Farklılık Zeminleri

This study analyzes Rogers Brubaker's book Grounds of Difference. This book was published by Gav Perspective in 2020. The current politics of difference in modern society, globalization and the digital world have made inequalities more visible. The author discusses how race and ethnicity are separated from biology and how they have an impact on inequality. According to the work, the most important areas where cultural differences are socially and politically differentiated in today's world are language and religion. The author's questioning of the similarity of language and religion is a line of discussion in the work. In the first chapter of this work, the author discusses the inequality of ethnicity based on Charles Tilly's theory of inequality. In this section, the elements that create inequality are discussed and the reasons for what inequality is will be independent of who owns what. In the second section, the determinant role of biology in the politics of difference is questioned. The third chapter discusses the place of language and religion in cultural difference, the importance of cultural capital and Pierre Bourdieu's understanding of language. The fourth chapter examines the relationship between religion and nationalism. In this chapter, the author sees nationalism as essentially secular and attributes the decline of nationalism to religion. The fifth chapter deals with the concept of diaspora and its impact on the social organization of cultural difference in the world. In the sixth chapter, cross-border forms of nationalism and the politics of membership and belonging to the nation-state are explained. In the last chapter, chapter seven, the author focuses on the modern perspective on ethnicity and nationalism.