Background
Brubaker, William Rogers was born on June 8, 1956 in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Son of Charles William and Elizabeth (Rogers) Brubaker.
( Despite a quarter-century of constructivist theorizing...)
Despite a quarter-century of constructivist theorizing in the social sciences and humanities, ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists, policymakers, and researchers routinely frame accounts of ethnic, racial, and national conflict as the struggles of internally homogeneous, externally bounded ethnic groups, races, and nations. In doing so, they unwittingly adopt the language of participants in such struggles, and contribute to the reification of ethnic groups. In this timely and provocative volume, Rogers Brubaker--well known for his work on immigration, citizenship, and nationalism--challenges this pervasive and commonsense "groupism." But he does not simply revert to standard constructivist tropes about the fluidity and multiplicity of identity. Once a bracing challenge to conventional wisdom, constructivism has grown complacent, even cliched. That ethnicity is constructed is commonplace; this volume provides new insights into how it is constructed. By shifting the analytical focus from identity to identifications, from groups as entities to group-making projects, from shared culture to categorization, from substance to process, Brubaker shows that ethnicity, race, and nation are not things in the world but perspectives on the world: ways of seeing, interpreting, and representing the social world.
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(The difference between French and German definitions of c...)
The difference between French and German definitions of citizenship is instructive--and, for millions of immigrants from North Africa, Turkey, and Eastern Europe, decisive. Rogers Brubaker shows how this difference--between the territorial basis of the French citizenry and the German emphasis on blood descent--was shaped and sustained by sharply differing understandings of nationhood, rooted in distinctive French and German paths to nation-statehood.
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Nationalism Reframed is a theoretically and historically informed study of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Rogers Brubaker develops an original account of the interlocking and opposed nationalisms of national minorities, the nationalizing states in which they live, and the external national homelands to which they are linked by external ties. He then analyzes contemporary nationalisms in historical and comparative perspective, tracing the parallels between the Eastern European nationalisms of today and those of the interwar period.
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Brubaker, William Rogers was born on June 8, 1956 in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Son of Charles William and Elizabeth (Rogers) Brubaker.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1979. Master of Arts, Sussex University, England, 1980. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1990.
Professor, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1994; associate professor sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1991-1994.
( In The Limits of Rationality Rogers Brubaker explores t...)
(The difference between French and German definitions of c...)
( Despite a quarter-century of constructivist theorizing...)
(Nationalism Reframed is a theoretically and historically ...)