Nationalism

Q. How are national identities developed and maintained? (PPE 2019)

—> How/Why are these identities disrupted?

Your Reading List for this Week

• Anderson, Benedict. 2006. ‘Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism’. In Imagined Communities, London: Verso / American Council of Learned Societies, xv–xv. Chapters 1, 2, and 3.
• Garner, Renaud-Philippe. 2022. ‘Nationalism’. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, Oxford University Press.
• Kunovich, Robert M. 2009. ‘The Sources and Consequences of National Identification’. American sociological review 74(4): 573–93.
• Smith, Anthony D. 1991. National Identity. London: Penguin. Especially Chapters 2 and 3.
• Wimmer, Andreas. 2019. ‘Why Nationalism Works: And Why It Isn’t Going Away’. Foreign affairs (New York, N.Y.) 98(2): 27–34.
• Wimmer, Andreas, and Yuval Feinstein. 2010. ‘The Rise of the Nation-State across the World, 1816 to 2001’. American sociological review 75(5): 764–90.

What is Nationalism?

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Tutorial Discussion

Q. 'National identity is stronger when it is based on ethnic identity.' Discuss. (PPE 2011)