Showing papers on "Nationalism published in 2019"

Between Arab and White : race and ethnicity in the early Syrian American diaspora

Abstract: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Terms and Transliterations Introduction 1. From Internal to International Migration 2. Claiming Whiteness: Syrians and Naturalization Law 3. Nation and Migration: Emergent Arabism and Diasporic Nationalism 4. The Lynching of Nola Romey: Syrian Racial Inbetweenness in the Jim Crow South 5. Marriage and Respectability in the Era of Immigration Restriction Conclusion Epilogue: Becoming Arab American Notes Bibliography Index

Hindu Nationalism: Origins, Ideologies and Modern Myths

Abstract: The rise of authoritarian Hindu mass movements and political formations in India since the early 1980s raises fundamental questions about the resurgence of chauvinistic ethnic, religious and nationalist movements in the late modern period. This book examines the history and ideologies of Hindu nationalism and Hindutva from the end of the last century to the present, and critically evaluates the social and political philosophies and writings of its main thinkers. Hindu nationalism is based on the claim that it is an indigenous product of the primordial and authentic ethnic and religious traditions of India. The book argues instead that these claims are based on relatively recent ideas, frequently related to western influences during the colonial period. These influences include eighteenth and nineteenth century European Romantic and Enlightenment rationalist ideas preoccupied with archaic primordialism, evolution, organicism, vitalism and race. As well as considering the ideological impact of National Socialism and Fascism on Hindu nationalism in the 1930s, the book also looks at how Aryanism continues to be promoted in unexpected forms in contemporary India. Using a wide range of historical and contemporary sources, the author considers the consequences of Hindu nationalist resurgence in the light of contemporary debates about minorities, secular citizenship, ethics and modernity.

Writing Against Integration: Danish Imaginaries of Culture, Race and Belonging

Abstract: The article addresses some of the problems related to the concept of integration, which has been used (and abused) in Denmark since the 1990s to discuss socio-economic, cultural and religious chall...

New directions in migration studies: towards methodological de-nationalism

Abstract: In this paper I consider how the construction of migration as a problem poses both ethical and epistemological challenges to migration scholars and how this is related to political and methodological nationalism. I briefly outline two paradigm shifts that have been highly generative in our field and beyond – methodological transnationalism and the mobilities turn, both of which have as their starting point a critique of the nation state as a container of social processes. Building on these critiques and alternatives to methodological nationalism I go on to propose an approach I’m calling ‘methodological denationalism’ which takes as its starting point the migrant/citizen distinction. Key to this approach is to ‘migrantize’ the citizen, and I go on to give some examples of how this is done, not only to citizens of colour, but also to those who support non-citizens or who are the partners of non-citizens. Finally, I suggest that migrantizing the citizen enables us not only to look at the ways in which immigration controls affect citizens, but also how we might begin to make connections between the formal exclusions of noncitizenship and the multiple, and sometimes informal exclusions within citizenship.

Grounded Nationalisms: A Sociological Analysis

Abstract: Globalisation is not the enemy of nationalism; instead, as this book shows, the two forces have developed together through modern history. Malesevic challenges dominant views which see nationalism as a declining social force. He explains why the recent escalations of populist nationalism throughout the world do not represent a social anomaly but are, in fact, a historical norm. By focusing on ever-increasing organisational capacity, greater ideological penetration and networks of micro-solidarity, Malesevic shows how and why nationalism has become deeply grounded in the everyday life of modern human beings. The author explores the social dynamics of these grounded nationalisms via an analysis of varied contexts, from Ireland to the Balkans. His findings show that increased ideological diffusion and the rising coercive capacities of states and other organisations have enabled nationalism to expand and establish itself as the dominant operative ideology of modernity.

Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition

Abstract: In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American and global institutions were in a state of decay, as the state was captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatens to destabilise the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to 'the people', who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole. The demands of identity direct much of what is going on in world politics today. The universal recognition on which liberal democracy is based has been increasingly challenged by restrictive forms of recognition based on nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, or gender, which have resulted in anti-immigrant populism, the upsurge of politicised Islam, the fractious environment of many college campuses, and the hideous emergence of white nationalism. Identity is an urgent and necessary book-a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continual conflict.

FEMINIST FUTURES:: Reimagining Women, Culture and Development

Abstract: Acknowledgements and Dedications About the contributors Abbreviations Preface to the Second Edition Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian and Debashish Munshi 1. An Introduction to Women, Culture and Development Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Priya Kurian Visions I Maria's Stories Maria Ofelia Navarrete The Woof and the Warp Luisa Valenzuela Consider the Problem of Privatisation Anna Tsing Part I: Sexuality and the Gendered Body 2. 'Tragedies' in Out-of-the-way Places: Oceanic Interpretations of Another Scale Yvonne Underhill-Sem with Kaita Sem 3. 'Revolution with a Woman's Face'? Family Norms, Constitutional Reform, and the Politics of Redistribution in Post-Neoliberal Ecuador Amy Lind 4. Claiming the State: Revisiting Women's Reproductive Identity in India's Development Policy Rachel Simon-Kumar 5. Abortion and African Culture: : A Case Study of Kenya Jane Wambui Njagi 6. Bodies and Choices: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water Ifi Amadiume Visions II Empowerment - Snakes and Ladders Jan Nederveen Pieterse Gendered Sexualities and Lived Experience: Revisiting the Case of Gay Sexuality in Women, Culture and Development Dana Collins Cases of Revolutionary Women's Struggle and Leadership: Building Local Political Power in the Countryside in the Age of Neoliberal Globalisation Peter Chua What Should I Say About a Dream? Reflections on Adolescent Girls, Agency, and Citizenship Gauri Nandedkar Part II: Environment, Technology, Science 7. New Lenses with Limited Vision: Shell Scenarios, Science Fiction, Storytelling Wars David McKie with Akanksha Munshi-Kurian 8. Development Nationalism: Science, Religion and the Quest for a Modern India Banu Subramaniam 9. What Would Rachel Say? Joni Seager 10. Negotiating Human-Nature Boundaries, Cultural Hierarchies and Masculinist Paradigms of Development Studies Priya Kurian and Debashish Munshi Visions III Alternatives to Development: Of Love, Dreams and Revolution John Foran Dreams and Process in Development Theory and Practice Light Carruyo The Subjective Side of Development: Sources of Well-being, Resources for Struggle Linda Klouzal Part III: The Cultural Politics of Representation 11. Of Rural Mothers, Urban Whores and Working Daughters: Women and the Critique of Neocolonial Development in Taiwan's Nativist Literature Ming-yan Lai 12. Revisiting the Mostaz'af and the Mostakbar Minoo Moallem 13. Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter: 'Women, Culture and Development' from a Francophone/Postcolonial Perspective Anjali Prabhu 14. The Precarious Middle Class: Gender, Risk and Mobility in the New Indian Economy Raka Ray Visions IV An Antipodean Take on Gender, Culture and Development Cooperation Susanne Schech On Activist Scholarship and Women, Culture and Development Julie Shayne Women, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Development Sangion Tiu Re-Imagining Climate Justice: What the World Needs Now is Love, Hope and You John Foran Post-scripts: A Conversation about the Future of Women, Culture and Development Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian and Debashish Munshi Bibliography

Politics on the Couch: Citizenship and the Internal Life

Abstract: This is an accessible, lucid and stimulating account of the hidden psychology of politics and the hidden politics of the psyche. It is packed with original and imaginative ideas on economics, nationalism, “good-enough” leadership, the citizen and the state, women and men, fatherhood, and the citizen as a “therapist of the world”. Samuels offers trenchant and timely critiques of the crisis in contemporary politics. The book will be important for politicians, people in management studies and the media, members of the therapy world, and all political activists. © 2001 Andrew Samuels. All rights reserved.

Populism and nationalism in a comparative perspective: a scholarly exchange

Abstract: The purpose of the Exchange feature is to publish discussions that engage, advance and initiate new debates in the study of nations and nationalism. This Exchange article is on the subject of ‘Populism and Nationalism’. Each contributor addresses the following four questions on the subject: (1) What is populism and what role does it play within the context of democratic politics? (2) Does populism cut across left-right lines? (3) What is the relationship between nationalism and populism? (4) Are contemporary populist movements across Europe and the West comparable? Our aim is to generate a thought- provoking conversation with regards to the rise of populism in Europe and the West.

Can non-Persians speak? The sovereign’s narration of “Iranian identity”:

Abstract: Since the late 19th century, despite multi-cultural and multilingual composition of Iranian population, Persian nationalism has functioned as the ideology of the state. Persian intelligentsia have ...

Frames of nostalgia and belonging : the resurgence of ethno-nationalism in Sweden

Abstract: This article explores the ethno-nationalist rhetoric promoted by radical right-wing parties in Europe; its perceived threats against national identity translated into a nostalgia for the past based...

Genetic ancestry testing among white nationalists: From identity repair to citizen science.

Abstract: White nationalists have a genetic essentialist understanding of racial identity, so what happens when using genetic ancestry tests (GATs) to explore personal identities, they receive upsetting results they consider evidence of non-white or non-European ancestry? Our answer draws on qualitative analysis of posts on the white nationalist website Stormfront, interpreted by synthesizing the literatures on white nationalism and GATs and identity. We show that Stormfront posters exert much more energy repairing individuals' bad news than using it to exclude or attack them. Their repair strategies combine anti-scientific, counter-knowledge attacks on the legitimacy of GATs and quasi-scientific reinterpretations of GATs in terms of white nationalist histories. However, beyond individual identity repair they also reinterpret the racial boundaries and hierarchies of white nationalism in terms of the relationships GATs make visible. White nationalism is not simply an identity community or political movement but should be understood as bricoleurs with genetic knowledge displaying aspects of citizen science.

International organizations in a new era of populist nationalism

Abstract: This article introduces the special issue on International Organizations in a New Era of Populist Nationalism. The special issue aims to clarify the stakes for and the politics of international organizations in a time of rising populist nationalism around the world. In this introductory essay, we attempt to disentangle the rise of populism and a resurgence of nationalism as distinct processes and concepts. While neither force is new, we observe significant variation across countries in the type of level of nationalist and populist objections to international institutions. We develop a typology for thinking about how and when populism, nationalism, or their combination might have different effects on international cooperation and organizations. Finally, we review the specific article contributions to the special issue and how they fit with the themes developed in this essay. The final section concludes with questions and ideas for future research on the topic that will enhance our understanding of the complex challenges – and potential opportunities – for international cooperation and organizations in the years ahead.

Speaking Truth To Power: Essays On Race, Resistance, And Radicalism

Abstract: Introduction: toward a political autobiography of a race concept - from black nationalism to multicultural democracy. Part 1 Race: the politics of black protest assault on black equality toward independent black politics the Tchula Seven - harvest of hate in the Mississippi Delta the paradox of reform black politics and the democratic party the Jackson campaign - a critical assessment Free South Africa Movement - black America's protest connections with South Africa black politics and the challenges for the left the rainbow's choice- the man or the movement? race, identity and political culture race and class in the US presidential election. Part 2 Resistance: movements for peace and social justice nuclear war and black America peace and the colour line - Third World perspectives on coalitions and curricula flaws anticipated in document the future of the Cold War the quest for empire and the struggle for peace and justice. Part 3 Radical democracy: the crisis of socialism why black Americans are not socialists Zimbabwe and the problematic of African socialism race and democracy in Cuba black studies - Marxism and the black intellectual tradition towards an American socialism from below remaking American Marxism a new American socialism.

Reactionary Internationalism: the philosophy of the New Right

Abstract: What does the New Right want from international relations? In this article, we argue that the philosophy of the New Right is not reducible to a negation of internationalism. The New Right coalesce around a conceptualisation of the international driven by analytics and critiques of specific subjects, norms and practices, that should be treated as a distinct international theoretical offering. We refer to this vision as Reactionary Internationalism. This article examines and locates this vision within the intellectual history of nationalism and internationalism by drawing on poststructuralist approaches to intellectual history and drawing evidence from a discourse analysis of recent Lega, Front National, Brexit, and Trump campaigns. We find that, rather than advocating for the end of internationalism, the New Right seeks to reconstitute its normative architecture on the basis of inequality among identities. This entails dismantling liberal economic and rights-based norms and reframing them around transactionalism and power grounded on identity. Reactionary Internationalism emerges as a distinct philosophy that identifies a hegemonic normative bind and advocates its unravelling so as to liberate subjects understood as defined by their birth-cultural identity.

How Hawkish Is the Chinese Public? Another Look at “Rising Nationalism” and Chinese Foreign Policy

Abstract: Chinese leaders often invoke the feelings of the Chinese people in international disputes. However, most survey research on Chinese public opinion on international affairs has looked at measures of...

Colonization with Chinese Characteristics: Politics of (In)Security in Xinjiang and Tibet

Abstract: China as a victim rather than a proponent of modern colonialism is an essential myth that animates Chinese nationalism. The Chinese statist project of occupying, minoritizing and securitizing diffe...

Nationalism on the Internet: Critical Theory and Ideology in the Age of Social Media and Fake News

Abstract: In this timely book, critical theorist Christian Fuchs asks: What is nationalism and what is the role of social media in the communication of nationalist ideology? Advancing an applied Marxist theory of nationalism, Fuchs explores nationalist discourse in the world of contemporary digital capitalism that is shaped by social media, big data, fake news, targeted advertising, bots, algorithmic politics, and a high-speed online attention economy. Through two case studies of the German and Austrian 2017 federal elections, the book goes on to develop a critical theory of nationalism that is grounded in the works of Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, and Eric J. Hobsbawm. Advanced students and scholars of Marxism, nationalism, media, and politics won't want to miss Fuchs' latest in-depth study of social media and politics that uncovers the causes, structures, and consequences of nationalism in the age of social media and fake news.

Environmental Deregulation, Spectacular Racism, and White Nationalism in the Trump Era

Abstract: This article examines the relationship between racism and environmental deregulation in President Trump’s first year in office. We collected data on all environmental events, such as executive acti...

Clashes, collaborations and convergences: evolving relations of Turkish and Kurdish women’s rights activists

Abstract: This article discusses the various ways the Kurdish women’s movement has impacted feminism in the Turkish context. Against the background of the problematic historical relationship between Turkish and Kurdish women’s rights activists, the article explores the shift in perceptions of, attitudes towards and relations of feminists in Turkey with the Kurdish women’s movement. The article shows that a ‘new generation of feminists’ in Turkey appreciates and is inspired by the Kurdish women’s movement, and rejects the Kemalist and nationalist undertones of earlier generations. Without wanting to belittle on-going nationalism and the rise of women’s cadres linked to the authoritarian Turkish regime, the article analyses the various ways the intersectional long-term struggle of Kurdish women is being perceived, recognized and critically engaged with by many Turkish feminist activists.

Not So Civic: Is There a Difference Between Ethnic and Civic Nationalism?

Abstract: There are reasons why some political ideas fit better into a theoretical framework than others. This article analyzes attempts to detheorize nationalism, arguing that they serve three major functio...

God's Country in Black and Blue: How Christian Nationalism Shapes Americans' Views about Police (Mis)treatment of Blacks

Abstract: Research shows that Americans who hold strongly to a myth about America’s Christian heritage—what is called “Christian nationalism”—tend to draw rigid boundaries around ethnic and national group me...

Non-sovereign states in the era of decolonisation: politics, nationalism and assimilation in French and British Caribbean territories, 1945-1980

Abstract: Non-independent territories today account for more than half the states in the Caribbean but regional and global histories of the twentieth century tend to exclude them from narratives of protest and change. This thesis addresses this gap. Using the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Martinique and Guadeloupe as case studies, it argues that a focus on the processes of decolonisation in these non-sovereign states reveals features common to the global experience of twentieth century decolonisation elsewhere. This comparative perspective shows how the postwar context, the Cold War, differing colonial policies, local elites, local party politics and protest movements shaped political outcomes in British and French territories. Thus, a comprehensive account of decolonisation must acknowledge the developments in non-independent territories. No longer formal colonies, yet having not become conventional independent sovereign states, these territories challenge our preconceptions about decolonisation and the so-called postcolonial world.

Performative Histories, Foundational Fictions

Abstract: Films are integral to national imagination. Promotional publicity markets “domestic films” not only as entertaining, exciting, or moving, but also as topical and relevant in different ways. Reviewers assess new films with reference to other films and cultural products as well as social and political issues. Through such interpretive framings by contemporaries and later generations, popular cinema is embedded both in national imagination and endless intertextual and intermedial frameworks. Moreover, films themselves become signs to be cited and recycled as illustrations of cultural, social, and political history as well as national mentality. In the age of television, “old films” continue to live as history and memory. In Performative Histories, Foundational Fictions, Anu Koivunen analyzes the historicity as well as the intertextuality and intermediality of film reception by focusing on a cycle of Finnish family melodrama and its key role in thinking about gender, sexuality, nation, and history. Close-reading posters, advertisements, publicity-stills, trailers, review journalism, and critical commentary, she demonstrates how The Women of Niskavuori (1938 and 1958), Loviisa (1946), Heta Niskavuori (1952), Aarne Niskavuori (1954), Niskavuori Fights (1957), and Niskavuori (1984) have operated as sites for imagining “our agrarian past”, our Heimat and heritage as well as “the strong Finnish woman” or “the weak man in crisis”. Based on extensive empirical research, Koivunen argues that the Niskavuori films have mobilized readings in terms of history and memory, feminist nationalism and men’s movement, left-wing allegories and right-wing morality as well as realism and melodrama. Through processes of citation, repetition, and re-cycling the films have acquired not only a heterogeneous and contradictory interpretive legacy, but also an affective force.

Unison and Harmony, Dissonance and Dissolution: German Choral Societies in an Age of Rising Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Social Conflict, 1870-1918

Abstract: This dissertation is a study of choral societies, emotions, and German national identity during the German Empire (1871-1918). Using journals, memoirs, letters, lyrics, banners, postcards, and festival programs, I argue that singing creating overlapping emotional communities in spite of palpable social, economic, and political tensions that intensified in the late nineteenth century. The choral movement that originated in the early nineteenth century was heavily influenced by the early Romantics. Theories of the nation that were wrapped up in the ancient poetry and songs of the Germanic people led to the development of the Lied—an art form that was believed to represent the nation itself. The Romantics also prescribed an aesthetics of music that elevated it to the highest art form. An embrace of the Lied and absolute music fostered the notion that Germans were “the people of music.” Themes of myth, history, nature, and a synthesis of all these with science and politics permeated the choral movement. Choral performances created unique bonds among singers but also drew in instrumentalists, conductors, audiences, and stage hands. Each performance created new emotional connections, and a movement that began in a narrow bourgeois realm gradually filtered into all layers of German society creating complex webs of connection. Over the course of a century, war and music created a German nation and a

Top-down or Bottom-up? A Network Agenda-setting Study of Chinese Nationalism on Social Media

Abstract: The extent to which nationalist discourse is transferred between the authority and the people remains unclear. Taking Chinese nationalism on Weibo as a research context, this study differentiated W...

What is new and what is nationalist about Europe's new nationalism?: Explaining the rise of the far right in Europe

Abstract: Far right parties are on the rise across Europe. Their shared populist rhetoric, emphasis on sovereignty and policies that promote a ‘national preference’ has facilitated the term ‘the new nationalism’. According to an emerging consensus, this new nationalism is primarily a demand-side phenomenon triggered by cultural grievances, i.e. a cultural backlash, driven by those on the wrong end of a new transnational cleavage. This explanation we argue, tends to overlook important variations across countries and across time. As such, in this article, we contest the view that the ‘new nationalism’ is a linear and coherent phenomenon best understood as a cultural backlash. Specifically, using data from the 7th (2014) wave of the European Social Survey (ESS) and the 2017 Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP/MARPOR) dataset, we pose a threefold argument: (1) it is important to conceptually distinguish between populism, nationalism and the far right in order to draw meaningful conclusions about the extent to which this phenomenon is linear, coherent and comparable across cases; (2) voters’ economic concerns remain pivotal within the context of the transnational cleavage, entailing that voting behavior is structured by two dimensions of contestation; (3), the explanatory power of nationalism is in the supply, i.e. the ways in which parties use nationalism strategically in an attempt to broaden their appeal.

White Supremacy and Counseling Psychology: A Critical–Conceptual Framework ψ:

Abstract: The mainstreaming of White nationalism in the United States and worldwide suggests an urgent need for counseling psychologists to take stock of what tools they have (and do not have) to combat Whit...