Editing Brubaker 2002
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**Not just agreeing on a definition, but critically examining how we conceptualize it | **Not just agreeing on a definition, but critically examining how we conceptualize it | ||
*Ethnicity, race, and nation should not be thought of as substantive, concrete things, but as relational and dynamic | *Ethnicity, race, and nation should not be thought of as substantive, concrete things, but as relational and dynamic | ||
**We need to think of them in terms of their institutions, “cognitive schemas,” events, political projects, etc.–in other words, as processes | **We need to think of them in terms of their institutions, “cognitive schemas,” events, political projects, etc.–in other words, as processes | ||
**Our basic analytical category is not the group but groupness | **Our basic analytical category is not the group but groupness | ||
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*While existing cultural structures and ways of thinking due to historical or political action constrain group-making, there are still many strategies for group-making | *While existing cultural structures and ways of thinking due to historical or political action constrain group-making, there are still many strategies for group-making | ||
**Dramatic events can serve to galvanize a group | **Dramatic events can serve to galvanize a group | ||