Identity as ideology: understanding ethnicity and nationalism

"The concept of national or ethnic identity has acquired such a near universal acceptance that it has become a normative straitjacket. Despite profound disagreement on whether identities are essential or existential, primordial or constructed, singular or multiple, there is little dispute over...

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1. Verfasser: Malešević, Siniša 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke [u.a.] Palgrave Macmillan 2006
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:"The concept of national or ethnic identity has acquired such a near universal acceptance that it has become a normative straitjacket. Despite profound disagreement on whether identities are essential or existential, primordial or constructed, singular or multiple, there is little dispute over the question of whether identities exist or not. In this provocative study, the author interrogates the unproblematic use of concepts of identity, and in particular national or ethnic identity." "Establishing a conceptual critique of identity, tracing it back to its original mathematical meaning, the author argues that the historicism, geographical exclusivity and ideological potency of the term have been obscured. Focusing on the break-up of Yugoslavia and the Rwandan holocaust, the author situates his analysis within a concrete empirical context, providing a thorough dissection of discourses of identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:X, 253 S.
ISBN:9781403987860
1403987866

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