Firmer Roots of Ethnicity and Nationalism? New Historical Research and Its Implications for Political Science
| Autor: | Kurt Weyland |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Constructivism (international relations)
05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Ethnic group Identity (social science) Gender studies 050701 cultural studies 0506 political science Nationalism Politics Framing (social sciences) Political science Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Comparative historical research Nationality |
| Zdroj: | Perspectives on Politics. 19:564-570 |
| ISSN: | 1541-0986 1537-5927 |
| Popis: | Among social scientists, constructivism has long reigned supreme in the study of ethnicity, nationality, and nationalism. Accordingly, scholars have highlighted the role of cultural framing and political choice in the definition of ethnic categories, their fluidity, and their flexible boundaries. Conversely, they have deemphasized the historical roots of ethnicity and depicted nations as the contested products of nationalist movements and political leaders and as (merely) “imagined communities” (Anderson 1991). Although constructivism encompasses a broad gamut of theories that differ in the malleability ascribed to ethnicity (Chandra 2012, 19–22, 139–49), recent authors have emphasized its susceptibility to change by highlighting manipulation by political-electoral entrepreneurs (Wilkinson 2012) and focusing on “identity in formation” (Laitin 1998), “ethnicity without groups” (Brubaker 2004), and “imagined noncommunities” characterized by “national indifference” (Zahra 2010). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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