Ethnicity and Identity
Land and Territoriality
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Saltman
January 30, 2025
In the past, territorial conflict usually involved major powers seeking hegemony over strategic spaces and resources. More recently, however, the decline of opposing global power blocs has elevated ethnicity to a prime cause of conflict over land. This book considers the multiple roles ethnicity ...
Migrants of Identity: Perceptions of 'Home' in a World of Movement
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Dawson, Nigel Rapport
September 01, 1998
Global movement is commonly characterized as one of the quintessential experiences of our age. Market forces, territorial conflicts and environmental changes uproot an increasing number of people, while mass communication, travel, tourism, and a global market of commodities, texts, tastes, fashions...
Reimagining Culture: Histories, Identities and the Gaelic Renaissance
1st Edition
By Sharon Macdonald
November 01, 1997
Since the 1960s, policies to 'revive' minority cultures and languages have flourished. But what does it mean to have a 'cultural identity'? And are minorities as deeply attached to their languages and traditions as revival policies suppose? This book is a sophisticated analysis of responses to the ...
Contesting Art: Art, Politics and Identity in the Modern World
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeremy MacClancy
September 01, 1997
Art is a major political weapon of our times. Today, peoples around the world use art to boost their own identity and to attack the ways others represent them. At a time of increasing intercultural exchange, art has become a primary means through which groups reinforce their challenged sense of ...
Tourists and Tourism: Identifying with People and Places
1st Edition
Edited
By Simone Abram, Don Macleod, Jackie D. Waldren
June 01, 1997
The fact that tourism is a major global industry forecast to continue its dramatic growth well into the twenty-first century is often cited as a rationale for its analysis. However, while the connection between individual locations and the world's global markets is an obvious product of tourism, ...
Inside European Identities: Ethnography in Western Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Sharon Macdonald
January 01, 1993
Following recent events in Eastern Europe, questions surrounding European identity seem more pressing than ever. This volume explores, through a series of ethnographic case studies, the construction and experience of identities in Western Europe. All of the case studies are based on fieldwork, and ...