The Politics of Cultural Pluralism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Cultural Pluralism write by Crawford Young. This book was released on 1979. The Politics of Cultural Pluralism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Rising Tide of Cultural Pluralism
The Rising Tide of Cultural Pluralism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rising Tide of Cultural Pluralism write by Crawford Young. This book was released on 1993. The Rising Tide of Cultural Pluralism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Two decades after the publication of his prize-winning book, The Politics of Cultural Pluralism, Crawford Young and a distinguished panel of contributors assess the changing impact of cultural pluralism on political processes around the world, specifically in the former Soviet Union, China, United States, India, Ethiopia, and Guatemala. The result is an arresting look at the dissolution of the nation-state system as we have known it. Crawford Young opens with an overview of the dramatic rise in the political significance of cultural pluralism and of scholars' changing understanding of what drives and shapes ethnic identification. Mark Beissinger brilliantly explains the demise of the last great empire-state, the USSR, while Edward Friedman notes growing challenges to the apparent cultural homogeneity of China. Nader Entessar suggests intriguing contrasts in Azeri identity politics in Iran and the ex-USSR. Ronald Schmidt and Noel Kent explore the language and racial dimensions of the rising multicultural currents in the United States. Douglas Spitz shows the extent of the decline of the old secular vision of India of the independence generation; Alan LeBaron traces the recent emergence of an assertive Mayan identity among a submerged populace in Guatemala, long thought to be destined for Ladinoization. A case study of the diversity and uncertain future of Ethiopia dramatically emerges from four contrasting contributions: Tekle Woldemikael looks at the potential cultural tensions in Eritrea, Solomon Gashaw offers a central Ethiopian nationalist perspective, Herbert Lewis reflects the perspectives of a restless and disaffected periphery, and James Quirin provides an arresting explanation of the construction of identity amongst the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews). Virginia Sapiro steps back from specific regions, offering an original analysis of the interaction between cultural pluralism and gender.
Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law
Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law write by Austin Sarat. This book was released on 2014-05-14. Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We are witnessing in the last decade of the twentieth century more frequent demands by racial and ethnic groups for recognition of their distinctive histories and traditions as well as opportunities to develop and maintain the institutional infrastructure necessary to preserve them. Where it once seemed that the ideal of American citizenship was found in the promise of integration and in the hope that none of us would be singled out for, let alone judged by, our race or ethnicity, today integration, often taken to mean a denial of identity and history for subordinated racial, gender, sexual or ethnic groups, is often rejected, and new terms of inclusion are sought. The essays in Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law ask us to examine carefully the relation of cultural struggle and material transformation and law's role in both. Written by scholars from a variety of disciplines and theoretical inclinations, the essays challenge orthodox understandings of the nature of identity politics and contemporary debates about separatism and assimilation. They ask us to think seriously about the ways law has been, and is, implicated in these debates. The essays address questions such as the challenges posed for notions of legal justice and procedural fairness by cultural pluralism and identity politics, the role played by law in structuring the terms on which recognition, accommodation, and inclusion are accorded to groups in the United States, and how much of accepted notions of law are defined by an ideal of integration and assimilation. The contributors are Elizabeth Clark, Lauren Berlant, Dorothy Roberts, Georg Lipsitz, and Kenneth Karst.
The Politics of Language : Conflict, Identity, and Cultural Pluralism in Comparative Perspective
The Politics of Language : Conflict, Identity, and Cultural Pluralism in Comparative Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Language : Conflict, Identity, and Cultural Pluralism in Comparative Perspective write by Carol L. Schmid Professor of Sociology Guilford Technical Community College. This book was released on 2001-04-03. The Politics of Language : Conflict, Identity, and Cultural Pluralism in Comparative Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Important aspects of the history of language in the United States remain shrouded in myth and legend. The notion of "one nation, one language" is part of the idealized history of the United States, although in its short history it has probably been host to more bilingual people than any other country in the world. Language is more than a means of communication. It brings into play an entire range of experiences and attitudes toward life. Furthermore, language is a potent symbolic issue because it links power and political claims of ownership with psychological demands for group worth. How people belonging to different language and cultural communities live together in the same political community and how political and structural tensions arise to divide them along language lines, are questions addressed in The Politics of Language. This book analyzes the historical background and recent controversy over language in the United States and compares it to two official multilingual societies: Canada and Switzerland. It's accessibility as a survey of this topic makes it ideal for courses in linguistics, political science, and sociology.
The Future of the Nation-State
The Future of the Nation-State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Future of the Nation-State write by Sverker Gustavsson. This book was released on 2005-09-30. The Future of the Nation-State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The tension between culture, politics and economy has become one the dominant anxieties of modern society. On the one hand people endeavour to maintain and develop their cultural identity; on the other there are many forces for international integration. How to understand and explain this fundamental issue is illuminated in nine essays by eminent scholars.
