Full Description
At a time when states, armed insurgent movements, and ethnic and nationalist political parties make claims based on the defence of communal interests and political and religious ideologies - with often deadly consequences - it is important to understand the discourses and actions that are used to legitimize these claims. This book argues that competing moral economies - the beliefs and practices that normatively regulate and legitimize the distribution of wealth, power, and status in a society - play an important role in ethnic and nationalist conflict.
Bringing together international experts on the politics of ethnicity and nationalism, this final volume in the prestigious EDG series investigates how moral economies have been challenged in identity-based communities in ways that precipitate or exacerbate conflicts. The combination of theoretical chapters and case studies ranging from Africa and Asia to North America provides compelling evidence for the value of moral economy analysis in understanding problems associated with ethnic and nationalist mobilization and conflict.
Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Moral Economies of Ethnic and Nationalist Claims / Bruce J. Berman and Stephen J. Larin
1 Moral Economy, Hegemony, and Moral Ethnicity: The Cultural Politics of Modernity / Bruce J. Berman
2 Majimboism and Kenya's Moral Economy of Ethnic Territoriality / Gabrielle Lynch
3 Rights, Wrongs, and Reciprocity: Change and Continuity among Kenyan Maasai / Lotte Hughes
4 "Economic Man in East Africa": Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Moral Economy in Tanzania / Emma Hunter
5 China: The Moral Economy of Empire / André Laliberté
6 Establishing a Buddhist Economy in Thailand: Competing Perspectives on Moral Economy in State and Society / Manuel Litalien
7 From Patron-Clientelism to Ethnonationalism: Moral Economy and Transitions in Palestinian Arab Elite Political Mobilization in Israel / Oded Haklai
8 Modernity, the Canadian State, and the Shifting Politics of Ethnocultural Claims Making / Yasmeen Abu-Laban
9 Aboriginal Identities, Moral Economies, and the Canadian Settler State / Leslie Doucet
Conclusion: Moral Economy and the Analysis of Ethnic and Nationalist Politics / André Laliberté and Stephen J. Larin
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