Original scientific paper

The Dialectics of Discrimination in the Twenty-First Century

John Stone ; Department of Sociology, Boston University, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Polly Rizova ; Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Abstract

This article explores some of the latest developments in the scholarship on race relations and nationalism that seek to address the impact of globalization and the changed geo-political relations of the first decade of the twenty-first century. New patterns of identification, some of which challenge existing group boundaries and others that reinforce them, can be seen to flow from the effects of global market changes and the political counter-movements against them. The impact of the “war on terrorism”, the limits of the utility of hard power, and the need for new mechanisms of inter-racial and inter-ethnic conflict resolution are evaluated to emphasize the complexity of these group relations in the new world disorder.

Keywords

racism; ethnonationalism; inequality; transnationalism; globalization; terrorism; conflict resolution

Hrčak ID:

21697

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/21697

Publication date:

29.12.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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