The SAGE Handbook of Nations and Nationalism
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The SAGE Handbook of Nations and Nationalism

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  2. English
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The SAGE Handbook of Nations and Nationalism

About this book

?With its list of distinguished contributors and its wide range of topics, the handbook is surely destined to become an invaluable resource for all serious students of nationalism?

- Michael Billig, Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University and author of ?Banal Nationalism? (SAGE 1995)

?The persistence - some would say: revival - of nationalism across the recent history of modernity, in particular the past two decades, has taken many scholars in the social sciences by surprise. In response, interest in the analysis of nationalism has increased and given rise to a great variety of new angles under which to study the phenomenon. What was missing in the cacophony of voices addressing nationalism was a volume that brought them together and confronted them with each other. This handbook does just that. It deserves particular praise for the wide range of approaches and topic included and for the systematic attempt at studying nationalism as a phenomenon of our time, not a remnant from the past?

- Peter Wagner, Professor of Social and Political Theory, European University Institute; and Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick

?For students concerned with the contemporary study of nationalism this will be an invaluable publication. The three-fold division into approaches, themes and cases is a very solid and sensible one. The editors have commissioned essays from leading scholars in the field [and]this handbook provides the best single-volume overview of contemporary nationalism?

- John Breuilly, Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity, London School of Economics

Nationalism has long excited debate in political, social and cultural theory and remains a key field of enquiry among historians, anthropologists, sociologists as well as political scientists. It is also one of the critical media issues of our time. There are, however, surprisingly few volumes that bring together the best of this intellectual diversity into one collection.

This Handbook gives readers a critical survey of the latest theories and debates and provides a glimpse of the issues that will shape their future. Its three sections guide the reader through the theoretical approaches to this field of study, its major themes - from modernity to memory, migration and genocide - and the diversity of nationalisms found around the globe.

The overall aim of this Handbook is to relate theories and debates within and across a range of disciplines, illuminate themes and issues of central importance in both historical and contemporary contexts, and show how nationalism has impacted upon and interacted with other political and social forms and forces. This book provides a much-needed resource for scholars in international relations, political science, social theory and sociology.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Notes on Contributors
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I: Approaches
  6. Chapter 1 - Nationalism and the Historians
  7. Chapter 2 - Modernization and Communication as Factors of Nation Formation
  8. Chapter 3 - Structural Approaches to Nations and Nationalism
  9. Chapter 4 - Nations and Nationalism: Between General Theory and Comparative History
  10. Chapter 5 - Cultural Approaches to Nationalism
  11. Chapter 6 - The Social Psychology of Hationalism: To Die for the Sake of Strangers
  12. Chapter 7 - Nationalism and Direct Rule
  13. Chapter 8 - Nationalism and Political Philosophy
  14. Chapter 9 - Discourse-analytic and Socio-linguistic Approaches to the Study of Nation(alism)
  15. Chapter 10 - Gender Approaches to Nations and Nationalism
  16. Chapter 11 - Methodological Nationalism and Its Critique
  17. Part II: Themes
  18. Chapter 12 - Pre-modern Nationalism: An Oxymoron? The Evidence from England
  19. Chapter 13 - Modernity and Nationalism
  20. Chapter 14 - Ethnicity and Nationalism
  21. Chapter 15 - Nationalism and Religion
  22. Chapter 16 - Race and the Nation
  23. Chapter 17 - Nation and Commemoration
  24. Chapter 18 - Memory, Truth and Victimhood in Post-trauma Societies
  25. Chapter 19 - Citizenship, Nationalism and Nation-Building
  26. Chapter 20 - Nations and Regions: In or Out of the State?
  27. Chapter 21 - Nationalism and Sport
  28. Chapter 22 - Nations, Mega-events and International Culture
  29. Chapter 23 - Xenophobia and the New Nationalisms
  30. Chapter 24 - Nations, Migrants and Transnational Identifications: An Interactive Approach to Nationalism
  31. Chapter 25 - Hot and Banal Nationalism: The Nationalization of 'the Masses'
  32. Chapter 26 - Nationalism and the Power of Ideology
  33. Chapter 27 - Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and Nationalism
  34. Chapter 28 - Ethnic Exclusion in Nationalizing States
  35. Chapter 29 - Nationalism and Liberalism
  36. Chapter 30 - Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: The Paradox of Modernity
  37. Chapter 31 - Theorizing Nation Formation in the Context of Imperialism and Globalism
  38. Part III: Nations and Nationalism in a Global Age
  39. Chapter 32 - Supranationalism - Integralism - Nationalism: Schemata for Twenty-first-Century Europe
  40. Chapter 33 - Nation and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe
  41. Chapter 34 - Nation and Nationalism in Russia
  42. Chapter 35 - Modernity and Nationalism: Turkey and Iran in Comparative Perspective
  43. Chapter 36 - Nation and Nationalism in South Asia
  44. Chapter 37 - Nations and Nationalism in Central Asia
  45. Chapter 38 - Contending Nationalisms in South-East Asia
  46. Chapter 39 - Nation and Nationalism in Contemporary Japan
  47. Chapter 40 - China and Chinese Nationalism
  48. Chapter 41 - Arab Nationalism
  49. Chapter 42 - African Nationalism
  50. Chapter 43 - A Nation before Nationalism: The Civic and Ethnic Construction of America
  51. Chapter 44 - Nationalism in South and Central America
  52. Chapter 45 - Nations and Nationalism in Australia and New Zealand
  53. Index