TY  - GEN
T1  - Class, nation, and identity : the anthropology of political movements
T2  - Anthropology, culture, and society.
A1  - Pratt, Jeff C.
LA  - English
PP  - London ; Sterling, Va.
PB  - Pluto Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm53983382
AB  - Political movements across the world have such diverse characteristics and aims that it is difficult to examine them as a collective group. Movements that are class-based are usually portrayed as formed by economic categories of people driven by material interests. By contrast the study of ethnic or nationalist movements has concentrated on the complexities of identity formation within culturally defined groups driven by strong passions. In this unusual book, Jeff Pratt argues for the need to set up a new analytical framework that extends the study of identity formation, and the ethnographic analysis of economic and social processes, to all political movements. Setting up a new analytical framework, he argues that political processes involve two linked components: a 'discourse' (an identity narrative which positions us within social history) and a 'movement' (the process of organization whereby local social divisions are transformed by their incorporation into a wider movement). He illustrates his arguments with a vivid mix of case studies from across the last century including Basque nationalism, Andalusian anarchism, Italian communism, the break-up of Yugoslavia, to the 'newer' political movements in Europe, in French Occitania and the Italian Lega Nord.
OP  - 220
CN  - JC311 .P683 2003eb
SN  - 9781849640985
SN  - 184964098X
SN  - 0585488576
SN  - 9780585488578
SN  - 0745316727
SN  - 9780745316727
SN  - 0745316719
SN  - 9780745316710
SN  - 9780585488576
KW  - Nationalism.
KW  - Social classes : Political aspects.
KW  - Nationalism : Europe : Case studies.
KW  - Europe : Social conditions.
KW  - Nationalisme.
KW  - Classes sociales : Aspect politique.
KW  - Nationalisme : Europe : Études de cas.
KW  - Europe : Conditions sociales.
KW  - nationalism.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Ideologies : Nationalism.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Social classes : Political aspects
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Europe
KW  - Sociale klassen.
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Case studies.
KW  - Études de cas.
ER  -