Industrialization and assimilation : understanding ethnic change in the modern world / Elliott D. Green, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Elliott Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Cross-cultural studies.

Ethnicity.

Industrialization--Cross-cultural studies.

Industrialization.

Assimilation (Sociology)--Cross-cultural studies.

Assimilation (Sociology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 279 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Industrialization and Assimilation examines the process of ethnic identity change in a broad historical context. Green explains how and why ethnicity changes across time, showing that, by altering the basis of economic production from land to labour and removing people from the 'idiocy of rural life', industrialization makes societies more ethnically homogenous. More specifically, the author argues that industrialization lowers the relative value of rural land, leading people to identify less with narrow rural identities in favour of broader identities that can aid them in navigating the formal urban economy. Using large-scale datasets that span the globe as well as detailed case studies ranging from mid-twentieth-century Turkey to contemporary Botswana, Somalia and Uganda, as well as evidence from Native Americans in the United States and the Māori in New Zealand, Industrialization and Assimilation provides a new framework to understand the origins of modern ethnic identities.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

1.1 Endogenous and Exogenous Ethnicity

1.2 The Argument

1.3 What the Theory Does Not State and Scope Conditions

1.4 Methodology and Organization of the Book

2 Understanding Ethnicity and Industrialization

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Ethnicity and Ethnic Change

2.2.1 Ethnic Change with No Ethnic Majority

2.3.2 Ethnic Change Among Indigenous Groups in Ethnic Majority Countries

2.3.3 Ethnic Change in Ethnic Majority Countries Without Indigenous Groups

2.3 Horizontal vs Vertical Ethnic Change

2.4 A Brief Overview of Industrialization

2.5 Carbon Emissions

2.6 Urbanization

2.7 Conclusion

3 Industrialization and Assimilation in Historical Perspective

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Pre-modern Evidence on Industrialization and Ethnic Identity Change

3.3 The Modern World, with Case Studies from Europe and South Africa

3.3.1 European Case Studies

3.3.2 The South African Case Study

3.4 Conclusion

4 Cross-National Evidence

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Industrialization and Ethnic Change, 1961-1985, with Soviet Data

4.2.1 Data Analysis

4.3 Census Data on Ethnic Fractionalization

4.4 Conclusion

5 Industrialization and Assimilation in Mid-twentieth-Century Turkey

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Background on Turkey

5.3 Qualitative Evidence for Ethnic Homogenization in Mid-twentieth-Century Turkey

5.3.1 The State of Turkey in the 1920s and 1930s

5.3.2 Government Efforts at Enforcing Assimilation

5.3.3 Incentives for Assimilation in Industrial/Urban Turkey

5.3.4 Explaining Non-assimilation in Kurdistan

5.4 Quantitative Evidence

5.5 Conclusion.

6 Cases of Non-industrialization in Africa: Somalia and Uganda

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Industrialization and Ethnic Change in Modern Africa

6.3 Underdevelopment and Ethnic Fractionalization in Somalia

6.4 Agrarian Ethnic Identity in Uganda

6.4.1 Land Rights and Ethnicity in Central Uganda

6.4.2 Debates over Indigeneity in Uganda

6.4.3 Ethnicity and District Creation in Uganda

6.5 Conclusion

7 'Cattle without Legs': Structural Transformation in Botswana

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The Process of Industrialization in Botswana

7.3 Ethnicity in Botswana: An Overview

7.4 Explaining Assimilation in Botswana

7.5 Debates around Ethnic Identity and Indigeneity in Botswana

7.6 Alternative Explanations for Ethnic Change in Botswana

7.7 Conclusion

8 Ethnic Change among Native Americans in the United States

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Pre-industrial Life among Native Americans, from the Pre-colonial Period up to 1900

8.3 Industrialization and Urbanization among Native Americans, from 1900 to the Present

8.4 A 'New Urban Tribe in a New Urban Homeland': Ethnic Homogenization among Native Americans

8.5 The Revitalization of Land through Native American Casinos

8.6 Conclusion

9 Ethnic Change among the Māori in New Zealand

9.1 Introduction

9.2 The Māori up to World War II

9.3 Māori Urbanization and Homogenization from World War II to the Present

9.4 Fisheries and 'Neotribalism' among the Maori

9.5 Evidence for Re-tribalization in New Zealand

9.6 The other two neo-europes: indigenous communities in canada and aborigines in australia

9.6.1 Canada

9.6.2 Australia

9.7 Conclusion

10 Conclusion

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Four Lessons on How to Study Ethnicity and Ethnic Change

10.3 Prospects for Industrialization and Assimilation in the Future.

Appendix Country-Level Data Used in Chapter 4

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Nov 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009268387

1009268384

9781009268394

1009268392

9781009268356

100926835X