SOC765 Nationalism: key concepts and theories

Fakulta sociálních studií
podzim 2005
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1/1. 15 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Veronika Bajt, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
doc. PhDr. Ing. Radim Marada, Ph.D.
Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
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St 18:00–19:30 U34
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Course Title: Nationalism: key concepts and theories (MA) Lecturer: Dr. Veronika Bajt Academic Year: 2005/2006 (Fall Semester) Credits: 15, Wed 18.00 19.30, room 34 The course introduces major concepts and debates within the study of nationalism. It reviews the main theoretical arguments about the origins and the continuing power of nationalism in the modern world. The course asks the question of the appeal and perseverance of nationalism as a political movement and an ideology. The most influential theories of nationalism are introduced to the students and critically assessed. Various practical examples are discussed in order to acquaint the students with differing types of historical nation-building development that have affected the contested understanding of nationalism as either a negative (e.g. virulent, bloody, chauvinist nationalisms) or positive phenomenon (e.g. democratising, liberal, unification nationalisms). It starts with the explanation of different approaches to define the key terms 'nation', 'ethnicity', and 'nationalism' by looking at how the most prominent authors within the field use them in their writings. The first part of the course investigates how differently these terms have been understood, proposing that we should not limit our understanding of nationalism to one theory. The course also answers how nationalism is related to concepts such as state, patriotism, culture, and race. In the second part, the course addresses two of the recent major changes that have affected the region and the world: the fall of communism and globalisation. The role of globalisation processes and their relation to the changing position of the nation-state will be reviewed; as will the achievements and pitfalls of multiculturalism with particular regard to education, language and preservation of national identity. The students will be encouraged to critically evaluate the processes of globalisation in relation to the power of the state and the questions of national identity. The role of the European Union and the possibility of a wider European identity that would include Central-Eastern Europe and the Balkans will be posed. Several different proposals for moving beyond the nation-state will be discussed: multicultural pluralism, multinational states and federations, and international confederation, including the question of supra-nationality and the promotion of minority rights. The 12 lectures will bear the following titles: Group identity and the need to belong; Terminology; Context and definition; Ethnicity and nationalism; Classical and contemporary theories of nationalism; Civic and ethnic nationalisms; Nation-building; Nation and state; History and nationalism; Nationalism and post-communism; Nationalism and globalisation; The future of nationalism. Recommended literature: Anderson, Benedict (1991): Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Verso, London. Calhoun, Craig (1997): Nationalism. Open University Press, Buckingham. Connor, Walker (1994): Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ. Gellner, Ernest (1992): Nations and Nationalism. Blackwell, Oxford UK. Guibernau, Montserrat (1996): Nationalisms: The Nation-State and Nationalism in the Twentieth Century. Polity Press, Oxford. Hechter, Michael (2000): Containing Nationalism. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Hosking, Geoffrey, George Schöpflin (eds.) (1997): Myths and Nationhood. Hurst&Company, London. Hroch, Miroslav (2000): Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe: A Comparative Analysis of the Social Composition of Patriotic Groups among the Smaller European Nations. Columbia University Press, New York. Hutchinson, John (1994): Modern Nationalism. Fontana Press, London. Hutchinson, John, Anthony D. Smith (eds.) (1994): Nationalism. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Hutchinson, John, Anthony D. Smith (eds.) (1996): Ethnicity. Oxford University Press, Oxford. McCrone, David (1998): The Sociology of Nationalism: Tomorrows Ancestors. Routledge, London. Mortimer, Edward, Robert Fine (eds.) (1999): People, Nation and State: The Meaning of Ethnicity and Nationalism. I.B.Tauris Publishers, London. Smith, Anthony (1995): The Ethnic Origins of Nations. Blackwell, Oxford. Smith, Anthony (1998): Nationalism and Modernism: A Critical Survey of Recent Theories of Nations and Nationalism. Routledge, London. Spencer, Philip, Howard Wollman (2002): Nationalism: A Critical Introduction. Sage, London. Triandafyllidou, Anna (1998): National Identity and the Other, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 21, No. 4. Yuval-Davis, Nira (2000): Gender and Nation. SAGE Publications, London. Yuval-Davis, Nira, Floya Anthias (eds.) (1989): Woman-Nation-State. MacMillan, London.
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