Identity And Intolerance

Author : Norbert Finzsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521525992
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity and Intolerance written by Norbert Finzsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of increasingly heterogeneous societies, matters of identity politics and the links between collective identities and national, racial, or ethnic intolerance have assumed dramatic significance - and have stimulated an enormous body of research and literature which rarely transcends the limitations of a national perspective, however, and thus reproduces the limitations of its own topic. Comparative attempts are rare, if not altogether absent. Identity and Intolerance attempts to shift the focus toward comparison in order to show how German and American societies have historically confronted matters of national, racial, and ethnic inclusion and exclusion. This perspective sheds light on the specific links between the cultural construction of nationhood and otherness, the political modes of integration and exclusion, and the social conditions of tolerance and intolerance. The contributors also attempt to integrate the approaches offered by the history of ideas and ideologies, social history, and discourse theory.

Author : Wendy Brown
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400827477
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regulating Aversion written by Wendy Brown and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic, and sexual. But, as political theorist Wendy Brown argues in Regulating Aversion, tolerance also has dark and troubling undercurrents. Dislike, disapproval, and regulation lurk at the heart of tolerance. To tolerate is not to affirm but to conditionally allow what is unwanted or deviant. And, although presented as an alternative to violence, tolerance can play a part in justifying violence--dramatically so in the war in Iraq and the War on Terror. Wielded, especially since 9/11, as a way of distinguishing a civilized West from a barbaric Islam, tolerance is paradoxically underwriting Western imperialism. Brown's analysis of the history and contemporary life of tolerance reveals it in a startlingly unfamiliar guise. Heavy with norms and consolidating the dominance of the powerful, tolerance sustains the abjection of the tolerated and equates the intolerant with the barbaric. Examining the operation of tolerance in contexts as different as the War on Terror, campaigns for gay rights, and the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance, Brown traces the operation of tolerance in contemporary struggles over identity, citizenship, and civilization.

Author : John Corrigan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022631393X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Intolerance, America, and the World written by John Corrigan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the news shows us every day, contemporary American culture and politics are rife with people who demonize their enemies by projecting their own failings and flaws onto them. But this is no recent development. Rather, as John Corrigan argues here, it’s an expression of a trauma endemic to America’s history, particularly involving our long domestic record of religious conflict and violence. Religious Intolerance, America, and the World spans from Christian colonists’ intolerance of Native Americans and the role of religion in the new republic’s foreign-policy crises to Cold War witch hunts and the persecution complexes that entangle Christians and Muslims today. Corrigan reveals how US churches and institutions have continuously campaigned against intolerance overseas even as they’ve abetted or performed it at home. This selective condemnation of intolerance, he shows, created a legacy of foreign policy interventions promoting religious freedom and human rights that was not reflected within America’s own borders. This timely, captivating book forces America to confront its claims of exceptionalism based on religious liberty—and perhaps begin to break the grotesque cycle of projection and oppression.

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ISBN 13 : 9789350981689
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against the Grain written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Ellis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107394430
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideology in America written by Christopher Ellis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public opinion in the United States contains a paradox. The American public is symbolically conservative: it cherishes the symbols of conservatism and is more likely to identify as conservative than as liberal. Yet at the same time, it is operationally liberal, wanting government to do and spend more to solve a variety of social problems. This book focuses on understanding this contradiction. It argues that both facets of public opinion are real and lasting, not artifacts of the survey context or isolated to particular points in time. By exploring the ideological attitudes of the American public as a whole, and the seemingly conflicted choices of individual citizens, it explains the foundations of this paradox. The keys to understanding this large-scale contradiction, and to thinking about its consequences, are found in Americans' attitudes with respect to religion and culture and in the frames in which elite actors describe policy issues.

Author : Lilliana Mason
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022652468X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncivil Agreement written by Lilliana Mason and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The psychology behind political partisanship: “The kind of research that will change not just how you think about the world but how you think about yourself.” —Ezra Klein, Vox Political polarization in America has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in decades, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable views of their opponents. This is polarization rooted in social identity, and it is growing. The campaign and election of Donald Trump laid bare this fact of the American electorate, its successful rhetoric of “us versus them” tapping into a powerful current of anger and resentment. With Uncivil Agreement, Lilliana Mason looks at the growing social gulf across racial, religious, and cultural lines, which have recently come to divide neatly between the two major political parties. She argues that group identifications have changed the way we think and feel about ourselves and our opponents. Even when Democrats and Republicans can agree on policy outcomes, they tend to view one other with distrust and to work for party victory over all else. Although the polarizing effects of social divisions have simplified our electoral choices and increased political engagement, they have not been a force that is, on balance, helpful for American democracy. Bringing together theory from political science and social psychology, Uncivil Agreement clearly describes this increasingly “social” type of polarization, and adds much to our understanding of contemporary politics.

Author : D.L. Dinne
Publisher : Garland Science
ISBN 13 : 1000099555
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merging Past, Present, and Future in Cross-cultural Psychology written by D.L. Dinne and published by Garland Science. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of conference proceedings consists of 44 separate "chapters" or selections that are spread over about ten sections. The sections deals with such topics as historical and epistemological factors, cognitive and intellectual perspectives, and clinical and mental health.

Author : J. Dobbernack
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349351404
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tolerance, Intolerance and Respect written by J. Dobbernack and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across European societies, pluralism is experienced in new and challenging ways. Our understanding of what it means for societies to be accepting of diversity has to therefore be revisited. This volume seeks to meet this challenge with perspectives that consider new dynamics towards tolerance, intolerance and respect.

Author : David A. J. Richards
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226712095
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity and the Case for Gay Rights written by David A. J. Richards and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. THE RACIAL ANALOGY

Author : Richard Anderson-Connolly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498590683
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Leftist Critique of the Principles of Identity, Diversity, and Multiculturalism written by Richard Anderson-Connolly and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political and academic program of Identity, Diversity, and Multiculturalism is not a progressive social movement and, in fact, works against the principles and values of the Left. Race against Reason critiques the key tenets of the program and offers a genuinely leftist way forward.