S. Wilson 
Politics of Identity in Small Plural Societies [PDF ebook] 
Guyana, the Fiji Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago

In small plural societies, cultural differences can be exaggerated, exploited and intensified during political contests. The survival of these societies as democracies – or even at all – hangs in the balance.

Table of Content

PART I: FRAMING THE RESEARCH Conceptualizing Identity: Ethnicity and Culture Six Available Perspectives on Identity and Politics Ethnopolitics: An Analytic Framework PART II: ETHNICITY AND POLITICS IN SMALL DEVELOPING STATES Guyana: the Uncooperative Republic Fiji: Indigenous Paramountcy Trinidad and Tobago: The Politics of Accommodation

About the author

STACEY-ANN WILSONPolitical scientist serving as a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.