Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9780511157653
Content:
This book argues that nationalist exclusion and ethnic conflict are characteristic of a modern society that is fragmented into nation states.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Shadows of modernity -- The thesis -- The agenda -- Overview -- Part I Theoretical explorations -- 2 Compromise and closure: a theory of social dynamics -- The success of 'culture': anthropological unease -- Four points of critique on 'culture' and a fifth on 'discourse' -- Culture as compromise -- Habitus -- Compromising on collective representations -- Social closure and cultural distinction -- Towards a pragmatics of cultural production -- Heterogeneity: variations over schemes -- Power and the formation of subcultures -- Cultural change -- Conclusion -- 3 The making of modern communities -- The fallacies of a disciplinary division of labour -- Four approaches to nationalism and modernity -- Instrumentalism and rational choice -- Neo-romanticism -- Halfway on the road to modernity -- End of the road -- The nation-state as a form of social closure -- Imagining the nation -- Closing the lines -- Multiple modes and waves of political modernisation -- Two variants of compromise and closure -- Explaining the salience of the nation-state model: a hypothesis -- Part II State-building and ethnic conflict -- 4 Who owns the state? Ethnic conflicts after the end of empires -- 'Like over like' - political legitimacy in modern nation-states -- The politicisation of ethnic difference -- The ethnicisation of political conflicts -- Explaining ethnic mobilisation: economic interests, primordial bonds, psychological needs or the power of ideology? -- Struggling over collective goods -- Who pays the costs? -- The logic of escalation -- Conclusion -- 5 Nationalism and ethnic mobilisation in Mexico -- The colonial order -- The mosaic society -- Creole patriotism and historical indigenismo -- The nationalisation of the state,1821 to 1910.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-305) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521812559
Additional Edition:
ISBN 052101185X
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521812559
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Wimmer, Andreas 1962-
