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1. Nationalism in the 21st century: Neo‐tribal or plural?

Author

Triandafyllidou, Anna

Subjects
*TWENTY-first century, *NATIONALISM, *ANTI-globalization movement, *NATION-state, *ETHNOHISTORY
Abstract

Nations are faced today with a new set of social and economic challenges: economic globalisation has intensified bringing with it a more intense phase of cultural interconnectedness and political interdependence. Nation‐states see their sovereign powers eroded and are transformed to post‐national states as the political space they govern is no longer congruent with the socio‐economic space which transcends the national borders. Nonetheless, the nation continues to be a powerful source of identity and legitimacy. We are actually witnessing in Europe and worldwide a comeback of nationalism oftentimes in an aggressive, nativist and populist guise. This paper seeks to offer a new analytical lens through which to make sense of this new tide of nationalism. It therefore reviews critically the ethnic vs civic and perennialist, primordialist, modernist and ethnosymbolist approaches to suggest that they are no longer fit for purpose in explaining where nations and nationalism come from and where they are headed to. The paper proposes a new analytical framework which distinguishes between plural and neo‐tribal nationalism, focusing on how nations interact with diversity and permeability in the 21st century context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2020
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2. Neo-Liberal Reform and the Struggle for Social Justice and Truth in Mozambique: A Concrete Instance of Anti-Globalisation Resistance?

Author

Jones, Branwen Gruffydd

Subjects
*ANTI-globalization movement, *SOCIAL justice, *COMMUNISM
Abstract

Academic discourse about anti-globalisation movements has thus far focused on the more obvious aspects of organised resistance in North American and European contexts. But the category of ‘globalisation’ refers to a process that necessarily produces an ‘endlessly nuanced’ variation of concrete effects. This makes it essential to identify its impact, and to analyse corresponding instances of anti-globalisation resistance, in specific contexts. This chapter focuses on the vital struggle against the effects of globalisation, and for social justice and truth, currently being waged in Mozambique. It aims to bring to the attention of a broad audience the particularities of the Mozambican struggle for social justice and to show how it converges with, and disrupts, dominant understandings of the anti-globalisation movement. In addition, the chapter puts forward a defence of objectivity and truth in the study of anti-globalisation activism. While the chapter shares the rejection of positivism prevalent in much critical academic literature in this area, its offers a defence of objectivity that is rooted in a Marxist and critical realist epistemological framework and, more importantly, in a close study of the struggle for social justice in Mozambique. At the heart of these struggles is a passionate concern for truth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2004