Ethnicity without Groups / Rogers Brubaker.
2006
GN495.6 .B77 2004
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Title
Ethnicity without Groups / Rogers Brubaker.
Author
Brubaker, Rogers, author.
ISBN
9780674258143
Published
Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2006]
Copyright
©2004
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (296 p.)
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10.4159/9780674258143 doi
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GN495.6 .B77 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.8
Summary
"Despite a quarter-century of constructivist theorizing in the social sciences and humanities, ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists, policymakers, and researchers routinely frame accounts of ethnic, racial, and national conflict as the struggles of internally homogeneous, externally bounded ethnic groups, races, and nations. In doing so, they unwittingly adopt the language of participants in such struggles, and contribute to the reification of ethnic groups. In this timely and provocative volume, Rogers Brubaker-well known for his work on immigration, citizenship, and nationalism-challenges this pervasive and commonsense "groupism." But he does not simply revert to standard constructivist tropes about the fluidity and multiplicity of identity. Once a bracing challenge to conventional wisdom, constructivism has grown complacent, even cliched. That ethnicity is constructed is commonplace; this volume provides new insights into how it is constructed. By shifting the analytical focus from identity to identifications, from groups as entities to group-making projects, from shared culture to categorization, from substance to process, Brubaker shows that ethnicity, race, and nation are not things in the world but perspectives on the world: ways of seeing, interpreting, and representing the social world."
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Ethnicity without Groups
2 Beyond "Identity"
3 Ethnicity as Cognition
4 Ethnic and Nationalist Violence
5 The Return of Assimilation?
6 "Civic" and "Ethnic" Nationalism
7 Ethnicity, Migration, and Statehood in Post-Cold War Europe
8 1848 in 1998: The Politics of Commemoration in Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia
Notes
References
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Ethnicity without Groups
2 Beyond "Identity"
3 Ethnicity as Cognition
4 Ethnic and Nationalist Violence
5 The Return of Assimilation?
6 "Civic" and "Ethnic" Nationalism
7 Ethnicity, Migration, and Statehood in Post-Cold War Europe
8 1848 in 1998: The Politics of Commemoration in Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia
Notes
References
Index