Emancipating Cultural Pluralism

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Cris E. Toffolo
State University of New York Press, 1 feb 2012 - 292 páginas
Combining detailed case studies with discussions of deeper theoretical controversies, Emancipating Cultural Pluralism investigates both the benign and harmful aspects of identity politics. This provocative collection delves into some of the most difficult issues of cultural pluralism, such as what accounts for the immense power of identity politics, whether identity politics can be inherently good or evil, whether states are the right institutions to deal with ethnic conflict, the prevention of genocide, the value of devolving power to the local level, and more. The contributions are united by the conviction that more attention needs to be paid to the normative issues associated with various expressions of cultural pluralism, for the ethical implications of the phenomena are too profound to be ignored.
 

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Overview and Critique of the Present Research into the Politics of Cultural Pluralism
3
Transforming the Conceptual Theoretical and Methodological Terrain
23
A Propaedeutic to the Theorizing of Cultural Pluralism
25
The Ethnic State The Structural Generation of Ethnic Conflict by the International System
37
Cleansing Ethnicity Taking Group Harms Seriously
55
Interrogating the Logic of Cultural Politics
79
Forjando Patria Anthropology Criminology and the PostRevolutionary Discourse on Citizenship
81
The Sharia State The Case of the Islamists in the Sudan
105
Reclaiming Sacred Hindu Space at Ayodhya The Hindu Right and the Politics of Cultural Symbolism in Contemporary India
163
Transforming the Institutional Framework
179
SelfGovernment in the Darjeeling Hills of India
181
Politics of State Creation and Ethnic Relations in Nigeria The Case of Former Bendel State
195
Ethnicity and Constitutionalism in Ethiopia
221
Conclusion
237
Afterword Interrogating the Emancipation of Cultural Pluralism
239
Contributors
259

Mahatma Gandhi on Indian SelfRule An Instrumentalist an EthnoSymbolic or a Psychological Discourse of Nationalism?
129
Here We Do Not Speak Bhojpuri A Semantics of Opposition
147

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Cris E. Toffolo is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of St. Thomas.

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