| ID | 114094 |
| Title Proper | (Re)framing identity claims |
| Other Title Information | European and state institutions as opportunity windows for group reinforcement |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Dembinska, Magdalena |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | How do we account for the reinforcement of identity particularisms despite transnational integration? This paper addresses the question by comparing two ethnolinguistic groups, Silesians and Kashubs in Poland. It is argued that in order to obtain state protection and tools to develop and survive, ethnic entrepreneurs adjust to institutions and discourses. Census politics, state laws' elaboration, transnational institutions represent openings to which groups adjust by reframing identity claims. In doing so, they re-imagine and reinforce their communities. Following Rogers Brubaker, group-making is presented as an eventful process where ethnic elites invest identity categories with groupness by taking advantage of opportunity windows at hand. Further, tracing changing political opportunities, strategic adjustments and groups' boomerang effect bid, the paper embeds identity groups within the social movement literature. |
| `In' analytical Note | Nations and Nationalism Vol. 18, No.3; Jul 2012: p.417-438 |
| Journal Source | Nations and Nationalism Vol. 18, No.3; Jul 2012: p.417-438 |
| Key Words | Ethnic Entrepreneurs ; Eventful Process ; Group - Making ; Identity Claims ; Opportunity Windows ; State and Transnational Institutions |