2. nationalism and nations, March 1

-          classic theories of nationalism

-          birth and growth of nationalism, beginnings of nation

-          historical (developmentalist) perspectives

-          national mythology as an important prerequisite for nation building

-          ethnic and civic conceptualizations of a nation

-          why is nationalism still strong?


readings:

·         Anderson, B.: 1996. Imagined Communities. New York: Verso, pp. 1-7.

·         Smith, A.D. 1991. National Identity. London: Penguin Books, pp. 1-18.

·         Hobsbawm, E. 1983. Inventing Tradition. Cambridge. Cambridge Uni Press, Introduction.

·         Gellner, E.: Nations and Nationalism. Chapter 2: Nationalism and High Cultures.
Blackwell, Oxford 1983. pp. 55-62.

·         Renan, E. 1996. “Qu’est-ce qu’une nation?” (What is a nation?), in Eley, Geoff and Suny,
Ronald (eds.) Becoming National, Oxford University Press, Read pp. 41–55.

·         Calhoun, C. 2007. Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream, London:
Routledge, Chapter 3.

·         Brubaker, Rogers (1994) “Rethinking Nationhood: Nation as Institutionalized Form,
Practical Category, Contingent Event”, Contention, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 3–14.