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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Becker, Anja Katharina
• University of Cologne Forum »Ethnicity as a Political Resource«

Titel

Introduction: Ethnicity as a political resource viewed by scholars from different academic disciplines

Ist Teil von

• Ethnicity as a Political Resource, 2015, p.11-24

Auflage

1. Aufl.

Ort / Verlag

Germany: transcript Verlag

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Quelle

UTB Scholars

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Ethnicity as a political resource is a seminal subject in numerous disciplines, such as social and cultural anthropology, history, political science, sociology, psychology, cognitive science, and biology. Studies on ethnic formation, indigeneity, autochthony, nationalism, social movements, and transnational mobility often approach these topics from a particular disciplinary point of view. While most researchers agree on the significance of research on ethnic identities and their use as socio-political resources, the various disciplinary approaches to conceptualizing and understanding these phenomena have not yet been discussed within an interdisciplinary framework. In this section, different authors attempt to pinpoint crucial similarities and differences: Are