Ethnicity as a Political Resource: Conceptualizations across Disciplines, Regions, and Periods
In: Global Studies
Cover -- Contents -- Preface of the editors -- Ethnicity as a political resource in different academic disciplines -- Introduction: Ethnicity as a political resource viewed by scholars from different academic disciplines -- Ethnicity from an anthropological perspective -- More than meets the eye. Analytical frameworks beyond race and ethnicity -- The universal and the particular. Contrasting nomothetic and idiographic comparisons -- Rethinking 'race' from Asian perspectives -- Ethnicity as social deixis -- Ethnicity as a political resource in different regions of the world -- Introduction: Ethnicity as a political resource in different regions of the world -- Politicizing ethnicity - ethnicizing politics. Comparisons and entanglements -- The contestation over the indigenous in Africa. The Ethiopian example -- Ethnicity as a political resource. Indigenous rights movements in Africa -- Ethnicity or nationality? Minority policy and ethnic conflict in contemporary China -- Ethnicity as a political resource across different historical periods -- Introduction: Ethnicity as a political resource across different historical periods -- Ethnicity in history -- Political uses of ethnicity in early medieval Europe -- The work of race in colonial Peru -- Araucanos or 'Mapuches'? Prejudice vs. recognition in the Chilean media and academia -- Chinese in the Cuban revolution. An ethnically marked political mobilization? -- Authors.