Identity as Ideology: Understanding Ethnicity and Nationalism

✍ Scribed by Sinisa Malesevic

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Modern human beings are socialized to take the existence of ethnic and national identities as given and largely unproblematic. Very few individuals would question the apparent normality of this division into nations and ethnic groups however, the intensity of this widespread feeling hides the degree of its historical novelty. This book explores the ideological and institutional underpinnings, as well as the political implications of this powerful modern belief system. This is achieved through subtle theoretical and thorough empirical analysis, both of which draw critically on the leading approaches in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Part I Concepts......Page 22
1 Ethnic and National Identity: The Conceptual Critique......Page 24
2 An Operational Phantom......Page 48
3 Rehabilitating Ideology......Page 69
Part II Theories......Page 92
4 The Dominant Ideology of Modernity......Page 94
5 Divine Ethnies and Sacred Nations......Page 120
6 Coercion, Nationalism and Popular Culture......Page 147
Part III Experiences......Page 166
7 Institutionalising Ethnicity and Nationess......Page 168
8 Identitarian Intellectuals and Ethno-nationalism......Page 196
9 Ethnic Cleansing, Nation-building and Modernity......Page 215
Concluding Remarks......Page 238
Notes......Page 241
References......Page 245
C......Page 259
E......Page 260
I......Page 261
M......Page 262
S......Page 263
Z......Page 264