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Ethnicity and Sociopolitical Change in Africa and Other Developing Countries

A Constructive Discourse in State Building

Santosh C. Saha (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

266 Seiten

2008
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-2332-4 (ISBN)

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This edited collection of essays answers a basic question posed by contemporary discourse on state building: How might people's identification with a particular ethnic group matter? Essays in this book use an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to understanding regional and local community culture and socio-political development in developing countries-especially in Sub-Saharan Africa-to argue that the state, as well as civil society, confers on cultural differences a legitimacy that can be achieved in no other way but by positive cooperation. Contributors from different countries look at local patterns in state building and modernization as they have unfolded over the course of the last fifty years. They claim that the people and ethnic groups in most developing countries adhere to a concept of popular sovereignty that testifies that aspects of positive and moral ethnicity can contribute to social change as in China, economic development as in India, or in a democratization process as in Rwanda and Burundi. The eventual methodological assumption made by these essays presumes that ethnic conflicts in such countries as Cyprus, Turkey, India, and Rwanda have no moral sanction; ethnicity has not assumed a political ideology. One conclusion reached by the contributors is that some form of accommodation between opposing ethnically diversified groups, as well as between state and ethnic elements, is feasible.

Santosh C. Saha is professor of history at Mount Union College in Ohio.

Part 1 African Countries
Chapter 2 Moral Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan African National Identity Issues: Ethnicity and State-Building
Chapter 3 Reconstructing or Dismantling the Nation? A New Rwanda
Chapter 4 Education for Social Change in Burundi and Rwanda: Creating a National Identity beyond the Politics of Ethnicity
Chapter 5 Rwanda-Burundi's "National-Ethnic" Dilemma: Democracy, Deep Divisions and Conflict Re-Represent
Chapter 6 Overstating the Connection between Ethnicity and Military Coups d'Etats in Africa: A Meta-analysis
Part 7 Other Developing Countries
Chapter 8 Third-Party Intervention in Ethnic Conflict: Turkey's Intervention in Cyprus and Role Theory
Chapter 9 Ethnicity and the Role of Education as a Mechanism for National Unity in China
Chapter 10 Ethnic and Civil Nationhood in India: Concept, History, Institutional Innovations and Contemporary Challenges
Chapter 11 The Palestinians and the Kurds: A Comparative Analysis
Part 12 Bibliography
Part 13 Contributors
Part 14 Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.3.2008
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 239 mm
Gewicht	506 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7391-2332-7 / 0739123327
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-2332-4 / 9780739123324
Zustand	Neuware