Product Description: Are the Catalans content with the outcome of the Spanish transition to democracy? Is there a future for Catalan nationalism within the EU? How does globalization impact upon the survival and development of nations without states such as Catalonia? Will increasing numbers of immigrants transform regional identities? Has devolution fostered secessionism in Catalonia? These are some of the key questions discussed in this book...read more

The second edition of The Ethnicity Reader offers acomprehensive and engaging selection of readings for students ofsociology, politics, international relations and race relations.Updated with a large proportion of new readings and extendededitorial summaries, the reader analyses the ethnic componentpresent in nationalism, multiculturalism and migration, making itindispensable to those seeking to understand the relevance ofethnicity as one of the most prominent forces in the modern world. Drawing on a wide range of examples, the selections includedexamine theories of nationalism and consider issues of ethnicintegration and conflict in the USA, Middle East, Northern Ireland,Scotland, Quebec and Catalonia among other countries and regions.The concept of ethnicity, however, is discussed not only inrelation to group rights in existing nation-states: many of theselections deal with the role of ethnicity in groups which are notnationalist at all but for which ethnicity is an important factorin the process of migration, extending the focus to transnationalcommunities in a globalized world.Contributors include Benedict Anderson, Etienne Balibar, JamesClifford, Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Keating, Will Kymlicka, TariqModood, John Rex, Anthony D. Smith, Michel Wieviorka, and FrankeWilmer.

Product Description: Are the Catalans content with the outcome of the Spanish transition to democracy? Is there a future for Catalan nationalism within the EU? How does globalization impact upon the survival and development of nations without states such as Catalonia? Will increasing numbers of immigrants transform regional identities? Has devolution fostered secessionism in Catalonia? These are some of the key questions discussed in this book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book studies the plural dimensions of diversity in multinational settings. In particular it considers the theoretical, institutional and legal conditions for the development of nations that are included within the boundaries of larger political institutions...read more

Product Description: Governing European Diversity is a completely new introductory text on social change in Europe for all students of contemporary Europe, the European Union (EU) and European integration. This text offers a comprehensive overview of both tradition and transformation in the social and cultural relationships at the heart of the political and socio-economic landscape in Europe today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book offers the most up-to-date survey of current perspectives and debates in the fields of nations and nationalism. It brings together a selected group of leading scholars in each of the sub-fields who offer a comprehensive and challenging approach to the study of nationalism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Guibernau offers a comparative analysis of nationalist movements in nations without states.

Product Description: The Ethnicity Reader offers a comprehensive and challenging selection of readings for students of sociology, politics, international relations and race relations. It presents a highly accessible introduction to the study of ethnicity by providing an original approach to nationalism, multiculturalism and migration...read more

Product Description: Nationalism has re-emerged as one of the fundamental forces shaping world society today. But how do current forms of nationalism relate to nationalistic currents which developed in earlier phases of modern history? What distinctive types of nationalist sentiment and practice can be distinguished? How should we explain the enduring appeal of nationalism? In answering these and other questions, this book offers an account of the nature of modern nationalism...read more