Being National Is The Condition Of Our Times, Yet Never Before Has The Idea Of The Nation Been Under Such Scrutiny. With The Collapse Of The Bi-polar World Of The Cold War, There Has Also Been A Parallel Rise In The Subnational - The Claims Of Local, Regional And Ethnic Minorities - Economic Globalization, American Cultural Hegemony, International Migration, And Diasporization. In Becoming National Geoff Eley And Ronald Grigor Suny, Two Of The Foremost Authorities On Nationalism, Acknowledge These Changes By Combining A Diverse Selection Of Readings With A Unifying Introduction And Instructive Headnotes That Move The Discussion Of Nationalism Onto A New And Contemporary Level. Each Group Of Readings Is Introduced By A Brief Historical Essay, And The Readings Are Fully Annotated. Emphasizing The Recent Intellectual Advances And Influential Ideas Of Miroslav Hroch, Benedict Anderson, Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, Lauren Berlant And A Host Of Others, This Book Underscores The Nineteenth And Twentieth Century Nationalist Theories To Show Not Only Where Scholars Of Nationalism Have Been But Where They Are Going. Drawing On The Strengths Of Recent Cultural Studies, Including Race And Gender Identities, The Editors Show That Though Politics Is The Ground Upon Which Nationalism Is Constructed, Culture Is The Terrain On Which It Is Elaborated And Fought Over. Part I.a Classic Statement -- What Is A Nation? / Ernest Renan -- Part Ii. Where Do Nations Come From? The Social Construction Of Nationality -- From National Movement To The Fully-formed Nation : The Nation Building Process In Europe / Miroslav Hroch -- Scotland And Europe / Tom Nairn -- The Origins Of Nations / Anthony D. Smith -- The Nation Form : History And Ideology / Etienne Balibar -- Historicizing National Identity, Or Who Imagines What And When / Prasenjit Duara -- Peasants And Danes : The Danish National Identity And Political Culture / Uffe Østergard -- The Ussr As A Communal Apartment, Or How A Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism / Yuri Slezkine -- Part Iii. Colonialism, Race, And Identity -- Census, Map, Museum / Benedict Anderson -- No Longer In A Future Heaven : Nationalism, Gender, And Race / Anne Mcclintock -- Sexual Affronts And Racial Frontiers : European Identities And The Cultural Politics Of Exclusion In Colonial Southeast Asia / Ann Stoler -- Basques, Anti-basques, And The Moral Community / Marianne Heiberg -- Ethnicity : Identity And Difference / Stuart Hall -- One Nation Under A Groove : The Cultural Politics Of Race And Racism In Britain / Paul Gilbroy -- The Ambiguities Of Authenticity In Latin America : Dona Bárbara And The Construction Of National Identity / Julie Skuraki -- Part Iv. Beyond The Nation -- The Decline Of The Nation State / David Held -- National Identity And Socialist Moral Majority / Renata Salecl -- The Nation-state And Its Others : In Lieu Of A Preface / Khachig Tölölyan -- National Geographic : The Rooting Of Peoples And The Territorialization Of National Identity Among Scholars And Refugees / Liisa Makki -- No Place Like Heimat : Images Of Home(land) In European Culture / David Morley And Kevin Robins -- Rac(e)ing The Nation : Is There A German Home? / Jeffrey M. Peck -- The Theory Of Infantile Citizenship / Lauren Berlant. Edited By Geoff Eley And Ronald Grigor Suny. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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