Citizenship, Nationality and Ethnicity

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-7456-1620-9
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Most interpretations of ethnicity concentrate either on particular societies or on specific dimensions of 'world society'. This work takes quite a different approach, arguing that variations within and across societies are vital for understanding contemporary dilemmas of ethnicity. The author aims to develop a new analysis of the relation between the nation on the one hand, and ethnicity and citizenship on the other.

Oommen conceives of the nation as a product of a fusion of territory and language. He demonstrates that neither religion nor race determines national identities. As territory is seminal for a nation to emerge and exist, the dissociation between people and their 'homeland' makes them an ethnie. Citizenship is conceptualized both as a status to which nationals and ethnies ought to be entitled and a set of obligations, a role they are expected to play.

Analyses of three historical episodes - colonialism and European expansion, Communist internationalism and the nation-state and its project of cultural unity - are examined to provide the empirical content of the argument.

This book will be essential reading for second-year undergraduates and above in the areas of sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ooman, T. K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: The Conceptual Kit: The Search for Clarity:.

1. Introducing the Argument.

2. Rethinking Citizenship, Nationality and Ethnicity.

3. Avoiding Conflations and Subsumptions.

4. Race and Religion: Untenable Factors in Nation Formation.

Part II: The Empirical Process: The Trajectory of Ethnification:.

5. Colonialism and European Expansion.

6. Proletarian Internationalism and the Socialist State.

7. The Nation-State and Project Homogenization.

8. Immigration and the Chauvinism of Prosperity.

Part III: Towards a Rapproachment: Concepts and Reality:.

9. Reconceptualizing Nation and Nationality: The Cruciality of Territory and Language.

10. Class, Nation, Ethnie and Race: Interlinkages.

11. Reconciling Nationality and Ethnicity: The Role of Citizenship.

Notes.

References.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

T. K. Oommen is a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, and former President of the International Sociological Association.