ISBN:
1438477740
,
9781438477749
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
SUNY series, James N. Rosenau series in global politics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bringing the nation back in
DDC:
306.2094
Keywords:
Political culture
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World politics 1989-
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Cosmopolitanism
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Nationalism
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State, The Philosophy
;
Political culture
;
Cosmopolitanism
;
Nationalism
;
Political culture
;
State, The ; Philosophy
;
World politics
;
United States
;
Europe
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
"One of the main difficulties facing students today is how to contextualize the post-1990 world. Bringing the Nation Back In: Citizenship, Space, and Culture in Europe and the United States takes as its starting point a series of developments that shaped politics in the U.S. and Europe over the past thirty years: the end of the Cold War, the rise of financial and economic globalization, the creation of the European Union and the development of the postnational. This volume argues we are now witnessing a break with the post-1945 world order and with modern politics. Two competing ideas have arisen--global cosmopolitanism on the one hand, and populist nationalism on the other. The former emerged in the 1990s and is characterized by discourses on globalization, feminism, and postcolonialism, among others. The latter, which emerged after the Great Recession of 2008-2009, consists of a reactionary nationalism that in the years that followed swept to power in the US and several European countries. The present volume argues this polarization of social ethos between cosmopolitanism and nationalism as a sign of a deeper political crisis, which it explores from different perspectives. Rather than taking sides the aim here is to diagnose the origins of the current impasse and to "bring the nation back in" by expanding what we mean by "nation" and national identity and by respecting the localizing processes that have led to national traditions and struggles"--
Abstract:
On the persistence and difficulties of political community : existential roots and pragmatic outcomes of national awareness / Mark Luccarelli -- Solidarity or human rights? : national sovereignty and citizenship in the twenty-first century / Steven Colatrella -- The political landscape and the nation-state : Arendtian commons and the American Revolution / Ole Sneltvedt -- The nation in the universal language of eco-globalism / Werner Bigell -- Belonging : population genetics, national imaginaries, and the making of European genes : the case of Ötzi the Iceman / Venla Oikkonen -- National time, literary form, and exclusion : the United States in the 1920s / Bruce Barnhart -- Taking the boundaries with you : Italy and the national in the work of Luigi Di Ruscio, an Italian migrant writer in Norway / Sergio Sabatini -- Monuments carved in film : developing civic awareness through the memory of fallen anti-mafia activists / Stefano Adamo -- Nation as home : anthropological foundations and human needs / Rosario Forlenza.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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