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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

[email protected].


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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

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