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Author: Brian Jenkins Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 9780415123129 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 312
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Considering the question of why nationalism retains political significance when the nation state seems to be 'in decline', this volume offers a rich analysis of the 'national question' in nine major European countries.
Author: Brian Jenkins Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134805802 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 304
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The resilience of nationalism in contemporary Europe may seem paradoxical at a time when the nation state is widely seen as being 'in decline'. The contributors of this book see the resurgence of nationalism as symptomatic of the quest for identity and meaning in the complex modern world. Challenged from above by the supranational imperatives of globalism and from below by the complex pluralism of modern societies, the nation state, in the absence of alternatives to market consumerism, remains a focus for social identity. Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe takes a fully interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the 'national question'. Individual chapters consider the specifics of national identity in France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Iberia, Russia, the former Yugoslavla and Poland, while looking also at external forces such as economic globalisation, European supranationalism, and the end of the Cold War. Setting current issues and conflicts in their broad historical context, the book reaffirms that 'nations' are not 'natural' phenomena but 'constructed' forms of social identity whose future will be determined in the social arena.
Author: Brian Jenkins Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 9780415123129 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 312
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Considering the question of why nationalism retains political significance when the nation state seems to be 'in decline', this volume offers a rich analysis of the 'national question' in nine major European countries.
Author: Laura Rorato Publisher: Rodopi ISBN: 9042025719 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 233
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With the expansion of the EU and calls for a European constitution, the question of a common European identity has become increasingly pressing in recent times. However, in the face of diverse national and regional traditions - and the absence of an obvious European cultural imaginary - the forging of a strong sense of European identity proves problematic. This volume brings together case studies of national and regional images from across Europe, which together suggest emerging patterns of identification within contemporary Europe - patterns which may not necessarily amount to a European 'identity', but rather to a European 'mode' of identification. The chronological structure of the volume demonstrates the increasingly problematic nature of national collective memories and past imaginaries in light of emergent marginal voices and images, and suggests that it is both from beyond and within the national paradigm that new challenges are now reshaping the cultural imaginary of European communities. Focusing on cultural images within film, literature, national narratives and myths, museum exhibitions and architecture, this volume is of interest to a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities, and presents an interdisciplinary approach to questions of cultural memory and identity formation.
Author: Lotte Jensen Publisher: Amsterdam University Press ISBN: 9048530644 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 343
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This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to offer perspectives on national identity formation in various European contexts between 1600 and 1815. Contributors challenge the dichotomy between modernists and traditionalists in nationalism studies through an emphasis on continuity rather than ruptures in the shaping of European nations in the period, while also offering an overview of current debates in the field and case studies on a number of topics, including literature, historiography, and cartography.
Author: Mikl¢s S?k”sd Publisher: Central European University Press ISBN: 9639776742 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 437
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This volume brings together research contributions on the interface between media, identities and the public sphere in contemporary Europe. It contains information spanning theoretical insights and the elaboration of original case studies. Particularly welcome is the effort to bring together discussion on media industries and cultural identification and the experiences of East and West."-Paul Statham, Professor of Sociology, University of Bristol Mikl=s Snk÷sd is Associate Professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong. Karol Jakubowicz is Senior Adviser to the Chairman of the National Broadcasting Council of Poland.
Author: Hanspeter Kriesi Publisher: Purdue University Press ISBN: 9781557533531 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 300
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"The nation-state is challenged all over the world today. Regional movements, the reunification of separate territorial parts, the differentiation of formerly homogenous ethnic identities, the sequels of war, and the country-specific historical legacies present many different challenges for national identities and nationhood. The contributions in this volume constitute an attempt to put the many facets of the contemporary European experience into perspective."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Bettina Westle Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198732902 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 370
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This book provides an unprecedented insight into the multiple ways through which citizens of 16 countries connect their own national identity to European identity.
Author: Anne-Marie Thiesse Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004498834 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 246
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From the barbarian epics to the ethnographic museums, from the national languages to emblematic landscapes or typical costumes, this book retraces the cultural fabrication of the European nations. National identities are not facts of nature, but constructions.
Author: Alain Dieckhoff Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351916998 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 278
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Interest in the study of national identity as a collective phenomenon is a growing concern among the social and political sciences. This book addresses the scholarly interest in examining the origins of ideologies and social practices that give historical meaning, cohesion and uniqueness to modern national communities. It focuses on the various routes taken towards the construction of cultural authenticity as an inspirational purpose of nation-building and reveals the diversity of the themes, practices and symbols used to encourage self-identification and communality. Among the techniques explored are the dramatization of suffering and tragedy, the exaltation of heroes and deeds, the evocation of landscape, nature and the arts and the delimitation of collective values to be pursued during reconstruction in post-war periods.
Author: Brian Jenkins
Author: Brian Jenkins
Author: Brian Jenkins
Author: Laura Rorato
Author: Lotte Jensen
Author: Mikl¢s S?k”sd
Author: Hanspeter Kriesi
Author: Bettina Westle
Author: Anne-Marie Thiesse
Author: Alain Dieckhoff
Author: Jeffrey T. Checkel