Nationalism

'The Imaginary Topographies of the Megali Idea: National Territory as Utopia', (Co-authored with Anastasia Stouraiti)

by Alexander Kazamias

Spatial Conceptions of the Nation: Modernizing Geographies in Greece and Turkey. Ed. by Diamandouros, N., Dragonas, T., and Keyder, C., London, I.B.Tauris, 2010, pp.11-34

Cemil Boyraz from Istanbul Bilgi University wrote about this essay:
"The authors’ short theoretical... more Cemil Boyraz from Istanbul Bilgi University wrote about this essay:
"The authors’ short theoretical discussion in the last page of the article carries crucial importance as criticism of the widely held assumption that “the nation is thought to be an entity linked to a specific geographical area marked by clearly defined boundaries".
Turkish Studies, 11:3, Sept. 2010, p.498.

Southern Irish nationalism as a historical problem

by john regan

The Historical Journal, 50, 1 (2007), pp. 197–223

A B STRACT. To what extent has the recent war in Northern Ireland influenced Irish historiography ?
Examining... more A B STRACT. To what extent has the recent war in Northern Ireland influenced Irish historiography ?
Examining the nomenclature, periodization, and the use of democracy and state legitimization as interpretative
tools in the historicization of the Irish Civil War (1922–3), the influence of a southern nationalist
ideology is apparent. A dominating southern nationalist interest represented the revolutionary political elite’s
realpolitik after 1920, though its pan-nationalist rhetoric obscured this. Ignoring southern nationalism as a
cogent influence has led to the misrepresentation of nationalism as ethnically homogeneous in twentiethcentury
Ireland. Once this is identified, historiographical and methodological problems are illuminated,
which may be demonstrated in historians’ work on the revolutionary period (c. 1912–23). Following the
northern crisis’s emergence in the late 1960s, the Republic’s Irish governments required a revised public
history that could reconcile the state’s violent and revolutionary origins with its counterinsurgency against
militarist-republicanism. At the same time many historians adopted constitutional, later democratic, state
formation narratives for the south at the expense of historical precision. This facilitated a broader statecentred
and statist historiography, mirroring the Republic’s desire to re-orientate its nationalism away from
irredentism, toward the conscious accommodation of partition. Reconciliation of southern nationalist identities
with its state represents a singular political achievement, as well as a concomitant historiographical
problem.
Since

À droite toute ! La montée populiste aux élections espagnoles du 22 mai

by Juan Antonio Cordero Fuertes

Published in ProChoix, n. 56, avril 2012 (printemps).

Debating Québec’s Interculturalism as a Response to Canada’s Multiculturalism: An Exercise in Normative Nationalisms?

by Darryl Leroux

This is a short paper I wrote for an issue of Canadian Diversity/Diversité canadienne published in April 2012.

This paper argues that normative debates about the relative merits of interculturalism in Québec are evidence of a... more This paper argues that normative debates about the relative merits of interculturalism in Québec are evidence of a particular type of nationalism in both Québec and Canada, one that continues to centre the experiences of the “two founding” nations of Canada.

In order to resituate this debate, I locate interculturalism within the rise of tolerance discourses in Western liberal democracies since the 1980s. The first section of the paper presents a brief overview of some of the major claims for the rise of interculturalism in Québec. The second section of the paper provides a concise analysis of the racial politics of the intercultural discourse in Québec.

By doing so, I argue that despite their respective legitimacy, interculturalism and multiculturalism must be read as continued attempts to manage and limit expressions of racialized diversity in the social and political realms.

Qualitative investigations of mega-sport events: Exploring individual, group-based and collective emotions in response to elite athletic success

by Gavin Sullivan

Sullivan, G. B. (In press). Qualitative investigations of mega-sport events: Exploring individual, group-based and collective emotions in response to elite athletic success. Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section Bulletin.

Mega-sport events such as the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Football World Cup and the... more Mega-sport events such as the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Football World Cup and the Olympics are occasions when winning and losing create intense emotions in participants and observers. The wealth of existing theoretical and empirical material produced by social and psychological researchers on these topics might appear to reduce the potential for qualitative researchers to contribute to and even lead further research efforts. This paper introduces three areas in which qualitative psychology can contribute to understanding events during the 2012 Olympic games and their impact: individual pride and related emotions experienced by elite athletic performers; explorations of the diverse forms of viewer impact and possibilities for group-based emotion; and instances of collective emotion (e.g., such as widespread pride, patriotism and nationalism in the host nation). Examples of projects that could be conducted before, during and after the Olympics are provided. An overarching framework is presented for qualitative research that engages with and critiques relevant quantitative research findings, establishes links to existing qualitative research results, and is reflexive about issues such as methodological plurality.

Nationalism in times of globalization: A study in the dynamics of 'globalism'

by Miguelángel Verde Garrido

Published in: LÓGOI: Revista de Filosofía. (January-June 2008). (n. 13). (pp. 101-120). Caracas: Escuela de Filosofía/Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.
ISSN 1316-693X

Prime Minister Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni-jinja; the deployment of Japanese Self-Defense Forces to Iraq; Prime... more Prime Minister Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni-jinja; the deployment of Japanese Self-Defense Forces to Iraq; Prime Minister Abe's claim that the coercion of "comfort women” remains to be proven …
In recent years, China, Korea and other countries have expressed outrage towards controversial Japanese government decisions and public statements. Added to proposals of constitutional revision, bills regarding Self-Defense Forces and the content of education, the specter of Japan's ultranationalist past seems to hinder its integration and ability to overcome differences within the Asian-Pacific region. However, carefully considered, these matters may not be as interrelated as they appear. Some actions respond to domestic nationalistic discourse, but others are a reaction to the changes in global geopolitics and attempts at international cooperation. In times of globalization, all countries try to accommodate to “globalism” - the often-contradictory ideology that underlies globalization - in order to secure and maintain their own national identity. This paper, using Japan as a case study, offers an explanation regarding how “globalism” can lead to nationalism. It also questions whether the greatest threat to democracy is not civil society’s tendency to inaction; and, if action is sufficient to thwart radicalization of nationalism.

"Eyes the Same Color as the Sea": Santiago's Expatriation from Spain and Ethnic Otherness in Hemingway's the Old Man and the Sea

by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera

Tracing a Thread of Orientalism through Colonialism & Beyond: Presentations of Vietnamese Nationalism by and for Americans

by Nolan Bensen

This paper traces the outlandish and essentializing claims of Neil Jamieson in Understanding Vietnam through his... more This paper traces the outlandish and essentializing claims of Neil Jamieson in Understanding Vietnam through his sources to the orientalist, adventurer, and son of a French colonial administrator in Vietnam, Paul Mus. It attempts to show that Mus' work was orientalist and that some major works citing him have been encouraged by his work to take that tack.

Ignore the last two pages. They were a minor assignment we had to turn in at the same time.

Identità nazionale e pluralismo

by Mario Ricciardi

Sanctities, Blasphemies and the (Jewish) Nation: Commemorative Inscriptions at a National Memorial Site in Israel

by Chaim Noy

Atzoko eta gaurko harresiak

by Asier Blas Mendoza

Blas Mendoza, Asier (2004): Atzoko eta gaurko harresiak. Bilbo: Txalaparta.

Utopiez mintzo da liburu hau: mundua aldatu nahi zuten komunisten utopiaz; hauen buruzagiek sortutako utopia errealaz;... more Utopiez mintzo da liburu hau: mundua aldatu nahi zuten komunisten utopiaz; hauen buruzagiek sortutako utopia errealaz; stalinisten iruzurra eta hilketak borrokatu zituztenen utopiaz; eta, estatuek baztertutako nazio eta hizkuntza gutxituen utopiaz. Horiek guztiak, eta bat gehiago azaltzen da. Idazleak bere nortasunaren inguruko zalantzak argitzeko duen nahia. Horregatik, utopia horien bila joaten da. Berlingo harresia erori, eta hamar urte beranduago burututako bidaia da honakoa. Baina ez da bidaia fisikoa bakarrik, izan ere, honen kontakizuna aitzakia bihurtzen da Europa Ekialdeko zenbait atal historiko gogora ekartzeko, eta alde honetako herri eta hizkuntzak ezagutzeko. Tartean, egungo egoera soziala eta politikoa ditu hizpide. Bereziki, Demokrazia berriak sortu duen etsipena eta frustrazioa tratatzen ditu bertakoen ahotik.

National Indifference in the Heyday of Nationalist Mobilization? Ljubljana Military Veterans and the Language of Command

by Rok Stergar

Austrian History Yearbook 43 (2012), 45-58

Renewing the Russian Federation

by Paul Pryce

Published by the Latvian Institute of International Affairs, May 2012

Helping the enemy? Why transnational Jewish philanthropic foundations donate to Palestinian NGOs in Israel

by Oded Haklai

Published in Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 14: 3 (2008), 581-599.

Religious--Nationalist Mobilization and State Penetration: Lessons From Jewish Settlers' Activism in Israel and the West Bank

by Oded Haklai

Published in Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 40: 6 (2007)

This article deals with the mobilization of religious Jewish settlers in the West Bank. It uses a state-society... more This article deals with the mobilization of religious Jewish settlers in the West Bank. It uses a state-society framework to investigate their relationship with the state.

Palestinian NGOs in Israel: A Campaign for Civic Equality or "Ethnic Civil Society"?

by Oded Haklai

published in Israel Studies, Vol. 9: 3 (2004), 157-168.

Dominant ethnicity: from minority to majority: Dominant ethnicity

by Oded Haklai

Co-authored with Eric kaufmann, published in Nations and Nationalism, vol. 14: 4 (2008), 743-767.

The Social Psychology of the Ergenekon Case: The Collapse of the Official Narrative in Turkey

by Serdar Kaya

Kaya, Serdar. 2012. Middle East Critique 21(2)

This paper examines the developments before and after the Ergenekon case in regard to the alternative retrospective... more This paper examines the developments before and after the Ergenekon case in regard to the alternative retrospective that the emerging counter-narrative has introduced to the recent Turkish history. This retrospective is diametrically opposed to the perspective of the official narrative, especially in terms of the way it interprets the landmark historical events and primary actors. This paper thus argues that recent developments in Turkey since 2002, and then the Ergenekon case, have constituted a "meaning threat" for those who subscribe to the official narrative. As some of the recent works in the social psychology literature demonstrate, meaning threats occur when people apprehend new experiences that are at odds with the frameworks through which they give meaning to and view their outer worlds. According to that argument, people feel more comfortable when they experience an event that supports their cultural worldviews, because such an experience either helps them feel less uncertain about themselves or makes it easier to tolerate uncertainty. For the same reason, experiences that conflict with people's worldviews cause negative reactions. Applying to the Turkish case the insights offered by these works, this paper argues that, in the Turkish case, those who experience meaning threats take resort in political conservatism, which, in the political context of the country, corresponds to paternalist authoritarianism and assertive ethnic nationalism.

« Pythagore, "nous autres Gètes" et la Dacie de Trajan : lettres de Vasile Pârvan à Jérôme Carcopino (1923-1927) », Revue Roumaine d’Histoire, 49, 2010, pp. 189-210

by Dan Dana

« Occultations de Zalmoxis et Occultation de l’Histoire. Un aspect du dossier Mircea Eliade », Anabases, 5, 2007, p. 11-25

by Dan Dana