Nations and Nationalism

Philip Spencer is Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University. He is co-author (with Howard Wollman) of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (Sage, 2002). Howard Wollman is Head of the School of Health and Social Sciences at Napier University.

There is definitely a need for a reader such as this one to gather these materials and to influence the way these matters are presented in the classroom. I very much like the idea of pairing theoretical (classic and contemporary) with historical material. -- Professor Lisa Disch, University of Minnesota The authors are well established in the field and have contributed to the debate on nationalism. They are familiar with the rapidly growing literature and are thus well placed to produce a representative sample for a text such as this. -- Professor Brian Girvin, University of Glasgow The editors have wisely incorporated some excellent articles which might have become lost in the journal literature. -- andrea Orzoff, University of New Mexico State Political Theory There is definitely a need for a reader such as this one to gather these materials and to influence the way these matters are presented in the classroom. I very much like the idea of pairing theoretical (classic and contemporary) with historical material. The authors are well established in the field and have contributed to the debate on nationalism. They are familiar with the rapidly growing literature and are thus well placed to produce a representative sample for a text such as this. The editors have wisely incorporated some excellent articles which might have become lost in the journal literature.

• Introduction; I THE ORIGINS OF NATIONALISM; 1. Anthony Smith Ethno-symbolism and the Study of Nationalism; 2. Adrian Hastings The Construction of Nationhood; 3. Ernest Gellner Nationalism and modernity; 4. Benedict Anderson Imagined Communities; 5. John Breuilly Nationalism and the State; Further Reading; II APPROACHES TO NATIONALISM; 6. Andrew Vincent. Liberal Nationalism - An Irresponsible Compound?; 7. Erica Benner Really Existing Nationalisms - A Post-Communist View from Marx and Engels; 8. Joane Nagel Masculinity and Nationalism: Gender and Sexuality in the Making of Nations; Further Reading;; III DIFFERENTIATING NATIONALISM - NATIONALISM, RACISM, ETHNICITY; 9. Thomas Eriksen Ethnicity and Nationalism; 10. Paul Gilroy Between Camps; 11. Etienne Balibar Racism and Nationalism; Further Reading; IV FORMS OF NATIONALISM; 12. Anthony Smith Civic and Ethnic Nationalism; 13. Michael Billig Banal Nationalism; 14. Philip Spencer and Howard Wollman Good and Bad Nationalisms; Further Reading; V NATIONAL SELF-DETERMINATION AND NATIONALIST MOBILISATION; 15. Margaret Moore On National Self-Determination; 16. Partha Chatterjee Whose Imagined Community?; 17. Dominic Thomas Constructing National and Cultural Identities in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa; 18. Mark Beissinger How Nationalisms Spread: Eastern Europe Adrift the Tides and Cycles of Nationalist Contention; Further Reading; VI GLOBALIZATION, CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONALISM;; 19. Michael Mann Has globalization ended the rise and rise of the nation-state?; 20. Stephen Castles Citizenship and the Other in the Age of Migration; 21. David Held Culture and Political Community: National, Global and Cosmopolitan; Further Reading.