
Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond
Perspectives from Social Anthropology
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Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond
Perspectives from Social Anthropology
About this book
By the early twenty-first century neo-nationalist forces have established themselves in a number of the world's large regions and subcontinents. From Australia to South Asia, in Eastern and Western Europe, comparable parties and movements have positioned themselves in national parliaments and governments, with some considerable impact on state power. In contrast to right-wing extremist parties in the past, these recent movements mostly operate within legal parliamentary channels, using essentialized notions of local culture to mobilize against real and alleged threats to local identities of status, gender, religion, nationhood and ethnicity.
Prompted by this near-simultaneous rise to political influence of more than a dozen apparently similar parties across Western Europe, this collection offers a range of European case studies with selected global examples, such as the Front National, the late Pim Fortuyn, India and the BJP, and Pauline Hanson and her One Nation Party in Australia. It takes up the theoretical and methodological challenges posed by this phenomenon and asks what distinctive contributions anthropology might make to its study.
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Table of contents
- NEO-NATIONALISM IN EUROPE AND BEYOND
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction. Neo-nationalism inEurope and Beyond
- PART I. Concepts and Methods
- Chapter 1. Nation, Status and Gender in Trouble?
- Chapter 2. Performing ‘Neo-nationalism’
- PART II. Case Studies from Western Europe
- Chapter 3. Imagined Kinship The Role of Descent in the Rearticulation of Norwegian Ethno-nationalism
- Chapter 4. The Emergence of Neo-nationalism in Denmark, 1992–2001
- Chapter 5. ‘At Your Service!’: Reflections on the Rise of Neo-nationalism in the Netherlands
- Chapter 6. Neo-nationalism and Democracy in Belgium
- Chapter 7. ‘Being the Native’s Friend Does Not Make You the Foreigner’s Enemy!’ Neo-nationalism, the Freedom Party and Jörg Haider in Austria
- Chapter 8. Neo-nationalism or Neo-localism? Integralist Political Engagements in Italy at the Turn of the Millennium
- Chapter 9. Regarding the Front National
- PART III. European Perspectives
- Chapter 10. ‘Healthy Native Soil’ Versus Common Agricultural Policy: Neo-nationalism and Farmers in the EU, the Example of Austria
- Chapter 11. New Nationalisms in the EU Occupying the Available Space
- PART IV. Global Perspectives
- Chapter 12. Neo-nationalism in India: A Comparative Counterpoint
- Chapter 13. Nationalism and Neo-populismin Australia Hansonism and the Politics of the New Right in Australia
- PART V. Afterthoughts
- Afterthoughts
- Notes on Contributors
- Subject Index
- Name Index