Rethinking Stateless Nations And National Identity In Wales And The Basque Country

Author : Sophie Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319914091

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Rethinking Stateless Nations and National Identity in Wales and the Basque Country by Sophie Williams Pdf

This book looks at the fundamental components of national identity as understood by ordinary nation members, and the way in which it is mobilised by political elites. Drawing on an original case comparison between Wales and the Basque Country, the author suggests there are many commonalities between these two nations, particularly around the fundamentals of their national identities. However, differences occur in terms of degree of intensity of feeling and around the politicisation of identity, with more entrenched and hostile political positioning in the Basque Country than Wales. Through a multi-level comparison, the book generates insights into national identity as a theoretical concept and in a ‘stateless nation’ context. It argues for national identity's intangible, yet polemical, nature, looking at the primordialist way it is understood, its permanence and importance, coupled with its lack of everyday salience and consequent obligations.

Author : Mark Gant
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527537934

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Revisiting Centres and Peripheries in Iberian Studies by Mark Gant Pdf

Like its predecessor and companion volume New Journeys in Iberian Studies, this volume gathers fresh and emerging research in a range of sub-fields of Iberian studies from an international range of established academics and early career researchers. The book provides rich evidence of the breadth and depth of new research being carried out in the dynamic field of Iberian studies at present. As the title suggests, a strong thread running through the collection is concerned with investigating the multiple spaces of tension between the centre and periphery that comprise the Iberian cultural system. Topically, the current situation in Catalonia naturally comes to the fore in a number of chapters and from a range of perspectives. However, in the revisiting of a range of cultural products and historical processes undertaken by the contributors, it can be seen that transoceanic postcolonial relations are not neglected and concerns with history, memory and fiction also weave their way through their work.

Author : Gloria Pilar Totoricaguena
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Australia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131276854

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Australia by Gloria Pilar Totoricaguena Pdf

Author : Daniel Béland,André Lecours
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191613869

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Nationalism and Social Policy by Daniel Béland,André Lecours Pdf

Despite the recent proliferation of literature on nationalism and on social policy, relatively little has been written to analyse the possible interaction between the two. Scholars interested in social citizenship have indirectly dealt with the interaction between national identity and social programs such as the British NHS, but they have seldom examined this connection in reference to nationalism. Specialists of nationalism rarely mention social policy, focusing instead on language, culture, ethnicity, and religion. The main objective of this book is to explore the nature of the connection between nationalism and social policy from a comparative and historical perspective. At the theoretical level, this analysis will shed new light on a more general issue: the relationships between identity formation, territorial politics, and social policy. Although this book refers to the experience of many different countries, the main cases are three multinational states, that is, states featuring strong nationalist movements: Canada (Québec), the United Kingdom (Scotland), and Belgium (Flanders). The book looks at the interplay between nationalism and social policy at both the state and sub-state levels through a detailed comparison between these three cases. In its concluding chapter, the book brings in cases of mono-national states (i.e. France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States) to provide broader comparative insight on the meshing of nationalism and social policy. The original theoretical framework for this research is built using insight from selected scholarship on nationalism and on the welfare state.

Author : Gloria Pilar Totoricaguena
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Basque diaspora
ISBN : UOM:39015062434983

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Basque Diaspora by Gloria Pilar Totoricaguena Pdf

An investigation into the specifics of Basque migrations, cultural representations, diasporic politics, and ethnonationalism, using theories from sociology, political science, history, and anthropology. Distributed for the Center for Basque Studies.

Author : Alain Gagnon,James Tully
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521804736

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Multinational Democracies by Alain Gagnon,James Tully Pdf

In this book, political scientists provide a collaborative study of multinational democracies and the difficulties in governing them.

Author : Simon Brooks
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786830135

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Why Wales Never Was by Simon Brooks Pdf

Written as an act of protest in a Welsh-speaking community in north-west Wales, Why Wales Never Was combines a devastating analysis of the historical failure of Welsh nationalism with an apocalyptic vision of a non-Welsh future. It is the ‘progressive’ nature of Welsh politics and the ‘empire of the civic’, which rejects both language and culture, that prevents the colonised from rising up against his colonial master. Wales will always be a subjugated nation until modes of thought, dominant since the nineteenth century, are overturned. Originally a comment on Welsh acquiescence to Britishness at the time of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the book’s emphasis on the importance of European culture is a parable for Brexit times. Both deeply rooted in Welsh culture and European in scope, Why Wales Never Was brings together history, philosophy and politics in a way never tried before in Wales. First published in Welsh in 2015, Why Wales Never Was affirms the author’s reputation as one of the most radical writers in Wales today.

Author : Pedro Ibarra Güell,Xabier Irujo Ametzaga
Publisher : Center for Basque Studies UV of Nevada, Reno
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : País Vasco (Spain)
ISBN : 1935709038

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Basque Political Systems by Pedro Ibarra Güell,Xabier Irujo Ametzaga Pdf

"Collection of articles on the Basque political system within its own context and larger national and global contexts"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Publisher : International and Area Studies University of California B El
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015043101859

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The Myth of "ethnic Conflict" by Ronnie D. Lipschutz Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Urla
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780874178807

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Reclaiming Basque by Jacqueline Urla Pdf

The Basque language, Euskara, is one of Europe’s most ancient tongues and a vital part of today’s lively Basque culture. Reclaiming Basque examines the ideology, methods, and discourse of the Basque-language revitalization movement over the course of the past century and the way this effort has unfolded alongside the simultaneous Basque nationalist struggle for autonomy. Jacqueline Urla employs extensive long-term fieldwork, interviews, and close examination of a vast range of documents in several media to uncover the strategies that have been used to preserve and revive Euskara and the various controversies that have arisen among Basque-language advocates.

Author : Shuang Liu,Zala Volcic,Cindy Gallois
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446259542

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Introducing Intercultural Communication by Shuang Liu,Zala Volcic,Cindy Gallois Pdf

Books on intercultural communication are rarely written with an intercultural readership in mind. In contrast, this multinational team of authors has put together an introduction to communicating across cultures that uses examples and case studies from around the world. The book further covers essential new topics, including international conflict, social networking, migration, and the effects technology and mass media play in the globalization of communication. Written to be accessible for international students too, this text situates communication theory in a truly global perspective. Each chapter brings to life the links between theory and practice and between the global and the local, introducing key theories and their practical applications. Along the way, you will be supported with first-rate learning resources, including: • theory corners with concise, boxed-out digests of key theoretical concepts • case illustrations putting the main points of each chapter into context • learning objectives, discussion questions, key terms and further reading framing each chapter and stimulating further discussion • a companion website containing resources for instructors, including multiple choice questions, presentation slides, exercises and activities, and teaching notes. This book will not merely guide you to success in your studies, but will teach you to become a more critical consumer of information and understand the influence of your own culture on how you view yourself and others.

Author : Hans-Rudolf Wicker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000324198

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Rethinking Nationalism and Ethnicity by Hans-Rudolf Wicker Pdf

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.

Author : David Morley,Kevin Robins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134865307

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Spaces of Identity by David Morley,Kevin Robins Pdf

We are living through a time when old identities - nation, culture and gender are melting down. Spaces of Identity examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a post-modern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. To address current problems of identity, the authors look at contemporary politics between Europe and its most significant others: America; Islam and the Orient. They show that it's against these places that Europe's own identity has been and is now being defined. A stimulating account of the complex and contradictory nature of contemporary cultural identities.

Author : V. P. Gagnon, Jr.
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801468889

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The Myth of Ethnic War by V. P. Gagnon, Jr. Pdf

"The wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in neighboring Croatia and Kosovo grabbed the attention of the western world not only because of their ferocity and their geographic location, but also because of their timing. This violence erupted at the exact moment when the cold war confrontation was drawing to a close, when westerners were claiming their liberal values as triumphant, in a country that had only a few years earlier been seen as very well placed to join the west. In trying to account for this outburst, most western journalists, academics, and policymakers have resorted to the language of the premodern: tribalism, ethnic hatreds, cultural inadequacy, irrationality; in short, the Balkans as the antithesis of the modern west. Yet one of the most striking aspects of the wars in Yugoslavia is the extent to which the images purveyed in the western press and in much of the academic literature are so at odds with evidence from on the ground."—from The Myth of Ethnic War V. P. Gagnon Jr. believes that the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s were reactionary moves designed to thwart populations that were threatening the existing structures of political and economic power. He begins with facts at odds with the essentialist view of ethnic identity, such as high intermarriage rates and the very high percentage of draft-resisters. These statistics do not comport comfortably with the notion that these wars were the result of ancient blood hatreds or of nationalist leaders using ethnicity to mobilize people into conflict. Yugoslavia in the late 1980s was, in Gagnon's view, on the verge of large-scale sociopolitical and economic change. He shows that political and economic elites in Belgrade and Zagreb first created and then manipulated violent conflict along ethnic lines as a way to short-circuit the dynamics of political change. This strategy of violence was thus a means for these threatened elites to demobilize the population. Gagnon's noteworthy and rather controversial argument provides us with a substantially new way of understanding the politics of ethnicity.

Author : Begoña Aretxaga
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Democracy
ISBN : UOM:39015061026996

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Empire & Terror by Begoña Aretxaga Pdf

"Contributors to this volume explore crucial issues regarding the articulation of politics at the beginning of the new millennium. What does sovereignty in the state mean in the contemporary world of neoliberal capitalism?" "The events of 9/11 have added dramatic urgency to these issues. Some of the contributors to this volume discuss questions associated with this new international context. But ultimately the volume's goal is to stimulate productive ways of thinking simultaneously about the dynamics articulating the concrete situation of identity politics or violence and the global rhetoric of international terrorism that has come to dominate the political discourse." --Book Jacket.