1st Edition

The Netherlands Globalization and National Identity

By Frank J. Lechner Copyright 2008
366 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

366 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Netherlands  is the first concise, authored introduction available on the topic. The Netherlands has been a key entrepot in the world capitalist system for centuries, but because of relatively recent demographic changes, it has become symbolic of the clash of European and Islamic cultures. Perhaps the most secular nation in the world, it now houses a very large Islamic population. That... Read more

1. Orange Nation: Soccer and National Identity in the Netherlands  2. Reimagining the Nation in the the Global Age  3. Debating the Nation: History and the Development of Dutch Identity Discourse  4. One Nation without God: Secularization and the Problem of a National Culture  5. "Keeping Things Together": Dutch Integration Policy and the Coming of Multicultural Society  6. Solidarity in the Polder: Social Policy and the Retrenchment of the Dutch Welfare State  7. The Nation in View: Media Policy and the Crisis in Dutch Public Broadcasting  8. In Search of Distinction: Redefining the Nation in a United Europe  9. Toward a Cosmopolitan Nationalism?

Biography

Frank Lechner, who is Dutch, is Professor of Sociology at Emory University and co-editor of the bestselling Globalization Reader for Blackwell (among other things).