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Ethnicity without Groups
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Harvard University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: XYQ6PYD
EAN: 9780674022317
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Beschreibung
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 Brubakerwell known for his work on immigration, citizenship, and nationalismchallenges 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.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Rogers Brubaker
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2006
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 296