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Constructivist theories of ethnic politics / edited by Kanchan Chandra.
LIBRA JC312 .C69 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnicity--Political aspects.
- Ethnicity.
- Ethnic relations--Political aspects.
- Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic groups--Political activity.
- Ethnic groups.
- Identity politics.
- Ethnicity--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 500 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Constructivist Theories of Ethnic Politics rebuilds theories of the relationship between ethnicity, politics and economics on a "constructivist" foundation, according to which ethnic identities can change over time, often in response to the very phenomena such identities are used to explain. Taking the possibility of change in ethnic identity into account, it dismantles the theoretical logics linking "ethnic diversity" to negative outcomes such as democratic destabilization or state collapse or secession. Even more importantly, this book defines new research agendas by changing the questions we can ask about the relationship between ethnicity, politics, and economics. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Kanchan Chandra
- What is ethnic identity: a minimalist definition / Kanchan Chandra
- Attributes and categories: a new conceptual vocabulary for thinking about ethnic identity / Kanchan Chandra
- How ethnic identities change / Kanchan Chandra
- A language for thinking about ethnic identity change / Kanchan Chandra and Cilanne Boulet
- A baseline model of change in an activated ethnic demography / Kanchan Chandra and Cilanne Boulet
- Modeling the evolution of an ethnic demography / Maurits Van der Veen and David Laitin
- How fluid is fluid? ethnic demography and electoral volatility in Africa / Karen Ferree
- Ethnicity and pork: a virtual test of causal mechanisms / David Laitin and Maurits Van Der Veen
- Constructivism and ethnic riots / Steven Wilkinson
- Identity, rationality, and emotion in state disintegration and reconstruction / Roger Petersen
- Deploying constructivism for the analysis of rare events: how possible is the emergence of "Punjabistan?" / Ian Lustick.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199893157
- 0199893152
- 9780199893171
- 0199893179
- OCLC:
- 779097212
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