ISBN:
9781785337161
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (272 p)
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Integration and Conflict Studies 16
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Available in another form
Abstract:
What does it mean to “fit in?” In this volume of essays, editors Günther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann demystify the discourse on identity, challenging common assumptions about the role of sameness and difference as the basis for inclusion and exclusion. Armed with intimate knowledge of local systems, social relationships, and the negotiation of people’s positions in the everyday politics, these essays tease out the ways in which ethnicity, religion and nationalism are used for social integration
Abstract:
List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration -- Günther Schlee -- Chapter 1. Distances and Hierarchies: The Struggle over Ethnic Symbols in Nepal’s Public Spaces -- Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka -- Chapter 2. Identity through Difference: Ambivalences of the Social Integration of Mauritania’s Former Slaves -- Urs Peter Ruf -- Chapter 3. Identification with the State and Identifications by the State -- Günther Schlee -- Chapter 4. Politics of Belonging and Identity Transformations in Northern Côte d’Ivoire and Western Burkina Faso -- Youssouf Diallo -- Chapter 5. Tanguiéta: Identity Processes and Political History in a Small African Town -- Tilo Grätz -- Chapter 6. Transnational Practices and Post-Soviet Collective Identity -- Claus Bech Hansen and Markus Kaiser -- Chapter 7. Living Together: The Transformation of Multi-Religious Coexistence in Southern Thailand -- Alexander Horstmann -- Chapter 8. Three Dyads Compared: Nuer/Anywaa (Ethiopia), Maasai/Kamba (Kenya), and Evenki/Buryat (Siberia) -- Günther Schlee -- Chapter 9. Ruling over Ethnic and Religious Differences: A Comparative Essay on Empires -- Günther Schlee -- Epilogue -- Günther Schlee, Alexander Horstmann, and John Eidson -- Bibliography -- Index --
Note:
Zielgruppe - Audience: Professional and scholarly
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