Ethnicity and sociopolitcal [i.e. sociopolitical] change in Africa and other developing countries : a constructive discourse in state building

Author(s)

• Saha, Santosh C.

Bibliographic Information

Ethnicity and sociopolitcal [i.e. sociopolitical] change in Africa and other developing countries : a constructive discourse in state building

edited by Santosh C. Saha

Lexington Books, c2008

• : cloth

Other Title

Ethnicity and sociopolitical change in Africa and other developing countries

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This edited collection of essays answers a basic question posed by contemporary discourse on state building: How might people's identification with a particular ethnic group matter? Essays in this book use an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to understanding regional and local community culture and socio-political development in developing countries-especially in Sub-Saharan Africa-to argue that the state, as well as civil society, confers on cultural differences a legitimacy that can be achieved in no other way but by positive cooperation. Contributors from different countries look at local patterns in state building and modernization as they have unfolded over the course of the last fifty years. They claim that the people and ethnic groups in most developing countries adhere to a concept of popular sovereignty that testifies that aspects of positive and moral ethnicity can contribute to social change as in China, economic development as in India, or in a democratization process as in Rwanda and Burundi. The eventual methodological assumption made by these essays presumes that ethnic conflicts in such countries as Cyprus, Turkey, India, and Rwanda have no moral sanction; ethnicity has not assumed a political ideology. One conclusion reached by the contributors is that some form of accommodation between opposing ethnically diversified groups, as well as between state and ethnic elements, is feasible.

Table of Contents

Part 1 African Countries Chapter 2 Moral Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan African National Identity Issues: Ethnicity and State-Building Chapter 3 Reconstructing or Dismantling the Nation? A New Rwanda Chapter 4 Education for Social Change in Burundi and Rwanda: Creating a National Identity beyond the Politics of Ethnicity Chapter 5 Rwanda-Burundi's "National-Ethnic" Dilemma: Democracy, Deep Divisions and Conflict Re-Represent Chapter 6 Overstating the Connection between Ethnicity and Military Coups d'Etats in Africa: A Meta-analysis Part 7 Other Developing Countries Chapter 8 Third-Party Intervention in Ethnic Conflict: Turkey's Intervention in Cyprus and Role Theory Chapter 9 Ethnicity and the Role of Education as a Mechanism for National Unity in China Chapter 10 Ethnic and Civil Nationhood in India: Concept, History, Institutional Innovations and Contemporary Challenges Chapter 11 The Palestinians and the Kurds: A Comparative Analysis Part 12 Bibliography Part 13 Contributors Part 14 Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA86621049
• ISBN:
  • 9780739123324
• LCCN: 2008001483
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Lanham, Md.
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 224 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DT352.42
  • DC22 : 305.800967
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Ethnic relations
  • LCSH : Developing countries -- Ethnic relations
  • LCSH : Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • LCSH : Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Developing countries
  • LCSH : Cultural pluralism -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • LCSH : Cultural pluralism -- Developing countries
  • LCSH : Nation-building -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • LCSH : Nation-building -- Developing countries