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Author : Santosh C. Saha
Release : 2007
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 883/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Politics of Ethnicity and National Identity by : Santosh C. Saha
Download or read book The Politics of Ethnicity and National Identity written by Santosh C. Saha. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook
Author : Yali Zou
Release : 1998-04-02
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis Ethnic Identity and Power by : Yali Zou
Download or read book Ethnic Identity and Power written by Yali Zou. This book was released on 1998-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between ethnic identity and power has important consequences in a modern world that is changing rapidly through global immigration trends. Studies of ethnic/racial conflict of ethnic identity and power become necessarily studies of political power, social status, school achievement, and allocation of resources. The recognition of power by an ethnic group, however, creates a competition for control and a rivalry for power over public arenas, such as schools. In this context this book provides interesting and important insights into the dilemmas faced by immigrants and members of ethnic groups, by school personnel, and by policy makers. The first part of the book consists of comparative studies of ethnic identity. The second part focuses directly on some of the lessons learned from social science research on ethnic identification and the critical study of equity, with its implications for pedagogy. An interdisciplinary group of scholars offers profoundly honest and stimulating accounts of their struggles to decipher self-identification processes in various political contexts, as well as their personal reflections on the study of ethnicity. A powerful message emerges that invites reflection about self-identification processes, and that allows a deeper understanding of the empowering consequences of a clear and strong personal, cultural, ethnic, and social identity. These pages offer a keen grasp of the undeniable political contexts of education.
Author : Henry E. Hale
Release : 2008-06-30
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis The Foundations of Ethnic Politics by : Henry E. Hale
Download or read book The Foundations of Ethnic Politics written by Henry E. Hale. This book was released on 2008-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite implicating ethnicity in everything from civil war to economic failure, researchers seldom consult psychological research when addressing the most basic question: What is ethnicity? The result is a radical scholarly divide generating contradictory recommendations for solving ethnic conflict. Research into how the human brain actually works demands a revision of existing schools of thought. Hale argues ethnic identity is a cognitive uncertainty-reduction device with special capacity to exacerbate, but not cause, collective action problems. This produces a new general theory of ethnic conflict that can improve both understanding and practice. A deep study of separatism in the USSR and CIS demonstrates the theory's potential, mobilizing evidence from elite interviews, three local languages, and mass surveys. The outcome significantly reinterprets nationalism's role in CIS relations and the USSR's breakup, which turns out to have been a far more contingent event than commonly recognized.
Author : John R. Gillis
Release : 1994
Genre : Ethnicity
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Book Synopsis Commemorations by : John R. Gillis
Download or read book Commemorations written by John R. Gillis. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin Norman Wilmsen
Release : 1996-08
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis The Politics of Difference by : Edwin Norman Wilmsen
Download or read book The Politics of Difference written by Edwin Norman Wilmsen. This book was released on 1996-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
