My+Notes+(EN)

toc =General Notes= Where does nationalism come from: Nations are wholly modern constructs - Anderson, Hobswan, Breuilly, Gellner. Essentialism: it is like under ethno-symbolism Ethno-symbolism: nations are modern construct, yes, but they are founded on pre-modern ethnies. Primordialism: extended kinship. Perennialism: blood and language. nations have always existed. Instrumentalism: RCT Greed and grievance: (Collier)- attempts by nations to forge their own states. Hobsbawn: He rejects pre-modern concepts. He discounts culture as a factor. Development of nationalism is coming from political movements unique to late 18th cc Europe and North America. Something about proto-nationalism. Ethno-symbolism: Smith: nations are a modern construct, and are focused around a historical ethnic core.Ethnies and stuff =Reading Citations= Anderson's IC: nation-ness Nationalism - nation is an imagined political community that is imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. Nation is imagined because members will never others or borders. limited because of boundaries sovereign and community.

- Gellner A modern nation: group of homogenized, atomized individuals who have shed their distinct local cultures, are literate, interchangeable. A modern state: monopolizes legitimate violence, but also monitors and promotes the high culture of homogenizing education to which individuals aspire. Nationalism is a political principle that holds that and the national unit should be congruent. State is like Weber. Nation: a) sharing of culture - system of ideas, signs, associations, and ways of communication b) the recognition of being of the same nation, which causes loyalties and solidarities. Typology of nationalism: i) power relations, ii) access to education, iii)shared culture.

--- Kramer: Nationalism is both an ideology and a political movement which holds the nation and sovereign nation-state to be crucial indwelling values, and which manages to mobilize the political will of a people or a large section of the population. (P.Altern)

There are five broad patterns of historical analysis of nationalism. 1) Nationalism as modernism: Greenfeld, Kohn, Anderson, Hobsbawn 2) As religion: Renan and Hayes 3) As a construction of language and literature: Deutsch, Anderson, Kedouries, Bhabha, Chatterjee 4) Discourse of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity: Mosse, Smith 5) Historical analysis: Meinkecke, Kohn

Smith: He tries to explain the modernist paradigm of nationalism. __Perennialism vs. Modernism__ The nation as Cultural community political community Immemorial modern Rooted created Organic mechanical Seamless divided Quality resource Popular elite-construct Ancestrally-based communication-based

**Main themes of postmodern/’post-national’ research on nations and nationalism:** 1. The impact of current population movements – particularly the fragmentation of national identity and the rise of multiculturalism; 2. The impact of feminist analysis and issues of gender on the nature of nationalism, identities, and communities; 3. The normative and political debate on how civic and ethnic types of nationalism affect citizenship and liberty, particularly in a liberal democracy; 4. The impact of globalization and ‘post-modern’ supranational projects on national sovereignty and identity.

Bhabha It is possible to simultaneously speak of nation as an ancient and modern identity. Nation as narrative: time bound and complex time.

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Chatterjee Studies are euro-centric, but nationalism is actually coming from colonial and post-colonial.

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Varshney ethnic and nationalist violence through essentialism, instrumentialsim, constructivism, institutionalism.