Ethnic Identity Books

New and Published Books

1. Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore

   Edited by Daniel P.S. Goh, Matilda Gabrielpillai, Philip Holden, Gaik Cheng Khoo

   Series: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

   This book explores race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore from a range of different disciplinary perspectives, showing how race and multiculturalism are represented, how multiculturalism works out in practice, and how attitudes towards race and multiculturalism – and multicultural...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. Carnival Art, Culture and Politics

   Performing Life

   Edited by Michaeline Crichlow

   Drawing on rich insights from cultural, post-structural and postcolonial studies, this book demands that we rethink Carnival and the carnivalesque as not just celebratory moments or even as critical subtext, but also as insightful performatives of social life anywhere, given the entangled...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. Turkish Immigrants in Western Europe and North America

   Immigration and Political Mobilization

   Edited by Sebnem Koser Akcapar

   Public and even scholarly debates usually focus on the integration problems of Muslim immigrants at the cost of overlooking the role of the growing number of migrant organizations in establishing a crucial link among immigrants themselves, as well as between them and their countries of origin and...

   Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
4. Transnational Television History

   A Comparative Approach

   Edited by Andreas Fickers, Catherine Johnson

   Although television has developed into a major agent of the transnational and global flow of information and entertainment, television historiography and scholarship largely remains a national endeavour, partly due to the fact that television has been understood as a tool for the creation of...

   Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge
5. Subalternity and Difference

   Investigations from the North and the South

   Edited by Gyanendra Pandey

   Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

   Focusing on the idea of difference as a marker of subalternity, this book looks at the ways in which ordinary citizens have sought to present and identify themselves in ways that defy the conventional categorisations of governments and historical experience. Inspired particularly by questions...

   Published January 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Amazonian Geographies

   Emerging Identities and Landscapes

   Edited by Jacqueline Vadjunec, Marianne Schmink

   Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming...

   Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge
7. Religion, Education, Dialogue and Conflict

   Perspectives on Religious Education Research

   Edited by Robert Jackson

   Religion, Education, Dialogue and Conflict analyses the European Commission-funded REDCo project, which addressed the question of how religions might contribute to dialogue or conflict in Europe. Researchers in education from eight countries – the UK, Estonia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
8. Migration: Policies, Practices, Activism

   Edited by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   Migration: Policies, Practices, Activism brings together a range of scholarly research papers to examine the place of international migration in the modern world, starting with the overview of migration and development by Alejandro Portes. There are many aspects to migration today which are treated...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
9. Nationalism and National Identities

   Edited by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   Nationalism and nationalist ideas are a major force in the contemporary world. This volume brings together original papers from a number of countries dealing both with theories and case studies of particular national contexts. Taken together, these papers shed light on the processes through which...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
10. Latino Identity in Contemporary America

    Edited by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

    Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

    This edited collection brings together original research papers that explore an important aspect of race and ethnic studies, namely the processes that are shaping the making of Latina and Latino identities in contemporary America. This is a question that has received much attention in the USA over...

    Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge