The birthplace of the nation-state and modern nationalism at the end of the eighteenth century, Europe was supposed to be their graveyard at the end of the twentieth. Yet, far from moving beyond the nation-state, fin-de-siecle Europe has been moving back to the nation-state, most spectacularly with [...]

Despite a quarter-century of constructivist theorizing in the social sciences and humanities, ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists, policymakers, and researchers routinely frame accounts of ethnic, racial, and national conflict as the struggles of intern[...]

Offering fresh perspectives on perennial questions of ethnicity, race, nationalism, and religion, Rogers Brubaker makes manifest the forces that shape the politics of diversity and multiculturalism today. In a lucid and wide-ranging analysis, he contends that three recent developments have altered t[...]

Sosiologian professori Rogers Brubaker on yksi tämän hetken kiinnostavimmista etnisyyden ja nationalismin tutkijoista. Hänen kirjoituksensa muun muassa maahanmuutosta ja nationalismista ovat varsinkin teoreettisesti merkittäviä avauksia. Mikä saa ihmiset ryhmittymään ja piirtämään tiukkoj[...]