num_pages: 272
description: The impact of liberal globalization and multiculturalism means that nations are under pressure to transform their national identities from an ethnic to a civic mode. This has led in many cases to dominant ethnic decline but also to its peripheral revival in the form of far right politics. At the same time the growth of mass democracy and the decline of post-colonial and Cold War state unity in the developing world has opened the floodgates for assertions of ethnic dominance. This book investigates both tendencies and argues forcefully for the importance of dominant ethnicity in the contemporary world.
language: English
title: Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities
publisher: Routledge