Nationalism and Political Identity
- ISBN: 9780826465917
- Editorial: The Continuum Publishing Co.
- Fecha de la edición: 2003
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación:
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 163
- Idiomas: Inglés
This lively and readable textbook is a valuable addition to the IR textbook series - particularly because the ideas it cavers have changed so fundamentally ayer the last ten years. Nationalism and ethnicity are uniquely considered within the context ofboth traditional and 'new' IR theories. Sandra Joireman explains the conflict between primordialism (the view that ethnicity is inborn and ethnic division natural), instrumentalism (ethnicity is a tool to gain some larger, typically material end) and social canstructivism (the emerging cansensus that ethnicity is flexible and people can make choices aboutr how they define themselves). These theories are illuminated by four chapter-length case studies examining nationalism in Europe, North America and Africa
