Reading list of the

"Ethnicity and Nationalism"

course

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Please note that as the readings below have been sent out to course participants in hard copy,
you might not be able to find here all of them in a downloadable electronic version.

• Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, (Verso, 1991), pp. 1-8

• Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, (Blackwell, 1983), pp. 1-7, 53-62.

• * Donald Horowitz, Ethnic Groups in Conflict, (California, 1985), pp. 41-54

• Ashutosh Varshney, Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life (Yale, 2002), pp. 1-9

• Recommended: Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, (Verso, 1991), pp. 9-46.

• Ashutosh Varshney, Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life (Yale, 2002), pp. 23-52

• Ashutosh Varshney, "Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Rationality", Perspectives on Politics, (American Political Science Association), Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2003, pp. 85-99.

• David Campbell, National Deconstruction: violence identity and justice in Bosnia, (Minnesota, 1998). pp. 1-31.

• Antje Wiener, "Constructivism: the limits of bridging gaps". Journal of International Relations and Development. Vol. 6 No, 3.

• Carl H Lande, "Ethnic Conflict, Ethnic Accommodation and Nation Building in Southeast Asia". Studies in Comparative International Development. Winter, 1999.

• Eugene K B Tan, "From Sojourners to Citizens: Managing the Ethnic Chinese Minority in Indonesia and Malaysia". Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 24, no. 6, 2001.

• Charles Taylor, "The Politics of Recognition", in Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition, (Princeton, 1992), pp. 25-73

• * Milton Gordon, Assimilation in American Life (NY: Oxford University Press, 1964), chs. 5 and 6 (pp. 115-159).

• Excerpts by Moynihan and Glazer; Daniel Bell; and Herbert Gans in John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith, eds., Ethnicity ((NY: Oxford University Press, 1996), 135-154.

• V.I. Lenin, Critical Remarks on the National Question (1913) [any edition].

• Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (New York: Crosscurrents, 1961) 114-118 (or any edition, section IV).

• Sammy Smooha, "The Model of Ethnic Democracy: Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State," Nations and Nationalism, 8,4 (2002), 475-503; and his article, "Minority Status in an Ethnic Democracy: The Status of the Arab Minority in Israel," Ethnic and Racial Studies, 13, 3 (1990) 389-413

• Olivier Roy, Globalized Islam and the Search for a New Umma, (Hurst, 2004), 1-57.

• Ashutosh Varshney, Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life, (Yale 2002), re-read pp. 1-9, 9-18, 281-300.