Emancipating Cultural Pluralism

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Combining detailed case studies with discussions of deeper theoretical controversies, Emancipating Cultural Pluralism investigates both the benign and harmful aspects of identity politics. This provocative collection delves into some of the most difficult issues of cultural pluralism, such as what accounts for the immense power of identity politics, whether identity politics can be inherently good or evil, whether states are the right institutions to deal with ethnic conflict, the prevention of genocide, the value of devolving power to the local level, and more. The contributions are united by the conviction that more attention needs to be paid to the normative issues associated with various expressions of cultural pluralism, for the ethical implications of the phenomena are too profound to be ignored.
Preface

Part 1. Introduction

1. Overview and Critique of the Present Research into the Politics of Cultural Pluralism
Cris Toffolo

Part 2. Transforming the Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological Terrain

2. A Propaedeutic to the Theorizing of Cultural Pluralism
Jeff Hoover

3. The Ethnic State: The Structural Generation of Ethnic Conflict by the International System
Virginia Q.Tilley

4. Cleansing Ethnicity: Taking Group Harms Seriously
Thomas W. Simon

Part 3. Interrogating the Logic of Cultural Politics

5. Forjando Patria: Anthropology, Criminology, and the Post-Revolutionary Discourse on Citizenship
Robert Buffington

6. The Shari'a State: The Case of the Islamists in the Sudan
Ismail H. Abdalla

7. Mahatma Gandhi on Indian Self-Rule: An Instrumentalist, an Ethno-Symbolic, or a Psychological Discourse of Nationalism?
Manfred B. Steger

8. Here We Do Not Speak Bhojpuri: A Semantics of Opposition
Beth Simon

9. Reclaiming Sacred Hindu Space at Ayodhya: The Hindu Right and the Politics of Cultural Symbolism in Contemporary India
Ellen Christensen

Part 4. Transforming the Institutional Framework

10. Self-Government in the Darjeeling Hills of India
Selma K. Sonntag

11. Politics of State Creation and Ethnic Relations in Nigeria: The Case of Former Bendel State
Paul G. Adogamhe

12. Ethnicity and Constitutionalism in Ethiopia
Assefaw Bariagaber

Part 5: Conclusion

13. Afterword: Interrogating the Emancipation of Cultural Pluralism
Crawford Young

Contributors

Index

Sujets

• Ethnic studies
• Nationalism

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791487495
• Langue: English
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Emancipating Cultural Pluralism

SUNY series in National Identities

Thomas M. Wilson, editor

Emancipating Cultural Pluralism

Cris E. Toffolo, editor with an Afterword by M. Crawford Young

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Emancipating cultural pluralism / Cris E. Toffolo, editor ; with an afterword by M. Crawford Young. p. cm. — (SUNY series in national identities) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-5597-1 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5598-X (pbk. : alk paper) 1. Multiculturalism. 2. Pluralism (Social sciences) I. Toffolo, Cris E. II. Series.

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For Charles,

for teaching me so much about identity, politics and pluralism, and so many other things.

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Preface

Contents

Part 1. Introduction Chapter 1. Overview and Critique of the Present Research into the Politics of Cultural Pluralism Cris Toffolo

Part 2. Transforming the Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological Terrain Chapter 2. A Propaedeutic to the Theorizing of Cultural Pluralism Jeff Hoover Chapter 3. The Ethnic State: The Structural Generation of Ethnic Conflict by the International System Virginia Q.Tilley Chapter 4. Cleansing Ethnicity: Taking Group Harms Seriously Thomas W. Simon

Part 3. Interrogating the Logic of Cultural Politics Chapter 5.Forjando Patria: Anthropology, Criminology, and the Post–Revolutionary Discourse on Citizenship Robert Buffington Chapter 6. The Shari‘a State: The Case of the Islamists in the Sudan Ismail H. Abdalla vii

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Chapter 7. Mahatma Gandhi on Indian Self-Rule: An Instrumentalist, an Ethno-Symbolic, or a Psychological Discourse of Nationalism? Manfred B. Steger Chapter 8. Here We Do Not Speak Bhojpuri: A Semantics of Opposition Beth Simon Chapter 9. Reclaiming Sacred Hindu Space at Ayodhya: The Hindu Right and the Politics of Cultural Symbolism in Contemporary India Ellen Christensen

Part 4. Transforming the Institutional Framework Chapter 10. Self-Government in the Darjeeling Hills of India Selma K. Sonntag Chapter 11. Politics of State Creation and Ethnic Relations in Nigeria: The Case of Former Bendel State Paul G. Adogamhe Chapter 12. Ethnicity and Constitutionalism in Ethiopia Assefaw Bariagaber

Part 5. Conclusion Chapter 13. Afterword: Interrogating the Emancipation of Cultural Pluralism Crawford Young

Contributors

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This book brings together theoretical pieces and case studies on ethnicity and nationalism in an effort to take a step forward in conceptualizing these aspects of cultural pluralism. The chapters examine both the benign and harmful aspects of identity politics. Some look at ethnicity and na- tionalism at the microscopic level, providing detailed analyses of indi- vidual expressions of identity, while others critique our existing paradigm and theoretical frameworks. Whatever the approach, all of the contribu- tions are united by two things. First, all of the chapters are the product of the same extended conversation, for they all were written during a 1997 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer seminar devel- oped and led by Dr. Crawford Young at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and ably assisted by Dr. Virginia Tilley. Second, the motivation for this book came from the group’s sense that current scholarship was ripe for further development. The group developed the conviction that more attention needed to be paid to the normative issues associated with various expressions of cultural pluralism, for the ethical implications of the phenomena we were studying were too profound to be ignored. Thus while it is inevitable that any book that attempts to encompass so many different approaches and regions must omit much, and merely gesture toward arguments that require more space to be developed fully, the hope is that together these chapters will have the effect of taking readers be- yond their current view of this subfield. A brief note of clarification; at several places the authors in this book reference each other’s chapters. The designation ofECP,followed by a page number, allows the reader to go directly to the source.

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