How did ethnic identity politics survive the modern nation state>
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- Created on: 22-12-13 17:52
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- How did ethnic identity politics survive the modern nation state?
- Ethnicity: Rational Actor Model
- Hobbes: State makes the people - they need it due to human nature
- Primordial racial genetics
- Ethnicity only survives if it is politically justified for it do so.
- Meaning that 'ethnicity' does not survive, it is used merely as a political unit.
- Hobbes: State makes the people - they need it due to human nature
- Ethnicity is not a critique of modernity: it stands separate
- Lonsdale: Moral ethnicity and active citizenship
- But still acknowledges how Kenyatta uses language of ME.
- Meaning that 'ethnicity' does not survive, it is used merely as a political unit.
- But still acknowledges how Kenyatta uses language of ME.
- Sanders: Witchcraft creates identity, it is not a critique of modernity
- Lonsdale: Moral ethnicity and active citizenship
- Ethnicity: a socially constructed response to modernity
- Berman
- Dynamic: traditional and modern
- Assimilation & differentation
- Ethnicity is modern: it had a unique role in the modern world. Its old meaning is drawn upon and new meanings are created. Hobsbawn & Ranger
- Assimilation & differentation
- Dynamic: traditional and modern
- Ellis and Haar: Religion as an idiom of politics
- Kasafir: Ethnicity as fluid/subjective. Social reality is complex
- Berman
- Ethnicity: Rational Actor Model
- Ethnicity only survives if it is politically justified for it do so.
- Sanders: Witchcraft creates identity, it is not a critique of modernity
- Ellis and Haar: Religion as an idiom of politics
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