The Politics of Difference: Ethnic Premises in a World of Power

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Edwin Norman Wilmsen, P. A. McAllister
University of Chicago Press, 1996 - 210 sivua
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.

 

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Premises of Power in Ethnic Politics
1
1 Varieties of Ethnic Politics and Ethnicity Discourse
25
2 Universalism Particularism and the Question of Identity
45
Against a Theory of Ethnicity
59
4 Hegemony Power and Languages of Contention
71
A Comparative Perspective on a South African Dilemma
85
6 European Concepts of NationBuilding
104
7 The NationState in Crisis and the fise of Ethnonationalism
124
8 The Voice of Sanity Getting Hoarse? Destructive Processes in Violent Ethnic codhct
144
9 Ethnicity Nationahsm and the Politics of Difference in an Age of Revolution
162
List of Contributors
185
References
189
Index
207
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