Ebook: Ethnicity without Groups

Despite a quarter-century of constructivist theorizing in the social sciences and humanities, ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. In this timely and provocative volume, Brubaker challenges this pervasive and commonsense "groupism" and shows that ethnicity, race, and nation are not things in the world but perspectives on the world: ways of seeing, interpreting, and representing the social world.