Ethnicity without Groups
Douban
Rogers Brubaker
overview
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.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ethnicity without Groups
2. Beyond “Identity” [with Frederick Cooper]
3. Ethnicity as Cognition [with Mara Loveman and Peter Stamatov]
4. Ethnic and Nationalist Violence [with David Laitin]
5. The Return of Assimilation?
6. “Civic” and “Ethnic” Nationalism
7. Ethnicity, Migration, and Statehood in Post–Cold War Europe
8. 1848 in 1998: The Politics of Commemoration in Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia [with Margit Feischmidt]
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