Ethnicity
Key Concepts
2. Auflage Januar 2010
232 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
In this extensively revised edition, Steve Fenton updates his
concise and accessible introduction to ethnicity, drawing on new
published work and recent social and historical changes. Discussing
an extended range of theorists and illustrations from around the
world, Fenton explores and clarifies the core meanings and the
shifting ground of this contested concept. More space is given to
ideas of 'threat' and 'competition' in conceptualizing ethnicity,
as well as to recent issues in migration, especially increased
migration to the US from Central and South America. Fenton situates
ethnic identities and interest in the changing modern world, and
seeks to explain the contemporary conditions of delineation along
ethnic and racial lines. Without assuming the centrality of ethnic
difference, this book asks: Does it matter? When does it matter? Is
it as important as many have assumed?
The second edition of Fenton's highly regarded Ethnicity
will continue to be an invaluable text for students of sociology,
politics and international relations coming to the subject for the
first time. Its innovative and challenging approach will also
appeal to more advanced scholars of race and ethnicity.
Introduction.
Chapter 1. Ethnos: descent and culture communities.
Chapter 2. Multiple Discourses of Ethnicity: differences by
country and region.
Chapter 3. The Demise of Race: the emergence of 'ethnic'.
Chapter 4. The Primordialism Debate.
Chapter 5. How Real are Groups? Political ethnicity, symbolic
ethnicity, competition theory.
Chapter 6. Migration and Ethnicity.
Chapter 7. Social Conditions of Ethnicity: global economy and
precarious states.
Chapter 8. Ethnic Majorities and Nationalism in Europe:
globalization and right wing movements.
Chapter 9. Ethnicity and the Modern World: general
conclusions.
Bibliography.
field. Fenton does a remarkably good job of synthesizing key
debates in a contentious, very active field, doing so in a lively
manner. Ranging broadly, he deals equally well with more conceptual
as well as more empirical matters. He straightforwardly presents
his own, quite sensible point of view, all the while consistently
retaining an open, fair-minded approach to the intellectually and
disciplinarily diverse set of authors that he discusses. The many
historical and international cases discussed by the book make it of
particular value."
--Roger Waldinger, University of California
"This new edition of Steve Fenton's Ethnicity updates
what was in any case one of most acute studies of the relation
between ethnicity and other factors such as class. In the New
Edition these issues are looked at in a wider context
geographically including Latin America and Asia, while also
bringing them up to date in the light of contemporary politics, new
statistical material and recent theoretical debates."
--John Rex, University of Warwick
"This new edition, even more than the original, is an
exceptionally useful teaching tool. It is comprehensive,
comprehensible, and concise, the three attributes we all look for
when assigning books to our students. While it can serve well for
undergraduates being introduced to the analysis of ethnicity, it is
also a very good review of the scholarly work in this area so that
advanced graduate students would do well to read it."
--Daniel Chirot, University of Washington
