Series Editor's Preface. Introduction by John Breuilly. Acknowledgements. 1. Definitions. State and nation. The nation. 2. Culture in Agrarian Society. Power and culture in the agro-literature society. The varieties of agrarian rulers. 3. Industrial Society. The society of perpetual growth. Social genetics. The age of universal high culture. 4. The Transition to an Age of Nationalism. A note on the weakness of nationalism. Wild and garden culture. 5. What is a Nation. The course of true nationalism never did run smooth. 6. Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society. Obstacles to entropy. Fissures and barriers. A diversity of focus. 7. A Typology of Nationalisms. The varieties of nationalist experience. Diaspora nationalism. 8. The Future of Nationalism. Industrial culture - one or many?. 9. Nationalism and Ideology. Who is for Nuremberg?. One nation, one state. 10. Conclusion. What is not being said. Summary. Select bibliography. Bilbliography of Ernest Gellner's writing: Ian Jarvie. Index

Nations and Nationalism

Understanding the dramatic political, social, and economic changes that have taken place in Poland in the mid-1980s is one key to predicting the future of the communist bloc. Jadwiga Staniszkis, an influential, internationally known expert on contemporary trends in Eastern Europe, provides an insider's analysis that deserves the attention of all scholars interested in the region. Staniszkis presents the breakthrough of 1989 as a consequence not only of systemic contradictions within socialism but also of a series of chance events. These events include unique historical circumstances such as the emergence of the 'globalist' faction in Mosow, with its new, world-system perception of crisis, and the discovery of the round-table technique as a productive ritual of communication, imitated all over Eastern Europe. After describing the development, collapse, and reorganization of a 'new center' in Poland in 1989-1990, she discusses the first attempt at privatizing the economy. Her analysis of the dilemmas accompanying breakthrough and transition is an invaluable guide to the challenges that face both capitalism and democracy in Eastern Europe.

From Power without Politics to Politics without Power@@@The Dynamics of the Breakthrough in Eastern Europe: The Polish Experience.

1. Introduction: borders, ethics, and mobilities Anssi Paasi, Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola, Jarkko Saarinen, and Kaj Zimmerbauer Part I: Borders in a borderless world 2. Borderless worlds and beyond: challenging the state-centric cartographies Anssi Paasi 3. Imagining a borderless world Harald Bauder 4. Borders, distance, politics Paolo Novak Part II: Politics of inclusion and exclusion 5. 'Borderless' Europe and Brexit: young European migrant accounts of media uses and moralities Aija Lulle 6. Everyday bordering, healthcare, and the politics of belonging in contemporary Britain Kathryn Cassidy 7. 'Delay and Neglect': the everyday geopolitics of humanitarian borders Elisa Pascucci, Jouni Hakli and Kirsi Pauliina Kallio 8. Asylum reception and the politicization of national identity in Finland: a gender perspective Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola Part III: Contested mobilities and encounters 9. Tourism, border politics, and the fault lines of mobility Raoul V. Bianchi and Marcus L. Stephenson 10. Commodification of contested borderscapes for tourism development: viability, community representation, and equity of relic Iron Curtain and Sudetenland heritage tourism landscapes Arie Stoffelen and Dominique Vanneste 11. Contested mobilities across the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border: the case of Sheung Shui J.J. Zhang Part IV: Borders, security, politics 12. Trade, Trump, Security, and Ethics: The Canada-US Border in Continental Perspective Heather N. Nicol and Karen G. Everett 13. Ontological (in)security: the EU's bordering dilemma and neighbourhood Jussi P. Laine and James W. Scott 14. An ethical code for cross-border governance: what does the European Union say on the ethics of cross-border cooperation? Elisabetta Nadalutti 15. The role of `nature' at the EU maritime borders: agency, ethics, and accountability Estela Schindel 16. Afterword: borders are there to be crossed (but not by everybody) Noel B. Salazar

Borderless Worlds for Whom? : Ethics, Moralities and Mobilities

A large part of the literature published in the ‘Global South’ is barely covered by bibliographic databases. Institutional policies increasingly require researchers globally to publish in ‘international’ journals, draining local infrastructures. The standard-setting power of ‘Global South’ scholars is minimised further. My main aim is to render visible the ways in which European academic libraries contribute to this situation. It is explained as a consequence of specific features of current world society, referred to as coloniality, social injustice, and quantified communication. The thesis analyses peripherality conceptually and scientometrically: based on a sample, how is Southeast African basic social sciences and humanities (SSH) research integrated in global scholarly communication, and how do local dissemination infrastructures develop under these conditions? Finally, how are professional values, specifically neutrality, and workflows of European academic libraries, interrelated with these developments? The methodological approach of the thesis is multi-faceted, including conceptual analyses, scientometrics, and a short survey of collection managers and an analysis of the corresponding libraries' collection policies. The off-mainstream decolonial scientometric approach required the construction of a database from multiple sources. Southeast Africa was selected as a field for some of the empirical studies included, because out of all rarely studied local communities to which a peripheral status is commonly attributed, the large majority of Southeast African authors use English as their primary academic language. This excludes linguistic reasons for the peripheral attribution.The theoretical and conceptual point of departure is to analyse scholarly communication as a self-referential social system with global reach (Luhmann). In this thesis, an unorthodox understanding of social systems theory is developed, providing it with cultural humility, inspired by decolonial thinking. The value of the approach lies in its in-built capacity for social change: peripheries are constructed communicatively, and culturally humble communication avoids adding to the accumulation of peripheral references attributed to the ‘Global South’, for instance by suspending the incarceration of area studies which tends to subsume any research from and about Africa as African studies, remote from the core of SSH. While centrality serves the necessary purpose of reducing the overwhelming complexity of global research, communicative centres can just as well be constructed as topical, and do not require a spatial attachment to be functional. Another advantage of this approach is its awareness of different levels of observation, differentiating, for instance, between whether the academic librarian's neutrality is imagined as playing out in interaction with the user (passive neutrality), as representing the diversity of the research system (active neutrality), or as balancing social bias running through society at large, and hence furthering social justice (culturally humble neutrality). (Less)

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The Privilege to Select : Global Research System, European Academic Library Collections, and Decolonisation

Hungary's negotiated revolution: economic reform, social change and political succession

The aim of this article is to provide a description, an analysis and an explanation of Mitteleuropa and of other closely related concepts, such as East-Central Europe. The first section briefly addresses the broad historiographical issues. The second addresses the more strictly political and intellectual history of the concept in the period between 1975 and 1989 while the third section will describe the evolution of the concept after the end of the Cold War. The final part outlines the future directions in which the concept will change.

Mitteleuropa in East-Central Europe From Helsinki to EU Accession (1975—2004)

The idea and the reality of Eastern Europe in the eighteenth-century

The purpose of this paper is to provide a historical view of the Littoral in a comparative Cisleithanian perspective in general, and from a Galician perspective in particular. The historical premises of Dualism (from 1790ca to 1867) are examined. A comparative view of the Littoral in the Dualist Era (1867–1918) is then provided. The paper concludes with a brief examination of the post-Dualist period (1918– 1948).

The austrian littoral in a cisleithanian perspective

In this scholarly panel, Guido Franzinetti, John Breuilly, Beatrice von Hirschhausen, and Sabine Rutar discuss Diana Mishkova's monograph Beyond Balkanism. The Scholarly Politics of Region Making, published in the Routledge Borderland Studies series (2018; paperback edition 2020). The panel focuses, from various angles, precisely on how 'region making' has been influenced by scholarly politics and other kinds of policy discourses. The take of each author is conditioned by their respective expertise in European and global area studies.

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Guido Franzinetti

Papers

Mitteleuropa in East-Central Europe From Helsinki to EU Accession (1975—2004)

The idea and the reality of Eastern Europe in the eighteenth-century

The austrian littoral in a cisleithanian perspective

Reflecting on Diana Mishkova's Beyond Balkanism. The Scholarly Politics of Region Making

Disrupting and reshaping : early stages of nation-building in the Balkans