Beyond Nationalism and the Nation-State: Radical Approaches to Nation

ISBN-13: 9780367684020 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 204 str.

Joost Jongerden

Opis

This book centers around one fundamental question: Is it possible to imagine a progressive sense of nation? Rooted in historic and contemporary social struggles, the chapters in this collection examine what a progressive sense of nation might look like, with authors exploring the theory and practice of the nation beyond nationalism.

Spis treści

Radical Approaches to Nation: An Introduction  Part I: Collective Action, Self-Rule, and Autonomy  1. A Democratic Nation: The Kurdistan Workers Party PKK and the Idea of Nation Beyond the State  2. Hikmet Kıvılcımlı, “History Thesis”, and Nation-Form: National Revolutionaries as Modern Barbarians?  3. Dreams and Realities: Do-It-Yourself (Autonomic) Reincorporation by Ex-Insurgents in Colombia  Part II: Nation, Pueblo, Narod  4. Venezuela: Revolutionary Bolivarianism Against the Colonial Nation-State  5. Which Nation is this? Brexit and the not-so-United Kingdom  6. Narod as a Radical Political Invention: The Outset of Intellectual Struggles Over the Nation in the Nineteenth Century Russia  Part III: Anti-Colonial Nation  7. The Arab Nation, the Chinese Model, and Theories of Self-Reliant Development  8. Revolution and Nation Building in Burkina Faso  9. José Carlos Mariátegui and Politics: Reform, Revolution, and Populism