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.
General
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2006 |
| First published: |
September 2006 |
| Authors: |
Rogers Brubaker
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
296 |
| Edition: |
New Ed |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-02231-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Ethnic studies >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-674-02231-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780674022317 |
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