{"product_id":"citizenship-nationality-and-ethnicity-reconciling-competing-identities-9780745616209","title":"Citizenship, Nationality and Ethnicity: Reconciling Competing Identities","description":"Most 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This book will be essential reading for second-year undergraduates and above in the areas of sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e T. K. Ooman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.04w x 0.92d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745616209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eT. K. Oommen \u003c\/b\u003eis a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, and former President of the International Sociological Association.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40119996711027,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":35.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_1fc1b343-bf7f-4dc9-8677-f6fafb139b09.jpg?v=1653661630","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/citizenship-nationality-and-ethnicity-reconciling-competing-identities-9780745616209","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}