ranging as they do from the Basque Country to Chechnya, from Northern Ireland to Bosnia-Herzegovina, this applies to western Europe as much as to eastern Europe. However, in contrast to other parts of the world, instances where political struggles for power and social inclusion between minorities and majorities lead to full-fledged inter-ethnic warfare are still the exception; in the majority of cases conflicts are successfully de-escalated and even resolved. In a comprehensive conclusion, the volume offers a theoretical framework for the development of strategies to deal with violent ethnic conflict.

Author : Fatima El-Tayeb
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816670153

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European Others by Fatima El-Tayeb Pdf

Considers the complications of race, religion, sexuality, and gender in Europeanizing from below

Author : Jeffrey E. Cole
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216081326

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Ethnic Groups of Europe by Jeffrey E. Cole Pdf

This comprehensive survey of ethnic groups of Europe reveals the dynamic process of ethnic identity and the relationship of ethnic groups to modern states. Part of a five-volume series on ethnic groups around the world, Ethnic Groups of Europe: An Encyclopedia provides detailed descriptions of more than 100 European ethnic and national groups. Each entry provides an overview of the group as well as in-depth information on the group's origins and early history, cultural life, and recent developments. Among the information presented for each group are global and national population figures and accounts of geographical distribution, diaspora populations, the group's historic homeland, predominant religions and languages, and related groups. The entries also highlight places, people, and events of particular importance to each group, and sidebars introduce related topics of interest. Throughout the text, special attention is focused on the relationship between ethnicity and nationalism. An explanation of the methodology used for selecting the ethnic groups in the encyclopedia is also provided, as is an introductory essay on the topic of ethnicity in Europe.

Author : Karl Cordell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134690237

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Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe by Karl Cordell Pdf

A broad-ranging study that explores the complex relationship between ethnicity and democratization, focusing on specific case studies including France, Spain, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Russia, Albania and Hungary. Marrying the empirical and theoretical, the book begins by conceptualizing the nature of ethnicity and relating these ideas to different theories of democracy and democratization. The contributors locate ethnic experiences within a series of common frameworks to shed light on key issues such as: * the effect of democratization and authoritarian rule on ethnic tensions * the extent to which ethnicity is constructed as an ideological tool * whether democracy can only function if all citizens are fully assimilated.

Author : Seamus Dunn,T.G. Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134811267

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Europe and Ethnicity by Seamus Dunn,T.G. Fraser Pdf

The 1990s have seen an upsurge in ethnic tensions in many parts of Europe. Europe and Ethnicity suggests the main reasons are to be found in the decisions taken during the first world and at Versailles. * An introductory chapter analyzes the context of the war with particular reference to regions and states where the national and ethnic questions were particularly complex and intransigent * Subsequent chapters present case studies from arenas of conflict: Ireland to Yugoslavia; the Middle East to the Baltic states; Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Europe and Ethnicity confirms the mixed legacy of the period for the ethnic stability of the areas examined, while taking into account the impact of the Second World War and the ending of the Cold War.

Author : Judith G. Kelley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400835652

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Ethnic Politics in Europe by Judith G. Kelley Pdf

This detailed account of ethnic minority politics explains when and how European institutions successfully used norms and incentives to shape domestic policy toward ethnic minorities and why those measures sometimes failed. Going beyond traditional analyses, Kelley examines the pivotal engagement by the European Union, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the Council for Europe in the creation of such policies. Following language, education, and citizenship issues during the 1990s in Latvia, Estonia, Slovakia, and Romania, she shows how the combination of membership conditionality and norm-based diplomacy was surprisingly effective at overcoming even significant domestic opposition. However, she also finds that diplomacy alone, without the offer of membership, was ineffective unless domestic opposition to the proposed policies was quite limited. As one of the first systematic analyses of political rather than economic conditionality, the book illustrates under what conditions and through what mechanisms institutions influenced domestic policy in the decade, preparing the way for the historic enlargement of the European Union. This thoughtful and thorough discussion, based on case studies, quantitative analysis, and interviews with nearly one hundred policymakers and experts, tells an important story about how European organizations helped facilitate peaceful solutions to ethnic tensions--in sharp contrast to the ethnic bloodshed that occurred in the former Yugoslavia during this time. This book's simultaneous assessment of soft diplomacy and stricter conditionality advances a long overdue dialogue between proponents rational choice models and social constructivists. As political requirements increasingly become part of conditionality, it also provides keen policy insights for the strategic choices made by actors in international institutions.

Author : Tamara P. Trošt,Danilo Mandić
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351617864

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Changing Youth Values in Southeast Europe by Tamara P. Trošt,Danilo Mandić Pdf

What shapes the cultural, political and ideological values of young people living in Southeastern Europe? Which identities matter to them? How are their values changing, and how can they be changed? Who is changing them? Europe’s periphery is the testing ground for the success of European values and identities. The future stability and political coherence of the Union will be determined in large measure by identity issues in this region. This book examines the ways in which ethnic and national values and identities have been surpassed as the overriding focus in the lives of the region’s youth. Employing bottom-up, ethnographic, and interview-based approaches, it explores when and where ethnic and national identification processes become salient. Using intra-national and international comparisons of youth populations of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia, contributors uncover the mechanisms by which ethnic identities are evoked, reproduced and challenged. In addition to exploring political, regional cultural generational and class identities, the contributors examine wider questions of European unity. This volume offers a corrective to previous thinking about youth ethnic identities and will prove useful to scholars in political science and sociology studying issues of ethnic and national identities and nationalism, as well as youth cultures and identities.

Author : Panikos Panayi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317877936

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An Ethnic History of Europe since 1945 by Panikos Panayi Pdf

The first history of Europe since 1945 which examines the continent from a mainly ethnic perspective, Panikos Panayi has drawn on years of research to produce this comparative and exploratory account of the experience of ethnic minorities in post-war Europe. The coverage encompasses all categories of minorities including immigrants and refugees, localised ethnic groupings and dispersed peoples. Geographically, the scope of the book ranges from the Atlantic to the Urals and the Mediterranean to the Arctic, looking in particular at the Soviet Union, Britain, France, Germany, Romania, Cyprus and the former Yugoslavia.

Author : Jacqueline Andall
Publisher : Berg 3pl
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X004690846

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Gender and Ethnicity in Contemporary Europe by Jacqueline Andall Pdf

Contemporary Europe is in the midst of a cultural and social crisis. Debates over race and ethnicity are at the heart of this crisis, as witnessed in the recent rise to prominance of nationalist political parties throughout Europe. This book examines ethnicity, with the related theme of immigration, in conjunction with gender.

Author : Hans-Rudolf Wicker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : David Turton,Julia González
Publisher : Universidad de Deusto
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788498305029

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Ethnic Diversity in Europe by David Turton,Julia González Pdf

Ethnic diversity is on increase in Europe; at the same time, there is evidence of growing anti-immigrant feeling in some countries, such as Spain (especially in the Southern provinces). In order to build a politically united and democratic Europe, the accommodation of ethnic diversity and the integration of ethnic minorities are both key challenges. This book tries to explain ethnic problems in Europe.

Author : Jeffrey E. Cole
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781598843033

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Ethnic Groups of Europe by Jeffrey E. Cole Pdf

This comprehensive survey of ethnic groups of Europe reveals the dynamic process of ethnic identity and the relationship of ethnic groups to modern states. Part of a five-volume series on ethnic groups around the world, Ethnic Groups of Europe: An Encyclopedia provides detailed descriptions of more than 100 European ethnic and national groups. Each entry provides an overview of the group as well as in-depth information on the group's origins and early history, cultural life, and recent developments. Among the information presented for each group are global and national population figures and accounts of geographical distribution, diaspora populations, the group's historic homeland, predominant religions and languages, and related groups. The entries also highlight places, people, and events of particular importance to each group, and sidebars introduce related topics of interest. Throughout the text, special attention is focused on the relationship between ethnicity and nationalism. An explanation of the methodology used for selecting the ethnic groups in the encyclopedia is also provided, as is an introductory essay on the topic of ethnicity in Europe.

Author : Claire Weeda
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : 9781914049019

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Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250 by Claire Weeda Pdf

An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages. Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted each other's military skills. Men producing ethnography in monasteries and at court drafted derogatory descriptions of peoples dwelling in territories under colonisation, questioning their work ethic, social organisation, religious devotion and humanness. Monks listed and ruminated on the alleged traits of Jews, Saracens, Greeks, Saxons and Britons and their acceptance or rejection of Christianity. In this radical new approach to representations of nationhood in medieval western Europe, the author argues that ethnic stereotypes were constructed and wielded rhetorically to justify property claims, flaunt military strength and assert moral and cultural ascendance over others. The gendered images of ethnicity in circulation reflect a negotiation over self-representations of discipline, rationality and strength, juxtaposed with the alleged chaos and weakness of racialised others. Interpreting nationhood through a religious lens, monks and schoolmen explained it as scientifically informed by environmental medicine, an ancient theory that held that location and climate influenced the physical and mental traits of peoples. Drawing on lists of ethnic character traits, school textbooks, medical treatises, proverbs, poetry and chronicles, this book shows that ethnic stereotypes served as rhetorical tools of power, crafting relationships within communities and towards others.

Author : Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : 9039313911

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Nationalism, Ethnicity and Cultural Identity in Europe by Keebet von Benda-Beckmann Pdf

Author : Philipp Ther
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781782383031

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The Dark Side of Nation-States by Philipp Ther Pdf

Why was there such a far-reaching consensus concerning the utopian goal of national homogeneity in the first half of the twentieth century? Ethnic cleansing is analyzed here as a result of the formation of democratic nation-states, the international order based on them, and European modernity in general. Almost all mass-scale population removals were rationally and precisely organized and carried out in cold blood, with revenge, hatred and other strong emotions playing only a minor role. This book not only considers the majority of population removals which occurred in Eastern Europe, but is also an encompassing, comparative study including Western Europe, interrogating the motivations of Western statesmen and their involvement in large-scale population removals. It also reaches beyond the European continent and considers the reverberations of colonial rule and ethnic cleansing in the former British colonies.