Fighting Identities

SOCIALIST REGISTER 2003
FIGHTING IDENTITIES:
RACE, RELIGION AND ETHNO-NATIONALISM

Edited by Leo Panitch & Colin Leys

"I would ... have no hesitation in saying that this comprehensive collection of essays should be required reading for students of, and actors in, contemporary inter-religious debate." Steve Alston, Interreligious Insight, January 2004.

CONTENTS:

Peter Gowan - The American Campaign for Global Sovereignty
Aziz Al-Azmeh - Postmodern Obscurantism and 'the Muslim Question'
Avishai Ehrlich - Palestine, Global Politics and Israeli Judaism
Susan Woodward - The Political Economy of Ethno-Nationalism in Yugoslavia
Georgi Derluguian - How Soviet Bureaucracy Produced Nationalism, and what came of it in Azerbaijan
Pratyush Chandra - Linguistic-Communal Politics and Class Conflict in India
Mahmood Mamdani - Making Sense of Political Violence in Post-colonial Africa
Hugh Roberts - The Left and the Algerian Catastrophe
Stephen Castles - The International Politics of Forced Migration
Hans-Georg Betz - Xenophobia, Identity Politics and Exclusionary Populism in Western Europe
Joerg Flecker - Nationalism, Xenophobia and Racism: Class Insecurities in Western Europe
Huw Beynon & Lou Kushnick - Cool Britannia or Cruel Britannia? Racism and New Labour
Bill Fletcher Jr. & Fernando Gapasin - The Politics of Labour and Race in the USA
Amory Starr - Is the North American Anti-Globalization Movement Racist? Critical reflections
Stephanie Ross - Is This What Democracy Looks Like? The politics of the anti-globalization movement in North America
Sergio Baierle - The Porto Alegre Thermidor? Brazil's 'Participatory Budget' at the crossroads
Nancy Leys Stepan - Science and Race: Before and after the Human Genome Project
John S. Saul - Identifying Class, Classifying Difference

Nied Ap. Fonseca - Two Brazils
Amory Starr - Is the Anti-Globalisation Movement Racist? A Critical Reflection