"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...

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Beteilige Person:	Brubaker, Rogers 1956- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2022]
Schlagwörter:	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General Assimilation (Sociology) Cognition and culture Ethnic conflict Ethnicity Nationalism
Links:	https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674258143 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674258143 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674258143 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674258143 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674258143 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674258143 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674258143 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674258143
Zusammenfassung:	"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.
Beschreibung:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)
Umfang:	1 online resource (296 pages)
ISBN:	9780674258143
DOI:	10.4159/9780674258143