TY - BOOK ID - 78109061 TI - Ethnicity and sociopolitical change in Africa and other developing countries : a constructive discourse in state building PY - 2008 SN - 1461633400 9781461633402 9780739123324 0739123327 PB - Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, DB - UniCat KW - Ethnicity KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Nation-building KW - Stabilization and reconstruction (International relations) KW - State-building KW - Political development KW - Cultural diversity KW - Diversity, Cultural KW - Diversity, Religious KW - Ethnic diversity KW - Pluralism (Social sciences) KW - Pluralism, Cultural KW - Religious diversity KW - Culture KW - Cultural fusion KW - Multiculturalism KW - Ethnic identity KW - Group identity KW - Political aspects KW - Africa, Sub-Saharan KW - Developing countries KW - Emerging nations KW - Fourth World KW - Global South KW - LDC's KW - Least developed countries KW - Less developed countries KW - Newly industrialized countries KW - Newly industrializing countries KW - NICs (Newly industrialized countries) KW - Third World KW - Underdeveloped areas KW - Underdeveloped countries KW - Africa, Black KW - Africa, Subsaharan KW - Africa, Tropical KW - Africa South of the Sahara KW - Black Africa KW - Sub-Sahara Africa KW - Sub-Saharan Africa KW - Subsahara Africa KW - Subsaharan Africa KW - Tropical Africa KW - Ethnic relations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78109061 AB - This edited book on constructive ethnicity argues that the modernizing state system in developing countries unduly denies a legitimate place to the linguistic and ethnic groups who, despite habitual attachment to ethnic groups, might meaningfully help the slow process of state building. Here ethnicity is characterized as positive, and as such, moral and pragmatic. Despite ethnicity's natural inclination to polarization, a national community can be reconstructed, as is exemplified by recent events in Rwanda, Cyprus, India, Palestine, and China. ER -