Not thinking ethnicity: A critique of the ethnicity paradigm in an over-ethnicised sociology

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-18

  Carter, Bob ^a   Fenton, Steve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnic conflict; Ethnicity and racism; Identity politics; Realism; Structure and agency

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949282328     PISSN: 00218308     EISSN: 14685914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2009.00420.x     Document Type: Article

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