Andrew Gilbert, "International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy: Encounters in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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How to Write About Ethnicity and Ethno National Identity and Difference
I was really interested in why and how that those sets of ideas about ethnic identity and difference were naturalized, how they came to be seen as part of everyday common sense. So i ask myself a question, you know, how can i write about ethnicity in a way that de naturalizes it, but at the same time accounts for its force and its seeming ubiquity? That's where roger brewbaker's formulation about group ness comes in handy. He notes that although ideas about ethnicity posite ethnicity as something that pre exists in the world, such identity are what he calls group ness, is an event. There are times when it happens or is relevant, and there are
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