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Exploring Global Ethnicity: A Broad Sociological Synopsis

The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity

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This ethnicity project brings together a diverse range of international scholars from various disciplinary orientations, theoretical inclinations, and methodological approaches but connected by their shared expertise and interest in ethnicity or ethnicity-related issues. Ethnicity is more than just complex. It is contested, has the capacity to be politically provocative and intellectually mystifying, especially in an age where the parameter of its scholarly use is ever changing in response to unfolding social realities. A result of collective social construction, it influences and in turn influenced by attitudes, perceptions, practices, policies, laws, and norms and is reproduced through multiple societal means of socialization. It is a means with which we define ourselves and how we categorize individuals and groups. What is ethnicity and how can we understand its manifestations, influences, and social dynamics? This volume provides multiple prisms through which ethnicity can be understood and articulated. This chapter is a broad introduction which raises a number of critical issues about ethnicity which are articulated, unpacked, analyzed, and critiqued in about a hundred chapters in this major Palgrave global ethnicity handbook project. This is the most comprehensive coverage of a subject that has been part of human development and consciousness since time immemorial.

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Ratuva, S. (2019). Exploring Global Ethnicity: A Broad Sociological Synopsis. In: Ratuva, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0242-8_1-2

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