Nationalism In The Vernacular

Author : Will Kymlicka
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191522724
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics in the Vernacular written by Will Kymlicka and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-01-19 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together eighteen of Will Kymlicka's recent essays on nationalism, multiculturalism and citizenship. These essays expand on the well-known theory of minority rights first developed in his Multicultural Citizenship. In these new essays, Kymlicka applies his theory to several pressing controversies regarding ethnic relations today, responds to some of his critics, and situates the debate over minority rights within the larger context of issues of nationalism, democratic citizenship and globalization. The essays are divided into four sections. The first section summarizes 'the state of the debate' over minority rights, and explains how the debate has evolved over the past 15 years. The second section explores the requirements of ethnocultural justice in a liberal democracy. Kymlicka argues that the protection of individual human rights is insufficient to ensure justice between ethnocultural groups, and that minority rights must supplement human rights. In particular, Kymlicka explores why some form of power-sharing (such as federalism) is often required to ensure justice for national minorities; why indigenous peoples have distinctive rights relating to economic development and environmental protection; and why we need to define fairer terms of integration for immigrants. The third section focuses on nationalism. Kymlicka discusses some of the familiar misinterpretations and preconceptions which liberals have about nationalism, and defends the need to recognize that there are genuinely liberal forms of nationalism. He discusses the familiar (but misleading) contrast between 'cosmopolitanism' and 'nationalism', and discusses why liberals have gradually moved towards a position that combines elements of both. The final section explores how these increasing demands by ethnic and national groups for minority rights affect the practice of democratic citizenship. Kymlicka surveys recent theories of citizenship, and raises questions about how they are challenged by ethnocultural diversity. He emphasizes the importance of education as a site of conflict between demands for accommodating ethnocultural diversity and demands for promoting the common virtues and loyalties required by democratic citizenship. And, finally, he explores the extent to which 'globalization' requires us to think about citizenship in more global terms, or whether citizenship will remain tied to national institutions and political processes. Taken together, these essays make a major contribution to enriching our understanding of the theory and practice of ethnocultural relations in Western democracies.

Author : Pritipuspa Mishra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108425739
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and the Making of Modern India written by Pritipuspa Mishra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the ways linguistic nationalism has enabled and deepened the reach of All-India nationalism. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : Roluah Puia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009346083
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nationalism in the Vernacular written by Roluah Puia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalism in the Vernacular illuminates our understanding of the relationship between orality and nationalist politics. In doing so, it provides a new angle to the understanding of nationalism by looking at the popular support and participation of ordinary people in the construction of Mizo nationalism, in short, the vernacularisation of nationalism. The book examines this process of vernacularisation at two levels, the first concerns the process of creating a vernacular language to express nationalist ideas and second, the irrepressibility of the oral against state's violent response to the nationalist movement. Drawing from multiple sources, the book through the rich oral narratives, archival materials, including government and media reports shows how Mizos have remained active agents in asserting and claiming their rights to defining ideas of nationalism in their own terms by making it distinctively Mizo.

Author : Roluah Puia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009346075
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nationalism in the Vernacular written by Roluah Puia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how oral culture provided a platform to people in shaping the discourse of Mizo nationalism.

Author : Shobna Nijhawan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788178242606
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nationalism in the Vernacular written by Shobna Nijhawan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benedict Anderson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178168359X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagined Communities written by Benedict Anderson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2006-11-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.

Author : Gina Anne Tam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781108745697
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960 written by Gina Anne Tam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking aim at the conventional narrative that standard, national languages transform 'peasants' into citizens, Gina Anne Tam centers the history of the Chinese nation and national identity on fangyan - languages like Shanghainese, Cantonese, and dozens of others that are categorically different from the Chinese national language, Mandarin. She traces how, on the one hand, linguists, policy-makers, bureaucrats and workaday educators framed fangyan as non-standard 'variants' of the Chinese language, subsidiary in symbolic importance to standard Mandarin. She simultaneously highlights, on the other hand, the folksong collectors, playwrights, hip-hop artists and popular protestors who argued that fangyan were more authentic and representative of China's national culture and its history. From the late Qing through the height of the Maoist period, these intertwined visions of the Chinese nation - one spoken in one voice, one spoken in many - interacted and shaped one another, and in the process, shaped the basis for national identity itself.

Author : Shail Mayaram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108961282
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of Another Indian Nationalism written by Shail Mayaram and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalism is among the most influential ideas that has shaped the 'Metamorphoses of the Political' in the long twentieth century. This book focuses on exclusivist Indian nationalism and identifies its distinction from inclusivist nationalism. It highlights shifts in 'another Indian nationalism' over the last two centuries as the geopolitical context has transitioned from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana and its war on terror. The books braids the following three strands together: first, a majoritarian nationalist ideology called Hindutva; second, the making of popular history as a precolonial epic is highlighted, depicting the defeat of the last Hindu Emperor by a conquering Muslim Sultan purportedly leading to eight centuries of Hindu enslavement and third, the 'reconversion' of a community by the Visva Hindu Parishad with consequences for Lived Hinduism and Indic civilisation with its complex identities.

Author : Oliver Zimmer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1403943885
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nationalism in Europe, 1890-1940 written by Oliver Zimmer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While nationalism had become politically significant well before the late nineteenth century, it was between 1890 and 1940 that it revealed its political explosiveness and destructive potential. Organised around specific themes, many of which are currently hotly debated among experts in the field, Oliver Zimmer's study discusses such key issues as: the modernity of nations and nationalism, the formation of the nationalising state and the significance of national ritual for modern mass-nations, the ways in which nationalism shaped the treatment of minorities, the relationship between nationalism and fascism, and the perception of nationalism by liberals and socialists. Zimmer's account is more explicitly focused on conceptual issues than most textbooks on the subject, and also more historical and historiographical than many of the existing theoretical overviews. The result is an incisive examination of the most powerful ideology of modern times.

Author : Alain Gagnon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521804738
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multinational Democracies written by Alain Gagnon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, political scientists provide a collaborative study of multinational democracies and the difficulties in governing them.