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Modern Peoplehood
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John Lie
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English
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2004
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Race, ethnicity, and nation, Lie argues, are modern notions, associated with the rise of the modern state, the industrial economy, and Enlightenment ideas. The state is responsible for the development and nurturing of feelings of belonging associated with ethnic, racial, and national identity; but also for racial and ethnic conflict, even genocide.
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Modern Peoplehood is a most impressive achievement by an extraordinarily intelligent, courageous, and—that goes without saying—‘well-read’ mind. The scope of this work is enormous: it provides no less than a comprehensive historically-grounded theory of ‘modern peoplehood,’ which is Lie’s felicitous umbrella term for everything that goes under the names ‘race,’ ‘ethnicity,’ and ‘nationality.’
-- Christian Joppke American Journal of Sociology
-- Christian Joppke American Journal of Sociology
Lie’s objective is to treat a series of large topics that he sees as related but that are usually treated separately: the social construction of identities, the origins and nature of modern nationalism, the explanation of genocide, and racism. These multiple themes are for him aspects of something he calls ‘modern peoplehood.’ His mode of demonstration is to review all the alternative explanations for each phenomenon, and to show why each successively is inadequate. His own theses are controversial but he makes a strong case for them. This book should renew debate.
-- Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University, author of The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World
-- Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University, author of The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World
In discussing what are usually termed race, ethnicity, and nationalism, here rendered felicitously by the general term ‘peoplehood,’ Lie has produced an original, erudite work that will appeal to sociologists, political scientists, and historians, as well as a wider public interested in race, ethnicity, and nationalism. It is a groundbreaking contribution that will recast our understanding of some of the core issues of our day.
-- Kevin Anderson, Purdue University, coauthor of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism
-- Kevin Anderson, Purdue University, coauthor of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism
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Contents
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Preface
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Prelude
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1 In Search of Foundations
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2 Naturalizing Differences
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3 Modern State / Modern Peoplehood
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4 The Paradoxes of Peoplehood
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5 Genocide
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6 Identity
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Postlude
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References
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Index
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