3 Basic primordialism in ethnic and national identity
Peter Weinreich, Viera Bacova and Nathalie Rougier
EVERYDAY PRIMORDIALIST AND SITUATIONALIST PERSPECTIVES ON ETHNICITY AND NATIONALITY
Contemporary communities throughout the world currently confront issues of ethnic conflict or questioning about established sovereignties. Many researchers have commented on the tenacity of people’s sense of nationality or ethnicity, which, when felt to be challenged, is often accompanied by violent emotions that can have deadly consequences. Much research demonstrates that ethnicity and ethnic identity are not fixed, but can be redefined over time and can be newly constructed. If ethnicity were situational and changeable, and its construction and reconstruction ...
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