{"product_id":"citizenship-nationality-and-ethnicity-reconciling-competing-identities-9780745616209","title":"Citizenship, Nationality and Ethnicity: Reconciling Competing Identities","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): T. K. Ooman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Minority Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost interpretations of ethnicity concentrate either on particular societies or on specific dimensions of 'world society'. This work takes quite a different approach, arguing that variations within and across societies are vital for understanding contemporary dilemmas of ethnicity. The author aims to develop a new analysis of the relation between the nation on the one hand, and ethnicity and citizenship on the other. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Oommen conceives of the nation as a product of a fusion of territory and language. He demonstrates that neither religion nor race determines national identities. As territory is seminal for a nation to emerge and exist, the dissociation between people and their 'homeland' makes them an ethnie. Citizenship is conceptualized both as a status to which nationals and ethnies ought to be entitled and a set of obligations, a role they are expected to play.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Analyses of three historical episodes - colonialism and European expansion, Communist internationalism and the nation-state and its project of cultural unity - are examined to provide the empirical content of the argument.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book will be essential reading for second-year undergraduates and above in the areas of sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45203594379415,"sku":"9780745616209","price":2456.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780745616209.webp?v=1767308173","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/citizenship-nationality-and-ethnicity-reconciling-competing-identities-9780745616209","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}