Ethnicity and Resource Competition in Plural Societies
Author: Leo A. Despres
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-06-03
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 3110898179
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Author: Leo A. Despres
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-06-03
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 3110898179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leo A. Despres
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 221
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Maybury-Lewis
Publisher: Washington, DC : American Ethnological Society
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R. D. Grillo
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1998-07-23
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0191522236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs a plural, polyethnic, democratic society possible? Starting with Ernest Gellner's observation that `culturally plural societies worked well in the past', but `genuine cultural pluralism ceases to be viable under current conditions', this study explores pluralism in three settings; early states, modern industrial societies, and the contemporary `postmodern' world. Through a nuanced discussion ranging from pre-colonial Africa and Mesoamerica, to European and American experiences in the twentieth century, Grillo explores the ways in which different social and political forms cope with ethnic and cultural diversity. The study uncovers a range of different kinds of pluralism, from out-and-out separatism, through varieties of multiculturalism, to looser forms of `hybridity'. Rather than advocating one configuration over another, this important new book outlines the range of choices facing our societies as, moving into the twenty-first century, we try to reconcile the competing demands of universalism and difference.
Author: O. Egwaikhide
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2009-08-15
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 2869783965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMinorities of the oil-producing states are seriously disturbed by the inequity that is apparent from the existing principles of revenue allocation in Nigeria. In taking issues with them and other southern advocates of new revenue allocation criteria, the dominant north's organic intellectuals have always relied on the obvious concentration of economic and commercial activities in southern Nigeria to refute the argument that the north is the greater beneficiary of Nigeria's wealth. Scholarly contribution to the ethno-regional debate on the equity of resource allocation has been anchored to the same popular platform, namely, the criteria for inter-governmental revenue allocation. It is as if they absolutely embody the revelation about equity or inequity of resource allocation in Nigeria where the federal government has retained between 48.5 per cent and 56 per cent of the federation account, let alone revenues unpaid into this account. This study marks a departure from the orthodox focus on Nigeria's ethnic problems, including the contentious demand of the southern minorities for an increase in the weight assigned the principle of derivation, by examining federal expenditures to determine the distribution of federal presence, and thus winners and losers, bearing in mind that the entire country is federal government's coverage.
Author: Steve Garner
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9766372357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the creation of ethnic groups in nineteenth century Guyana and its ultimate impact on the colony's political consituencies as it moved to independence. The construction of the nation in the postcolonial period is approached through an analysis of cricket, trade unions and women traders in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The author argues that ethnicity as a historical relationship can be understood as a social experience if it is viewed as part of a set of overlapping identities which include class and gender. It also contends that ethnicity in Guyana was created in colonial times and deployed as a tool for dominance which has reconfigured itself to function effectively in postcolonial times.
Author: Percy C. Hintzen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-02
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0521030145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comparative study of two republics - Guyana in South America, and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean - examines the conditions which determine regime survival in less developed countries. Political survival can very often depend on a leader's willingness to serve the interests of a small, but politically strategic minority. In both Guyana and Trinidad, post-independence leaders made politically expedient decisions resulting in a series of political and economic crises.
Author: Siân Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-11
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1134767943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. The author responds to the need for a reassessment of the ways in which social groups are identified in the archeological record.
Author: A. Rambo
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2020-08-06
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 047290230X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors consider the ways in which the high degree of ethnic diversity within the region is related to the nature of tropical Asian environments, on the one hand, and the nature of Southeast Asian political systems and the ways in which they manipulate natural resources, on the other. Rather than focus on defining the phenomenon of ethnicity, this book examines the different social evolutionary contexts in which the phenomenon is manifested. Companion volume to Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia (Michigan Papers no. 27).
Author: John H Stanfield II
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-03
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1315432889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn H. Stanfield II, the leading contemporary Black sociologist of knowledge, distills decades of his research and thinking in a set of articles—some original to the volume, others from fugitive sources—that address race in the formation of epistemologies, theories, and methodologies in social science. Stanfield’s contributions to the discipline, such as the adoption of restorative justice as an anti-racism solution in multiracial societies and the development of African diasporic sociological reasoning, are highlighted here. Ranging widely across theoretical, methodological, and substantive topics, Stanfield creates a reflective sociology viewed through an African diasporic lens that enriches the thinking and practice of social science.