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1986
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Michel de Certeau, « Économies ethniques : pour une école de la diversité », Annales, ID : 10.3406/ahess.1986.283313
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Ethnic Economies. M. De Certeau. This text proposes the hypothesis that the alterity of the smallest human community has just as much right to be recognized as that of the most powerful. A rapid examination of the conceptual apparatus governing ethnic plurality highlights its ideological eclecticism, the unconsidered nature of the relation it posits between the cultural and the economic, its difficulty in recognizing—alongside individual rights—the importance of specific collective rights, and its habit of rejecting affiliations in the private realm. Active and passive affiliations are then considered in terms of their recent politicization, the crisis of traditional representations, the relationships which develop between internal minorities and new immigrants, and each group's own practices (life-styles, ways of speaking, various histories and traditions). The proposal is mode that society recognize these affiliations as constituting a veritable "school of diversity" in which one can learn how to administer a multiple sociality.