Boundaries, cohesion and switching. On we‑groups in ethnic, national and religious forms

Research on nationalism, ethnicity and fundamentalism has become ‑ it seems ‑ an easy task. There are authors we all cite, and there are the objects of our study, which delineate themselves quite clearly. This selfdelineation poses however, as this paper shall argue, problems for social science, because it induces us to overlook 1. processes of switching between different frames of reference, 2. processes of (physical) reproduction (namely the link to families), which does not go without sayi...