Ethnonational Identities

by Fenton, Steve; May, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780333750124
• ISBN10: 0333750128
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The prominence of ethnonational identities and movements is of increasing interest and concern in today's world. But the nature and importance of these identities remain ill understood. Ethnonational Identities breaks significant new ground by exploring the complex dimensions of ethnonational identity claims, their political mobilization, and a wide variety of comparative contexts in which they are found. Including case studies from the Queacute;beacute;cois to the Mauml;ori and from Kashmiri nationalism to interethnic competition in the Caribbean, it should be read by all those with an interest or involvement in the fields of ethnicity, nationalism, and identity politics.

Author Biography

Steve Fenton is Professor of Sociology, University of Bristol.

Stephen May is Foundation Professor and Chair of Language and Literacy Education, School of Education, University of Waikato.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	viii
Notes on the Contributors	ix
Ethnicity, Nation and 'Race': Connections and Disjunctures	1	(20)
Steve Fenton
Stephen May
Recognition and National Justice for Quebec: a Canadian Conundrum	21	(27)
Colin H. Williams
Late Arrivals at the Nationalist Games: Romani Mobilisation in the Czech Lands and Slovakia	48	(36)
Will Guy
Indigenous Rights and the Politics of Self-Determination: the Case of Aotearoa/New Zealand	84	(25)
Stephen May
Identity Politics and Nationalisms in Colonial India	109	(20)
John Zavos
An Area of Darkness, Still? The Political Evolution of Ethnic Identities in Jammu and Kashmir, 1947--2001	129	(30)
Vernon Hewitt
Nationalism in South Asia and its Transnational Impact on the Indian Diaspora in Britain	159	(17)
Rohit Barot
Identity in an Ethnically Bifurcated State: Trinidad and Tobago	176	(22)
Ralph R. Premdas
Ethnicity, Malay Nationalism, and the Question of Bangsa Malaysia	198	(29)
Kntayya Mariappan
Terms of Inclusion: Citizenship and the Shaping of Ethnonational Identities	227	(25)
Judith Squires
Index	252