Ethnicities and our precarious future

Ethnicities was launched in 2001, the year of what came to be popularly called 9/11" the fateful terrorist attacks on the USA, especially New York City. In retrospect, this event, equally spectacular and unanticipated as it was and happening so early in the new century, turned out to be a watershed moment in the course of global modernity. Both historically and symbolically, we can look back at this event as the harbinger of a testing, turbulent and indeterminate future for human society.