Becoming National A Reader

by Eley, Geoff; Suny, Ronald Grigor

• ISBN13: 9780195096613
• ISBN10: 0195096614
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Being national is the condition of our times, yet never before has the idea of the nation been under such scrutiny. With the collapse of the bi-polar world of the Cold War, there has also been a parallel rise in the subnational--the claims of local, regional, and ethnic minorities--economicglobalization, American cultural hegemony, international migration, and diasporization. In Becoming National Eley and Suny, two of the foremost authorities on nationalism, acknowledge these changes by combinging a diverse selection of readings with a unifying introduction and instructive headnotes,creating a text that moves the discussion of nationalism onto a new and contemporary level. Each group of readings is introduced by a brief historical essay, and the readings are fully annotated. Emphasizing the recent intellectual advances and influential ideas of Miroslav Hroch, Benedict Anderson,Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, Lauren Berlant, and a host of others, this book underscores the nineteenth and twentieth century nationalist theories to show not only where scholars of nationalism have been but where they are going. Drawing on the strengths of recent cultural studies, including race andgender identities, the editors show that though politics is the ground upon which nationalism is constructed, culture is the terrain on which it is elaborated and fought over.

Table of Contents

Introduction: From the Moment of Social History to the Work of Cultural Representation	3	(36)
Geoff Eley
Ronald Grigor Suny
I. A Classical Statement	39	(18)
What Is a Nation?	42	(15)
Ernest Renan
II. Where Do Nations Come From? The Social Construction of Nationality	57	(182)
From National Movement to the Fully-Formed Nation: The Nation-Building Process in Europe	60	(19)
Miroslav Hroch
Scotland and Europe	79	(27)
Tom Nairn
The Origins of Nations	106	(26)
Anthony D. Smith
The Nation From: History and Ideology	132	(19)
Etienne Balibar
Historicizing National Identity, or Who Imagines What and When	151	(28)
Prasenjit Duara
Peasants and Danes: The Danish National Identity and Political Culture	179	(24)
Uffe Ostergard
The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism	203	(36)
Yuri Slezkine
III. Colonialism, Race, and Identity	239	(164)
Census, Map, Museum	243	(17)
Benedict Anderson
``No Longer in a Future Heaven'': Nationalism, Gender, and Race	260	(26)
Anne McClintock
Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia	286	(39)
Ann Stoler
Basques, Anti-Basques, and the Moral Community	325	(14)
Marianne Heiberg
Ethnicity: Identity and Difference	339	(13)
Stuart Hall
One Nation Under a Groove: The Cultural Politics of ``Race'' and Racism in Britain	352	(19)
Paul Gilroy
The Ambiguities of Authenticity in Latin America: Dona Barbara and the Construction of National Identity	371	(32)
Julie Skurski
IV. Beyond the Nation	403	(106)
The Decline of the Nation State	407	(11)
David Held
National Identity and Socialist Moral Majority	418	(8)
Renata Salecl
The Nation-State and Its Others: In Lieu of a Preface	426	(8)
Khachig Tololyan
National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees	434	(22)
Liisa Malkki
No Place like Heimat: Images of Home(land) in European Culture	456	(25)
David Morley
Kevin Robins
Rac(e)ing the Nation: Is There a German ``Home''?	481	(14)
Jeffrey M. Peck
The Theory of Infantile Citizenship	495	(14)
Lauren Berlant
Index	509