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Can expressing nationalism be conditional? Literature on sports and nationalism suggests that people experience nationhood when they involve themselves as spectators during international sporting events. Therefore, expressing a nationalistic feeling under such circumstances appears logical. However, the question of what kind of nationhood is experienced and how it can be facilitated or impeded by social media affordances needs to be explored. This study attempts to answer these questions by analysing the tweets made during India's matches during the International Cricket Cup 2019. It locates the study of nationalism at the core of where it operates today: in popular social media‐based discourse. This discursive approach towards nationalism (see Fox and Miller‐Idriss (2008)) of imagined sporting communities suggests that mere international competitiveness is insufficient grounds for nationalistic expression to emerge as a dominant discursive theme. Instead, nationalistic expressions are activated when two competing nations share an existing rivalry and it forms part of its popular culture. Nationalism during sports, therefore, is proposed as a conditional phenomenon. Moreover, the idea of the expressed nation and who comes to belong to it remains malleable and fluid to elevate the embodied gaming experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses Jalil Mammadquluzadeh’s drama, The Book of My Mother (Anamın Kitabı), to understand Azerbaijani nationalism in the early twentieth century. Under the repression of industrialization and colonialism, Azerbaijani national identity found its expression in literary products. Through Fredric Jameson’s concepts of national allegory and political unconscious, we examine The Book of My Mother as a fictional representation of Azerbaijani nationalism during its formative period. Ultimately, this article addresses a gap in the growing literature on Azerbaijani nationalism by applying Jamesonian critical literary theory to encourage further research in subaltern nationalism for other cases, especially within the Central Asian context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the works of Alfonso Daniel Manuel Rodríguez Castelao (d. 1950) from the lens of art historiography, to show how Galician art historical contributions from the beginning of the twentieth century connected art and artistic styles from the past with identity significations. My discussion is mainly based on the discourse analysis of Sempre en Galiza (1944) and As cruces de pedra na Galiza (1950), along with mentions to other texts such as Alba de Groria (1948) or several essays from Revista Nós. The examination of these texts is complemented with the study of Castelao's visual production. Two main arguments are extracted from Castelao's approach to the history of Galician art: the Celtic ethnic foundation of Galicia and the establishment of two national styles, Romanesque and Baroque, which are seen as intrinsic to this territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research article studies selected songs telecast by Doordarshan, the national channel from the 1980s to the 2020s to understand the representational politics of India's national culture. It explores how the national culture has been imagined and propagated by the state-owned channel by adopting a comparative focus on the selected songs. The discussion is foregrounded on Partha Chatterjee's theory of 'the spiritual' domain which is at the core of the national identity for a postcolonial nation. The article also attempts to understand the dynamic nature of India's national culture and how its transformation can be read from the songs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is an historical analysis of the changing editorial strategy of Tafelberg, a South African publisher. It aims to shed light on the culture-commerce divide in South African publishing, the changing cultural and social impact of a publisher specialising in a minority language, and the nexus of editorial philosophies, language and nationalism. The research considers Bourdieu's (1993) conceptualisation of the fields of culture with their associated levels of symbolic, financial and cultural capital, and the notion of poles of restricted and mass production of textual products in its analysis. It was found that Tafelberg has had significant cultural impact in South Africa, particularly with its involvement in the growth of Afrikaans literature and nationalism. Tafelberg is now a smaller part of one of South Africa's publishing giants, and they remain an important publisher of Afrikaans titles, even though their social and symbolic impact has changed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the resurgence of nationalism in recent years, with many political leaders promoting an ethnocentric cult of the nation-state and implementing restrictive immigration policies. The article proposes the concept of "encounters" as a lens for understanding the construction and deconstruction of nations through various practices. It explores how encounters challenge traditional notions of identity and offers a more nuanced understanding of nations as dynamic and fragmented entities. The article also highlights the importance of studying encounters within and between nations, as well as their intersection with other forms of belonging. The special issue includes contributions that examine encounters in various contexts, such as refugee hotspots, diasporic communities, media, literature, and historical events. Overall, the article aims to provide interdisciplinary perspectives on nations and nationalism, moving beyond essentialist and typological thinking. [Extracted from the article]

Considering Irish writer Kate O'Brien in the context of sapphic modernisms might seem misguided as her fiction is traditional in form. Still, revisiting her writing has illuminated its play with modernist themes, and her radical establishment of transnational feminisms in her juxtaposition of Ireland and Spain. Referencing theories by Nira Yuval-Davis and the work by Jane Garrity that map the intersection of gender, sexuality and citizenship, this article argues that O'Brien presents alternative possibilities for women's relationship to nationhood in her representations of Spain in her 1936 novel, Mary Lavelle, and her 1937 Farewell Spain. The travelogue, chronicling O'Brien's sojourn in Spain accompanied by Mary O'Neill, her life partner, is an elegy to her experiences of a country ravaged by Franco's fascist forces. Tracing the sapphic erotics that course through her love letter to the "femme fatale among countries," from the language of ecstatic pleasure in her description of bullfights, and her adoring depictions of gendered, anthropomorphized towns, O'Brien presents a love of Spain in sapphic terms that is itself an object of queer devotion. As a result, her relationship with Spain revises perceptions of women's connection to nationhood, even if temporarily, and opens new spaces for a queer nationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the challenges faced by the Métis people in asserting their national identity within Canada. It discusses how historical narratives and racial ambiguity have hindered the recognition of Métis nationhood, as they have been treated as individuals rather than a distinct nation. The article also highlights the impact of dispossession through the scrip system and the limitations it imposes on asserting a national identity. Additionally, it explores the epistemic disadvantage faced by the Métis in enforcing their preferred meaning and value of the term "Métis" within Canadian consciousness. The article concludes by emphasizing the need to overcome these challenges in Métis nation-building processes. [Extracted from the article]

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The article discusses David Damrosch's work in the field of Comparative World Literatures, focusing on his book "What Is World Literature?" published in 2003. Damrosch's work reframed Goethe's concept of Weltliteratur for the twenty-first century, critiquing Eurocentrism and embracing cosmopolitanism. The article also highlights Damrosch's contributions to the field through anthologies, theoretical interventions, and pedagogical practices, emphasizing the importance of pluralistic studies in world literature. Additionally, the article includes essays by various scholars discussing different aspects of world literature and literary comparison, showcasing a diverse and global perspective in the field. [Extracted from the article]

Existing works on the sources of secessionist agitations in postcolonial Africa tend to be methodologically nationalist but also circumvent the diasporic dimension. Particularly, the resurgent ethnic separatism amongst Igbos in southeastern Nigeria has been predominantly analysed from the theoretical standpoints of relative marginalisation and material deprivation that focus on domestic politics in post-war Nigeria. We broaden this literature by underscoring the diasporic dimension of this secessionist conflict. Drawing on the literature on diaspora nationalism with a focus on the case of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)—a transnational separatist movement—we reveal evidence showing how the Igbo diaspora instigate and exacerbate separatist tensions in the homeland by reviving collective memories of the macabre Nigeria-Biafra war (1967–1970) and reimagining alternative political futures for ethnic Igbos devoid of the state's grand narratives of nationhood. We contend that the diasporic dimension is profoundly critical to comprehending separatist agitations in southeastern Nigeria with implications for wider postcolonial African contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article at hand aims to investigate how Indian identity disintegrates due to White acculturation. Rather than concentrating on a positive construction of Indianness as a result of White culture, the emphasis will be on the dissolution and oppression of Indian values. Most often, the process of successfully containing values from two or more groups, in particular Indian and American ways of living, has been the central issue in scholarly works. However, there seems to be a lack of insight in the field of investigating the breakdown of Indianness. Through the use of Devon A. Mihesuah's adapted four life stages, it is the purpose of this paper to analyze Zitkala-Sa's short story "Impressions of an Indian Childhood" (1921). The following consequences of cultural imposition will also be explored, as they are crucial for understanding the themes of identity conflicts and resolutions prevalent in her autobiography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research examines the deconstruction of meta-narratives in Howard Jacobson's novel The Finkler Question through a postmodern lens. The objective is to explore how the novel subverts grand narratives such as nationalism and religion, employing literary techniques to challenge dominant discourses. The background highlights the novel's focus on Jewish identity and nationalism. Using textual analysis, the methodology involves examining characters who resist or subvert dominant meta-narratives, constructing their own identities and meanings. The results reveal that The Finkler Question critiques the notions of a unified Jewish and British national identity, portraying diverse and fragmented communities. The novel employs irony, intertextuality, and ambiguity to create space for alternative perspectives. Recommendations include further research on postmodern critiques in literature and the promotion of inclusive and diverse societal values. The study contributes to discussions on postmodernism and literature by illustrating how the novel deconstructs meta-narratives and fosters individual identity construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper delves into the experiences of ethnic Hungarian millennials in Vojvodina, Serbia, who came of age during the tumultuous Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s. Despite their non‐involvement in the conflict, they grappled with substantial challenges arising from surging nationalism that impacted both society and their personal lives. The study illuminates the unexplored suffering of members of this demographic and the enduring aftermath of their war‐time encounters. Utilising qualitative interviews and a literature review on nationalism and the Yugoslav Wars, this research reconstructs the perceptions of ethnic minority millennials regarding the nationalistic atmosphere in which they grew up. It delves into their unexpected entanglement with the conflict and its profound consequences on their wellbeing, families and social dynamics. Despite their community's non‐participatory stance, this study unveils the concealed wounds of war‐induced trauma and their broader implications. The main value of the paper is that it shows how ethnic minority millennials were drawn into the conflict and how they have been impacted by it despite not being the war's main protagonists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Under Putin's tenure, the geopolitical representation of Russia as an 'energy superpower' has become a powerful mainstay for the restoration of a global status and a revanchist foreign policy. This article seeks to assess the extent to which such a nationalist narrative is prevalent among Russian academics in the oil and gas sector. Using a survey administered to research and teaching staff in selected industrial universities in 2021, we found partial confirmation of the relevance of centre‐periphery relations and that nationalist attitudes are aligned with a state‐centric approach. However, this perspective does not necessarily entail opposition to industry privatisation or foreign partnerships. These findings highlight the inadequacy of a simplistic privatisation/nationalisation dichotomy in capturing the hybrid nature of resource governance in petro‐states. Additionally, our study suggests that resource nationalism plays a role in shaping experts' support for the government's energy policy. These findings contribute to the literature on resource nationalism and suggest potential avenues for future research exploring the role of higher education institutions in shaping resource governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Les Six and their mentors stirred a debatement of French nationalist music in the early 20th century. However, this movement faced serious criticism and mockery from various quarters and eventually fell apart amid challenges. This critical review explores the ethnosymbolic dynamics within the nationalism music movement of Les Six, and drawing upon ethnomusicological perspectives, the study examines how their compositions reflected and resonated with French national identity and cultural heritage. By analyzing primary sources, scholarly literature, and musical compositions, this article meticulously uncovers the chain reactions generated in the process of constructing national identity and cultural identity within this movement by examining the French societal backdrop, musical traditions, as well as the relationships and attitudes among relevant figures in this movement. The conclusions highlight the multifaceted nature of ethnosymbolism in their work, shedding light on the complexities of national identity construction through music. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Though Palestine—as place, national aspiration, conflict, refugee crisis, political-cultural cause—stands at the institutional origin of the fields of Arab American literary study and Arab American studies more generally, Palestinian American literature itself has mostly not yet become a discrete object of disciplinary study. Palestinian American authors have not been ignored, but scholarly analysis of their work often proceeds under the authority of other legitimizing frameworks—with Palestinian American literature instrumentalized as capital for other ideological projects—even as identity became a primary currency in academic literary study in the decolonial era. This has limited opportunities to examine disciplinary mechanisms of institution-formation. A robust theory of Palestinian American literature contests the critical overdetermination suffered by an emergent Palestinian American literary archive that has expanded substantially since 2001, supporting a dynamic field of dedicated literary scholarship that refuses to be subordinated to a project of territorial nationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses "The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought" and its relevance to understanding the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Russian intellectual history, covering topics such as philosophy, literature, art, and politics. However, the article criticizes the lack of representation of women thinkers in the Handbook and calls for a deeper exploration of gender in Russian thought. The author suggests that studying the role of women in Russian literature and history could offer alternative perspectives and contribute to resistance against misogynistic nationalism. [Extracted from the article]

This article examines the European Union (EU) in light of Benedict Anderson's definition of the nation as "an imagined community ... imagined as inherently limited and sovereign." Current scholarship mostly rejects the possibility of an EU nation, or treats it only as a possible eventuality, not a current reality. Interpreting Andersonian "sovereignty" through the lens of political legitimacy, the EU nevertheless satisfies all four of Anderson's criteria, since members of the EU Parliament invoke a "European people" to legitimize their actions. EU nationhood coexists with other national loyalties. However, multiple national loyalties exist elsewhere in Europe, since British nationhood coexists with Welsh nationhood, German nationhood with Sorbian nationhood, and so on. Eurobarometer evidence also suggests that multiple loyalties are widespread. Treating the EU as a nation offers many analytical advantages, since scholars do not need to struggle with terminological novelties, but can straightforwardly apply the secondary literature on nationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literature on the radical indigenous resistance tradition, which predated the emergence of Garveyism as a form of Afrikan philosophy of liberation is scarce in South African politics and history. Robert Edgar and Robert Vinson have contributed to the literature on the influence of Garveyism in South Africa in the 1920s. However, their scholarship does not delve into the emergence of the radical indigenous resistance tradition which was a reaction to conquest since 1652 in wars of colonization in South Africa. This paper seeks to remedy this gap by discussing this radical indigenous resistance tradition which we designate as the Indigenous Fundamentalist Tradition. This paper will utilize the historical analytical framework to provide a brief outline of the cause and elements of this tradition. We will rely on historical research design to discuss how, upon its arrival in the 1920s, Garveyism regalvanised this radical indigenous resistance tradition. The first objective of the paper is to foreground the convergence of the intellectual and political endeavours of people of Afrikan descent (continent and diaspora) in their struggle against global white supremacy. The second objective is to contribute to the eventual hegemony of the combined radicalism of the Indigenous Fundamentalist Tradition and Garveyism which is a marginalized issue in the literature on Afrikan nationalism and the Black Radical Tradition in South Africa. This paper will provide a brief intellectual portrait of Lembede to argue that through his political philosophy of Afrikanism he encapsulated the convergence of the Indigenous Fundamentalist Tradition and Garveyism. This is in order to lay the foundation for the foregrounding of Lembede's idea of Afrika for the Afrikans as an alternative paradigm regarding the national question in South Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adrian Duncan's second novel A Sabbatical in Leipzig (2020) marks a departure from 'typical' Irish topics such as national identity and religion. This he shares with a range of contemporary Irish authors, particularly those writing in the aftermath of the Celtic-Tiger years. The novel's focus on architecture and engineering, which also looms large in Duncan's other novels Love Notes from a German Building Site and The Geometer Lobachevsky, is unique, as it leads to unusual reflections on the nature of material culture. This original approach to the novel form should be considered as part of the current international trend to integrate theoretical reflections on a wide range of topics, thus negotiating contemporary cultures of knowledge. The novel's international outlook moves away from 'typical' Irish topics of national identity and religion shared by a wider range of contemporary Irish authors, particularly those writing in the aftermath of the Celtic-Tiger years. The novel is thus also a reflection on the collapse of old systems, be they political, social, or epistemological, and the existential uncertainty created by their demise. I argue in my paper that Duncan's novel addresses questions of knowledge formation that bear a striking resemblance to the Romantic novel as an open and generically hybrid form. I read it in a wider context as part of an ongoing experience of crisis: my overall thesis aims at describing the contemporary tendency to include abstract reflections that interrupt the narrative sequence as an expression of a fundamental crisis of knowledge. Today's mediascape represents the contemporary world in a state of severe emergency, whose symptoms, be they climate change, the rise of nationalism and the far right, ultimately lead to a fundamental experience of contingency. Novels like Duncan's can thus be seen as an expression of the crisis of the contemporary media ecology of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the notoriety of the Catalan independence bid in the 2010s, the already extensive literature on Catalan nationalism has grown even further to offer multifarious explanations for the conflict over independence both within Catalonia and between Catalonia and Spain. This article draws on recent approaches incorporating populism – in its articulation with nationalism – as an essential theoretical and empirical tool to better describe the emergence and dynamics of the Catalan independence movement. The study argues that the prevailing populist construction of a sovereign 'people' in Catalonia led to a discursive struggle over the floating signifier 'democracy' between two majority blocs: the one governing Catalonia vis-à-vis the one governing Spain. This is followed by a discourse-theoretical analysis of each bloc's attempts to endow the floating signifier 'democracy' with distinctive meanings. Each bloc, acting in line with their political interests and against the will of relevant minorities within their sovereign demarcations, discursively articulated alternative interpretations of what democracy 'truly' is, thus claiming democratic legitimacy for themselves while demonizing the opponent as 'anti-democratic'. As a result, the insoluble conflict in Catalonia can largely be explained as a struggle with important ethico-political implications between two irreconcilable understandings of 'democracy': constitutional democracy versus majoritarian democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At a time when Gordimer was writing her short stories and novels which stretched over four decades beginning from the 1940s to the 1990s, several historical and political events were taking place in South Africa. Gordimer's entire oeuvre of fiction was her way of responding to those historical and political events that unfolded in the country. Many writers and critics believed that the history of the Nationalist Government from 1948 onwards has been faithfully recorded by the novels of Nadine Gordimer and they "will provide the future historian with all the evidence required to evaluate the price that has been paid by the people". (Green, 563) She published her first collection of short stories in 1949, a year after the first Nationalist Government was elected to power. Her body of work from 1949 to 2000 covers the entire period of apartheid in South Africa. Therefore, she was a writer with serious intent and meant to convey through her novels her rigid stand against apartheid. The term 'apartheid' means 'apartness', a policy meant to segregate people on the foundation of their race and colour. In The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places (1988), Gordimer noted that it was not the "problems" of her country that set her to writing; rather, it was learning to write that sent her "falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life". (Gordimer 1988, p. 272) This paper shall attempt to study how Gordimer constructs identity in her novel July's People (1981). The paper posits that the most important theme in Gordimer's novels has been identity, an issue that she has been dealing with since her childhood, due to her situation as the daughter of immigrant parents, and living and writing in South Africa at a time when her country was divided based on colour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In twentieth-century Sweden, conventional inland nationalism was challenged by strong currents of maritime national identities. The reason was a national frenzy regarding maritime popular music – primarily, songs about Swedish sailors and their adventures in exotic faraway lands. Throughout the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, and continuing into the 1950s, numerous Swedish composers, singers and musicians produced hundreds of sailor songs. Their commercial success was staggering, to the delight of Sweden's developing music industry, but the identitarian consequences were even more astonishing. Maritime national identities flourished as Swedishness itself changed drastically via this huge exposure to sailor songs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses themes of nationalism and experiences of border-crossing in the historical fiction stories of Chinese author Shi Zhecun that were written and published between 1929 and 1931. It examines the political and historical context of Shi Zhecun's stories, identification with the Republic of China, and Westernization.

This article examines the mobilisation of minority groups along ethnic and national lines through social media, an area that has not been fully explored. The study analyses the case of Russian‐speaking minority members who were mobilised in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 via the messaging app Telegram. By taking a bottom‐up perspective, the article reconstructs the pathways of the actors in these mobilisation processes and draws upon diverse literature in digital nationalism, social movements and media studies. The study suggests that social media facilitates minority mobilisation through three primary functions: It allows for the reproduction of ethnicised and racialised boundaries and homogenisation within ethnicised echo chambers and provides a 'window of opportunity' for micro, meso and macro levels of actor engagement in facilitating offline mobilisation. Overall, this article provides a theoretical foundation for understanding how social media enables and enhances minority mobilisation and introduces novel empirical data on the emerging pro‐war movement prevalent on Telegram and in offline networks of the Russian‐speaking minority in Germany. The study contributes to the developing field of user‐generated nationalism and highlights the need for more bottom‐up research on emerging patterns of online ethnicised mobilisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The politics of the European Union's crises of the 2010s required the emergence of analyses and theorisation that sought to explain the possibility of European disintegration. This article makes a conceptual contribution to the emerging literature on European disintegration by arguing for the inclusion of nationalism as an important—yet under‐represented—variable in the politics and process of disintegration in the European Union. It draws together elements of enduring value in classical explanations of the rise and operation of nationalism in Europe from Ernest Gellner, Tom Nairn and John Breuilly, with a postfunctionalist emphasis on the politicisation of European Union politics at the member‐state level. The article concludes that a consideration of nationalism illuminates the process and politics of European disintegration by showing that the politics of European integration in the 2010s created nationalism rather than contained it, as it had been historically designed to do. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Community wealth building (CWB) is a strategy for local economic development that aims to (re-)circulate wealth within the places that produce it – a kind of de-globalisation of capital. CWB has come to prominence in the UK due to its implementation in Preston and endorsements from the Corbyn-led Labour Party. However, CWB has come under criticism for promoting protectionism. As a way into the political economy of CWB, this article analyses this criticism. We do so by bringing the policy debate in the UK into dialogue with political economy literature on protectionism and nationalism. We show that protectionism is as much a political weapon or slur used to discredit interventionist development strategies as it is an analytical concept at home in technical economic discourse. On this basis, we argue that CWB is not protectionist neither in its policy proposal nor in its wider worldview. However, CWB does limit itself to the local without a clear redistributive mechanism between municipalities and so risks siloing local areas from one another. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the concept of how terminologies that emerge within a certain context can have different meanings and interpretations over time. It specifically examines the popularization and reduction of terms such as 'hegemony', 'intersectionality', and 'decolonization' to a superficial understanding focused solely on diversity. The article also explores the tensions and debates surrounding the decolonization of the curriculum in universities, with some advocating for a transformed system that encompasses free education and anti-racist curricula, while others treat it as a marketing exercise. The author highlights the insights of Aijaz Ahmad, who explored various subjects and ignited critical debates, enhancing our analytical perspectives on class, nationalism, and literature. [Extracted from the article]

National symbols play a significant role in contemporary politics by shaping national identities. However, national animals receive little attention in the scholarship. This paper provides a study of the animal as a national symbol, proposing a possible model to fit the national animal into the rich nationalism literature. It generates theories about the formation, strengths, challenges of the national animal, supported with case study analysis. The central hypothesis is that the national animal is a distinctive national symbol. It is a symbol of the national rather than of the nation. It is not a purely top‐down political design; it embeds concrete traits; and it creates space for international interaction. Theoretically, the national animal can forge a strong national identity. However, many real‐life challenges prevent it from becoming prominent in modern nations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tainted by decades of direct colonial influence, Moroccan cultural identity in the postcolonial era became the battleground for conflicting discourses and competing voices grappling for recognition and dominance. The project of cultural decolonisation and national identity construction was avidly endorsed by Moroccan nationalist authors whose 'engaged' literature aimed at resurrecting Moroccanness on solid Islamic and nationalist foundations. Modernist writers, however, espoused a different vision that is based on modernisation, liberalism and secularism. Some other writers wrote 'undesirable' literature that is highly individualistic and unconcerned with the question of identity. The cultural scene in general and the novel genre in particular, being a new and a widely receptive genre, vehicled these postcolonial conflicting discourses and ideologies and reflected the discursive and ideological heterogeneity of postcolonial Morocco. This article sheds light on this heterogeneity as manifested in the works of prominent Moroccan post-colonial novelists. I, therefore, contend that there were several literatures at play subsequent to Morocco's political independence; one is progressive, another reactionary, and the other is ahistorical; all representing the three major currents of post-colonial Moroccan literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, there has been an intense public debate regarding the worldwide re-emergence of far-right politics and the ways in which it has engaged with the international. Surprisingly, thus far there have been no reflections on the broader implications of conceptualising the far-right in its international, transnational, and global dimensions. This article argues that we are witnessing an international turn in far-right studies that posits the international as constitutive of far-right politics, opening new forms of understanding it both from a historical and theoretical point of view. It develops a conceptual assessment of the international turn in three steps: first, it identifies that what binds this interdisciplinary literature together and breaks away from mainstream approaches is a shared critique of methodological nationalism; second, it classifies innovations in two different conceptual levels: the 'globalisation front', which sees transformations in the nature of far-right politics due the intensification of globalisation, and the 'historiographical front', which claims that the far-right has always been an international phenomenon. The article then analyses the main limitations of the international turn and offers a way to overcome it by articulating an intersocietal approach to the study of the far-right that draws from Global Historical Sociology. Le tournant international dans les études sur l'extrême droite : Une évaluation critique [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Keywords: globalisation; nationhood/national identity; Scotland/Scottish; theories of nationalism EN globalisation nationhood/national identity Scotland/Scottish theories of nationalism 805 809 5 07/03/23 20230701 NES 230701 Tom Nairn was a remarkably evocative writer, an exquisitely intuitive theorist of national I ism i and nationality. Just as Tom was barely aware of the influence of his work on nationalism studies, Ben was unaware of the consequences of his own intuitive theorising. (Nairn, [10], p. 16) Third, the global reach of the United States post-2001 rather than the fading Ukanian empire became his point of reference for the "Third Coming" of nationalism (Nairn, [9]; Nairn & James, [11]). [Extracted from the article]

East Timorese nationalism experienced a unique generational transition during Indonesia's occupation hinging onto internationalism in the changing world. In contrast to the existing literature on nationalism, which is overwhelmingly focused on earlier construction of nationalism and post‐independence nation building, this article offers a theoretical account of the transformation of nationalism from an older to newer generation through a socio‐historical analysis. In light of interactions between nationalism and internationalism, it argues that while the older generation relied on a Lusophone cosmology of anti‐colonialism derived from counterparts in Portuguese colonies in Africa in the 1960s, the younger generation took advantage of universal human rights advocacy in the 1990s in its aspiration for independence. In doing so, this study demonstrates both generational continuity and change in the construction, development and transformation of East Timorese nationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The emerging literary field of speculative and fantasy fiction in India has opened up possibilities for literature to address and rethink in new forms the issues of history, nationalism, and identity, as well as to engage critically with (often tabooed) topics of gender and sexuality. Many of these concerns are explored in the novel The Devourers (2015) by Indra Das. The Devourers is a Gothic horror story about shape-shifting monsters (werewolves), their lives and love-affairs in India through the span of several hundred years. While strategically situating the narrative in some of the most important historical periods of Indian history (the Mughal Empire, the British Raj, neoliberal contemporary India), the novel also carefully incorporates the notions of foreignness, monstrosity, sexual fluidity, colonial memory and hybridity in order to forge out a critical commentary on contemporary India. Therefore, taking into account novel's concerns and major topics I argue that The Devourers employs the imagery of a werewolf monster in order to comment on a current socio-political climate of India and its cultural anxieties concerning sexual and national identities, and to present an alternative version of Indian identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Divided along several ethnic, linguistic and religious lines, Iran is a multicultural country and the question of its national identity has been a matter of dispute since the beginning of the last century. Part of this dispute has been going on in literary works by national and diasporic authors. In this paper, Porochista Khakpour's Sons and Other Flammable Objects has been read in terms of its contribution to the questions of nationalism and national identity famously addressed in Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl. It seems that Khakpour has modelled her debut novel on Hedayat's magnum opus as an effective way to join the debate. Focusing on Khakpour's narrative, this study demonstrates how the novel presents a multicultural narrative of national identity in response to what is sometimes considered as Hedayat's ethnocentric nationalism in The Blind Owl. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article demonstrates that deindustrialization increases ethnonational mobilization. We maintain that levels of mobilization of ethnonational movements are to an important extent a residual to the class cleavage, that is, to the degree the class conflict dominates political competition. Since in the context of Western Europe industrialism is the main force behind the class cleavage, deindustrialization weakens this cleavage and allows instead for mobilization along ethnonational divisions. In order to empirically test our argument, we analyze levels of electoral mobilization of ethnonational party blocs among 15 Western European minorities between 1918 and 2018. Our analysis clearly reveals that levels of industrialization are negatively related to ethnonational mobilization. However, this is only true for regions with historically high levels of industrialization and if the ethnonational movement is unified. The article contributes to the comparative literature on the electoral performance of ethnonational parties and the literature on deindustrialization and nationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers a critique of International Relations (IR) theories of nationalism and foreign policy, supplemented by an analysis of the Nationalism Studies literature on the subject. Following a discussion of the 'paradoxical status' of nationalism in IR, the article outlines a more eclectic and non-paradigmatic approach – encapsulated in the concept of 'nationalist beliefs' – that emphasises the role of cognitive psychological variables to generate a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between nationalism and foreign policy and related outcomes. The article proposes a novel conceptualisation of nationalism to better understand foreign policy in the decade of New Nationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]