1st Edition
Rethinking Nationalism and Ethnicity The Struggle for Meaning and Order in Europe
Edited By Hans-Rudolf Wicker
Copyright 1997
340 Pages
by
Routledge
340 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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While there has been a spate of books concerned with race and ethnicity in Europe more specifically, this timely volume offers a broader perspective and positions issues of identity, ethnicity, multiculturalism, xenophobia, regionalism and ethnonationalism within the wider contexts of trans- and supranationalism. With the weakening of welfare states and the homogenizing influences of... Read more
1 The Future of Ethnonations in a United Europe 2 Nationalism and the Theory of Society 3 Marx and Durkheim on Nationalism 4 The Quest for Identity: Modern Strangers and New/Old Ethnicities in Europe 5 Multiculturalism and Universalism in the United States and EU-Europe 6 Multiculturalism and Political Integration: The Need for a Differentiated Citizenship? 7 Multiculturalism and the Sphere Theories of Hannah Arendt and John Rex, 8 Ethnic Revivals Within Nation-States? The Theories Of E. Gellner and A. D. Smith Revisited 9 Affiliation, Exclusion and the National State: 'Ethnic Discourses' and Minorities in East Central Europe, 10 Re-Imagining the Jew in Hungary: The Reconstruction of Ethnicity through Political Affiliation 11 Majority as a Minority: The Russian Ethno-Nationalism and its Ideology in the 1970s-1990s 12 The Nationalist Game: State Dominance and Ethnic Nationalism 13 Boundaries, Cohesion and Switching: On We-Groups in Ethnic National and Religious Forms 14 Italy's Northern League: Between Ethnic Citizenship and a Federal State 15 The Dilemma of Separation Versus Union: The New Dynamic of Nationalist Politics in Belgium 16 Ethnicity and National Educational Systems in Western Europe
Biography
Hans-Rudolf Wicker University of Berne
