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Grounds for Difference
ISBN: 9780674425293
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Equality; Ethnicity; Race; Religious tolerance; Cultural pluralism; Nationalism; Transnationalism;

Offering fresh perspectives on perennial questions of ethnicity, race, nationalism, and religion, Rogers Brubaker makes manifest the forces that shape the politics of diversity and multiculturalism today. In a lucid and wide-ranging analysis, he contends that three recent developments have altered the stakes and the contours of the politics of difference: the return of inequality as a central public concern, the return of biology as an asserted basis of racial and ethnic difference, and the return of religion as a key terrain of public contestation.

" Grounds for Difference is a subtle, original, and comprehensive book. All the hallmarks of Brubaker's earlier work, such as the conceptual clarity, the theoretical rigor--grounded in a well-researched and well-informed analysis--the crisp writing style, and the impeccable sociological reasoning are displayed here. There is a wealth of original ideas developed in this book that requires much careful reading and unpacking."
--Sinisa Malesević, H-Net Reviews

"This is an imposing collection that will be another milestone in the literature of ethnicity and nationalism."
--Christian Joppke, University of Bern

Rogers Brubaker is Professor of Sociology and UCLA Foundation Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles.