Title Grounds for difference / Rogers Brubaker

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 219 pages) Contents Introduction -- Difference and inequality -- The return of biology -- Language, religion, and the poiltics of difference -- Religion and nationalism -- The "diaspora" diaspora -- Migration, membership, and the nation-state -- Nationalism, ethnicity, and modernity Summary Offering fresh perspectives on perennial questions of ethnicity, race, nationalism, and religion, Rogers Brubaker makes manifest the forces that shape the politics of diversity and multiculturalism today. In a lucid and wide-ranging analysis, he contends that three recent developments have altered the stakes and the contours of the politics of difference: the return of inequality as a central public concern, the return of biology as an asserted basis of racial and ethnic difference, and the return of religion as a key terrain of public contestation. The cultural and discursive turn that drew students of identity away from the study of structural inequalities in recent decades has now run its course. At a moment of heightened public and scholarly concern with deepening inequality, Grounds for Difference shows how categories of difference such as race, ethnicity, and gender get built into enduring structures of inequality. In the aftermath of the Human Genome Project, newly influential genetic understandings of human difference threaten to naturalize both difference and inequality. Brubaker critically engages the new ethnoracial naturalism and assesses how genetic perspectives have transformed understandings and practices of race and ethnicity in biomedical research, criminal forensics, popular genealogy, and identity politics. The resurgence of public religion in recent decades likewise has major implications for how we understand the politics of difference. Brubaker explains why the most intensely contested struggles over cultural difference today tend to involve religion, confounding longstanding expectations about continued secularization. -- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Equality. Ethnicity. Race. Religious tolerance. Cultural pluralism. Nationalism. Transnationalism. Racial Groups Cultural Diversity ethnicity. nationalism. race (group of people) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. Cultural pluralism Equality Ethnicity Nationalism Race Religious tolerance Transnationalism Politische Soziologie Ethnizität Nationalismus Klassifikation Religion Sprache Rasse Soziale Ungleichheit Genomik Genetik Migration Jämlikhet. Etnicitet. Rasism. Religiös tolerans. Mångkulturella samhällen. Nationalism. Transnationalisering. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674425293 0674425294

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