Beschreibung:
Umut Özkirimli is Professor of Political Science at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University.
This widely-used and highly-acclaimed text provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to the main theoretical perspectives on nationalism. The 3rd edition has been revised and updated throughout and includes a new chapter on the practical outworking of theory in the contemporary politics of nationalism.
Undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses on nationalism on degrees in Politics, Sociology, International Relations and other related Social Sciences; Some general sale and background reading for students of Contemporary History, Social and Political Theory
1. Introduction.- 2. Discourses and Debates on Nationalism.- 3. Primordialism/Perennialism.- 4. Modernism.- 5. Ethnosymbolism.- 6. Contemporary Approaches to Nationalism.- 7. Nationalism: Theory and Practice.