Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference

Conceptualizing nationalism: an introduction to Walker Connor's work

The Privileged "In-Between" Status of Latino Jews in the Northeastern United States

This article explores the intricate interrelationships between discourses on, struggles of, identity and the multiple processes associated with increasing globalisation in the modern age. Globalisation is often exclusively associated with worldwide economic integration and the emergence of a borderless global market. However, globalisation also involves sweeping changes on the social, cultural and political terrains. Globalisation furthermore entails apparently contradictory processes of, among other things, homogenisation and universalisation on the one hand and localisation and differensiation on the other. Various analysts point out that the often contradictory processes of globalisation have led to wide-ranging changes in the processes of identity formation that have, in turn, resulted not only in a flourishing of discourses on identity, but also in struggles of identity involving various minority and marginalised groups. Apart from exploring various definitions of identity, discourses and st...

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Struggles of identity in the age of globalisation

Based on an ethnography of the relationship between Greek immigrants from the former Soviet Union and native Greeks in a neighbourhood in Thessaloniki, Greece, this book enquires into the practical deployment of ideologies of national belonging in immigrant-native figurations. Breaking with those theoretical perspectives that either assume the nationalistic standpoint or ignore it as if it did not matter, it aims to uncover, analyse and problematize the hegemonic power of ideologies of national belonging in structuring immigrant-native relations.

Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference

Citations

Conceptualizing nationalism: an introduction to Walker Connor's work

The Privileged "In-Between" Status of Latino Jews in the Northeastern United States

Struggles of identity in the age of globalisation

Contesting National Belonging: An established-outsider figuration on the margins of Thessaloniki, Greece

Orphans of Transition: Gypsies in Eastern Europe

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