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The State, Development and Identity in Multi-Ethnic Societies Ethnicity, Equity and the Nation
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Routledge
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Routledge
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The controversial work of Amy Chua argues that, as rapid modernization, industrialization, technological change and globalization bring about fundamental changes in national, ethnic and class identities, especially in developing countries, there is a danger that the laissez-faire capitalist system will cause serious racial conflagration, especially in societies where there is ethnic minority... Read more
Introduction Edmund Terence Gomez 1. Ethnicity Nicholas Tarling 2. Inter-Ethnic Relations, Identity and Business: The Chinese in Britain and Malaysia Edmund Terence Gomez 3. Beyond Reductionism: State, Ethnicity and Public Policy in Plural Societies Yeoh Kok Kheng 4. Ethnic Identity Formation: The Case of Second-Generation Chinese and Vietnamese in the United States Rebecca Kim 5. A World on Fire? Some Notes on Burma Alfred Oehlers 6. Hidden in Plain View: Singapore’s Race and Ethnicity Policies Nicole Tarulevicz 7. The State and Public Policies, Civil Society and Identity Formation in Multi-Ethnic Societies: The Case of the Chinese in the Philippines Teresita Ang-See 8. The Politics of Redefining Ethnic Identity in Indonesia: Smothering the Fires in Lombok with Democracy Kendra Clegg 9. Development of China’s Ethnic Minority Areas: The State and the Market Xin Chen 10. Public Policies and Ethnic Relations in Sri Lanka S.T. Hettige 11. A Nation Within? Maori People and Autonomy in New Zealand, 1840-2004 Danny Keenan
Biography
Edmund Terence Gomez is Professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya. He has also held appointments at the University of Leeds (UK) and Murdoch University (Australia) and served as Visiting Professor at Kobe University, Japan. Between 2005 and 2008, he served as Research Coordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), in Geneva, Switzerland.
