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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817750703321

Titolo

Emancipating cultural pluralism / / Cris E. Toffolo, editor ; with an afterword by M. Crawford Young

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003

ISBN

1417524006

0-7914-8749-0

1-4175-2400-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in national identities

Altri autori (Persone)

ToffoloCris E

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Multiculturalism

Cultural pluralism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Emancipating Cultural Pluralism""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Part 1. Introduction""; ""1. Overview and Critique of the Present Research into the Politics of Cultural Pluralism by Cris Toffolo""; ""Part 2. Transforming the Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological Terrain""; ""2. A Propaedeutic to the Theorizing of Cultural Pluralism by Jeff Hoover""; ""3. The Ethnic State: The Structural Generation of Ethnic Conflict by the International System by Virginia Q. Tilley""; ""4. Cleansing Ethnicity: Taking Group Harms Seriously by Thomas W. Simon""

""Part 3. Interrogating the Logic of Cultural Politics""""5. Forjando Patria: Anthropology, Criminology, and the Post-Revolutionary Discourse on Citizenship by Robert Buffington""; ""6. The Sharià‚€?a State The Case of the Islamists in the Sudan by Ismail H. Abdalla""; ""7. Mahatma Gandhi on Indian Self-Rule: An Instrumentalist, an Ethno-Symbolic, or a Psychological Discourse of Nationalism? by Manfred B. Steger""; ""8. Here We Do Not Speak Bhojpuri: A Semantics of Opposition by Beth Simon""

""9. Reclaiming Sacred Hindu Space at Ayodhya: The Hindu Right and the Politics of Cultural Symbolism in Contemporary India by Ellen Christensen""""Part 4. Transforming the Institutional Framework""; ""10. Self-Government in the Darjeeling Hills of India by Selma K. Sonntag"";



""11. Politics of State Creation and Ethnic Relations in Nigeria: The Case of Former Bendel State by Paul G. Adogamhe""; ""12. Ethnicity and Constitutionalism in Ethiopia by Assefaw Bariagaber""; ""Part 5. Conclusion""; ""13. Afterword: Interrogating the Emancipation of Cultural Pluralism by Crawford Young""

""Contributors""""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

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.