Theories of Nationalism A Critical Introduction

by Ozkirimli, Umut

• ISBN13: 9780230577336
• ISBN10: 0230577334
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This widely-used and acclaimed text provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to the main theoretical perspectives on nationalism. The fully updated 2nd edition includes expanded coverage of recent theories and debates, more systematic critical assesment of all traditions, and boxes on key concepts and thinkers.

Author Biography

UMUT OZKIRIMLI is Associate Professor of International Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University.

Table of Contents

List of Boxes	p. vii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Why nationalism?	p. 1
Objectives	p. 5
Structure	p. 6
Discourses and Debates on Nationalism	p. 9
Historical overview	p. 9
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries	p. 10
1918-1945	p. 31
1945-1989	p. 39
From 1989 to the present	p. 46
Primordialism	p. 49
What is primordialism?	p. 49
The nationalist thesis	p. 51
Pierre van den Berghe The sociobiological approach	p. 53
Edward Shils, Clifford Geertz and the culturalist approach	p. 55
Adrian Hastings and Perennialism	p. 58
A critique of primordialism	p. 60
Primordialism today	p. 67
Modernism	p. 72
What is modernism?	p. 72
Economic transformations	p. 72
Tom Nairn and Uneven development	p. 73
Michael Hechter and internal colonialism	p. 77
Political transformations	p. 83
John Breuilly and Nationalism as a form of politics	p. 83
Paul R. Brass and Instrumentalism	p. 88
Eric J. Hobsbawm and the invention of tradition	p. 94
Social/cultural transformations	p. 97
Ernest Gellner and High cultures	p. 98
Benedict Anderson and imagined communities	p. 105
Miroslav Hroch and the three phases of nationalism	p. 113
A critique of modernism	p. 120
Modernism today	p. 137
Ethnosymbolism	p. 143
What is ethnosymbolism?	p. 143
John Armstrong and Myth-symbol complexes	p. 144
Anthony D. Smith and the ethnic origins of nations	p. 148
A critique of ethnosymbolism	p. 157
Ethnosymbolism today	p. 165
New Approaches to Nationalism	p. 169
Why 'new'?	p. 169
Michael Billig and Banal nationalism	p. 170
Nira Yuval-Davis and Feminist approaches	p. 175
Partha Chatterjee and Post-colonial theory	p. 182
Craig Calhoun and Nationalism as discursive formation	p. 187
Rogers Brubaker and ethnicity without groups	p. 190
A critique of new approaches	p. 194
Understanding Nationalism	p. 199
A critique of the theoretical debate on nationalism	p. 199
The outline of a theoretical approach to nationalism	p. 205
Nationalism studies today	p. 217
Bibliography	p. 220
Index	p. 240
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