This volume makes a unique contribution to the literature on nations and nationalism by examining why nations remain a vibrant and strong social cohesive despite the threat of globalization. Regardless of predictions forecasting the demise of the nation-state in the global era, the nation persists as an important source of identity, community, and collective memory for most of the world's population. More than simply a corrective to the many scholarly but premature epitaphs for the nation-state, this book explains the continued health of nations in the face of looming threats. The contributors include leading experts in the field, such as Anthony D. Smith, William Safran, Edward Tiryakian as well as younger scholars, whom adopt a variety of approaches ranging from theoretical to empirical and historical to sociological, in order to uncover both the reasons that nations continue to remain vital and the mechanisms that help perpetuate them. The book includes case studies on Ireland, Thailand, Poland, the Baltic States, Croatia and Jordan. Nationalism in a Global Era will be of great interest to students and researchers of international politics, sociology, nationalism and ethnicity.
Author(s): Mitchell Young, Eric Zuelow, Andreas Sturm
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 272
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 10
Notes on contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
1 The owl’s early flight: Globalization and nationalism, an introduction......Page 14
Part I: Theoretical approaches......Page 27
2 Nations in decline?: The erosion and persistence of modern national......Page 29
3 Comparing visions of the nation: The role of ethnicity, religion and diaspora nationalism in Armenian, Jewish and Sikh relations to the homeland......Page 43
4 When is the nation no longer?......Page 62
Part II: Memory and the persistence of nations......Page 79
5 The appeal of nationhood: National celebrations and commemorations......Page 81
6 The persistence of the Turkish nation in the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk......Page 95
7 Which ‘nation’ persists?: The competing notions of the Thai nation as reflected in public monuments......Page 117
8 The cross, the Madonna and the Jew: Persistent symbolic representations of the nation in Poland......Page 131
9 National identity and tourism in twentieth-century Ireland: The role of collective re-imagining......Page 154
Part III: Threat, response, re-emergence......Page 172
10 The persistence of the Baltic nations under Soviet rule: An ethno-symbolist critique of modernist perspectives on the breakup of the USSR......Page 174
11 Croatian language policy: Establishing national identity in the era of globalization......Page 191
12 National identity in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan: State made, still durable......Page 211
Index......Page 227
