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Product Description: The book is provoked by the recent tragedy of Bosnia and the clash within a paradigmatic multicultural society. It offers theoretical responses both to the challenge of Bosnia and to the global challenge of how to reconcile two facts of the modern world and the threat that stems from this: the existence of 200 states, and their commitment to their own integrities, and the existence of 8000 ethnic groups and their devotion to keep their identities alive...read more

Product Description: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has distinguished herself as one of the foremost scholars of contemporary literary and postcolonial theory and feminist thought. Known for her translation of Derrida’s On Grammatology and her groundbreaking essay, “Can the Subaltern Speak?,” Spivak has often focused on subaltern, marginalized women and the role of essentialism in feminist thought to unite women from divergent cultural backgrounds...read more

Product Description: What can globalization studies tell us about national identity? This text looks at historical and contemporary debates to assess the key issues of nationalism and national identity, from economic nationalism to cultural homogenization...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.

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: Numerous nations have in one way or another engaged with the cultures of classical Greece and Rome. What impact does the classical past have on ideas of the nation, nationhood, nationality, and what effect does the national space have on classical culture? How has classical culture been imagined in various national traditions, what importance has it had within them, and for whom? This collection of essays by an international team of experts tackles the vexed relationship between Classics and national cultures, presenting essays on many regions, including China, India, Mexico, Japan, and South Africa, as well as Germany, Greece, and Italy...read more

Product Description: Since 1989, Europe’s eastern rim has been in constant flux. This collection focuses on how political and economic transformations have triggered redefinitions of cultural identity. Using discursive modes of identity construction (deconstruction, reconstruction, reformulation, and invention) the book focuses on the creation of opposition to old and new 'outsiders' and 'insiders' in Europe...read more

Product Description: The contemporary nation-state is popular in that it rests upon mutual identification between rulers and ruled. Such identification is based upon common primordial qualities that are felt to be ancient, inherent, given, however new they may in fact be: language, territory, culture, race...read more

Product Description: An expert on the Taliban's modern habits and practices, Antonio Giustozzi asserts a controversial point about the role of violence and coercion in state building, which also happens to be relevant to liberal interventionism. Liberal interventionism's dominant discourse dangerously neglects the role of coercion and the monopoly of violence in the countries it purports to aid...read more

Product Description: In light of a renewed interest in the study of nationalism, Contemporary Majority Nationalism brings together a group of major scholars committed to making sense of this widespread phenomenon. To better illustrate the reality of majority nationalism and the way it has been expressed, authors combine analytical and comparative perspectives...read more

Product Description: Examining various cultural products-music, cartoons, travel guides, ideographic treaties, film, and especially the literary arts-the contributors of these thirteen essays invite readers to conceptualize citizenship as a narrative construct, both in Canada and beyond...read more