Ethnic Futures: The State and Identity Politics in Asia - Hardcover

Pfaff-Czarnecka, Joanna; Rajasingham-Senanayake, Darini; Nandy, Ashis; Gomez, Edmund Terence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761993592 ISBN 13: 9780761993599

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

This book examines ethnic conflicts in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Nepal and India. It looks at issues such as the unequal allocation and use of natural resources, discrepancies in the political and bureaucratic spheres, and problems of cultural identification and variations in employment opportunities. The authors also discuss language conflicts, the varying degrees of the politicization of ethnicity, and the effects of global and international discourse on local conflicts.

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About the Author

Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. She was coordinator of the EU-Asia-Link Project ‘The (Micro) Politics of Democratisation: European–South-Asian Exchanges on Governance, Conflict and Civil Action’ with Tribhuban University Kathmandu (CNAS), University of Colombo (IMPAP), and Oxford University (ISCA), as project partners. Her major book publications include Ethnic Futures: State and Identity in Four Asian Countries (with A. Nandy, D. Rajasingham-Senanayke, and T. Gomez) (1999); Nationalism and Ethnicity in Nepal (co-editors: D. Gellner/J.Whelpton) (2008); The Ethnicisation of the Political: Identity Politics in Latin America, Asia and in USA (with C. Büschges) (2007).

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761993592
• ISBN 13: 9780761993599
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212