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Title: Visualising%20Nationhood


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Visualising Nationhood
  • A Grand Theory of National Identity
  • Eric Kaufmann, Birkbeck College,
  • University of London

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A Grand Theory
  • Parsons' 'filing cabinet'
  • Agnostic re source of changes
  • About effects rather than causes
  • Heuristic Device rather than positive theory
  • Builds upon work of Zimmer (2003) Hutchinson
    (2005) Confino and others

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Helps Clarify Major Issues
  • Ideology and national identity
  • 'Ethnic-Civic' Nations
  • 'Nations before Nationalism'
  • Universalism (Islam, Neoconservatism) as
    nationalism?
  • 'Nations as Zones of Conflict' (Hutchinson 2005)
  • Local vs National
  • Relationship between individual identity and
    collective identity (ie. 'consumption v
    production')
  • Ethnosymbolism continuity of nations or revival
    of resources?

4
Optical Metaphor
  • Referent Frame of Reference for the Individual
    (Territory, Population). Can change for
    subjective and geopolitical reasons
  • Lenses Ideologies, Location (Social,
    Geographic), Interests, Psychological
    predispositions
  • Resources Landscape, History, Genealogy,
    Institutions, Values, Culture, Economy (Zimmer
    2003)

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  • Ideology and Nationalism
  • Ethnic-Civic

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  • Ideology and the Nation
  • 'Nations before Nationalism'
  • Universalism (Islam, Neoconservatism) as
    nationalism?

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Values
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Lens British Unionist Ideology
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Lens Multicultural Ideology
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  • Note that collective representations of the
    nation are also ideologies, albeit particularist
  • Must distinguish Ireland as referent from
    collective ideology of Irish national identity
    produced by intellectuals/elites, and this is
    then different from an individual's image of
    their Irish national identity
  • Can have individuals identifying with Ireland
    before the ideology of Irish national identity
    has crystallized
  • People may see Ireland through prism of other
    ideologies (i.e. Catholic, Unionist)

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  • Social Location 'Nations as Zones of Conflict'
    (Hutchinson 2005)
  • Geographic Location Local vs National

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Aristocratic-Upper Class Social Location
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Whig-Middle Class Social Location
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  • Interests and the construction of national
    identity
  • Psychology and individual's national identity

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  • Relationship between individual identity and
    collective Identity

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  • Ethnosymbolism continuity of nations or revival
    of resources?

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  • Can locate the underpinnings of any theory
  • As well as elements which do not easily fit
    within established theories (i.e. ideology,
    social location)

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Read All About It..
  • 'The Lenses of Nationhood An Optical Model of
    Identity', Nations and Nationalism, forthcoming
  • "Dominant Ethnicity and Dominant Nationhood
    Empirical and Normative Aspects" in Lecours, A.
    and G. Nootens (eds.), Dominant Nationalism,
    Dominant Ethnicity Identity, Federalism and
    Democracy (Berlin Peter Lang, forthcoming)
  • http//www.sneps.net/NNE/ne.htm

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Helps Clarify Major Issues
  • Ideology and national identity
  • 'Ethnic-Civic' Nations
  • 'Nations before Nationalism'
  • Universalism (Islam, Neoconservatism) as
    nationalism?
  • 'Nations as Zones of Conflict' (Hutchinson 2005)
  • Local vs National
  • Relationship between individual identity and
    collective identity (ie. 'consumption v
    production')
  • Ethnosymbolism continuity of nations or revival
    of resources?

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