Modern Peoplehood

Author : John Lie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520289789

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Modern Peoplehood by John Lie Pdf

"[A] most impressive achievement by an extraordinarily intelligent, courageous, and—that goes without saying—'well-read' mind. The scope of this work is enormous: it provides no less than a comprehensive, historically grounded theory of 'modern peoplehood,' which is Lie’s felicitous umbrella term for everything that goes under the names 'race,' 'ethnicity,' and nationality.'" Christian Joppke, American Journal of Sociology "Lie's objective is to treat a series of large topics that he sees as related but that are usually treated separately: the social construction of identities, the origins and nature of modern nationalism, the explanation of genocide, and racism. These multiple themes are for him aspects of something he calls 'modern peoplehood.' His mode of demonstration is to review all the alternative explanations for each phenomenon, and to show why each successively is inadequate. His own theses are controversial but he makes a strong case for them. This book should renew debate." Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University and author of The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World

Author : Richard T. Schaefer
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1753 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412926942

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Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society by Richard T. Schaefer Pdf

This encyclopedia offers a comprehensive look at the roles race and ethnicity play in society and in our daily lives. Over 100 racial and ethnic groups are described, with additional thematic essays offering insight into broad topics that cut across group boundaries and which impact on society.

Author : Steffan Igor Ayora Díaz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780857452207

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Foodscapes, Foodfields, and Identities in Yucatán by Steffan Igor Ayora Díaz Pdf

The state of Yucatán has its own distinct culinary tradition, and local people are constantly thinking and talking about food. They use it as a vehicle for social relations but also to distinguish themselves from "Mexicans." This book examines the politics surrounding regional cuisine, as the author argues that Yucatecan gastronomy has been created and promoted in an effort to affirm the identity of a regional people and to oppose the hegemonic force of central Mexican cultural icons and forms. In particular, Yucatecan gastronomy counters the homogenizing drive of a national cuisine based on dominant central Mexican appetencies and defies the image of Mexican national cuisine as rooted in indigenous traditions. Drawing on post-structural and postcolonial theory, the author proposes that Yucatecan gastronomy - having successfully gained a reputation as distinct and distant from 'Mexican' cuisine - is a bifurcation from regional culinary practices. However, the author warns, this leads to a double, paradoxical situation that divides the nation: while a national cuisine attempts to silence regional cultural diversity, the fissures in the project of a homogeneous regional identity are revealed.

Author : Tommy Givens
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451472035

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We the People by Tommy Givens Pdf

Exposits John Howard Yoder's account of peoplehood and develops an appreciative revision of it that considers carefully and exegetically the politics of Jesus in relation to the people of Israel.

Author : William T. Cavanaugh,Jeffrey W. Bailey,Craig Hovey
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467435550

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An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology by William T. Cavanaugh,Jeffrey W. Bailey,Craig Hovey Pdf

An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology gathers some of the most significant and influential writings in political theology from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Given that the locus of Christianity is undeniably shifting to the global South, this volume uniquely integrates key voices from Africa, Asia, and Latin America with central texts from Europe and North America on such major subjects as church and state, gender and race, and Christendom and postcolonialism. Carefully selected, thematically arranged, and expertly introduced, these forty-nine essential readings constitute an ideal primary-source introduction to contemporary political theology — a profoundly relevant resource for globally engaged citizens, students, and scholars. CONTRIBUTORS: Nicholas Adams Rafael Avila Karl Barth Richard Bauckham Dietrich Bonhoeffer Walter Brueggemann Ernesto Cardenal J. Kameron Carter James H. Cone Dorothy Day Musa W. Dube Jean Bethke Elshtain Eric Gregory Gustavo Gutiérrez Stanley Hauerwas George Hunsinger Ada María Isasi-Diaz Emmanuel M. Katongole Rafiq Khoury Kosuke Koyama Brian McDonald Johann Baptist Metzv Virgil Michel Néstor O. Miguez John Milbank John Courtney Murray Ched Myers H. Richard Niebuhr Reinhold Niebuhr Arvind P. Nirmal Oliver O’Donovan Catherine Pickstock Kwok Pui-lan A. Maria Arul Raja Walter Rauschenbusch Joerg Rieger Christopher Rowland Rosemary Radford Ruether Alexander Schmemann Carl Schmitt Peter Manley Scott Jon Sobrino Dorothee Solle R. S. Sugirtharajah Elsa Tamez Mark Lewis Taylor Emilie M. Townes Desmond Tutu Bernd Wannenwetsch Graham Ward George Weigel Delores S. Williams Rowan Williams Walter Wink John Howard Yoder Kim Yong-Bock

Author : Rogers M. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521520037

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Stories of Peoplehood by Rogers M. Smith Pdf

How can we build thriving political communities? In this provocative account of how societies are bound together, Rogers Smith examines the importance of 'stories of peoplehood', narratives that promise economic or political power and define political allegiances in religious, cultural, racial, ethnic and related terms. Smith argues that no nations are purely civic: all are bound in part by stories that seek to define elements intrinsic to their members' identities and worth. These types of stories can support valuable forms of political life but they also pose dangers that must be understood if they are to be confronted. In contrast to much contemporary writing, Stories of Peoplehood argues for community-building via robust contestation among sharply differing views. This original argument combines accessible theory with colourful examples of myths and stories from around the world and over 2,500 years of human history.

Author : Khaldoun Samman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317262435

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Cities of God and Nationalism by Khaldoun Samman Pdf

"A tour-de-force in different fields of knowledge. It takes world-city and world-history literatures to a higher level of depth and understanding. It is difficult to imagine a more pioneering, in-depth study of world cities." Ramon Grosfoguel, Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley "A remarkable and original discussion of three great sacred cities across time, and their transformation by nationalism in the modern world." Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University Far from spawning an age of tolerance, modernity has created the social basis of division and exclusion. This book elaborates this provocative claim as it explores the rich but divided histories of three cities located at the crossroads of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Many observers presume that violence is built into these sacred cities because their citizens cling to religious or cultural ideals of some archaic age; only when this history is overcome can citizens enter a new age of brotherhood. Samman persuades us to refocus our attention on modernity, which has instilled troubling dilemmas from the outside. He shows how these sacred places long ago entered the modern world where global political and economic forces exacerbate nationalism and regional divisions. If we are to resolve deep conflicts we must re-imagine the institutional basis on which modernity, rather than religion, is built.

Author : Gerard Delanty,Ruth Wodak,Paul Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781846311185

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Identity, Belonging and Migration by Gerard Delanty,Ruth Wodak,Paul Jones Pdf

The emergence of new kinds of racism in European societies—referred to variously as “Euro-racism,” “cultural racism,” or, in France, as racisme differential—has been widely discussed by citizens and scholars alike. While these accounts differ, there is widespread agreement that racism in Europe is on the rise and that one of its characteristic features is hostility to migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers. Migrant Voices aims to provide a new understanding of the social, political, and historical forces that marginalize these new “others”—culminating in an investigation of the narratives of day-to-day life that produce a culture of everyday racism.

Author : R. Mole
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230591301

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Discursive Constructions of Identity in European Politics by R. Mole Pdf

This volume brings together specialists from a range of disciplines to discuss the discursive construction of ethnic, national and regional identities and analyse how specific identity discourses condition and constrain knowledge and action with regard to various socio-political issues in Europe.

Author : Susan Gal,Kathryn Woolard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317639787

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Languages and Publics by Susan Gal,Kathryn Woolard Pdf

The essays in this collection examine the public construction of languages, the linguistic construction of publics, and the relationship between these two processes. Cultural categories such as named languages, linguistic standards and genres are the products of expert knowledge as well as of linguistic ideologies more widely shared among speakers. Translation, grammars and dictionaries, the policing of correctness, folklore collections and linguistic academies are all part of the work that produces not only languages but also social groups and spheres of action such as "the public". Such representational processes are the topic of inquiry in this voume. They are explored as crucial aspects of power, figuring among the means for establishing inequality, imposing social hierarchy, and mobilizing political action. Contributions to this volume investigate two related questions: first, how different images of linguistic phenomena gain social credibility and political influence; and, secondly, the role of linguistic ideology and practices in the making of political authority. Using both historical and ethnographic approaches, they examine empirical cases ranging from small-scale societies to multi-ethnic empire, from nineteenth-century linguistic theories to contemporary mass media, and from Europe to Oceania to the Americas. Contributors include Susan Gal, Kathryn Woolard, Judith Irvine, Richard Bauman, Michael Silverstein, Jane Hill, Joseph Errington, Bambi Schieffelin, Jacqueline Urla and Ben Lee.

Author : J. Kameron Carter
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195152791

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Race by J. Kameron Carter Pdf

J. Kameron Carter argues that black theology's intellectual impoverishment in the Church and the academy is the result of its theologically shaky presuppositions, which are based largely on liberal Protestant convictions, and he critiques the work of such noted scholars as Albert Raboteau, Charles Long and James Cone.

Author : Nazmul Sultan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Anti-imperialist movements
ISBN : 9780674290372

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Waiting for the People by Nazmul Sultan Pdf

Nazmul Sultan explores Indian contributions to democratic theory, as anticolonial thinkers developed principles of peoplehood and self-rule. Indians contested British claims that the "backwardness" of the Indian people offered a democratic justification for imperial domination.

Author : Gonzalo Francisco Santos Clynes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cuban Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004029547

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The Historical Construction of Latino Peoplehood in the United States, 1350-1990 by Gonzalo Francisco Santos Clynes Pdf

Author : Simon Rabinovitch
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611683622

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Jews and Diaspora Nationalism by Simon Rabinovitch Pdf

An anthology of Jewish diaspora nationalist thought across the ideological spectrum

Author : Agustín Laó-Montes,Arlene Dávila
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231505444

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Mambo Montage by Agustín Laó-Montes,Arlene Dávila Pdf

New York is the capital of mambo and a global factory of latinidad. This book covers the topic in all its multifaceted aspects, from Jim Crow baseball in the first half of the twentieth century to hip hop and ethno-racial politics, from Latinas and labor unions to advertising and Latino culture, from Cuban cuisine to the language of signs in New York City. Together the articles map out the main conceptions of Latino identity as well as the historical process of Latinization of New York. Mambo Montage is both a way of imagining latinidad and an angle of vision on the city.