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The Politics of Difference - Ethnic Premises in a World of Power (Paperback, New)
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The Politics of Difference - Ethnic Premises in a World of Power (Paperback, New)
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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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