Preface Prelude 1. In Search of Foundations 2. Naturalizing Differences 3. Modern State / Modern Peoplehood 4. The Paradoxes of Peoplehood 5. Genocide 6. Identity Postlude References Index
Lie's objective is to treat a series of large topics that he sees as related but that are usually treated separately: the social construction of identities, the origins and nature of modern nationalism, the explanation of genocide, and racism. These multiple themes are for him aspects of something he calls "modern peoplehood." His mode of demonstration is to review all the alternative explanations for each phenomenon, and to show why each successively is inadequate. His own theses are controversial but he makes a strong case for them. This book should renew debate. -- Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University and author of The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World In discussing what are usually termed race, ethnicity, and nationalism, here rendered felicitously by the general term "peoplehood," Lie has produced an original, erudite work that will appeal to sociologists, political scientists, and historians, as well as a wider public interested in race, ethnicity, and nationalism. It is a groundbreaking contribution that will recast our understanding of some of the core issues of our day. -- Kevin Anderson, Purdue University and co-author of Foucault, Gender and the Iranian Revolution: The Seductions of Islamism
John Lie is C. K. Cho Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Modern Peoplehood is a most impressive achievement by an
extraordinarily intelligent, courageous, and—that goes without
saying—‘well-read’ mind. The scope of this work is enormous: it
provides no less than a comprehensive historically-grounded theory
of ‘modern peoplehood,’ which is Lie’s felicitous umbrella term for
everything that goes under the names ‘race,’ ‘ethnicity,’ and
‘nationality.’
*American Journal of Sociology*
Lie’s objective is to treat a series of large topics that he sees
as related but that are usually treated separately: the social
construction of identities, the origins and nature of modern
nationalism, the explanation of genocide, and racism. These
multiple themes are for him aspects of something he calls ‘modern
peoplehood.’ His mode of demonstration is to review all the
alternative explanations for each phenomenon, and to show why each
successively is inadequate. His own theses are controversial but he
makes a strong case for them. This book should renew debate.
*Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University, author of The Decline of
American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World*
In discussing what are usually termed race, ethnicity, and
nationalism, here rendered felicitously by the general term
‘peoplehood,’ Lie has produced an original, erudite work that will
appeal to sociologists, political scientists, and historians, as
well as a wider public interested in race, ethnicity, and
nationalism. It is a groundbreaking contribution that will recast
our understanding of some of the core issues of our day.
*Kevin Anderson, Purdue University, coauthor of Foucault and the
Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism*
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