Ethnicities and values in a changing world
By: by Gargi Bhattacharyya.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780754674832
Subjects: Group identity; Cultural pluralism; Values
Description: "Recent debates about national identity, belonging and community cohesion can appear to suggest that ethnicity is a static entity and that ethnic difference is a source of conflict in itself. Ethnicities and Values in a Changing World presents an alternative account of ethnicity and calls into question models of community cohesion that present ethnicity as the source of antagonisms and differences that must be overcome, suggesting instead that ethnicity is itself multiple and changing and is unlikely to be a basis for articulating shared values." "This volume brings together an international team of leading scholars in the field of ethnic studies in order to examine innovative articulations of ethnicity and challenge the contention that ethnicity is static or that it necessarily represents traditional values and cultures. Asserting that ethnicity is deployed in part as an expression of values and a model of ethical practice, this book examines displays of ethnicity as assertions of identity and statements about way of life, sense of entitlement and manner of connection to others." "Ethnicities and Values in a Changing World draws together debates about the articulation of ethnic identity, the nature of our relation to each other and discussions of everyday ethics, thus engaging with discussions of racism, multiculturalism and community cohesion. As such, it will appeal not only to sociologists, but to anyone working in the fields of cultural studies, race and ethnicity, globalization, migration and anthropology."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : ethnicities, values and old-fashioned racism / Gargi Bhattacharyya; title: Teaching race and racism in the 21st century : thematic considerations / Howard Winant; title: Diaspora conversations : ethics, ethicality, work, and life; title: Migrant women's networking : new articulations of transnational ethnicity / Ronit Lentin; title: "The people do what the political class isn't able to do" : antigypsyism, ethnicity denial and the politics of racism without racism / Robbie McVeigh; title: Violent urban protest : identities, ethics, and Islamism / Max Farrar; title: Beliefs, boundaries, and belonging : African pentecostals in Ireland / Abel Ugba; title: On being a "good" refuge / John Gabriel and Jenny Harding; title: Narrating lived experience in a binational community in Costa Rica / Carlos Sandoval Garcia; title: Conclusion : ethnicity and ethicality in an unequal world / Gargi Bhattacharyya.