DVE062 Nationalism - A Rephrased Problem?

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2019
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Irena Kašparová, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Lukáš Kubina, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Bc. Martin Langhans (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Margita Havlíčková
Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Karolína Stehlíková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Wednesday 12:00–15:40 G01
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Attention: the course will be taught in Czech language except the seminar of T. H. Eriksen, which will be taught in English.
The course will take place in cooperation of the Department of Theater Studies and the Department of Sociology of Masaryk University in Brno. It will be dealing with the socially most significant manifestations of nationalism in the modern history of Western civilization and its present. The aim of the seminars is to look at the manifestations of nationalism as more or less structured cultural performances. These will be analysed through methodological approaches of contemporary cultural and social anthropology and theatrology. An eminent Norwegian anthropologist T. H. Eriksen will give a guest lecture and lead a seminar as a part of the course. For registering ONLY for the lecture by T. H. Eriksen aimed at wide academic public, please register the course DVE064 Overheated identities: Ideological frictions in the world of 2019 (Thomas Hylland Eriksen).
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to:
-describe how (social) groups are created and what their atributes are as well as how ethnicity and race became instruments of power and who benefits from ethnic labels
-characterize the notion of nation and nationalism in social sciences
-describe various forms of state and manifestations of state (head of state, police, courts of law and fetishes as state symbols and masks of power)
-apply the theatrological analysis of public events (court proceedings, public celebrations, demonstrations etc.) and define how national mythology is staged.
Syllabus
  • Lecture and seminar by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
  • Group and grouping: Who benefits from ethnic labels?
  • What does the nation dream about? Primordialism and social constructivism under the magnifying glass
  • The state as a fetish and mask: the personification of the nation into a nation-state
  • Staging national mythology
  • Court room as theatre of the nation
Literature
  • The cultural politics of nationalism and nation-building : ritual and performance in the forging of nations. Edited by Rachel Tsang. Milton Park, Abingdon Oxon: Routledge, 2014, xi, 201. ISBN 9780415870658. info
  • ERIKSEN, Thomas Hylland. Etnicita a nacionalismus : antropologické perspektivy. Translated by Marek Jakoubek. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON), 2012, 352 s. ISBN 9788074190537. info
  • Social performance : symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual. Edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander - Bernhard Giesen - Jason L. Mast. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, xv, 374. ISBN 9780521857956. info
  • The anthropology of the state : a reader. Edited by Aradhana Sharma - Akhil Gupta. Oxford: Blackwell Pub., 2006, x, 410. ISBN 1405114681. URL info
  • ABRAMS, Bradley F. The struggle for the soul of the nation : Czech culture and the rise of communism. 1st pbk. ed. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005, vii, 362. ISBN 0742530248. info
  • BRUBAKER, Rogers. Ethnicity without groups. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004, x, 283. ISBN 0674022319. info
  • GELLNER, Ernest André. Nacionalismus. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2002, 133 s. ISBN 8073250233. info
  • TAUSSIG, Michael. The magic of the state. New York: Routledge, 1997, 206 s. ISBN 0-415-91790-5. info
  • ANDERSON, Benedict R. O'G. Imagined communities : reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Rev. and extended ed. London: Verso, 1991, xv, 224. ISBN 0860915468. info
  • Ethnic groups and boundaries : the social organization of culture difference. Edited by Frederik Barth. Boston: Little, Brown and comp., 1969, 153 s. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, reading, discussion in seminars.
Assessment methods
Active participation in seminars, colloquium.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
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