{"product_id":"the-politics-of-difference-edwin-n-wilmsen-9780226900179","title":"The Politics of Difference: Ethnic Premises in a World of Power","description":"According to most social scientists, the advent of a global media village and the rise of liberal democratic government would diminish ethnic and national identity as a source of political action. Yet the contemporary world is in the midst of an explosion of identity politics and often violent ethnonationalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume examines cases ranging from the well-publicized ethnonationalism of Bosnia and post-Apartheid South Africa to ethnic conflicts in Belgium and Sri Lanka. Distinguished international scholars including John Comaroff, Stanley J. Tambiah, and Ernesto Laclau argue that continued acceptance of imposed ethnic terms as the most appropriate vehicle for collective self-identification and social action legitimizes the conditions of inequality that give rise to them in the first place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis ambitious attempt to explain the inadequacies of current approaches to power and ethnicity forges more realistic alternatives to the volatile realities of social difference. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edwin N. Wilmsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226900177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226900179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.95h x 5.97w x 0.51d","brand":"Edwin N. Wilmsen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48064793739519,"sku":"9780226900179","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c381ebaa-07a9-4be5-9c46-8d5f6c1d6dbe.jpg?v=1768671091","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-politics-of-difference-edwin-n-wilmsen-9780226900179","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}