NationalismOpen University Press, 1997 - 164 pages Nationalism is one of the most pressing of global problems, exacerbating ethnic conflicts and encouraging war. It is also influential in defining the rights of democratic citizenship, and a source of inspiration and social solidarity. A way of conceiving identities that is fundamental to the modern world, nationalism is distinct from both kinship and ethnicity. It is an international discourse that shapes domestic politics as well as relations between states. Drawing on examples from Eritrea, Yugoslavia and China to France and Germany this book clarifies the way in which national boundaries and identities became central to the modern era, how they relate to development of state power, and how a host of different social movements and government policies try to make use of them. At the same time, the author also challenges attempts to "debunk" nationalism that fail to grasp why it maintains its power and centrality in modern life. |
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... less con- tinuity over time , and may be more or less integrated and uniform . But nationalism is a way of constructing identity that does not address such variation so much as it simply posits temporal depth and internal integration ...
... less con- tinuity over time , and may be more or less integrated and uniform . But nationalism is a way of constructing identity that does not address such variation so much as it simply posits temporal depth and internal integration ...
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... less integral and discretely bounded ( see Tilly's 1984 complaint ) . - The discourse of nationalism thus shares much with those of race , class , gender , and other appeals to cohesion based more on the similarity of individuals than ...
... less integral and discretely bounded ( see Tilly's 1984 complaint ) . - The discourse of nationalism thus shares much with those of race , class , gender , and other appeals to cohesion based more on the similarity of individuals than ...
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... less and less of what Serbia produced ) , formerly com- munist political leaders like Slobodan Milosevic turned increas- ingly to using Serbian nationalism to shore up their legitimacy and power . At the same time , examples of Islamic ...
... less and less of what Serbia produced ) , formerly com- munist political leaders like Slobodan Milosevic turned increas- ingly to using Serbian nationalism to shore up their legitimacy and power . At the same time , examples of Islamic ...
Table des matières
The Modernity and Diversity of Nationalisms | 9 |
Kinship Ethnicity and Categorical Identities | 29 |
Nationalist Claims to History | 51 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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