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Politics of Identity in Small Plural Societies: Guyana, the Fiji Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago


Politics of Identity in Small Plural Societies: Guyana, the Fiji Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago

Hardback by Wilson, S.

Politics of Identity in Small Plural Societies: Guyana, the Fiji Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago

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ISBN:
9780230339873
Publication Date:
17 Jan 2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages:
219 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 22 - 24 May 2024
Politics of Identity in Small Plural Societies: Guyana, the Fiji Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago

Description

In small plural societies, cultural differences can be exaggerated, exploited and intensified during political contests. The survival of these societies as democracies - or even at all - hangs in the balance.

Contents

PART I: FRAMING THE RESEARCH Conceptualizing Identity: Ethnicity and Culture Six Available Perspectives on Identity and Politics Ethnopolitics: An Analytic Framework PART II: ETHNICITY AND POLITICS IN SMALL DEVELOPING STATES Guyana: the Uncooperative Republic Fiji: Indigenous Paramountcy Trinidad and Tobago: The Politics of Accommodation

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