Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond: Perspectives from Social Anthropology - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1845451899 ISBN 13 : 9781845451899

Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2006

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By the early twenty-first century neo-nationalist forces have established themselves in a number of the world's large regions and subcontinents. From Australia to South Asia, in Eastern and Western Europe, comparable parties and movements have positioned themselves in national parliaments and governments, with some considerable impact on state power. In contrast to right-wing extremist parties in the past, these recent movements mostly operate within legal parliamentary channels, using essentialized notions of local culture to mobilize against real and alleged threats to local identities of status, gender, religion, nationhood and ethnicity. Prompted by this near-simultaneous rise to political influence of more than a dozen apparently similar parties across Western Europe, this collection offers a range of European case studies with selected global examples, such as the Front National, the late Pim Fortuyn, India and the BJP, and Pauline Hanson and her One Nation Party in Australia. It takes up the theoretical and methodological challenges posed by this phenomenon and asks what distinctive contributions anthropology might make to its study.

Revue de presse :

...an outstanding insight into the development of nationalism at the dawn of the third millennium. Its richness lies precisely in these social anthropological views that the contributions detail. It opens a fruitful dialogue between anthropologists and political scientists, and I would warmly recommend it to those interested in widening their academic perspectives. --Social Anthropology

Just when the interest in political scientists in neo-populist....parties seemed to be waning...along comes a volume of essays that not only proposes a new concept with which to investigate the phenomenon, neo-nationalism , but delivers something genuinely fresh on the topic. Unusually for a book of collected essays...this volume manages to be consistent both in the detail and admirable concision with which each party s unique story I summarized...points a truly liberal, transdisciplinary humanties in the right direction to be able to engage intelligently with modern realities. --Nations & Nationalism

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1845451899
• ISBN 13: 9781845451899
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 312