Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 7
PREFACE......Page 9
INTRODUCTION......Page 11
Part I NATION AND IDENTITY: THEORY AND CONTEXT......Page 16
1 NATION AND NATIONALISM IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE......Page 17
IMAGINING THE NATION: CITIZENSHIP AND ETHNICITY......Page 21
IMAGINING THE NATION: THE CLASS DIMENSION......Page 23
NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS AND NATION-STATES......Page 26
NATIONALISM AND NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 29
CONCLUSION......Page 33
NOTES......Page 36
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 38
2 LANGUAGES OF RACISM WITHIN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE......Page 40
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES......Page 41
SCIENTIFIC RACISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY......Page 44
RACISM WITHIN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE......Page 48
IMMIGRATION AND RACISM......Page 50
Cultural separatism......Page 51
NOTES......Page 57
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 59
ACROSS EUROPE: THE CHANGING PICTURE......Page 60
TOWARDS A EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION REGIME......Page 62
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY INITIATIVES......Page 64
Inter-governmental initiatives......Page 65
Individual government initiatives......Page 67
CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONALITY: TOWARDS A POLICY CONVERGENCE?......Page 69
RACE, NATION AND IDENTITY IN THE NEW EUROPE......Page 77
NOTES......Page 81
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 84
Part II NATIONHOOD AND NATIONALISM IN WESTERN EUROPE......Page 86
4 RECONSIDERING ‘BRITISHNESS’......Page 87
NOTES......Page 102
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 104
STATE AND NATION......Page 105
NATIONALISM: IDEOLOGY AND CONFLICT......Page 108
NATION AND NATIONALISM IN THE POST-WAR ERA......Page 111
Towards a new crisis of national identity?......Page 113
GLOBALISM AND NATIONALISM......Page 116
THE FRONT NATIONAL IN CONTEXT......Page 119
NOTES......Page 124
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 127
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PROBLEM......Page 128
THE SITUATION AFTER 1945......Page 132
National consciousness......Page 133
Nationalism......Page 134
National symbolism......Page 135
Substitute identities......Page 136
The battle for history......Page 138
The new Deutschlandpolitik......Page 139
THE RENAISSANCE OF ‘NATION’ AND ‘HISTORY’ IN THE 1970s AND 1980s......Page 142
Unification and unity......Page 144
A new nationalism?......Page 146
The debate on the ‘nation’......Page 147
Foreign policy after unification......Page 149
NOTES......Page 150
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 153
Part III STATE, NATION AND REGION IN SOUTHERN EUROPE......Page 154
7 MULTIPLE NATIONAL IDENTITIES, IMMIGRATION AND RACISM IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL......Page 155
DICTATORSHIP AND RIGID CENTRALISM......Page 157
NATIONALISM IN A DEMOCRATIC CONTEXT......Page 158
IMMIGRATION......Page 162
FORTRESS IBERIA......Page 163
THE FAR RIGHT IN POST-AUTHORITARIAN IBERIA......Page 166
NOTES......Page 168
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 169
Pre-unification models of Italy......Page 171
Risorgimento and fascism: ascism: the defeat defeat of the nation......Page 172
Resistance as partial founding myth......Page 174
Post-war partial attachments......Page 175
Social disintegration in the 1980s......Page 177
Self-determinism in Western Europe......Page 178
The early days of the Lombard League 1982–6......Page 180
Collective identity and ‘theory of the enemy’......Page 182
Birth of the Northern League......Page 183
The League as a right-wing phenomenon......Page 184
The League as a racist phenomenon......Page 185
Triumph......Page 186
Forza Italia: a media tycoon at the head of a virtual party......Page 187
Videocracy and identity42......Page 188
The radical Right: Alleanza Nazionale......Page 189
CONCLUSION......Page 191
NOTES......Page 192
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 195
Part IV THE NATION-STATE AFTER COMMUNISM......Page 196
9 THE FAILURE OF NATIONALISM IN POST-COMMUNIST POLAND 1989–95......Page 197
NATIONALISM IN THE INTER-WAR PERIOD......Page 198
War and the communist assumption of power......Page 201
Popular protest and national sentiment......Page 203
NATIONALISM AFTER COMMUNISM......Page 207
Nationalism, parties and issues......Page 208
Poland’s minorities......Page 212
The return to Europe......Page 213
NOTES......Page 214
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 216
MAJOR THEMES IN RUSSIAN IDENTITY......Page 218
TSARIST AND SOVIET NATIONALITY POLICY......Page 221
SOVIET IN FORM, RUSSIAN IN CONTENT?......Page 224
THE ORIGINS OF OVERT RUSSIAN NATIONALISM WITHIN THE USSR......Page 229
THE BEGINNINGS OF POPULAR RUSSIAN NATIONALISM......Page 231
NATIONALISM WITHIN THE PARTY/STATE AND THE END OF THE USSR......Page 234
THE PROBLEMS OF RUSSIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE POST-SOVIET ERA......Page 238
NOTES......Page 240
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 244
11 CULTURE, POLITICS AND IDENTITY IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA......Page 245
A BRIEF HISTORY......Page 246
THE POST-WAR PERIOD: OPPORTUNITIES AND OBSTACLES......Page 250
MOVES TOWARDS CONFEDERALISATION......Page 253
THE 1980s: DISARTICULATION OF THE OFFICIAL DISCOURSE AND THE EMERGENCE OF POPULIST NATIONALISMS......Page 256
SLOVENIA......Page 258
CROATIA......Page 260
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA......Page 262
MACEDONIA......Page 265
NOTES......Page 268
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 274
Part V CONCLUSION......Page 276
12 CONCLUSION......Page 277
INDEX......Page 279