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The Library includes a useful reference section and a considerable number of published and unpublished reports, and is especially strong in the area of minority protection with regards to international law.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 |
Schöpflin, George |
|---|---|
| Title | Nations, Identity, Power |
| Parallel title / Title of generic unit | |
| Subject | 1. Nationalism. |
| Publisher | New York: New York University Press |
| Year | 1999 |
| Pages | 442 |
| Description | The author has presented a collection of new and previously published essays in which he examines the relationship between ethnicity, state and civil society. His basic argument is that democracy is built on all three of these dimensions, and that only a balanced relationship between them can guarantee the proper functioning of democratic systems. Implied in this is the critique not only of Marxism, but also of liberalism, or more precisely of what the author terms the Anglo-Saxon universalist approach to the analysis of phenomena of ethnonationalism, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe. The author's analysis is based upon a number of categories and concepts taken from a variety of social science disciplines. The first of these is the assumption that there are certain normal and natural, or common sense, propositions that each society accepts without questioning, because, second, these propositions are sacralised. The third concept is cultural reproduction (of communities) and its significance for social and political processes. The fourth concept is that of thought-worlds that give rise to particular, corresponding thought-styles, making communication between the thought-worlds, if not impossible, at least more difficult than Enlightenment rationality would lead us to believe. Finally, the author assumes that we live not only in a concrete and palpable world of institutions and procedures, but also of symbols and rituals. None of that is necessarily new, but the way in which the author brought these categories and concepts together seems promising as a basis for a thorough reexamination of our understanding of the relationship he set out to analyse.To a large degree, the author delivers on that promise for what follows is the testing of his hypothesis against a variety of individual cases alongside a gradual further development of theoretical positions. |
| Type | Book |
| Note | Includes index. |
| Language | English |
| Series | |
| Identifier | 0814781179 |
| 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
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