1. Introduction
Kanchan Chandra
Part 1: Concepts
2. What is Ethnic Identity: A Minimalist Definition.
Kanchan Chandra
3. Attributes and Categories: A New Conceptual Vocabulary
For Thinking About Ethnic Identity
Kanchan Chandra
4. How Ethnic Identities Change
Kanchan Chandra
5. A Language for Thinking About Ethnic Identity Change
Kanchan Chandra and Cilanne Boulet
Part 2: Models
6. A Baseline Model of Change in an Activated Ethnic Demography
Kanchan Chandra and Cilanne Boulet
7. Modeling the Evolution of an Ethnic Demography
Maurits Van der Veen and David Laitin
8. How Fluid is Fluid? Ethnic Demography and Electoral Volatility
in Africa
Karen Ferree
9. Ethnicity and Pork: A Virtual Test of Causal Mechanisms
David Laitin and Maurits Van Der Veen
10. Constructivism and Ethnic Riots
Steven Wilkinson
11. Identity, Rationality, and Emotion in State Disintegration and
Reconstruction
Roger Petersen
12. Deploying Constructivism for the Analysis of Rare Events: How
Possible is the Emergence of "Punjabistan?"
Ian Lustick
Kanchan Chandra is Professor of Politics at New York University.
"Gathering resourceful and innovative scholars, Kanchan Chandra has
steered the creation of rich analytical essays-not least her
own!-that confront the often surprising mutability of ethnic
identity. This resonant volume advances fundamental scholarship by
fusing a constructivist turn with the development of testable,
theoretically-grounded, propositions focusing on mechanisms of
transformation and their implications for essential human
relations."--Ira
Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History,
Columbia University
"This is an impressively sustained contribution towards a
rigorously constructivist theory of politicized ethnicity. Kanchan
Chandra and her collaborators develop a lucid analytical language
and set of models to illuminate the ways in which ethnic identities
change in response to political and economic dynamics."--Rogers
Brubaker, Professor of Sociology and UCLA Foundation Chair at the
University of California, Los Angeles
"Usually, essential concepts such as 'constructivism,' 'ethnic
identity,' or 'state capacity' are understood to be irreducibly
fuzzy in definition and idiosyncratic in use. No longer, now that
we can read the rigorous and compelling Constructivist Theories of
Ethnic Politics. Best of all, Kanchan Chandra provides hope. States
can be effective democracies with, or even because of, ethnic
heterogeneity if the institutions and practices are
appropriately
constituted. That is a message of deep importance."--Jennifer
Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and
Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard
University
"Chandra has done the public service of sorting through the loose
and multiple ways that the term ethnicity is used, offering her own
very rigorous definition and systematic method of operationalizing
the concept. She places her bets on a methodologically
individualist approach, whereby individuals mix and match
identity-related attributes into different identity packages,
depending on circumstances and incentives. Some constructivists
will disagree with her
choices, but few will deny that she has thought of every angle,
issue, and objection, pursuing the logic of her own approach and
alternatives vastly more carefully that has heretofore been the
case in
academic usage, let alone public discourse."--Jack Snyder, Belfer
Professor of International Relations, Columbia University
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