Whether through government propaganda or popular transnational satellite television channels, Arab citizens encounter a discourse that reinforces a sense of belonging to their own state and a broader Arab world on a daily basis. Looking through the lens of nationalism theory, th…
"In Elusive Unity, Armstrong-Fumero examines early twentieth-century peasant politics and twenty-first-century indigenous politics in the rural Oriente region of Yucatan The rural inhabitants of this region have had some of their most important dealings with their nation's gover…
This volume challenges current theories of gender, the feminine, and the female and is essential reading for students of gender and feminist theory, philosophy and visual culture.
In The Fateful Triangle--drawn from lectures delivered at Harvard in 1994--one of the founding figures of cultural studies reflects on the divisive, often deadly consequences of our contemporary politics of identification. As he untangles the power relations that permeate catego…
The Art of Symbolic Resistance provides a longitudinal study of Uyghur-Han relations. Based on locally conducted interviews, Smith Finley argues that contemporary Uyghur identities involve a complex interplay between long-standing intra-group socio-cultural commonalities and com…
Identity has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview of its use.
A re-analysis of both nationalism and nations. This book aims to challenge the orthodo×ies of such writers as Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson and Ernest Gellner, and it offers a systematic critique of Hobsbawm's "Nations and Nationalism since 1780". The author argues for a medi…
The collapse of the Soviet empire in 1991 removed a decades-long system of successful control of potential ethnic and regional conflict. The result was the eruption of numerous conflicts over state-building, some of which degenerated into violence and some of which were resolved…
