Category: Nationalism

By Itty Abraham

ISBN-10: 0253220327

ISBN-13: 9780253220325

When you consider that their founding as self sufficient countries, nuclear concerns were key components of nationalism and the general public sphere in either India and Pakistan. but the connection among nuclear palms and civil society within the sector is seldom taken under consideration in traditional defense stories. those unique and provocative essays learn the political and ideological elements of nationwide drives to own and try out nuclear guns. equivalent assurance for related matters in every one kingdom frames the amount as a real discussion throughout this contested boundary. (2010)

By Scott Gates

ISBN-10: 140943706X

ISBN-13: 9781409437062

India is the world's 10th greatest financial system and possesses the world's fourth greatest army. The subcontinent homes approximately one-fifth of the world's inhabitants and its population are divided into quite a few tribes, clans and ethnic teams following 4 nice religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Framing the talk utilizing case reviews from around the sector in addition to China, Afghanistan and Burma and utilizing a wealth of basic and secondary assets this incisive quantity takes a better examine the association and doctrines of the 'shadow armies' and the govt forces which struggle the previous. prepared in a thematic demeanour, every one bankruptcy severely asks;Why stateless marginal teams rebel?How do states try and suppress them?What are the results within the aftermath of the clash specially in terms of clash answer and peace building?'Unconventional conflict in South Asia' is a welcomed addition to the turning out to be box of curiosity on civil wars and insurgencies in South Asia. An imperative learn as a way to let us greater comprehend no matter if South Asia is witnessing a 'New conflict' and even if the twenty-first century belongs to the insurgents.

By John Tyndall

ISBN-10: 0951368621

ISBN-13: 9780951368626

Autobiography and statement on British political and cultural scene in overdue c20th.

By Anthony Dawahare

ISBN-10: 1578065070

ISBN-13: 9781578065073

In the course of and after the Harlem Renaissance, highbrow forces --nationalism and Marxism--clashed and altered the way forward for African American writing. present literary pondering says that writers with nationalist leanings wrote the main suitable fiction, poetry, and prose of the day. Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature among the Wars: a brand new Pandora's field demanding situations that inspiration. It boldly proposes that such writers as A. Philip Randolph, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright, who usually observed the area when it comes to category fight, did extra to increase the anti-racist politics of African American letters than writers comparable to Countee Cullen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Alain Locke, and Marcus Garvey, who remained enmeshed in nationalist and racialist discourse. comparing the nice effect of Marxism and nationalism on black authors from the Harlem Renaissance and the melancholy period, Anthony Dawahare argues that the unfold of nationalist ideologies and pursuits among the realm wars did advisor valid political wants of black writers for a global with no racism. however the nationalist channels of political and cultural resistance didn't handle the capitalist beginning of contemporary racial discrimination. in the course of the interval referred to as the "Red Decade" (1929-1941), black writers constructed a few of the sharpest evaluations of the capitalist global and therefore expected modern scholarship at the highbrow and political dangers of nationalism for the operating category. because it examines the development of the good melancholy, the ebook makes a speciality of the shift of black writers to the Communist Left, together with analyses of the Communists' place at the "Negro Question," the unconventional poetry of Langston Hughes, and the writings of Richard Wright. Anthony Dawahare is an affiliate professor of English at California kingdom college, Northridge. He has been released in African American evaluation, MELUS, Twentieth-Century Literature, and feedback: A Quarterly for Literature, and the humanities.

By Michelle Goldberg

ISBN-10: 0393060942

ISBN-13: 9780393060942

ISBN-10: 1845111176

ISBN-13: 9781845111175

"A effective wakeup name to pluralists within the coming showdown with Christian nationalists."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

Michelle Goldberg, a senior political reporter for Salon.com, has been overlaying the intersection of politics and beliefs for years. sooner than the 2004 election, and through the resultant months while many americans have been attempting to know how an management marked by way of cronyism, omit for the nationwide funds, and poorly disguised self-interest were reinstated, Goldberg traveled in the course of the heartland of a rustic within the grips of a fevered spiritual radicalism: the the United States of our time. From the school room to the mega-church to the federal court docket, she observed how the starting to be effect of dominionism-the doctrine that Christians have the fitting to rule nonbelievers-is threatening the principles of democracy.

In Kingdom Coming, Goldberg demonstrates how an more and more bellicose fundamentalism is gaining traction all through our nationwide existence, taking us on a travel of the parallel right-wing evangelical tradition that's buoyed by means of Republican political patronage. Deep in the purple zones of a divided the USA, we meet army retirees pledging to grab the state in Christ's identify, perfidious congressmen dating the boldness of neo-confederates and proponents of theocracy, and leaders of federally funded courses providing Jesus because the method to the country's social problems.

together with her trenchant interviews and the telling tales of the folks at the back of this circulation, Goldberg profits entry into the hearts and minds of electorate who're striving to remake the secular Republic bequeathed by way of our founders right into a Christian country run based on their interpretation of scripture. In her exam of the ever-widening divide among believers and nonbelievers, Goldberg illustrates the subversive impact of this conservative stranglehold national. In an age while religion instead of cause is heralded and the values of the Enlightenment are threatened via a paranormal nationalism claiming divine sanction, Kingdom Coming brings us nose to nose with the irrational forces which are remaking a lot of the United States

By Holger Preuss, Karsten Liese

ISBN-10: 3531180002

ISBN-13: 9783531180007

The assumption of "Internationalism" has manifested itself not just within the intercultural discussion in the Olympic circulate, but in addition on the Olympic video games because the sportive, cultural, and media top of the four-year-circle. The authors research and talk about Internationalism from diverse expert views, opposed to various cultural backgrounds, in addition to on the subject of varied reference teams to widen the certainty of internationalism as a social interplay within the Olympic circulate. in addition they objective at developing the intersections and equivalent normative rules of "Internationalism" in the diversified cultural and institutional fields. those universal grounds could be valuable for the sensible implementation and awareness of "Internationalism" via Olympic activities and at Olympic early life Camps.

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By R. Fleischmann

ISBN-10: 0333689437

ISBN-13: 9780333689431

Canon Sheehan's writings supply helpful perception into Ireland's tough technique of cultural reconstruction after independence. This astute observer of Irish society used to be pessimistic concerning the way forward for faith. although himself a guy of ecu tradition, he made a case for the isolationism to turn into truth below the unfastened kingdom. it's a case which this present day is definitely scorned - yet his works let us comprehend why it will probably command such aid, and to understand its relative historic justification.

By Pier Paolo Frassinelli, Ronit Frenkel, David Watson

ISBN-10: 904203307X

ISBN-13: 9789042033078

The new dramatic growth of the sphere of transnational reviews has reshaped discourses around the humanities and social sciences and created the chance for broad multi-regional exchanges. Traversing Transnationalism intervenes into those advancements by way of delivering essays from students operating either inside of and outdoors the metropolitan "centre", and via reorientating the axis of study in the direction of geopolitical and cultural formations positioned past the traditional websites of construction of globalization discourse. This interdisciplinary assortment has a large scope: it engages at once with various literary and non-literary texts, different socio-cultural configurations, and the politics, theorization and aesthetics of transnationalism. it's of curiosity to either readers attracted to how transnational discourses were articulated in particular contexts and conditions, and readers searching for an intervention into debates on transnationalism that pulls consciousness to its complicated, plural personality.

By Michael Keating, John McGarry

ISBN-10: 019152929X

ISBN-13: 9780191529290

ISBN-10: 0199242143

ISBN-13: 9780199242146

Globalization and eu integration are often visible because the enemies of nationalism, implementing a unmarried fiscal, cultural, and political order; yet, by way of demanding the 'nation-state' because the sole foundation for id and sovereignty, they open the best way for numerous claims through stateless international locations. This e-book considers those matters from a theoretical viewpoint, studying case stories of stateless nationalism in western, jap, and imperative Europe, the previous Soviet Union, even Quebec. It provides a number of stories to teach that whereas there aren't any effortless solutions to conflicting nationwide claims, they are often controlled via democratic political strategies.