Global Dynamics of Racial and Ethnic Mobilization

Zusatztext "This is a rich, provocative, and compelling work of potentially great significance in multiple fields. With this book, Susan Olzak continues her tradition of skillfully combining insights from different disciplines, notably sociology and political science, to illuminate a topic of increasing global importance." Informationen zum Autor Susan Olzak is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. She is the author of The Dynamics of Ethnic Competition and Conflict (Stanford University Press, 1992) and Competitive Ethnic Relations (1986). Klappentext This book tests a new approach to understanding ethnic mobilization and considers the interplay of global forces, national-level variation in inequality and repression, and political mobilization of ethnicity. It advances the claim that economic and political integration among the world's states increases the influence of ethnic identity in political movements. > Zusammenfassung A new approach to ethnic mobilization that considers the interplay between global forces, national-level variation in inequality and repression, and the political mobilization of ethnicity.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Olzak
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.05.2006
• EAN: 9780804739986
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-3998-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Studies in Social Inequality; Studies in Social Inequality; Studies in Social Inequality (
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology