Course Nationalism: theory and practice

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CourseNationalism theory and practice

• Zviad Abashidze
• Assistant-Professor
• Department of Political Science
• Tbilisi State University

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Course Presentation

• Meaning of the Course
• Structure of the Course

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Course Structure

• ECTS 5
• Level of course BA/MA
• Year of Study 2006/7
• Type of course Lecture, Seminar

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Objectives of the Course

• To give the students the knowledge on
  contemporary discourse on nation and nationalism,
  nation-building and state-building, strategies of
  constructing the national identity,
  democratization and nationalism, nation-state and
  globalization, controversies of national identity
  and multiculturalism, perspectives of national
  cultures in global era.
• Prerequisites
• Knowledge of English and Russian at least on
  reading skills

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Grading and teaching

• Assessment methods final exam (40), Presence
  (5), assignment/essay (30 ), Oral
  participation/Presentation (25. ), Total (100)
• Teaching methods v individual, v group
  work

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Course content

• 1. Topic. Introduction
• 3. Topic. Concept of nation. Ethnic group and
  nation Nation-building and state-building
• 4. Topic. Modern theories of nationalism
• 5. Topic. Nationalism on international level
  Pannationalism
• 6. Topic. Nationalism and democratic transitions
• 7. Topic. Nationalism and multiculturalism
• 8. Topic. Georgia and nationalism
• 9. Topic. Nationalism and globalization
• 10. Topic. Perspectives of nationalism
• 11. Topic. Conclusion

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Textbooks

• 1. Zurab Davitashvili / nacionalizmi da
  globalizacia, Tbilisi 2003
• Benediqt Andersoni / warmosaxviTi sazogadoebani,
  Tbilisi 2003,
• 3. Ernst Gelneri/ erebi da nacionalizmi, Tbilisi
  2003
• 4. Nationalism Reader, Oxford, 1999
• 5. Nacii I nacionalism, Xrestomatia, Moskva 2002
• 6. V. Malakhov, Nacionalism kak Politoicheskaia
  Ideologia, Moskva 2005

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Additional

• 1. gia nodia / nacionalizmi da demokratia //
  sazogadoeba da politika, Tbilisi 1994
• 2. Etnos I Politika, xrestomatia, Moskva 2000
• 3. Daniele Conversi / Spanish federal traditions
  and the Constitution of 1978 / TELOS, 10, 2001
• 4. Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan / Problems of
  democratic transition and consolidation / The
  John Hopkins University Press 1996
• 5.Virtual workshop / National Minorities,
  Christian-Democratic Academy, Vol. 1, Issue 3,
  May 1994
• 6. Brubaker R. / Nationalism reframedNationhood
  and the national question in the New Europe,
  Cambridge, 1996
• 7. Kinga Gal / Minority Governance on the
  threshold of the twenty-first century// Minority
  Governance in Europe, Budapest, 2002
• 8. George Bruner and Herbert Kupper / European
  options of Autonomy a typology of autonomy
  models of minority self-governance//// Minority
  Governance in Europe, Budapest, 2002
• 9. Diversity in Action / edited by Anna-Maria
  Biro and Petra Kovacs, Budapest 2001
• 10. Nation-Building, Ethnicity and Language
  Politics in Transition Countries, edited by
  Farimah Defter and Francois Grin / Budapest
• 11. Taylor Charles / Multiculturalism and the
  politics of recognition // Multiculturalism
  examine the politics of recognition, ed. A.
  Gutmann, Princeton University Press 1994
• 12. Arnason J.P./ Nationalism, Globalization and
  Modernity //Global Culrure Nationalism,
  Globalization and Modernity/ Ed. By. M
  Feathrstone l. 1997
• 13. www.wikipedia.org
• 14. www. Nationalismproject.org
• 15. www.ecmi.de