Ethnic challenges to the modern nation state / edited by Shlomo Ben-Ami, Yoav Peled, and Alberto Spektorowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ben-Ami, Shlomo.

Peled, Yoav.

Spektorowski, Alberto, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism.

Ethnic groups--Political activity.

Ethnic groups.

Physical Description:

x, 340 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

A compilation of original essays dealing with ethnic challenges to the modern nation-state and to moderninty itself, on the philosophical, political, and social levels. These issues are examined theoretically and in a number of case studies encompassing three types of states: industrialized, liberal states in Western Europe, settler states in America, Africa, and the Middle East, and post-colonial states in Asia and Africa.

Contents:

Part 1 Collective Identity, Individual Freedom and the Modern State: Theoretical Considerations

2 Modernity and National Identity / Will Kymlicka 11

3 Towards the Rehabilitation of 'Nation-Building' and the Reconstruction of Nations / Rebecca Kook 42

4 Culture Is Not Enough: a Democratic Critique of Liberal Multiculturalism / Yoav Peled, Jose Brunner 65

Part 2 Ethnic Strife and the State in Western Europe

5 Catalan and Basque Nationalism: Contrasting Patterns / Stanley G. Payne 95

6 Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Society in Germany / Moshe Zuckerman 108

7 The New Right and the Intellectual Elaboration of Ethnic Europe: from Racism to the Politics Of Differentialism / Alberto Spektorowski 117

Part 3 Ethnic Challenges in Settler States

8 Minority Protest and the Emergence of Ethnic Regionalism: Palestinian-Arabs in the Israeli 'Ethnocracy' / Oren Yiftachel 145

9 Nationalism and Non-Racialism in South Africa / Gershon Shafir 185

10 Rethinking Multinational Space: the Quebec Referendum and Beyond / Alain-G. Gagnon 198

11 Modernity, Premodernity and the Political: the Neozapatistas of Southern Mexico / Eric Herran 221

12 Control and Resistance: Two Dimensions of Palestinians' Existence in Israel / Ahmad H. Sa'di 236

Part 4 Ethnic Conflict in Post-Colonial Societies

13 The Resurgence of 'Ethnohinduism' - a Theoretical / Perspective Ornit Shani 267

14 Ethnic Groups and the State in Africa / Benyamin Neuberger 294

15 Islamism and Democracy in Algeria / Gema Martin Munoz 309.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312230532

OCLC:

42476756