01597nam a2200337 a 4500 EDZ0000107406 StDuBDS 20170921130848.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 121112s2012 nyuaf fo| 001 0 eng d 9780199980079 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS JC312 .C69 2012 305.8 23 Constructivist theories of ethnic politics / [electronic resource] edited by Kanchan Chandra. New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. 1 online resource (xvi, 500 p., [8] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.) Includes bibliographical references and index. Taking the possibility of change in ethnic identity into account, this book shows and dismantles the theoretical logics linking ethnic diversity to negative outcomes and processes such as democratic destabilisation, clientelism, riots and state collapse. Even more importantly, it changes the questions we can ask about the relationship between ethnicity, politics and economics. Description based on print version record. Ethnicity Political aspects. Ethnic relations Political aspects. Ethnic groups Political activity. Identity politics. Ethnicity Philosophy. Chandra, Kanchan, 1971- Print version 9780199893157 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199893157.001.0001 ddc BK 36546 36546