In small plural societies, cultural differences can be exaggerated, exploited and intensified during political contests. The survival of these societies as democracies - or even at all - hangs in the balance.



Autorentext
STACEY-ANN WILSONPolitical scientist serving as a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

Inhalt
PART I: FRAMING THE RESEARCH Conceptualizing Identity: Ethnicity and Culture Six Available Perspectives on Identity and Politics Ethnopolitics: An Analytic Framework PART II: ETHNICITY AND POLITICS IN SMALL DEVELOPING STATES Guyana: the Uncooperative Republic Fiji: Indigenous Paramountcy Trinidad and Tobago: The Politics of Accommodation
Titel
Politics of Identity in Small Plural Societies
Untertitel
Guyana, the Fiji Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago
EAN
9781137012128
ISBN
978-1-137-01212-8
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Veröffentlichung
30.01.2012
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
1.7 MB
Anzahl Seiten
219
Jahr
2012
Untertitel
Englisch