ISBN:
0415498031
,
0203847318
,
9780415498036
,
9780203847312
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 151 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in peace and conflict resolution
Parallel Title:
Print version Governing Ethnic Conflict : Consociation, Identity and the Price of Peace
DDC:
305.8001
Keywords:
State, The
;
Ethnicity Political aspects
;
Ethnic conflict
;
Cultural pluralism
Abstract:
Offering an analysis of the peace process in Ireland and the Dayton Accords in Bosnia Herzegovina, this book argues that the problem with consociational arrangements is not simply that they institutionalise ethnic division and privilege particular identities or groups, but, importantly, that they close down the space for other ways of being
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Anthropology, cultural pluralism and consociational theory; 3 Essentialism and the reconciliation of the liberal state to ethnicity; 4 Is ethnopolitics a form of biopolitics?; 5 Consociationalism as a form of liberal governmentality: 'Single-identity work' versus community relations; 6 Paradigm shifts and the production of 'national being'; 7 No exit: Human rights and the priority of ethnicity
Description / Table of Contents:
8 'A long way to get very little': The durability of identity, socialist politics and communal discipline9 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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