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Author_Gregory Jusdanis
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Citizenship
Civic nationalism
Colonialism
Colonization
Cosmopolitanism
Cultural identity
Cultural nationalism
Cultural pluralism
Cultural studies
Culture war
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Germans
Globalization
Governance
Government
Greeks
Hegemony
Herder
Ideology
Immigration
Imperialism
Indigenous peoples
Institution
Intellectual
Italians
Late Antiquity
Literacy
Literature
Modernity
Multiculturalism
Narrative
Nation state
Nation-building
National consciousness
National identity
Nationalism
Nationalist Movement
Nationality
Nationalization
Ottoman Empire
Panethnicity
Patriotism
Philosopher
Political philosophy
Political revolution
Politician
Politics
Polity
Popular sovereignty
Post-structuralism
Postcolonialism
Postmodernity
Public sphere
Racism
Rhetoric
Secession
Slavery
Social science
Social theory
Society
Sovereignty
Superiority (short story)
Symbolic ethnicity
Transnationalism
Unitary state
Westphalian sovereignty
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691089027
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 04 Feb 2001
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this controversial look at nationalism, Gregory Jusdanis offers a sweeping defense of the nation as a protector of cultural difference and a catalyst for modernization. Since the end of the Cold War, the nation-state has undergone intense scrutiny among critics in the media and the academy. Many believe that civic nationalism may be fruitful but that cultural nationalism fosters xenophobia and backward thinking. Jusdanis, however, emphasizes the positive collaboration between nation-building and culture. Through a series of critical readings of multicultural, postcolonial, and globalization theories, the author reveals how nationalism enables people to defend their distinctive ways of life, to fight colonial oppression, and to build an independent society of citizens. He explains why people over the last two hundred years have politicized their ethnic identities and have sought a union of culture and power within an autonomous nation-state. While seeking to defend nationalism, Jusdanis also examines its potential to unleash extraordinary violence into the world. He thus proposes federalism as a political solution to the challenges posed by nationalism and globalization.
Jusdanis applies the tools of disciplines ranging from anthropology to philosophy, as he explores the nation-building projects of numerous and diverse countries around the world. What emerges is a fresh perspective on the subjects of national culture, identity, political nations, globalization, postcolonialism, and diaspora.
Gregory Jusdanis is Professor of Modern Greek at Ohio State University. He is the author of The Poetics of Cavafy: Textuality, Eroticism, History (Princeton) and Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature.
