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Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration
eBook - Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnicity and Religion, Integration and Conflict Studies
ISBN/EAN: 9781785337161
Umbreit-Nr.: 2288532
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 272 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 01.11.2017
Auflage: 1/2017
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p> What does it mean to fit in? In this volume of essays, editors Günther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann demystify the discourse on identity, challenging common assumptions about the role of sameness and difference as the basis for inclusion and exclusion. Armed with intimate knowledge of local systems, social relationships, and the negotiation of peoples positions in the everyday politics, these essays tease out the ways in which ethnicity, religion and nationalism are used for social integration.</p>
- Kurztext
- What does it mean to &quote;fit in?&quote; In this volume of essays, editors Gnther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann demystify the discourse on identity, challenging common assumptions about the role of sameness and difference as the basis for inclusion and exclusion. Armed with intimate knowledge of local systems, social relationships, and the negotiation of people's positions in the everyday politics, these essays tease out the ways in which ethnicity, religion and nationalism are used for social integration.
- Autorenportrait
- <p><strong>Alexander Horstmann</strong> is Associate Professor in Southeast Asian Studies at the School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia. He has held visiting positions at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Mahidol University and EHESS in Paris. He is co-editor of the Berghahn Journal<a href="http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/conflict-and-society"><em>Advances in Research: Conflict and Society</em></a>. He published<em>Building Noahs Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities</em> ( Palgrave, 2015) and<em>Faith in the Future: Understanding the Revitalization of Religion and Cultural Traditions in Asia</em> (Brill, 2012).</p>