The Political Anthropology of Ethnic and Religious Minorities

ISBN-13: 9780367892913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 138 str.

Arpad Szakolczai; Agnes Horvath; Attila Z. Papp

Opis

The book presents a new political anthropological conceptual framework helpful for understanding the social situation of ethnic and religious minorities. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.

Spis treści

1. Individualization as Depersonalization: Minority Studies and Political Anthropology   2. Trickster Logics in the Hungarian Dual-Citizenship Offer   3. "Liminal" Orthodoxies on the Margins of Empire: Twentieth-Century "Home-Grown" Religious Movements in the Republic of Moldova   4. Fluid Identity, Fluid Citizenship: The Problem of Ethnicity in Postcommunist Romania   5. Central Marginality: Minorities, Images, and Victimhood in Central-Eastern Europe   6. Defending the Nation from her Nationalism(s)   7. Reconciliation and After in Northern Ireland: The Search for a Political Order in an Ethnically Divided Society    8. "In the Margins of Europe": Cypriot Nationalism, Liminality, and the Moral Economy of the Financial Crisis

 

O autorze

Arpad Szakolczai is Professor of Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland, and has previously taught at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. His recent books include Comedy and the Public Sphere (2013), Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary (2016) and Permanent Liminality and Modernity: Analysing the Sacrificial Carnival through Novels (2017).

Agnes Horvath is a sociologist and political scientist with an interest in an anthropological understanding of modernity. She has taught in Hungary, Italy and Ireland. Her publications include The Dissolution of Communist Power (1992), Modernism and Charisma (2013), and Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality (2015).

Attila Z. Papp is a sociologist, and he is director of the Institute for Minority Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences. His articles are included in 21st Century Hungarian Language Survival in Transylvania (2015) and Minority Hungarian Communities in the Twentieth Century (2010).