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Identity and Nationalism in Modern Argentina - Defending the True Nation (Paperback)
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Identity and Nationalism in Modern Argentina - Defending the True Nation (Paperback)
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Nationalism has played a uniquely powerful role in Argentine
history, in large part due to the rise and enduring strength of two
variants of anti-liberal nationalist thought: one left-wing and
identifying with the "people" and the other right-wing and
identifying with Argentina's Catholic heritage. Although embracing
very different political programs, the leaders of these two forms
of nationalism shared the belief that the country's
nineteenth-century liberal elites had betrayed the country by
seeking to impose an alien ideology at odds with the supposedly
true nature of the Argentine people. The result, in their view, was
an ongoing conflict between the "false Argentina" of the liberals
and the "authentic"nation of true Argentines. Yet, despite their
commonalities, scholarship has yet to pay significant attention to
the interconnections between these two variants of Argentine
nationalism. Jeane DeLaney rectifies this oversight with Identity
and Nationalism in Modern Argentina. In this book, DeLaney explores
the origins and development of Argentina's two forms of nationalism
by linking nationalist thought to ongoing debates over Argentine
identity. Part I considers the period before 1930, examining the
emergence and spread of new essentialist ideas of national identity
during the age of mass immigration. Part II analyzes the rise of
nationalist movements after 1930 by focusing on individuals who
self-identified as nationalists. DeLaney connects the rise of
Argentina's anti-liberal nationalist movements to the shock of
early twentieth-century immigration. She examines how pressures
posed by the newcomers led to the weakening of the traditional
ideal of Argentina as a civic community and the rise of new
ethno-cultural understandings of national identity. Identity and
Nationalism in Modern Argentina demonstrates that national
identities are neither unitary nor immutable and that the ways in
which citizens imagine their nation have crucial implications for
how they perceive immigrants and whether they believe domestic
minorities to be full-fledged members of the national community.
Given the recent surge of anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and
the United States, this study will be of interest to scholars of
nationalism, political science, Latin American political thought,
and the contemporary history of Argentina.
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