State Identities And The Homogenisation Of Peoples

Author : Heather Rae
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 052179708X

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State Identities and the Homogenisation of Peoples by Heather Rae Pdf

Why are forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and genocide an enduring feature of state systems? In this book, Heather Rae locates these practices of 'pathological homogenisation' in the processes of state building. Political elites have repeatedly used cultural resources to redefine bounded political communities as exclusive moral communities, from which outsiders must be expelled. Showing that these practices predate the age of nationalism, Rae examines cases from both pre-nationalist and nationalist eras: the expulsion of the Jews from fifteenth century Spain, the persecution of the Huguenots under Louis XIV, and in the twentieth century, the Armenian genocide, and ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia. She argues that those atrocities prompted the development of international norms of legitimate state behaviour that increasingly define sovereignty as conditional. Rae concludes by examining two 'threshold' cases - the Czech Republic and Macedonia - to identify the factors that may inhibit pathological homogenization as a method of state-building.

Author : Heather Rae
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Forced migration
ISBN : 0511177666

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State Identities and the Homogenisation of Peoples by Heather Rae Pdf

Victimization of ethnic and religious minorities has been used by rulers throughout history to assert their own control and legitimacy over communities brought together against alleged 'outsiders'. Rae demonstrates how these practices predate nationalism and how they prompted the development of international norms for legitimate state behaviour.

Author : Omar Sadr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000760903

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Negotiating Cultural Diversity in Afghanistan by Omar Sadr Pdf

This book analyses the problematique of governance and administration of cultural diversity within the modern state of Afghanistan and traces patterns of national integration. It explores state construction in twentieth-century Afghanistan and Afghan nationalism, and explains the shifts in the state’s policies and societal responses to different forms of governance of cultural diversity. The book problematizes liberalism, communitarianism, and multiculturalism as approaches to governance of diversity within the nation-state. It suggests that while the western models of multiculturalism have recognized the need to accommodate different cultures, they failed to engage with them through intercultural dialogue. It also elaborates the challenge of intra-group diversity and the problem of accommodating individual choice and freedom while recognising group rights and adoption of multiculturalism. The book develops an alternative approach through synthesising critical multiculturalism and interculturalism as a framework on a democratic and inclusive approach to governance of diversity. A major intervention in understanding a war-torn country through an insider account, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations, especially those concerned with multiculturalism, state-building, nationalism, and liberalism, as well as those in cultural studies, history, Afghanistan studies, South Asian studies, Middle East studies, minority studies, and to policymakers.

Author : Moran M. Mandelbaum
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030229184

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The Nation/State Fantasy by Moran M. Mandelbaum Pdf

This book explores the origins of nationalism and the ideal of nation/state congruency since early-modern European thought, their transformation over time and endurance in contemporary political thought and IR theory. The author deploys a Lacanian-psychoanalytical reading of nationalism and the nation/state that goes beyond methodological nationalism and state-centrism critiques. He offers a genealogical inquiry into the emergence of the nation/state congruency ideal, thus exposing and problematising the practices that render nationalism and the ideal of the nation/state necessary. Offering a new way to read the ontology and epistemology of the nation/state, this work will be of interest to students and scholars of nations and nationalism, political thought, critical international relations and critical security studies.

Author : M. Kuus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230605497

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Geopolitics Reframed by M. Kuus Pdf

This book traces the shifting meanings of security and geopolitics in Central European states that acceded into the EU or NATO in 2004. The author examines assumptions that shaped these debates and influenced policy-making, combining fresh theoretical approaches from international relations and political geography with rich empirical material from Central Europe. This book provides the first in-depth analysis of security discourse in the region.

Author : M. Hall,P. Jackson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230608924

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Civilizational Identity by M. Hall,P. Jackson Pdf

This volume focuses on the constitutive politics of civilizational identity, examining the practices through which notions of civilizational identity are produced and reproduced in different contexts, including the global credit regime, modernity debates, and the "war on terrorism".

Author : Andrea J. Pitts,Mark William Westmoreland
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438473512

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Beyond Bergson by Andrea J. Pitts,Mark William Westmoreland Pdf

Examines Bergson’s work from the perspectives of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory, placing it in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America. Building upon recent interest in Henri Bergson’s social and political philosophy, this volume offers a series of fresh and novel perspectives on Bergson’s writings through the lenses of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory. Contributors place Bergson’s work in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America to examine Bergson’s influence on literature, science studies, aesthetics, metaphysics, and social and political philosophy within these geopolitical contexts. The volume pays particular attention to both theoretical and practical forms of critical resistance work, including historical analyses of anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist movements that have engaged with Bergson’s writings—for example, the Négritude movement, the Indigenismo movement, and the Peruvian Socialist Party. These historical and theoretical intersections provide a timely and innovative contribution to the existing scholarship on Bergson, and demonstrate the importance of his thought for contemporary social and political issues. “This is an exceptionally strong volume that excites and inspires the philosophical imagination; it shows the centrality of questions of race and gender to philosophical inquiry and appropriation.” — Keith Ansell-Pearson, author of Bergson: Thinking Beyond the Human Condition

Author : William Maley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190652388

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What is a Refugee? by William Maley Pdf

-With the recent arrival in Europe of over a million refugees and asylum-seekers, a sense of panic has spread across the continent and beyond. William Maley's illuminating introduction offers a guide to the complex idea of -the refugee- and sets the current crisis within the wider history of human exile, injecting much-needed objectivity and nuance into the debate. Arguing that Western states are now reaping the consequences of policies aimed at blocking safe and -legal- access to asylum, 'What is a refugee?' shows why many proposed solutions to the refugee -problem- will exacerbate tension and risk fueling the growth of extremism among people who have been denied all hope. This lucid book also tells of the families and individuals who have sought refuge, highlighting the suffering, separation and dislocation on their perilous journeys to safety. Only through such stories can we properly begin to understand what it is to be a refugee.---

Author : Marouf Cabi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780755642250

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The Formation of Modern Kurdish Society in Iran by Marouf Cabi Pdf

Although the Kurds have attracted widespread international attention, Iranian Kurdistan has been largely overlooked. This book examines the consequences of modernity and modernisation for Iran's Kurdish society in the 20th century. Marouf Cabi argues that while state-led modernisation integrated the Kurds in modern Iran, the homogenisation of identity and culture also resulted in their vigorous pursuit of their political and cultural rights. Focusing on the dual process of state-led modernisation and homogenisation of identity and culture, Cabi examines the consequences of modernity and modernisation for the socioeconomic, cultural, and political structures as well as for gender relations. It is the consequences of this dynamic dual process that explains the modern structures of Iran's Kurdish society, on the one hand, and its intimate relationship with Iran as a historical, geographical, and political entity, on the other. Using Persian, Kurdish and English sources, the book explores the transformation of Kurdish society between the Second World War and the 1979 Iranian Revolution, with a special focus on the era of the 'White Revolution' during the 1960s and 1970s.

Author : Ugur Ümit Üngör
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191640766

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The Making of Modern Turkey by Ugur Ümit Üngör Pdf

The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities. The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the nation state violently altered this situation. Nationalist elites intervened in heterogeneous populations they identified as objects of knowledge, management, and change. These often violent processes of state formation destroyed historical regions and emptied multicultural cities, clearing the way for modern nation states. The Making of Modern Turkey highlights how the Young Turk regime, from 1913 to 1950, subjected Eastern Turkey to various forms of nationalist population policies aimed at ethnically homogenizing the region and incorporating it in the Turkish nation state. It examines how the regime utilized technologies of social engineering, such as physical destruction, deportation, spatial planning, forced assimilation, and memory politics, to increase ethnic and cultural homogeneity within the nation state. Drawing on secret files and unexamined records, Ugur Ümit Üngör demonstrates that concerns of state security, ethnocultural identity, and national purity were behind these policies. The eastern provinces, the heartland of Armenian and Kurdish life, became an epicenter of Young Turk population policies and the theatre of unprecedented levels of mass violence.

Author : Uğur Ümit Üngör
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199603602

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The Making of Modern Turkey by Uğur Ümit Üngör Pdf

This novel perspective on the establishment of the Turkish nation state highlights how the Young Turk regime, from 1913 to 1950, subjected Eastern Turkey to various forms of nationalist population policies aimed at ethnically homogenizing the region and including it in the Turkish nation state.

Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317257882

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Identities, Boundaries and Social Ties by Charles Tilly Pdf

Identities, Boundaries and Social Ties offers a distinctive, coherent account of social processes and individuals' connections to their larger social and political worlds. It is novel in demonstrating the connections between inequality and de-democratization, between identities and social inequality, and between citizenship and identities. The book treats interpersonal transactions as the basic elements of larger social processes. Tilly shows how personal interactions compound into identities, create and transform social boundaries, and accumulate into durable social ties. He also shows how individual and group dispositions result from interpersonal transactions. Resisting the focus on deliberated individual action, the book repeatedly gives attention to incremental effects, indirect effects, environmental effects, feedback, mistakes, repairs, and unanticipated consequences. Social life is complicated. But, the book shows, it becomes comprehensible once you know how to look at it.

Author : Pablo De Orellana,Nicholas Michelsen
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800611559

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Global Nationalism: Ideas, Movements And Dynamics In The Twenty-first Century by Pablo De Orellana,Nicholas Michelsen Pdf

The twenty-first century is witnessing a truly transnational revival of a very old set of ideas. Despite romantic attachments to old symbols, these late modern nationalism movements are not simply replicas of the previous two waves of nationalism in the 1860s and 1920s. Nor is it true that today's nationalism movements want simply to return to the past and effect a nationalist 1930s-style retrenchment. From Putin's macho revivalism, through to Trump's shocking victory and Xi's strongman regionalism, nationalists engage with the economic context of our time and address issues born of globalization. Crucially, in their vision for international relations they seek the destruction of key international norms in a drive to restore a vision of sovereignty predicated on a survivalist understanding of state power.Global Nationalism, edited and framed by Pablo de Orellana and Nicholas Michelsen, brings together the latest research by up-and-coming early career researchers and scholars. Beginning with a succinct history and typology of contemporary nationalism and its predecessors, this book offers analysis of several cases of contemporary nationalism, examining how specific movements define identity, address grievances and propose identity-based solutions. Key themes and lessons emerge from the study of a variety of cases, from the very ideas animating nationalist thought, to their expression in a wide variety of nationalist movements around the world. The reflections on the ecosystem of nationalist ideas and movements offered in this volume are a vital starting point in the study of contemporary nationalism as a global twenty-first century phenomenon.

Author : Bartolomé Clavero
Publisher : Giuffrè Editore
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788814142772

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Genocide Or Ethnocide, 1933-2007 by Bartolomé Clavero Pdf

Author : Lars Bo Kaspersen,Jeppe Strandsbjerg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107141506

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Does War Make States? by Lars Bo Kaspersen,Jeppe Strandsbjerg Pdf

This engaging volume scrutinises the causal relationship between warfare and state formation, using Charles Tilly's work as a foundation.