Nationalism, ethnicity and boundaries : conceptualising and understanding identity through boundary approaches
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Nationalism, ethnicity and boundaries : conceptualising and understanding identity through boundary approaches
（Routledge studies in nationalism and ethnicity）
Routledge, 2015
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Summary: "Nationalism and ethnicity have become, across time and space, a force in the construction of boundaries. This book analyses geographical and physical borders and symbolic, political and socio-economic boundaries, and how they impact upon nationalism and ethnic identity. Geographic and other tangible borders are critical components in the making and unmaking of boundaries. However, symbolic or intangible boundaries along national, ethnic, political or socio-economic criteria are equally significant. Organised into three sections on theory, national and transnational case studies, this book both introduces existing approaches to the study of boundaries and illustrates how it is possible to apply renewed boundary approaches to better understand nationalism and ethnicity in contemporary contexts. Expert contributors in the field present detailed case studies on the UK, Israel, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, and draw upon further examples from more than a dozen countries to provide a critical e
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction / Jennifer Jackson
- Boundaries and Borders / Richard Jenkins
- Aspects of boundary research from the perspective of longue durée / Jean Terrier
- Modernity, globalization and nationalism : the age of frenzied boundary-building / Daniele Conversi
- Ethnic boundaries : a critical rationalist perspective / Michael Banton
- Boundaries and belonging : dominant ethnicity and the place of the nation in a globalizing world / Michael Skey
- A' the bairns o' Adam? : the ethnic boundaries of Scottish national identity / Michael Rosie
- Ethnicity and boundaries in Jewish nationalism / Yitzhak Conforti
- Nationalizing states revisited : projects and processes of nationalization in post-Soviet states / Rogers Brubaker
- Negotiating national identity in Northern Ireland and Quebec : youth perspectives / Jennifer Jackson
- The migration of frontiers : ethnonational conflicts and contested cities / Wendy Pullan
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