Politics of Identity in Small Plural Societies [electronic resource] : Guyana, the Fiji Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago /
Wilson, S.author.
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.
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Cover; Politics of Identity in Small Plural Societies: Guyana, the Fiji Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Democracy and Ethnic Differences; Contention and the Political Economic System; Methodology; Plan of the Book; PART I: Framing the Research; CHAPTER 1: Conceptualizing Identity: Ethnicity and Culture; Conceptualizing Identity; Ethnicity and Culture; Cultural Approaches; Conclusion; CHAPTER 2: Six Perspectives on Identity and Politics; The Role of Colonial Policies; The Role of Class and Elite Manipulation
Resource CompetitionMono-Community Studies; Interethnic Relations: The Plural Society Syndrome; Ongoing Interactions and Encounters; Comparative Overview; CHAPTER 3: Ethnopolitics: An Analytic Framework; Theories of the State; State-Society Relations: Tendencies in Developing Countries; (Ethno)Politics of Scarce Benefits and Spoils; PART II: Ethnicity and Politics in Small Developing States; CHAPTER 4: Guyana: The Uncooperative Republic; Historical Context; Political Development: Apan Jhatt; Sociocultural Dynamics: The Rise of Uncivil Society
Interethnic Dialogues: Perceptions, Interactions, and BoundariesConclusion: Why Ethnopolitics Prevails; CHAPTER 5: Fiji: Indigenous Paramountcy; Historical Context; Political Development: Indigenous Paramountcy; Sociocultural Dynamics: Separate and Unequal; Interethnic Dialogues: Paramountcy versus Equality; Conclusion: Why Ethnopolitics Prevails; CHAPTER 6: Trinidad and Tobago: The Politics of Accommodation; Historical Context; Political Development: In Search of the Rainbow; Interethnic Dialogues: Perceptions, Interactions, and Boundaries; Conclusion: Why Ethnopolitics Prevails; Conclusion
Comparative Overview: Why Ethnopolitics PrevailsGuyana, Fiji, and Trinidad and Tobago in Comparative Context; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Comparative politics.
International relations.
Political sociology.
Political science.
Ethnicity.
Comparative Politics.
International Relations.
Political Sociology.
Political Science.
Ethnicity Studies.