Andreas Wimmer

Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict

Shadows of Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

Wimmer goes above and beyond the debate on whether nationalism and ethnicity are modern or ancient phenomena. He shows that nationalist and ethnic politics are not only by-products of modern state formation, but they provide the basis for modernity itself. Democratic participation, equality before the law, and national self-determination are offered only to the ethnic group in a privileged relationship with the modernising state. They are denied to those who do not belong to the state-embodying nation. According to the varying geometries of power, these dynamics of exclusion take on different forms. Where nation building is 'successful', immigrants and ethnic minorities are excluded from full participation. In weaker states, political closure proceeds along ethnic, rather than national lines. In his chapters on Mexico, Iraq and Switzerland, Wimmer provides extended case studies that support and contextualise this argument.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780521011853
• ISBN-10: 052101185X
• Artikelnr.: 10529813

Autorenporträt

Andreas Wimmer is Professor of Political and Cultural Change and Director at the Center for Development Studies of the University of Bonn.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Theoretical Explorations: 1. Compromise and closure: a theory of social dynamics; 2. The making of modern communities; Part II. State Building and Ethnic Conflict: 3. Who owns the state? Ethnic conflicts after the end of empires; 4. Nationalism and ethnic mobilisation in Mexico; 5. From empire to ethnocracy. Iraq since the Ottomans; Part III. The Politics of Exclusion in Nationalised States: 6. Racism and xenophobia; 7. Nationalising multi-ethnic Switzerland.

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Introduction
Part I. Theoretical Explorations: 1. Compromise and closure: a theory of social dynamics
2. The making of modern communities
Part II. State Building and Ethnic Conflict: 3. Who owns the state? Ethnic conflicts after the end of empires
4. Nationalism and ethnic mobilisation in Mexico
5. From empire to ethnocracy. Iraq since the Ottomans
Part III. The Politics of Exclusion in Nationalised States: 6. Racism and xenophobia
7. Nationalising multi-ethnic Switzerland.

Rezensionen

'... complex and thought-provoking.' Contemporary Political Theory