| Lec # | Topics | readings |
|---|---|---|
1 | Introduction | |
2 | General Discussion of Issues of Ethnic Identity |
Barth, Frederik, ed. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries. Chicago, IL: Waveland Press, 1998, pp. 5-38. ISBN: 9780881339796. Maalouf, Amin. In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2003. ISBN: 9780142002575. |
Section I: General Theory | ||
3 | Primordialist Approaches |
Geertz, Clifford. "The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States." In The Interpretation of Cultures. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2000, pp. 255-311. ISBN: 9780465097197. Smith, Anthony. The Nation in History, Historiographical Debates About Ethnicity and Nationalism. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000, pp. 52-77. ISBN: 9781584650409. Van Evera, Steve. "Primordialism Lives!" Comparative Politics Section Newsletter 12, no. 1 (Winter 2001): 20-22. van der Dennen, John M. G. "Ethnocentrism and In-group/Out-group Differentiation: A Review and Interpretation of the Literature." In The Sociobiology of Ethnocentrism: Evolutionary Dimensions of Xenophobia . Edited by Vernon Reynolds, Vincent Fagler, and Ian Vine. New York, NY: Springe, 1986, pp. 1-47. ISBN: 9780709942221. |
4 | Constructivist Approaches I |
Bhabha, Homi, ed. "Dissemination: Time, Narrative and the Margins of the Modern Nation." In Nation and Narration. London, UK: Routledge, 1990, pp. 291-322. ISBN: 9780415014830. Chandra, Kanchan, ed. "Cumulative Findings in the Study of Ethnic Politics." Symposium in APSA-CP (Winter 2001). Essays by Chandra, Laitin, and Posner, Lijphart, Lustick, and Wilkinson. Malkki, Liisa. Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780226502724. Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. London, UK: Verso, 1983. ISBN: 0860917592. (Entire) |
5 | Constructivist Approaches II | Laitin, David. Hegemony and Culture. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1983, 1986. ISBN: 9780226467900. |
Section II: Variables Driving Identity Construction | ||
6 | Modernization |
Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780801492631. (Entire) Taylor, Charles. “Nationalism and Modernity.” In The State of the Nation: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism. Edited by John A. Hall. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780521633666. |
7 | Entrepreneurship |
Brass, Paul. Theft of an Idol. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997, pp. 3-96. ISBN: 9780691026503. Gagnon, V.P. "Ethnic Nationalism and International Conflict: The Case of Serbia." International Security 19 (Winter 1995): 130-166. Review Laitin. |
8 | Patronage | Bates, Robert. “Ethnic Competition and Modernization in Contemporary Africa.” Comparative Political Studies (January 1974): 457-483. |
9 | Prejudice and Stigma |
Sidanius, James. "The Psychology of Group Conflict and the Dynamics of Oppression: A Social Dominance Perspective." In Explorations in Political Psychology. Edited by Shanto Iyengar and William McGuire. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780822313243. Sniderman, Paul, Pierangelo Peri, Rui J.P. de Figueiredo, Jr., and Thomas Piazza. The Outsider: Prejudice and Politics in Italy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780691048390. |
Section III: Ethnic Group Mobilization as an Independent Variable | ||
10 | Party Politics and Consociationalism |
Ordeshook, Peter, and Olga Shvetsova. "Ethnic Heterogeneity, District Magnitude, and the Number of Parties." American Journal of Political Science 38, no. 1 (February 1994): 100-123. Tsebelis, George. "A Rational Choice Approach to Consociationalism." In Nested Games: Rational Choice in Comparative Politics. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992, pp. 159-186. ISBN: 9780520067325. Barry, Brian. "Review Article: Political Accommodation and Consociational Democracy." British Journal of Political Science 5 (October 1975): 477-505. Brass, Paul. “Ethnic Conflict in Multiethnic Societies: The Consociational Solution and its Critics.” In Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and Comparison. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1991, pp. 333-348. ISBN: 9780803996953. |
11 | Democracy and Democratic Consolidation |
Horowitz, Donald. A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780520073425. Bardos, Gordon. “The Bosnian Cold War: Politics, Society, and International Engagement after Dayton.” The Harriman Review 11 (1999): 1-26. Rabushka, Alvin, and Kenneth Shepsle. Politics in Plural Societies. Columbus, OH: Charles E Merrill, 1972, pp. 23-105. ISBN: 9780675091145. |
12 | Ethnic Mobilization and Civil War |
Posen, Barry. "The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict." In Ethnic Conflict and International Security. Edited by Michael Brown. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993, pp. 103-124. ISBN: 9780691000688. Kaufman, Stuart. Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001, pp. 1-47, and 165-201. ISBN: 9780801487361. Hardin, Russell. One for All: The Logic of Group Conflict. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997, pp. 142-182. ISBN: 9780691048253. Somer, Murat. “Cascades of Ethnic Polarization: Lessons from Yugoslavia. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 573, no. 1 (2001): 127-151. |
13 | Ethnic Riots |
Horowitz, Donald. The Deadly Ethnic Riot. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001, pp. 1-70. ISBN: 9780520224476. Rudwick, Elliot. Race Riot in East Saint Louis, July 2, 1917. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1982, pp. 3-57. ISBN: 9780252009518. Varshney, Ashutosh. Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780300085303. |
14 | Partition and Secession |
Hayden, Robert. “Schindler's Fate: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Population Transfers.” Slavic Review 55 (1996): 727-748. Kauffman, Chaim. "Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars." International Security 20 (1996): 136-175. Sambanis, Nicholas. "Partition as a Solution to Ethnic War: An Empirical Critique of the Theoretical Literature." World Politics 52 (July 2000): 437-83. |
