1st Edition

Beyond Nationalism and the Nation-State Radical Approaches to Nation

Edited By İlker Cörüt, Joost Jongerden Copyright 2021
226 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book centers on 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. The book is written against the background of rising... Read more

Radical Approaches to Nation: An Introduction

İlker Cörüt and Joost Jongerden

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

Joost Jongerden and Cengiz Gunes

2. Hikmet Kıvılcımlı, “History Thesis”, and Nation-Form: National Revolutionaries as Modern Barbarians?

İlker Cörüt

3. Dreams and Realities: Do-It-Yourself (Autonomic) Reincorporation by Ex-Insurgents in Colombia

Julián Cortés Urquijo and Gerard Verschoor

Part II: Nation, Pueblo, Narod

4. Venezuela: Revolutionary Bolivarianism Against the Colonial Nation-State

Dario Azzellini

5. Which Nation is this? Brexit and the not-so-United Kingdom

John Clarke

6. Narod as a Radical Political Invention: The Outset of Intellectual Struggles Over the Nation in the Nineteenth Century Russia

Gözde Yazıcı Cörüt

Part III: Anti-Colonial Nation

7. The Arab Nation, the Chinese Model, and Theories of Self-Reliant Development

Max Ajl

8. Revolution and Nation Building in Burkina Faso

Ernest Harsch

9. José Carlos Mariátegui and Politics: Reform, Revolution, and Populism

Juan E. De Castro

Biography

İlker Cörüt is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Citizenship, Social Pluralism and Religious Diversity at Potsdam University, Germany. He is interested in anthropology of the state and Turkish nationalism, nationalism studies, contemporary social theory, and the political economy of modern Turkish history and the Kurdish question.

Joost Jongerden is Associate Professor Do-it-Yourself development at the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and Project Professor at the Asian Platform for Global Sustainability & Transcultural Studies at Kyoto University, Japan. Having a geographical focus on the rural, Turkey and Kurdistan, his research centers on the question of how people create and maintain a livable life under conditions of precarity.