Reimagining the Nation-State: The Contested Terrains of Nation-Building - Couverture souple

MacLaughlin, Jim

 
9780745313641: Reimagining the Nation-State: The Contested Terrains of Nation-Building
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0745313647 ISBN 13 : 9780745313641
Editeur : Pluto Press, 2001

Synopsis

This book assesses competing modes of nation-building and nationalism through a critical reappraisal of the works of key theorists such as Benedict Anderson and Eric Hobsbawm. Exploring the processes of nation building from a variety of ethnic and social class contexts, it focuses on the contested terrains within which nationalist ideologies are often rooted. Mac Laughlin offers a theoretical and empirical analysis of nation building, taking as a case study the historical connections between Ireland and Great Britain in the clash between 'big nation' historic British nationalism on the one hand, and minority Irish nationalism on the other. Locating the origins of the historic nation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Mac Laughlin emphasises the difficulties, and specifities, of minority nationalisms in the nineteenth century. In so doing he calls for a place-centred approach which recognises the symbolic and socio-economic significance of territory to the different scales of nation-building. Exploring the evolution of Irish Nationalism, Reimaging the Nation State also shows how minority nations can challenge the hegemony of dominant states and threaten the territorial integrity of historic nations.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jim Mac Laughlin is a political geographer and social scientist who has published widely on state formation, nation separatism, political regionalism, emigration, racism and the ideology of the social sciences. He is the author of Reimagining the Nation State: The Contested Terrains of Nation-building (Pluto, 2001).

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Éditeur
Pluto Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0745313647
ISBN 13 
9780745313641
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780745313696: Reimagining the Nation State: The Contested Terrains of Nation-Building

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ISBN 10 :  0745313698 ISBN 13 :  9780745313696
Editeur : Pluto Press, 2001
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