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InterrogatingtheIntersectionbetweenRace,Ethnicity,andNationhood
SPSLAW3rd
termWorkshop9June2009,9:00 19:00,
SalaBelvedere,SchifanoiaandTeatro,Badia
OrganizedbyRainerBaubck(SPS)andJaimeLluch(MaxWebervisitingfellow)incooperation
withRuthRubioMarin(LAW)
Workshopthemeandquestions
Political identities are among the most normatively significant and politically meaningful
dimensionsofmodernpolitics.
Apolitical identitycanbeconceivedas thecollective label fora setof characteristicsbywhich
personsarerecognizedbypoliticalactorsasmembersofapoliticalgroup.Therearemanysources
of such recognition, such as party affiliation, nation, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual
orientation,religion,language,etc.Allthesepossiblesources,however,areonlypoliticalidentities
whenpoliticalactorstreatthemassuch. Politicalactorsandpoliticalgroups, inturn,canbe
defined as those people who determine how governing power will be created, distributed,
exercised,and
ended,
in
ways
that
partly
decide,
among
other
things,
who
gets
what,
when,
and
how. Individuals havemultiple group memberships, and they usually possessmore than one
identity.
ThisWorkshopproposes to focuson threeclosely relatedand interconnected formsofpolitical
identity:race,ethnicity,andnationhood. Asrecentlynoted:Race,ethnicity,andnationarenot
thingsintheworldbutwaysofseeingtheworld.Theyarewaysofunderstandingandidentifying
oneself, making sense of ones problems and predicaments, identifying ones interests, and
orientingonesaction.Theyarewaysofrecognizing, identifying,andclassifyingotherpeople,of
construing sameness and difference, and of coding and making sense of their actions
(Brubaker,Loveman,
and
Stamatov
2004).
This Workshop aims to bring together political and social theorists, comparativists, and legal
theorists to reflect on the intersection between race, ethnicity, and nationhood. In political
theory,normative theorizingonethnicityandnationhoodhasbenefited fromcrossfertilization,
butveryfewattemptstotheorizeallthreeformsofidentityhavebeensuccessful. Incomparative
politics,thereareafewexamplesofworksthatincorporateraceandnationhoodorethnicityand
nationhood, but there is adearthofworks that aim topresent a syntheticperspectiveon the
mechanismsunderlyinggroup identity. In lawandcomparativeconstitutionalism, thestudyof
identity seems to be compartmentalized into those who focus on race and ethnicity
(antidiscriminationlaw,
bills
of
rights,
equal
protection
clauses)
and
those
who
study
the
intricacies of constitutional design to accommodate ethnic and national groups, often with a
territorialbase.
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ThisWorkshop ispremisedon the idea that race,ethnicity,andnationhoodare interconnected
formsofpoliticalidentity,andthetimeisripeforbold,synthetic,andpanidentitiesperspectives
inpolitical and social theory, comparative politics, and legal theory. Thus, theorists should be
interrogating the intersection between race, ethnicity, and nationhood and theorizing the
commonalitiesanddissimilaritiesbetweenthesethreefundamentalformsofgroupidentity.
ThisWorkshopwillencourageparticipants to theorizeacrosscultures,acrossstateborders,and
across geographic areas, and to think about the preferences, behavior, cultural specificities,
historicallegacies,andinstitutionalcontextsofvarioustypesofracial,ethnic,andnationalgroups.
Wesuggestanumberofguidingquestions forWorkshopparticipants.Whatare the formaland
informalrulesthatdefinegroupmembershipbasedonrace,ethnicity,ornationalism? Whatare
theconstitutivenormsthatdeterminetheputativecharacteristicsofsuchgroups? Whatarethe
social purposes and the goals pursued by members of groups formed on the basis of race,
ethnicity,or
nationhood?
(Abdelal,
Herrera,
et
al.
2006)
Can
legal
theory
resist
the
natural
tendency (and the practical necessity) to compartmentalize, and instead theorize about the
commonchallengespresentedbytheefforttodesignremediesandinstitutionstoaddressclaims
madeon thebasisof race,ethnicity,ornationhood?What is the cognitive contentofpolitical
identities based on race, ethnicity, or nationhood? In otherwords,what is theworldview or
framework that allows group members to make sense of social, political, and economic
conditions?
Thecontentofapoliticalidentityisalsorelationaltotheextentthatitiscomposedof
comparisonsandreferencestoothercollectiveidentitiesfromwhichitisdistinguished. Ingroup
identitycreation
generally
leads
to
the
devaluation
of
out
groups.
What
are
the
relational
characteristicsbetweengroupsthatidentifyonthebasisofrace,ethnicity,andnationhood?Are
race,ethnicity,andnationhoodmutuallyexclusiveandclearlydistinguishablepoliticalidentities?
Andinthecaseofpersonsthathavemultipleracial,ethnic,ornationalidentities,orconcentric
identitiesofthissort,whatfactorsexplainwhichidentitybecomespoliticallysalientatanygiven
pointintimeandacrosscontexts?
Workshop
participation
TheworkshopisopenforparticipationtoallEUIresearchers,visitors,fellowsandfaculty.Please
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WorkshopProgramme
9June,
Sala
Belvedere,
Schifanoia
Morningsession:chairRuthRubioMarn
9:0010:00JaimeLluch:UnpackingPoliticalIdentity:Race,Ethnicity,NationhoodinUnitedStates
Discussant:RogersBrubaker
10:0011:00AlexandCarolDuttonStepick:CivicSocialCapital,ContextofReception,and
Leadership:MediatingtheintersectionbetweenRace,EthnicityandNationalism
Discussant: JeanThomasArrighi
11:0011:30coffeebreak
11:3012:30CostanzaHermanin:EthnicmonitoringinItaly.Incautioususeofapromotional
equalityframework?
Discussant:JanineSilga
12:30
13:30
lunch
break
Afternoonsession:chairRainerBaubck
13:3015:00
DejanStjepanovic:TheThinLineBetweenRegionalismandNationalism:ATheoretical
ContributiontotheDebateonRace,EthnicityandNationhood
LucasLixinski:ConstitutionalismandtheOther:MulticulturalismandIndigeneityinSelectedLatin
American
Countries
Discussant:RuthRubioMarn
15:0015:30coffeebreak
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15:3017:00
CosticaDumbrava:Ethnicpreferentialisminaccesstocitizenship.Thecaseofpostcommunist
CentralandEasternEurope
CanAybek:ConstructingOthernesswithinPublicPolicyMakinginGermany:theOperationalRole
ofIndicatorsonImmigrantsandtheirIntegrationattheLocalLevel
Discussant:RainerBaubck
17:3019:00EUDO lecture
Teatro,Badia
RogersBrubaker:
TransborderNationhoodandthePoliticsofBelonginginGermanyand
Korea
Discussants:RainerBaubck,RuthRubioMarn