Our Small Global World

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ID12693136
AutoresMathieu Deflem (0000-0002-9616-5496, University of South Carolina, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume10
Fascículo1
Páginas134-136
Data de publicação2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1468-2486 • E-ISSN: 1521-9488
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-2486.2008.00762.x
OpenAlexW2014001527
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas9

In Ethnicities and Global Multiculture, Jan Nederveen Pieterse takes a look at globalization from the viewpoint of ethnicity and multiculturalism. Most fundamentally, he argues that globalization cannot be properly understood without reference to issues related to the world's multiple ethnicities and to the historical dynamics of multiculture. The eight chapters in the book are revised from works that have appeared in print or oral publication over the span of more than a decade of research on the cultural dimensions of globalization. Nederveen Pieterse begins Ethnicities and Global Multiculture with two chapters that explore the nature of ethnicity and its relation to nationalism. He argues that ethnicity comes in various guises, most of which ought to be better recognized in social science scholarship, which typically focuses on ethnic conflict. According to Nederveen Pieterse, ethnicity in one place and time cannot necessarily be equated with ethnicity in another place and time. He distinguishes four types of ethnicity: (1) domination ethnicity, which arises in the context of nation-states as nationalism; (2) enclosure ethnicity, which is achieved by confinement to a certain region, such as a ghetto; (3) competition ethnicity, which refers to a state of conflict among ethnic groups; and (4) optional ethnicity, which is voluntarily adopted by means of symbolic appropriations. What these ideal-typical distinctions make clear is that the ethnic experiences across the world and in different epochs vary considerably

Political science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Geology