Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Minority Rights - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052160317X ISBN 13: 9780521603171

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Focusing on minority rights and recognition, this interdisciplinary collection addresses the position of minorities in democratic societies. Featured topics include the constructed nature of ethnicity, class and the "new racism," different forms of nationalism, self-determination and indigenous politics, the politics of recognition versus the politics of redistribution, and the re-emergence of cosmopolitanism.

About this title

Book Description:

This interdisciplinary collection addresses the position of minorities in democratic societies, with a particular focus on minority rights and recognition. For the first time, it brings together leading international authorities on ethnicity, nationalism and minority rights from both social and political theory, with the aim of fostering further interdisciplinary debate. Topics addressed include the constructed nature of ethnicity, class and the'new racism', different forms of nationalism, self determination and indigenous politics, the politics of recognition versus the politics of redistribution, and the re-emergence of cosmopolitanism.

About the Author:

Stephen May is Professor of Education at the Unviersity of Waikato, New Zealand and a Senior Research Fellowin the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol.

Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol.

Judith Squires is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 052160317X
• ISBN 13: 9780521603171
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 274
• Editor: May Stephen, Modood Tariq, Squires Judith