Ethnicity and Sociopolitical Change in Africa and Other Developing Countries : A Constructive Discourse in State Building.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
Ethnicity And Sociopolitical Change In Africa And Other Developing Countries -- Table of Contents -- Part I: African Countries -- 1 Moral Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan African National Identity Issues: Ethnicity and State-Building -- 2 Reconstructing or Dismantling the Nation? A New Rwanda -- 3 Education for Social Change in Burundi and Rwanda: Creating a National Identity beyond the Politics of Ethnicity -- 4 Rwanda-Burundi's "National-Ethnic" Dilemma: Democracy, Deep Divisions and Conflict Re-Represent -- 5 Overstating the Connection between Ethnicity and Military Coups d'Etats in Africa: A Meta-analysis -- Part II: Other Developing Countries -- 6 Third-Party Intervention in Ethnic Conflict: Turkey's Intervention in Cyprus and Role Theory -- 7 Ethnicity and the Role of Education as a Mechanism for National Unity in China -- 8 Ethnic and Civic Nationhood in India: Concept, History, Institutional Innovations and Contemporary Challenges -- 9 The Palestinians and the Kurds: A Comparative Analysis -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
This edited book on constructive ethnicity argues that the modernizing state system in developing countries unduly denies a legitimate place to the linguistic and ethnic groups who, despite habitual attachment to ethnic groups, might meaningfully help the slow process of state building. Here ethnicity is characterized as positive, and as such, moral and pragmatic. Despite ethnicity's natural inclination to polarization, a national community can be reconstructed, as is exemplified by recent events in Rwanda, Cyprus, India, Palestine, and China.