Rogers Brubaker Knihy

Focusing on the complexities of nationalism, this study delves into the historical and theoretical frameworks that shape national identities in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It explores how nationalism has evolved in these regions, influenced by historical events and socio-political changes, providing insights into contemporary issues and the interplay between national identity and statehood.

Ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists and others frame accounts of ethnic, racial, and national conflict as the struggles of internally homogeneous, externally bounded ethnic groups, races, and nations. In doing so, they adopt the participants language and contribute to the reification of ethnic groups.

Focusing on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, this study offers a comprehensive analysis of nationalism through a theoretical and historical lens. It delves into the complexities and transformations of national identity in the region, examining how historical events and sociopolitical changes have shaped contemporary nationalist movements. The book provides insights into the interplay between nationalism and various cultural, ethnic, and political factors, making it a significant contribution to the understanding of national identity in these contexts.

We live in a world bounded and defined by the legal institution of citizenship. The plight of immigrants moving across Western Europe has made this a particularly salient point, one frequently missed but finally brought into sharp focus here. Linking law, state, economy, and culture across two countries and centuries, this book offers a powerful explanation of forces that shape the modern world and delineate its future.

Offering fresh perspectives on perennial questions of ethnicity, race, nationalism, and religion, Rogers Brubaker makes manifest the forces that shape the politics of diversity and multiculturalism today. In a lucid and wide-ranging analysis, he contends that three recent developments have altered the stakes and the contours of the politics of difference: the return of inequality as a central public concern, the return of biology as an asserted basis of racial and ethnic difference, and the return of religion as a key terrain of public contestation. The cultural and discursive turn that drew students of identity away from the study of structural inequalities in recent decades has now run its course. At a moment of heightened public and scholarly concern with deepening inequality, Grounds for Difference shows how categories of difference such as race, ethnicity, and gender get built into enduring structures of inequality. In the aftermath of the Human Genome Project, newly influential genetic understandings of human difference threaten to naturalize both difference and inequality. Brubaker critically engages the new ethnoracial naturalism and assesses how genetic perspectives have transformed understandings and practices of race and ethnicity in biomedical research, criminal forensics, popular genealogy, and identity politics. The resurgence of public religion in recent decades likewise has major implications for how we understand the politics of difference. Brubaker explains why the most intensely contested struggles over cultural difference today tend to involve religion, confounding longstanding expectations about continued secularization. -- Provided by publisher

Taking the controversial pairing of transgender and transracial as his starting point, Rogers Brubaker shows how gender and race, long understood as stable, inborn, and unambiguous, have in the past few decades opened up- in different ways and to different degrees- to the forces of change and choice. Transgender identities have moved from the margins to the mainstream with dizzying speed, and ethnoracial boundaries have blurred. Paradoxically, while sex has a much deeper biological basis than race, choosing or changing one's sex or gender is more widely accepted than choosing or changing one's race. Yet while few accepted Dolezal's claim to be black, racial identities are becoming more fluid as ancestry- increasingly understood as mixed- loses its authority over identity, and as race and ethnicity, like gender, come to be understood as something we do, not just something we have. By rethinking race and ethnicity through the multifaceted lens of the transgender experience- encompassing not just a movement from one category to another but positions between and beyond existing categories- Brubaker underscores the malleability, contingency, and arbitrariness of racial categories.

"Digital hyperconnectivity is a defining fact of our time. The Silicon Valley dream of universal connection - the dream of connecting everyone and everything to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time - is rapidly becoming a reality. In this wide-ranging and sharply argued book, Rogers Brubaker develops an original interpretive account of the pervasive and unsettling changes brought about by hyperconnectivity. He traces transformations of the self, social relations, culture, economics, and politics, giving special attention to underexplored themes of abundance, miniaturization, convenience, quantification, and discipline. He shows how hyperconnectivity prepared us for the pandemic and how the pandemic, in turn, has prepared us for an even more fully digitally mediated future. Throughout, Brubaker underscores the ambivalence of digital hyperconnectivity, which opens up many new and exciting possibilities, yet at the same time threatens human freedom and flourishing"--Amazon.com

Im Sommer 2015, kurz nachdem sich Caitlyn Jenner zu ihrer Identit t als Transgender bekannt hatte, wurde Rachel Dolezal, Präsidentin einer Ortsgruppe der National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) durch ihre Eltern als weiss ‚geoutet“. In der Folge entbrannte in den Medien eine hitzige Debatte über die Fluidität von gender und race. Wenn Jenner sich rechtmässig als Frau identifizieren konnte, konnte sich Dolezal nicht ebenso als schwarz identifizieren? Ausgehend von der kontroversen Koppelung von ‚transgender“ und ‚transracial“, zeigt Roger Brubaker, wie gender und race, die während langer Zeit als stabil, angeboren und unzweideutig verstanden wurden, in den letzten Jahrzehnten – auf unterschiedliche Art und in unterschiedlichem Ausmass – als wandelbar und einer Wahl zugänglich betrachtet wurden. TransgenderIdentitäten haben sich in schwindelerregendem Tempo von der Peripherie in den Mainstream bewegt und Grenzen der Ethnizität und der race wurden unscharf. Obwohl sex im Unterschied zu race eine biologische Fundierung hat, findet die Wahl bzw. Änderung von sex oder gender paradoxerweise eine viel grössere Akzeptanz als die Wahl oder Änderung der race. Während Dolezals Behauptung, sie sei schwarz, von wenigen akzeptiert wurde, verstärkt sich die Fluidität von racial Identitäten in dem Masse, wie die Abstammung – zunehmend als gemischt verstanden – ihre Vorherrschaft über Identität verliert und race und ethnicity wie auch gender, als etwas gesehen werden, was wir tun, und nicht als etwas, was wir haben. Indem er race und ethnicity durch die facettenreiche Linse der Transgender-Erfahrung neu betrachtet – nicht nur als eine Bewegung von einer Kategorie zur anderen, sondern auch als Position zwischen und jenseits von bestehenden Kategorien –, unterstreicht Brubaker die Formbarkeit, Kontingenz und Beliebigkeit der Kategorien von race. In einer Zeit, in der gender und race neu definiert und rekonstruiert werden, erkundet dieses Buch fruchtbare neue Wege, um über Identität nachzudenken.