Emancipating cultural pluralism / Cris E. Toffolo, editor ; with an afterword by M. Crawford Young.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Toffolo, Cris E.

Series:

SUNY series in national identities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism.

Cultural pluralism.

Physical Description:

x, 282 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2003]

Summary:

Combining detailed case studies with discussions of deeper theoretical controversies, Emancipating Cultural Pluralism investigates both the benign and harmful aspects of identity politics. This provocative collection delves into some of the most difficult issues of cultural pluralism, such as what accounts for the immense power of identity politics, whether identity politics can be inherently good or evil, whether states are the right institutions to deal with ethnic conflict, the prevention of genocide, the value of devolving power to the local level, and more. The contributions are united by the conviction that more attention needs to be paid to the normative issues associated with various expressions of cultural pluralism, for the ethical implications of the phenomena are too profound to be ignored.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Overview and Critique of the Present Research into the Politics of Cultural Pluralism / Cris Toffolo 3

Part 2. Transforming the Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological Terrain

Chapter 2. A Propaedeutic to the Theorizing of Cultural Pluralism / Jeff Hoover 25

Chapter 3. The Ethnic State: The Structural Generation of Ethnic Conflict by the International System / Virginia Q. Tilley 37

Chapter 4. Cleansing Ethnicity: Taking Group Harms Seriously / Thomas W. Simon 55

Part 3. Interrogating the Logic of Cultural Politics

Chapter 5. Forjando Patria: Anthropology, Criminology, and the Post-Revolutionary Discourse on Citizenship / Robert Buffington 81

Chapter 6. The Shari'a State: The Case of the Islamists in the Sudan / Ismail H. Abdalla 105

Chapter 7. Mahatma Gandhi on Indian Self-Rule: An Instrumentalist, an Ethno-Symbolic, or a Psychological Discourse of Nationalism? / Manfred B. Steger 129

Chapter 8. Here We Do Not Speak Bhojpuri: A Semantics of Opposition / Beth Simon 147

Chapter 9. Reclaiming Sacred Hindu Space at Ayodhya: The Hindu Right and the Politics of Cultural Symbolism in Contemporary India / Ellen Christensen 163

Part 4. Transforming the Institutional Framework

Chapter 10. Self-Government in the Darjeeling Hills of India / Selma K. Sonntag 181

Chapter 11. Politics of State Creation and Ethnic Relations in Nigeria: The Case of Former Bendel State / Paul G. Adogamhe 195

Chapter 12. Ethnicity and Constitutionalism in Ethiopia / Assefaw Bariagaber 221

Chapter 13. Afterword: Interrogating the Emancipation of Cultural Pluralism / Crawford Young 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791455971

079145598X

OCLC:

50645828