Global Perspectives on Nationalism takes an interdisciplinary approach informed by recent theorisations of nationalism to examine perennial questions on the topic.
The idea of nationalism centres on questions of ethnicity, culture, religion, language, and access to resources. What determines consciousness of nationalism? How is nationalism manifested, shaped, or countered through literary and cultural productions? The contributors highlight topical areas in studies of nationalism including ecology, natural resources, sustainability, globalisation, the Anthropocene, postcolonialism, indigeneity, folklore, popular culture, and queer theory. They develop innovative perspectives on nationalism through in-depth analyses of the theoretical, political, literary, linguistic, cultural, and ecological dimensions of nationalism in Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria, Poland, Scotland, Turkey, the United States, and elsewhere. This volume underscores the importance of generative dialogue between disciplines in assessing the implications of nationalism for everyday life through five thematic sections: (I) Ethnicity, Ideology, and Narration; (II) Religion, Identity, and Heritage; (III) Linguistics, Tradition, and Modernism; (IV) Music, Lyricism, and Poetics; and (V) Ecology, Environment, and Non-Human Lives.
This book will be of particular value to students and researchers in philosophy, literary studies, and political theory with interests spanning ecology, ethnicity, folklore, gender, heritage, identity, linguistics, nationalism, nationhood, religion, and sexuality.
Author(s): Debajyoti Biswas, Panos Eliopoulos, John C. Ryan
Series: Routledge Studies in Global and Transnational Politics Series
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 344
City: London
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Series Information
Title Page
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Table of Contents
Contributors
1 Introduction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Nationalism
Introduction
Ethnicity, Ideology, and Narration
Religion, Identity, and Heritage
Language, Tradition, and Modernity
Music, Lyricism, and Poetics
Ecology, Environment, and Non-Human Lives
Conclusion
References
Section I Ethnicity, Ideology, and Narration
2 “Liberal Nationalism”: A Theoretical Oxymoron Or an Empirical Way Forward?
Introduction
Hellenistic and Roman Origins
Normative Vs Motivational Considerations
References
3 Nation as War Narration: The Revolutionary Epics and Its Ethnicity
War and Postwar Reshaping of Ethno-Cultural Identity
The Counter-Position in Relation to the Figure of the Mortal Enemy
State Orders as Different Ethno-Cultural Paradigms
The Fundamental Interpretation
The Ethnic Legitimation
The Ethnic-Military Fraternity of the Smallest Nations
Code
Notes
References
4 A Century of Lebanon (1920–2020): A Brief Review
Introduction
The Conditions for Establishing the State of Greater Lebanon and Its Inherent Problems
The Roots of Political Sectarianism
The Conflict Over Identity and History
The Promotion of Lebanese Nationalism
Independence From the Mandate and the Establishment of the Sectarian System
The Peak and Decline of Arab Nationalism
Sectarian Decline, Then War
A Reconfiguration of Power
National Discourse After the War
Sects as Alternative Institutions of the State
Renewed Structural Crises
Attempts to Break the Chains of Sectarianism
Experiences From Outside the System
Sectarian Affiliation as a Mandatory Passage for the Individual
Conclusion
Notes
References
Section II Religion, Identity, and Heritage
5 Ethnic Identities and the “Contested” Idea of a Nepal State
Introduction
The Constitution of 1990 and Ethnic Contestation
Maoists Lend Support to the Ethnic Contestation
Ethnic Contestation and the Question of Homelands
Significance of the Ethnic Contestation
From Ethnic Contestation to Ethnic Rebellion
Conclusion
References
6 The Nation and Its Discontents: The Structural Face of Turkish Nationalism
Exclusion of the “Others” in the Foundation Process
“Waiting for the Communists”: Turkey in the Cold War Era
Post-Cold War Era: Turkish Nationalism in the “New World Order”
Conclusion
Notes
References
7 Constellation, Not Sequencing Carries the Truth: Olga Tokarczuk’s Nomadic Flight From Homogenous National Identity
Notes
References
Section III Linguistics, Tradition, and Modernism
8 Bilingualism in Bangladeshi Education and the Question of National Identity
Introduction
The ‘English Issue’ at a Glance
Language Politics and Identity Issue in the Pakistani Era
Language Scenario in Independent Bangladesh
Delving Into the Issue of Bilingualism and Nationalism
The Otherness of Bangla
The Cultural Imperialism of Bilingualism
Conclusion
Notes
References
9 Deconstructing Assamese Nationalism Vis-À-Vis Indian Nationalism
Introduction
Inception
Nationalism as a Problematic
The Fallout of Nationalism
Assamese Subnationalism and the Linguistic Question
Conclusion
Notes
References
10 Nationalism and Invention of Tradition in Argentinean Folk Narrative Archives: From the 1921 Folk Survey to the …
Introduction
Argentinean Folk Narrative in the Latin American Context
The First Step Towards Construction a Nation Through Folk Collections: The 1921 Folklore National Survey
Conclusion
Notes
References
Section IV Music, Lyricism, and Poetics
11 Scotland Hymns for His Identity: The National Anthem in Progress
Introduction
Genesis of Scottish Nationalism
The Anthems
“Flower of Scotland”
“Scotland the Brave”
“A Man’s A Man for A’ That”
Conclusion
Notes
References
12 Of Poetry and Nationalism: Articulating Charles Bernstein’s Poetics of the Americas and the Democratic Space of Poetry
Introduction: American Nationalism and the American Voice
Poetry and the Populist Voice
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry and the Metaphorical Frames of Nationalism
Bernstein’s Alternate Nationalism and Alternate Jewishness
The Nation and the University of Literature
Conclusion
References
13 Nationhood and Sexual Dissidence: From Walt Whitman’s Adhesive Camerados to Larry Kramer’s De-Kiked Faggots
Notes
References
14 Racial Identity and the American Nation in Langston Hughes’ Short Story “Home”
Introduction
American Nationhood and Race
A Musical Narrative of the American Nation
References
Section V Ecology, Environment, and Non-Human Lives
15 “Dressed in Native Trees”: Plants as Figures of Anti-National Resistance in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Poetry
Introduction
Plants and (Anti-)Nationalism in Australia
Aboriginal Plants and Poetry: Towards Literary Ethnobotany
“Kaa Got Pitcheri:” Anti-National Resistance in Noonuccal’s Plant Poetics
“Him Silly, Him Talk To That Tree:” Lionel Fogarty’s Literary Ethnobotany
Conclusion: Plants as Figures of Anti-National Resistance
Note
References
16 Local Wisdom and Sustainable Praxis in the Anthropocene: The Green Nationalism of the Sedulur Sikep Community of Central …
Introduction
The Correspondence Between Nationalism and Ethnicity
Sedulur Sikep Community
The Green Nationalism and Ethnicity of the Sedulur Sikep Community
Challenges to Green Nationalism and the Local Wisdom of the Sedulur Sikep Community in the Anthropocene
Conclusion: Farming, Ethnicity, and Green Nationalism in Central Java
References
17 China’s Ecological Civilization: A National Narrative With Global Ambitions
Notes
References
18 Ethnonationalism and Econationalism in the Age of Carbon Democracy: Ruud Elmendorp’s Documentary Film Ken Saro Wiwa: …
Introduction
Nationalism and Petro-Culture in Nigeria
From Ethnonationalism to Econationalism: The Quest for Carbon Democracy
Carbon Democracy in Ruud Elmendorp’s Ken Saro Wiwa: All For My People
Conclusion
References
19 The Splintered Roots of “Heimat”: On the “German” Oak’s Arboreal Memory
Say It With an Oak
How the Oak Became German
Heimat for Rootless Nations
A “Natural” Monument (Splintered Oak)
Notes
References
Index
