Ethnicities and values in a changing world

Ethnicities and values in a changing world

by Bhattacharyya, Gargi

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Recent debates about national identity, belonging and community cohesion can appear to suggest that ethnicity is a static entity and that ethnic difference is a source of conflict in itself - Ethnicities and Values in a Changing World presents an alternative account of ethnicity. This volume brings together an international team of leading scholars in the field of ethnic studies in order to examine innovative articulations of ethnicity and challenge the contention that ethnicity is static or th…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Ethnicities and values in a changing world / edited by Gargi Bhattacharyya.

Summary

Recent debates about national identity, belonging and community cohesion can appear to suggest that ethnicity is a static entity and that ethnic difference is a source of conflict in itself - Ethnicities and Values in a Changing World presents an alternative account of ethnicity. This volume brings together an international team of leading scholars in the field of ethnic studies in order to examine innovative articulations of ethnicity and challenge the contention that ethnicity is static or that it necessarily represents traditional values and cultures. It will appeal not only to sociologists.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2009.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Ashgate
  • Place of Publication:Farnham, England
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2009.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (182 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780754697756, 0754697754, 0754674835, 9780754674832, 1317140850, 9781317140856, 1317140869, 9781317140863, 1282261428, 9781282261426, 9786612261428, 6612261420
  • oclc:ocn461265377
  • LC Classification:HM753
  • Dewey Decimal:305.8009/051

Table of Contents

Introduction : ethnicities, values and old-fashioned racism / Gargi Bhattacharyya -- Teaching race and racism in the 21st century : thematic considerations / Howard Winant -- Diaspora conversations : ethics, ethicality, work, and life -- Migrant women's networking : new articulations of transnational ethnicity / Ronit Lentin -- "The people do what the political class isn't able to do" : antigypsyism, ethnicity denial and the politics of racism without racism / Robbie McVeigh -- Violent urban protest : identities, ethics, and Islamism / Max Farrar -- Beliefs, boundaries, and belonging : African pentecostals in Ireland / Abel Ugba -- On being a "good" refuge / John Gabriel and Jenny Harding -- Narrating lived experience in a binational community in Costa Rica / Carlos Sandoval Garcia -- Conclusion : ethnicity and ethicality in an unequal world / Gargi Bhattacharyya.

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Subjects

Cultural Diversity Cultural pluralism Diversité culturelle etnicitet Group identity Identité collective Social Identification SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies values

Writers

Bhattacharyya, Gargi

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