T K Ooman

Citizenship, Nationality and Ethnicity

Reconciling Competing Identities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Most interpretations of ethnicity concentrate either on particular societies or on specific dimensions of 'world society'. This work takes quite a different approach, arguing that variations within and across societies are vital for understanding contemporary dilemmas of ethnicity. The author aims to develop a new analysis of the relation between the nation on the one hand, and ethnicity and citizenship on the other. Oommen conceives of the nation as a product of a fusion of territory and language. He demonstrates that neither religion nor race determines national identities. As territory is seminal for a nation to emerge and exist, the dissociation between people and their 'homeland' makes them an ethnie. Citizenship is conceptualized both as a status to which nationals and ethnies ought to be entitled and a set of obligations, a role they are expected to play. Analyses of three historical episodes - colonialism and European expansion, Communist internationalism and the nation-state and its project of cultural unity - are examined to provide the empirical content of the argument. This book will be essential reading for second-year undergraduates and above in the areas of sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 153mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780745616209
• ISBN-10: 0745616208
• Artikelnr.: 20977783

Autorenporträt

T. K. Oommen is a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, and former President of the International Sociological Association.