ISSN:1354-5078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1354-5078.1995.00001.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Abstract.This article considers the debate that has recently developed in studies of nationalism between those scholars who see the nation as a modern and constantly changing constructionex nihiloand those who see it as an immemorial, unchanging communal essence. It outlines the so‐called ‘gastronomical’ and ‘geological’ metaphors of nation formation and suggests a synthetic model which balances the influence of the ethnic past and the impact of nationalist activity. It shows that the central question which has divided theorists of nationalism is the place of the past in the life of modern nations. The author recognises the role of nationalists in national mobilisation but stresses that nationalists are not social engineers or mere image makers as modernist and post‐modernist accounts would have it, but rather social and political archaeologists whose activities consist in the rediscovery and reinterpretation of the ethnic past and through it the regeneration of their nationa

ISSN:1354-5078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1354-5078.1995.00003.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Abstract.Nationalism is a theory about the nature, purposes, boundaries and the basis of the legitimacy and the unity of the state. It maintains that the state should ideally be constituted as a nation. This means that a nation has a right to form a state of its own, as also that every state should endeavour to become a nation. The nationalist discourse rests on several assumptions, such as that nationalism is a universal phenomenon, that nationalist movements have identical structures, that all nations aim to become independent states, that non‐Western nationalism is derivative in nature and that nationalism is an unmitigated evil. The author elucidates the distinctive nature of nationalism and criticises these and related assumption

ISSN:1354-5078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1354-5078.1995.00025.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Abstract.Nationalism often involves risky and violent action. This has led many scholars to believe that its roots must be irrational. This attribution is ambiguous, however, because it fails to distinguish between two quite different meanings of the term ‘irrational’. In principle, nationalism can emanate either from social or from individual irrationality. Only the latter kind of irrationality is theoretically provocative, however. The hallmark of rational individual action lies in its instrumentality. Whereas many aspects of nationalism have been analysed successfully using instrumental behavioral assumptions, nationalist violence has been a significant exception. This article offers a framework for the explanation of nationalist violence in instrumental terms. It concludes by suggesting that the temptation to view nationalism as an outcome of individual irrationality should be resis

ISSN:1354-5078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1354-5078.1995.00053.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Abstract.Designed and delivered as a ‘think‐paper’ at the first conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism in 1991, this contribution has been revised in the light of subsequent developments but retains the essential flavour and format of the original. The primary objective of the article is to identify the most typical and authoritative stimuli promoting and sustaining the rising tide of nationalism over the five years preceding the collapse of communist Eastern Europe in 1989/91, concentrating on environmental threat, demographic flux, the media revolution and the bankruptcy of supra‐national authority. The secondary objective is to reflect on how differing evaluations of these stimuli have influenced rival interpretations of the phenomenon of modern nationalism. Experiencing both a ‘resurgence’ and a ‘regeneration’ (but not a ‘revolution') over the last ten years, nationalism is expected to remain a dominant force across greater Eastern Europe for the f

ISSN:1354-5078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1354-5078.1995.00069.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Abstract.Four states have disappeared as a result of the collapse of communism and many others have come into being. I want to look at the reason why these states have disappeared, what this says about the nature of state‐sustaining ideologies and what the disappearance tells us about the relationship between statehood and nationhood. I will also look at the effectiveness of communism as a state‐sustaining ideology. The four are, obviously, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and East Germany. In each case, the survival of the state was linked to communism and the end of communism brought their continued existence into jeopardy. I shall not be looking at the Soviet Union in detail.Broadly, the construction of political identities can come about in two ways – by ethnicity or by the state. Each gives rise to a different set of loyalties, creates its own panoply of rituals etc. When the two coincide, the mythical nation‐state can be said to be in being, but this hardly exists in reality (Iceland may be the sole exception in

ISSN:1354-5078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1354-5078.1995.00081.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Abstract.This article vindicates the phenomenon of the nation and argues that civil society could not exist without it. The nation, although related to nationalism, is by no means identical with it. Extreme forms of nationalism are generally speaking iniquitous and in many cases severely damaging to the societies in which they occur. The same stricture does not apply to the nation.

ISSN:1354-5078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1354-5078.1995.00093.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Books reviewed in this article:Thomas Hylland Eriksen,Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives.Mark Pinson (ed.)The Muslims of Bosnia‐Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia.H. T. Norris,Islam in the Balkans: Religion and Society between Europe and the Arab World.Walker Connor,Ethnonationalism: The quest for understanding.Raymond W. Duncan and Paul G. Holman, Jr. (eds.),Ethnic Nationalism and Regional Conflict: The Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.Peter Jackson and Jan Penrose (eds.),Constructions of Race Place and Nation.Dermot Keogh and Michael T. Haltzel (eds.),Northern Ireland and the Politics of Reconciliation.Oliver P. Rafferty,Catholicism in Ulster 1603–1983: An Interpretative History.Charles Taylor, Amy Gutmannet al.(eds.),Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition.Stephen Iwan Griffiths,Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict: Threats to European Secur

ISSN:1354-5078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1354-5078.1995.00119.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1354-5078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1354-5078.1995.00141.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY