Title Ethnicity and sociopolitcal change in Africa and other developing countries : a constructive discourse in state building / [edited by] Santosh C. Saha

Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) Contents Moral ethnicity in sub-Saharan African national identity issues: ethnicity and state-building / Santosh C. Saha -- Reconstructing or dismantling the nation? A new Rwanda / Helen M. Hintjens -- Education for social change in Burundi and Rwanda: creating a national identity beyond the politics of ethnicity / Elavie Ndura and Johnson W. Makoba -- Rwanda-Burundi's "national-ethnic" dilemma: democracy, deep divisions and conflict re-represent / Rita Kiki Edozie -- Overstating the connection between ethnicity and military coups d'etats in Africa: a meta-analysis / Abdul Darim Bangura -- Third-party intervention in ethnic conflict: Turkey's intervention in Cyprus and role theory / Gaurav Ghose -- Ethnicity and the role of education as a mechanism for national unity in China / Gerard Postiglione -- Ethnic and civic nationhood in India: concept, history, institutional innovations and contemporary challenges / Harihar Bhattacharyya -- The Palestinians and the Kurds: a comparative analysis / Nader Entessar and Mir Zohair Husain Summary This edited book on constructive ethnicity argues that the modernizing state system in developing countries unduly denies a legitimate place to the linguistic and ethnic groups who, despite habitual attachment to ethnic groups, might meaningfully help the slow process of state building. Here ethnicity is characterized as positive, and as such, moral and pragmatic. Despite ethnicity's natural inclination to polarization, a national community can be reconstructed, as is exemplified by recent events in Rwanda, Cyprus, India, Palestine, and China Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-224) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Developing countries Cultural pluralism -- Africa, Sub-Saharan Cultural pluralism -- Developing countries Nation-building -- Africa, Sub-Saharan Nation-building -- Developing countries SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Cultural pluralism Ethnic relations Ethnicity -- Political aspects Nation-building Staat Ethnizität SUBJECT Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Ethnic relations Developing countries -- Ethnic relations Subject Sub-Saharan Africa Developing countries Subsaharisches Afrika Form Electronic book Author Saha, Santosh C. ISBN 9781461633402 1461633400

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