Divided Gaels: Gaelic cultural identities in Scotland and Ireland, c. 1200 – c. 1650. By Wilson McLeod. Pp xiv, 288. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. £60.

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (138) ◽  
pp. 240-241
Author(s):  
Cynthia J. Nevielle
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Oxford University Press

The Multiculturalism of Fear. By Jacob T. Levy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 268p. $29.95.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-187
Author(s):  
Jeff Spinner-Halev
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Ethnic Politics ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Oxford University Press

Jacob Levy argues that the multiculturalism of fear is meant to supplement, not displace, the multiculturalism of rights. Running against many recent celebrations of ethnic identity, Levy is wary of the effects that ethnic (which includes national) identity can have. Too often ethnic politics are cruel and conflictual. Levy is skeptical that a world where everyone's ethnic identity is politically recognized can be peaceful and harmonious. Yet neither can we simply wish ethnic identity away. While cultural identities are socially constructed, they are very much part of our world and so they must be dealt with. “The multiculturalism of fear,” Levy writes, “does see ethnic communities as morally important and distinctive, not because of what they provide for individuals, but because of what they risk doing to common social and political life” (p. 33).

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2013 ◽  
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pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Janet Klein ◽  
David Romano ◽  
Michael M. Gunter ◽  
Joost Jongerden ◽  
Atakan İnce ◽  
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Nation Building ◽  
Eastern Anatolia ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Turkey ◽  
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Uğur Ümit Üngör, The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 352 pp. (ISBN: 9780199603602).Mohammed M. A. Ahmed, Iraqi Kurds and Nation-Building. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 294 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-137-03407-6), (paper). Ofra Bengio, The Kurds of Iraq: Building a State within a State. Boulder, CO and London, UK: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012, xiv + 346 pp., (ISBN 978-1-58826-836-5), (hardcover). Cengiz Gunes, The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey, from Protest to Resistance, London: Routledge, 2012, 256 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-415—68047-9). Aygen, Gülşat, Kurmanjî Kurdish. Languages of the World/Materials 468, München: Lincom Europa, 2007, 92 pp., (ISBN: 9783895860706), (paper).Barzoo Eliassi, Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden: Quest for Belonging among Middle Eastern Youth, Oxford: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 234 pp. (ISBN: 9781137282071).

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