Politicized ethnicity : a comparative perspective / Anke Weber, Wesley Hiers, and Anaïd Flesken.

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Weber, Anke, 1982- [Author]

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Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781137349453

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

GN495 .P655 2016

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Contents:

Two. The African Cases : Kenya and Tanzania -- Three. The Latin American Cases: Bolivia and Peru -- Four. The United States -- Five. Comparative Analysis.

Subject: "Why is ethnic identity an important factor in politics in some countries but not in others? This book offers a rigorous comparative analysis of five cases in three regions - Kenya, Tanzania, Bolivia, Peru, and the United States - to demonstrate how colonial administrative rule, access to resources, nation building and language policies, as well as political entrepreneurs contribute to the politicization of ethnicity. The analytical framework in this book identifies how ethnic identities are transformed into socially salient ethnic identities, and how some of these socially salient ethnic identities are used for political mobilization. Long-run factors affecting ethnicity politicization are colonial administrative rule and access to resources. Actions by political entrepreneurs, in contrast, play a major role in short-run, intense bursts of politicized ethnicity. Nation-building policies have the potential to reduce ethnicity politicization and to work towards an inclusive society"--

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"Why is ethnic identity an important factor in politics in some countries but not in others? This book offers a rigorous comparative analysis of five cases in three regions - Kenya, Tanzania, Bolivia, Peru, and the United States - to demonstrate how colonial administrative rule, access to resources, nation building and language policies, as well as political entrepreneurs contribute to the politicization of ethnicity. The analytical framework in this book identifies how ethnic identities are transformed into socially salient ethnic identities, and how some of these socially salient ethnic identities are used for political mobilization. Long-run factors affecting ethnicity politicization are colonial administrative rule and access to resources. Actions by political entrepreneurs, in contrast, play a major role in short-run, intense bursts of politicized ethnicity. Nation-building policies have the potential to reduce ethnicity politicization and to work towards an inclusive society"--

One. Politicization of Ethnicity -- Two. The African Cases : Kenya and Tanzania -- Three. The Latin American Cases: Bolivia and Peru -- Four. The United States -- Five. Comparative Analysis.

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