Exchange of Views on the Article “What Exactly is Studied When Ethnicity is Researched? A Descriptive Model for Constructivist Studies of Ethnicity in the Context of the Cognitive Turn” by E.Varshaver

Ekaterina Arutyunova; Alexey Bessudnov; Olga Vendina; Dmitry Verkhovtsev; Mikhail Kamenskikh

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Ekaterina Arutyunova ¹, Alexey Bessudnov ², Olga Vendina ³, Dmitry Verkhovtsev ⁴, Mikhail Kamenskikh ⁵
¹ Institute of Sociology, Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshaya Andronyevskaya str., 5, building 1, Moscow, 109544 Russian Federation
² University of Exeter, Amory Building 341, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ UK
³ Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetny Pereulok, 29, building 4, Moscow, 119017 Russian Federation
⁴ Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospekt, 32a, Moscow, 119334 Russian Federation
⁵ Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lenin St., 13a, Perm, 614001 Russian Federation

Exchange of Views on the Article “What Exactly is Studied When Ethnicity is Researched? A Descriptive Model for Constructivist Studies of Ethnicity in the Context of the Cognitive Turn” by E.Varshaver

2024, vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 127–145 [issue contents]

The text presents the opinions of current ethnicity researchers regarding the article by Evgeni Varshaver. While agreeing that the text itself is interesting, the authors, firstly, disagree on its innovativeness, and secondly, in light of the complexity of the phenomenon of ethnicity itself, doubt the possibility of a simple and clear scheme for its study, as Varshaver claims. Among other topics that were discussed: the possibility of quantitative studies of ethnicity in the constructivist paradigm, the nature of the cognitive turn in ethnicity research, etc.

Keywords: ethnicity; cognitive turn; constructivism; quantitative studies; Brubaker

Citation: Arutyunova E., Bessudnov A., Vendina O., Verkhovtsev D., Kamenskikh M. (2024) Obmen mneniyami po povodu stat'i E. Varshavera «Chto imenno issleduetsya, kogda issleduetsya etnichnost'? Deskriptivnaya model' dlya konstruktivistskikh issledovaniy etnichnosti v kontekste kognitivnogo povorota» [Exchange of Views on the Article “What Exactly is Studied When Ethnicity is Researched? A Descriptive Model for Constructivist Studies of Ethnicity in the Context of the Cognitive Turn” by E.Varshaver]. The Russian Sociological Review, vol. 23, no 3, pp. 127-145 (in Russian)

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