Globalisation of Nationalism

The Motive-Force Behind Twenty-First Century Politics

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2017
ECPR Press (Verlag)
978-1-78552-264-2 (ISBN)

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Organised as an experiment testing the hypothesis that behind the hottest political issues of the quarter-century after the Cold War lies globalisation of national consciousness, this collection of essays unites authors from the four corners of the world. They focus on democratisation and its failure in Russia, transformations of identity in Eastern and Western Europe, Africa, North and South America, and South-East Asia, the rise of militant and political Islam, and the eruption of China onto the world stage. The volume makes the argument that globalisation we are witnessing is, for the most part, the globalisation of competitive and antagonistic nationalism, which spreads to areas where it was not known earlier and into the sphere of religion, ostensibly indifferent to it. Collectively, these essays prove that nationalism remains the organising principle of politics inside nations as well as at transnational and international levels.

A leading scholar on the subject of nationalism since 1992, Liah Greenfeld is best known for illuminating it as the cultural framework of modernity, the foundation of modern society, politics, and the economy. In her numerous publications, including the trilogy consisting of Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth, and Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience (Harvard University Press, 1992, 2001, and 2013, respectively) she has probed into nationalism’s connections with the most public as well as the most private spheres of modern experience. She teaches at Boston University, holding the position of University Professor and Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Anthropology. Between 2010 and 2016, she served as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Social Sciences at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Contributors ix
Introduction – Collected Volume as an Experiment xiii
Chapter One – Russia’s Identity of Perpetual Crisis 1
Nina Kruscheva
Chapter Two – The `Russian Idea’: A Fragment 17
Dmitry Bykov
Chapter Three – The Construction, Deconstruction and Conflict of
National Identities in Moldova 21
Lee Cojocaru
Chapter Four – A Partnership of Equals or Equal Membership?
Equality and Difference in Multinational States 43
Emmanuel Dalle Mulle
Chapter Five – Political Union Without Territory? Space Representation
and Identity Deficit in the EU 69
Axel Marion
Chapter Six – Identity Technologies and the `Nationalism Lite’ of the
European Union 81
Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski
Chapter Seven – Dignity for All: Nationalism in Tanzania 99
Katrina Demulling
Chapter Eight – Quebec and French-Canadian Nationalisms 117
Marc-Olivier Gagné
Chapter Nine – Nationalism in Brazil’s Street Demonstrations of June 2013 137
Leone Campos de Sousa
Chapter Ten – Beyond Nationalism? Reflections on Political Legitimacy
and Contemporary Left-leaning Regimes in Latin America 151
Jonathan Eastwood
Chapter Eleven – Political Islam: From Transnational Movement to
Nationalism … and Back 167
Jocelyne Cesari
Chapter Twelve – Pakistani Nationalism: Land, People, and History 193
Aayesha Noor Mian
Chapter Thirteen – With God on Their Side: The Nationalism of
Contemporary Islamic Extremism 207
Chandler Rosenberger
Chapter Fourteen – Birth and Development of Chinese Nationalism 225
Zu Guo-xia and Wei Wan-lei
Chapter Fifteen – Reunification with Taiwan: An Unexamined Aspect
of Chinese Nationalism 243
Yu Peiji
Chapter Sixteen – `One Country, Two Systems’: Politics of
Democratisation and Identities in Hong Kong Since the Handover 267
Yiu Chung Wong
Index 289

Erscheinungsdatum	17.11.2016
Verlagsort	Colchester
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	222 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78552-264-7 / 1785522647
ISBN-13	978-1-78552-264-2 / 9781785522642
Zustand	Neuware