Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: On the Uses and Implications of Constructivism

   • Paris Yeros

   Pages 1-14

3. The (Re)Construction of Ethnicity in Africa: Extending the Chronology, Conceptualisation and Discourse

   • Ronald R. Atkinson

   Pages 15-44

4. A Non-ethnic State for Africa? A Life-world Approach to the Imagining of Communities

   • Thomas Hylland Eriksen

   Pages 45-64

5. Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Horn of Africa

   • John Markakis

   Pages 65-80

6. Rethinking Ethnicity: Identification, Hybridity and Democracy

   • Aletta J. Norval

   Pages 81-100

7. Towards a Normative Theory of Ethnicity: Reflections on the Politics of Constructivism

   • Paris Yeros

   Pages 101-132

8. Concluding Comments

   • Terence Ranger

   Pages 133-144

9. Back Matter

   Pages 145-146

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Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa features a series of 'constructivist' contributions by leading scholars in the field of ethnicity and nationalism, and explores the differences among those who have come to be known as 'constructivists'. The contributors reflect upon ongoing methodological debates in ethnography, historiography, and political theory. They demonstrate the diversity of concepts and methods within constructivism, and assess the political implications of the concepts themselves. The debate between them is inter-disciplinary, critical and innovative, and should be of value to anyone interested in the study of ethnicity and nationalism.

• democracy
• political theory
• politics

• Department of International Relations, London School of Economics, UK

  Paris Yeros

RONALD R. ATKINSON Associate Professor, Department of History, University of South Carolina THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo JOHN MARKAKIS has a long teaching career in universities in the United States, Africa, Britain and Greece ALETTA J. NORVAL Lecturer in Political Theory, Department of Government, University of Essex and Director of the Graduate Programme in Ideology and Discourse Analysis TERENCE RANGER Visiting Professor, University of Zimbabwe.

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