Ethnic Futures: The State and Identity Politics in Asia

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-7619-9360-5
Verlag: SAGE PUBN

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Gewicht: 240 g

This book examines ethnic conflicts in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Nepal and India. It looks at issues such as the unequal allocation and use of natural resources, discrepancies in the political and bureaucratic spheres, and problems of cultural identification and variations in employment opportunities. The authors also discuss language conflicts, the varying degrees of the politicization of ethnicity, and the effects of global and international discourse on local conflicts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pfaff-Czarnecka, Joanna

Rajasingham-Senanayake, Darini

Nandy, Ashis

Gomez, Edmund Terence

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Debating the State of the Nation - Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and Darini Rajasingham-SenanayakeJoanna Pfaff-Czarnecka
Ethnicization of Politics in Nepal - A Position Paper
Democracy and the Problem of Representation - Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake
The Making of Bi-polar Ethnic Identity in Post/Colonial Sri Lanka
Coping with the Politics of Faiths and Cultures - Ashis Nandy
Between Secular State and Ecumenical Traditions in India
Tracing the Ethnic Divide - Edmund Terence Gomez
Race, Rights and Redistribution in Malaysia

Über Autor(innen)

Pfaff-Czarnecka, Joanna
Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. She was coordinator of the EU-Asia-Link Project ‘The (Micro) Politics of Democratisation: European–South-Asian Exchanges on Governance, Conflict and Civil Action’ with Tribhuban University Kathmandu (CNAS), University of Colombo (IMPAP), and Oxford University (ISCA), as project partners. Her major book publications include Ethnic Futures: State and Identity in Four Asian Countries (with A. Nandy, D. Rajasingham-Senanayke, and T. Gomez) (1999); Nationalism and Ethnicity in Nepal (co-editors: D. Gellner/J.Whelpton) (2008); The Ethnicisation of the Political: Identity Politics in Latin America, Asia and in USA (with C. Büschges) (2007).