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Rethinking Nationalism and Ethnicity The Struggle for Meaning and Order in Europe

Edited By Hans-Rudolf Wicker Copyright 1997
    340 Pages
    by Routledge

    340 Pages
    by Routledge

    344 Pages
    by Routledge
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    While there has been a spate of books concerned with race and ethnicity in Europe more specifically, this timely volume offers a broader perspective and positions issues of identity, ethnicity, multiculturalism, xenophobia, regionalism and ethnonationalism within the wider contexts of trans- and supranationalism. With the weakening of welfare states and the homogenizing influences of globalization, nations within both Eastern and Western Europe are discovering that the battlefield of political action is being redefined, and as a result emotional alliances threaten to bypass the democratic systems of the past. Offering fresh insights that are both empirically and theoretically informed, this book illuminates the processes and consequences of these new developments. In particular, it reviews Marx's, Durkheim's and Simmel's theories on nationalism and national identity, and presents case studies of Belgium, Italy's Northern League, right-wing intellectual production in Russia, and much more.

    1 The Future of Ethnonations in a United Europe 2 Nationalism and the Theory of Society 3 Marx and Durkheim on Nationalism 4 The Quest for Identity: Modern Strangers and New/Old Ethnicities in Europe 5 Multiculturalism and Universalism in the United States and EU-Europe 6 Multiculturalism and Political Integration: The Need for a Differentiated Citizenship? 7 Multiculturalism and the Sphere Theories of Hannah Arendt and John Rex, 8 Ethnic Revivals Within Nation-States? The Theories Of E. Gellner and A. D. Smith Revisited 9 Affiliation, Exclusion and the National State: 'Ethnic Discourses' and Minorities in East Central Europe, 10 Re-Imagining the Jew in Hungary: The Reconstruction of Ethnicity through Political Affiliation 11 Majority as a Minority: The Russian Ethno-Nationalism and its Ideology in the 1970s-1990s 12 The Nationalist Game: State Dominance and Ethnic Nationalism 13 Boundaries, Cohesion and Switching: On We-Groups in Ethnic National and Religious Forms 14 Italy's Northern League: Between Ethnic Citizenship and a Federal State 15 The Dilemma of Separation Versus Union: The New Dynamic of Nationalist Politics in Belgium 16 Ethnicity and National Educational Systems in Western Europe

    Biography

    Hans-Rudolf Wicker University of Berne

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