Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe

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Cambridge University Press, 1996 M09 28 - 202 páginas
The birthplace of the nation-state and modern nationalism at the end of the eighteenth century, Europe was supposed to be their graveyard at the end of the twentieth. Yet, far from moving beyond the nation-state, fin-de-siècle Europe has been moving back to the nation-state, most spectacularly with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia into a score of nationally defined successor states. This massive reorganization of political space along national lines has engendered distinctive, dynamically interlocking, and in some cases explosive forms of nationalism: the autonomist nationalisms of national minorities, the "nationalizing" nationalisms of the new states in which they live, and the transborder nationalisms of the external national "homelands" to which they belong by shared ethnicity though not by citizenship. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu and the 'new institutionalist' sociology, and comparing contemporary nationalisms with those of interwar Europe, Rogers Brubaker provides a theoretically sophisticated and historically rich account of one of the most important problems facing the 'New Europe'.--Publisher description.
 

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Introduction
1
Rethinking nationhood and nationalism
11
Rethinking nationhood nation as institutionalized form practical category contingent event
13
Nationhood and the national question in the Soviet Union and its successor states an institutional event
23
National minorities nationalizing states and external national homelands in the New Europe
55
Nationalizing states in the old New Europe and the new
79
Homeland nationalism in Weimar Germany and Weimar Russia
107
Aftermaths of empire and the unmixing of peoples
148
Bibliography
179
Index
193
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