ECMI Library
The ECMI Library is an independent collection of books, journals, and grey literature of more than 3,000 items covering many aspects of minority issues. The highly specialized collection offers public access to a variety of materials in more than twenty languages on interethnic relations, language and cultural diversity issues and ethnic conflict in Europe.
The Library includes a useful reference section and a considerable number of published and unpublished reports, and is especially strong in the area of minority protection with regards to international law. The ECMI Library is also unique in that it includes an ever-growing number of annual reports of Ombudsman offices around the world, which provide insight into the human rights situation in many countries. Current periodical and newspaper subscriptions reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ECMI research, and reference services are provided both in-house and for the general public.
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| Author |
Wimmer, Andreas |
|---|---|
| Title | Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict: Shadows of Modernity |
| Parallel title / Title of generic unit | |
| Subject | 1. National state. 2. Nationalism 3. Ethnic groups-Political activity. 4. Immigrants-Political activity. 5. Minorities-Political activity. |
| Publisher | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press |
| Year | 2002 |
| Pages | ix, 319 |
| Description | The author demonstrates that nationalist and ethnic politics shaped modernity in a much more fundamental way than acknowledged by classic and contemporary social sciences. The modern state governs in the name of a people that was defined in ethnic and national terms. Democratic participation, equality before the law and protection from arbitrary violence were offered only to the ethnic group in a privileged relationship with the emerging nationa-state. According to varying geometries of power, the dynamics of exclusion took on different forms. Where nation building was 'successful', immigrants and ethnic minorities are excluded from full participation; they risk being targets of xenophobia and racism. In weaker states, political closure proceeded along ethnic, rather than national lines and leads to corresponding forms of conflict and violence. The author provides case studies on Mexico, Iraq, and Switzerland in order to support and contextualise his argument. |
| Type | Book |
| Note | Includes bibliography and index. |
| Language | English |
| Series | |
| Identifier | 052101185X |
| Call No. |
320.54 |
| Location |
Library |
How to find the ECMI Library?
The ECMI Library is accessible to staff, students and the general public at the:
Danish Central Library (next to The Schleswig Collection)
Norderstraße 59
Flensburg.
Materials from the ECMI Library may not be loaned out, but can be consulted in the Danish library on the following days:
Monday - Friday: 10 am - 7 pm
Saturday: 10 am - 2 pm
For any other inquiries, please contact the ECMI Librarian at library@
ecmi.de.
