1st Edition

Encyclopaedia of Nationalism

By Athena Leoussi Copyright 2001
    324 Pages
    by Routledge

    324 Pages
    by Routledge

    Since the end of the internationalist Soviet experiment in 1989, nationalism is now recognized as a positive, vital force in modern political, cultural, and social life-if kept in check from excess. As a result of the explosion of nationalism, there has been a veritable resurgence of nationalism studies. This proliferation calls for a survey of instruments which have been developed by scholars for the study of nationalism. The Encyclopaedia of Nationalism brings together leading scholars in nationalism studies to survey this complex phenomenon.With over one hundred entries the Encyclopaedia of Nationalism offers a complete and concise set of tools for the study of nationalism in a single volume. The focus throughout is theoretical, and for this reason particular nationalist movements and individual leaders are treated only as illustrative historical and contemporary cases in numerous entries. The Encyclopaedia is organized in an alphabetical sequence of entries, each of which includes a short bibliography for further reading. The reader will find in-depth discussions of the work of modern theoreticians of nationalism.The defining figures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries including Herder, Rousseau, Fichte, Marx, and Renan. Conceptual entries, are treated historically and sociologically. Crucial influential ideas and phenomena that continually redefine themselves with changing historical circumstances, among them, anti-Semitism, art and nationalism, assimilation, class and nation, decolonization, ethnic competition, genocide, language and nation, multiculturalism, religion and nation, state and nation, and xenophobia are treated in depth. A special attraction of this volume is its essay-long entries, many of which have been written by the scholars who developed them.The Encyclopaedia of Nationalism discusses in lucid terms, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the central issues, debates, concepts, and theories available to students and scholars of nationalism. As such it is the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to the subject in all its varied manifestations and implications. It will be an essential tool for historians, political scientists, sociologists, and scholars of the history of ideas.

    A; Anti-Semitism; Apartheid; Art and Nationalism; Aryanism; Assimilation; Authenticity; B; Balkanization; Barth, Frederick [Fredrik] (1928-); Berlin’s Conception of Nationalism; C; Chosen People; Citizenship and Nationality; Class and Nation; Communications Theories of Nationalism; Communism and Nationalism; Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism; Cultural Nationalism; D; Decolonization; Diaspora Nationalism; Discrimination; Dominant Ethnie; Durkheim and Nationalism; E; Enlightenment and Nationalism; Ethnic and Civic Nationalism (Hans Kohn’s Typology); Ethnic and Territorial Nationalism; Ethnic Cleansing; Ethnic Competition; Ethnic Humor; Ethnic Minorities; Ethnicity; Ethnicity and Foreign Policy in Multi-Ethnic States: The American Model; Ethnocentrism; Ethnonationalism; Ethno-Symbolism; Everyday Nationalism; F; Fascist Nationalism; Feminism and Nationalism; Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814); Foundation Myths; Fuseli (Fussli), Henry (1741-1825); G; Gellner, Ernest ( 1925-1995 ); Gellner’s Theory of Nationalism: A Critical Assessment; General Will and National Interest; Genocide and Nationalism; Geography and Nationalism; Ghetto; Gobineau, Arthur de (1816-82); H; Habsburg Empire and Nationalism; Herder’s Theory of the Nation; Historicism and Nationalism; Hobsbawm’s Theory of Nationalism; Homeland; Hybridity Theory of Nationalism (Homi Bhabha on Nationalism); I; Idealist Theory of Nationalism; The “Imagined Communities” Theory of Nationalism; Immigration and Nationality; Indigenismo; Individual Choice vs. Ascribed Status in Nationalist Theories; Instrumentalist Theories of Nationalism; Integral Nationalism; Intellectuals and Nationalism; Internal Colonialism; The Invention of Tradition; J; Jingoism; K; Kedourie, Elie (1926-1992); Kin Selection; L; Language and Nation; Liberalism and Nationalism; M; Melting Pot; Mill’s Theory of Nationality and Nationalism; Minorities; Modernization Theories of Nationalism; Multiculturalism; Music and Nationalism; Myth and Symbolism Theory of Nationalism; N; “Nation”: A Survey of the Term in European Languages; Nation-Building; National Autonomy; National Identity; National Stereotypes; National Symbols; Nationalism; Nationalism: Evolution of Nationalism; Nationalism and the “Other”; Nationalism and Patriotism (Minogue’s Theory of Nationalism); Nationality; Nineteen-Eighty-Nine: Significance for Nationalism; P; Patriotism; Perennialism and Modernism; Postcolonialism, Nations, and Nationalism; A Postmodern Conception of the Nation-State; Primordiality; The Psychology of Nationalism; R; Race; Racism; Rational Choice Theories of Nationalism; Regionalism; Religion and Nationalism; Renan, Ernest (1823-1892); Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); S; Secession and Irredentism; Self-Determination; Sociobiological Theory of Nationalism; Sport and Nationalism; “Springtime of Nations”; State and Nation; T; Tribalism; Typology of Nation-Forming Processes in Europe; W; Weber’s Theory of the Nation; X; Xenophobia; Y; Youth and Nationalism

    Biography

    Athena Leoussi