Neither Settler Nor Native - The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities

The nation-state and the colonial state have always been the same thing: the ethnic and religious majorities of the former created only through the violent "minoritization" inherent in the latter. Assessing cases from the United States to Eastern Europe, Israel, and Sudan, Mahmood Mamdani suggests a radical solution: the state without a nation.

About the author

Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University and Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research in Kampala. He is the author of Citizen and Subject, When Victims Become Killers, and Good Muslim, Bad Muslim.

Summary

The nation-state and the colonial state have always been the same thing: the ethnic and religious majorities of the former created only through the violent “minoritization” inherent in the latter. Assessing cases from the United States to Eastern Europe, Israel, and Sudan, Mahmood Mamdani suggests a radical solution: the state without a nation.

Product details

• Authors: Mahmood Mamdani
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780674278608
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27860-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Political science & theory, Second World War, Comparative Politics, Political science and theory, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General