Format:
1 online resource (211 pages)
ISBN:
9781400824151
Content:
In this controversial look at nationalism, Gregory Jusdanis offers a sweeping defense of the nation as a protector of cultural difference and a catalyst for modernization. Since the end of the Cold War, the nation-state has undergone intense scrutiny among critics in the media and the academy. Many believe that civic nationalism may be fruitful but that cultural nationalism fosters xenophobia and backward thinking. Jusdanis, however, emphasizes the positive collaboration between nation-building and culture. Through a series of critical readings of multicultural, postcolonial, and globalization theories, the author reveals how nationalism enables people to defend their distinctive ways of life, to fight colonial oppression, and to build an independent society of citizens. He explains why people over the last two hundred years have politicized their ethnic identities and have sought a union of culture and power within an autonomous nation-state. While seeking to defend nationalism, Jusdanis also examines its potential to unleash extraordinary violence into the world. He thus proposes federalism as a political solution to the challenges posed by nationalism and globalization. Jusdanis applies the tools of disciplines ranging from anthropology to philosophy, as he explores the nation-building projects of numerous and diverse countries around the world. What emerges is a fresh perspective on the subjects of national culture, identity, political nations, globalization, postcolonialism, and diaspora.
Content:
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One On Nationalism -- The Union of Nation and State -- Nations as Self-Institutions -- Emotional Attachments -- Ancient Roots -- National Integration -- Chapter Two The Autonomy of Culture? -- Culture as a Totality -- Culture as Way of Life -- Absolute States and Religious Wars -- Culture as Secondary Agent -- Nationalism as a Reactive Force -- The Chicken or the Egg? -- Chapter Three The Bastion of National Culture -- Fortress Culture -- National Culture in Aspiration -- Intellectuals and Class Interest -- The Perils of Comparisons -- National Intellectuals -- Chapter Four Progress and Belatedness -- Being Late -- Catching Up -- Greece: Postcolonial Narratives -- Of Backwardness and Change -- The Greek Culture Wars -- The Discovery of Tardiness -- Chapter Five Political Nations -- England -- Canada -- Brazil -- Egypt -- The United States -- Civic Identity -- Chapter Six The End of Identities? -- The Disconnecting of America -- Of Two Multiculturalisms -- Racial Panethnicities -- Culture, Culture Everywhere -- Does Globalization Spell the End? -- Chapter Seven Federal Unions -- Private Identities, Public Assimilation -- Endless Diaspora -- Liberal Nationalism -- Federalism -- References -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691089027
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780691089027
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=714073
