Democracy and ethnography : constructing identities in multicultural liberal states

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Democracy and ethnography : constructing identities in multicultural liberal states

Carol J. Greenhouse, editor, with Roshanak Kheshti

（SUNY series in national identities）

State University of New York Press, c1998

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-285) and index

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These ethnographic essays by scholars in anthropology, law, political science, folklore, public administration, medicine, and linguistics show contemporary connections between liberal democracy and ethnography. Each perspective explores a modern democratic site—courts, classrooms, legislatures, the media, academic professions, and bureaucratic routines. Together, they expose a contradiction—that official constructions of identity treat "differences" as both natural characteristics of individuals and the collective basis of interest groups. This contradiction hampers liberal states' efforts to acknowledge and accommodate the cultural diversity of citizens. They also show that official categories do not monopolize the available terms of understanding and identification, given the richness and flexibility of people's self-identifications outside official spheres. This recognition implies an ethnographic project at the heart of democratic change. The book develops two national case studies, the United States and Spain. Both countries have been invoked as models of multiculturalism, but their constitutional discourse and politics take very different approaches to issues of identity. Similarly, ethnographic disciplines have been involved in the officialization of difference in both countries, in different ways. Taken together, these differences and their common roots in the twinned histories of modern liberal democracy and the social sciences, provide ethnographic, reflexive, and comparative themes as well as broader theoretical and practical implications.

目次

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Ethnography of Democracy and Difference Carol J. Greenhouse and Davydd J. Greenwood Part I Diversity and Equality in Liberal Debate 2. Diversity as American Cultural Category Hervé Varenne 3. The Hypervisible and the Masked: Some Thoughts on the Mutual Embeddedness of "Race" and "Class" in the United States Now Daniel A. Segal 4. Democracy and Cultural Difference in the Spanish Constitution of 1978 Jesús Prieto de Pedro 5. Disorderly Differences: Recognition, Accommodation, and American Law Austin Sarat and Roger Berkowitz Part II The Making of Official Discourses of Identity 6. American Ethnogenesis and the 1990 Census Dvora Yanow 7. Difference from the People's Point of View José Antonio Fernández de Rota Monter 8. Porous Borders: Discourses of Difference in Congressional Hearings on Immigration Phyllis Pease Chock 9. To Be Basque and to Live in Basque Country: The Inequalities of Difference Jesús Azcona 10. Acceptable Difference: The Cultural Evolution of the Model Ethnic American Citizen Bonnie Urciuoli Part III Official Discourses and Professional Practice 11. The Role of Folklore and Popular Culture in the Construction of Difference in Spain Honorio M. Velasco 12. Linguistic Constructions of Difference and History in the U.S. Law School Classroom Elizabeth Mertz 13. From Ethnography to Clinical Practice in the Construction of the Contemporary State Josep M. Comelles References About the Authors Index

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