Collective Identities in Action: A Sociological Approach to Ethnicity

by Klaus Eder, Bernd Giesen, Damian Tambini

Book Overview

This title was first published in 2003. Thirty years of sociological and political science enquiry failed to predict the wave of ethnic conflict that swept through Europe in the 1990s, and the continuing ethnic tensions in the developing world. Since then, researchers have been unable to construct coherent explanations of why groups that had previously shared political and economic systems could suddenly find themselves caught in spirals of separatism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138717177
• ISBN13: 9781138717176
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages